Modern British Prints Market Report 2023
Bill And James II - Signed Print by David Hockney 1980 - MyArtBroker

Bill And James II
Signed Print

David Hockney

POA

43% AAGR (5YR)

This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

Lithograph, 1980
Signed Print Edition of 17
H 78cm x W 102cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2010Freeman's - United StatesBill And James II - Signed Print
April 2005Bonhams San Francisco - United StatesBill And James II - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

As an artist reluctant towards commissioned portraits throughout his career, Hockney sought to capture something intimate about the personality of his sitters and chose to depict people who were close to him. Given its pared-down visual language and focus on the intimacy of the dialogue, Bill And James II can be seen to represent, what Hockney called in reference to Picasso’s portraits of Marie-Thérèse, a work of art about ‘the kind of intimate seeing.’

A fine detail of the wistful facial expressions reflects Hockney’s mastery of the printmaking technique, a medium that fascinated the artist from his early student days at the Royal College of Art. While faces of the two figures display precision and detail, the thin contours outlining the bodily postures are fragmented. The clarity of the image seems to fade deliberately in the bottom part of the print, urging the viewer to focus on what fascinated Hockney most: the depth and mystery of the human face.

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