Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Signed Print
David Hockney
£1,900-£2,900
$3,700-$5,500 Value Indicator
$3,250-$4,950 Value Indicator
¥17,000-¥26,000 Value Indicator
€2,200-€3,400 Value Indicator
$19,000-$28,000 Value Indicator
¥360,000-¥550,000 Value Indicator
$2,400-$3,650 Value Indicator
AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
There aren't enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.
Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 85
Year: 1965
Size: H 77cm x W 56cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Track this artwork in realtime
Watch artwork, manage valuations, track your portfolio and return against your collection.
Track auction value trend
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| October 2022 | Doyle New York - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| March 2022 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| February 2020 | Wilson55 - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| March 2019 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| December 2015 | Aspire Auctions - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| July 2011 | Christie's New York - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Depicting a nude female figure, this 1965 lithograph by Hockney at first appears like a traditional print. However upon closer inspection it becomes obvious that the artist has subverted the genre, and the medium, to create something new. By placing a frame around the image, he adds both surface and depth, creating a trompe l’oeil barrier between the viewer and the image. The nude is part of a series entitled A Hollywood Collection, in which Hockney presents all the key elements of a traditional art historical collection – from portrait, to still life, to landscape to nude – in a series of fictitious frames. Here he uses the medium of lithography to achieve a sketchy style for the drawing as well as a more polished and tonal finish for the simple frame. Hockney is said to have been inspired to create the series while passing a shop window full of frames on his way to the Gemini print studio, where this series was produced. The addition of a trompe l’oeil deception is also said to have been a nod to the artifice of LA where the seemingly unchanging weather and modernist architecture presented a sharp contrast to the ‘greyness’ of the London he had left the year before.
