An Etching And A Lithograph For Editions Alecto
An Etching And A Lithograph For Editions Alecto
Signed Print
David Hockney
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92 x 64cm, Edition of 100, Etching
Medium: Etching
Edition size: 100
Year: 1973
Size: H 92cm x W 64cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: Phillips London - United Kingdom
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Meaning & Analysis
An Etching And A Lithograph For Editions Alecto (1973) is a signed etching on wove paper created by David Hockney and printed by Cotswolds Collotype. Founded in 1960 by Cambridge undergraduate students Paul Cornwall Jones and Michael Deakin, Editions Alecto became renown for publishing limited edition prints, engravings, and facsimiles by artists such as David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Hamilton and Gillian Ayres.
Alecto’s first major publication was A Rake's Progress, David Hockney's semi-autobiographical series inspired by William Hogarth’s 1735 engraving series of the same title. In it, Hockney reimagines the tale of an aristocrat who loses his wealth as a story of a young gay man’s self-discovery in 1960s New York. Each etching in the series is characterised by the distinctive presence of one red-ink element placed against a black-and-white background. An Etching And A Lithograph For Editions Alecto employs this signature feature, juxtaposing a black-and-white image with capital letters rendered in red. As such, the print can be seen to represent the artist’s way of looking back at the beginnings of his career, his first major publication, and early dialogue with Hogarth’s works.