Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink
Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink
Signed Print
David Hockney
£30,000-£45,000Value
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$60,000-$90,000 Value Indicator
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¥5,610,000-¥8,420,000 Value Indicator
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Lithograph, 1971
Signed Print Edition of 50
H 99cm x W 95cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| January 2022 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| December 2020 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| July 2018 | Christie's New York - United States | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| June 2017 | Ketterer Kunst Hamburg - Germany | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| April 2013 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print | |||
| May 2012 | Bonhams San Francisco - United States | Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This beautifully graphic work by David Hockney depicts a selection of cut flowers in an elegant glass vase. Poppies, cornflowers and perhaps a kind of daisy spill out, their stems and flowerheads pointing in opposite directions to produce a fan-like effect of blooms. Their soft natural beauty is however contrasted with the harsh grid like background which produces a cross hatch effect as a background, throwing the flowers into relief. On the table in front of the vase lays a selection of coloured pencils, as if to suggest this is the scene of the initial drawing itself or maybe even that Hockney has just finished colouring in the flowers themselves, if they are in fact made of paper as the title suggests. This is one of many depictions of flowers in Hockney’s oeuvre and the still life is a subject he has returned to constantly over the last 60 years, across painting, drawing and printmaking, and yet while he is always in constant dialogue with the masters and traditions that went before him he always manages to subvert the subject to become something modern and something Hockney, adding a layer of enigma or uncertainty to a composition that keeps the viewer guessing.
