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Diploma - Signed Print by David Hockney 1962 - MyArtBroker

Diploma
Signed Print

David Hockney

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-6% AAGR (5YR)

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Medium: Intaglio

Format: Signed Print

Year: 1962

Size: H 40cm x W 28cm

Edition size: 50

Signed: Yes

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David Hockney's Diploma, an intaglio from 1962, is signed by the artist himself and estimated to be worth £10,500 to £16,000. Over the years, it has been sold at auction six times, with the first sale recorded on 17th April 2003. In the last five years, the hammer price was consistent at £9,652 on 15th November 2023. Despite a -6% average annual growth rate, the artwork maintains its allure. This piece has been sold in two different countries, namely the United Kingdom and the United States. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2023Sotheby's Online - United KingdomDiploma - Signed Print
September 2015Sotheby's Online - United KingdomDiploma - Signed Print
December 2014Bonhams New Bond Street - United KingdomDiploma - Signed Print
February 2012Christie's London - United KingdomDiploma - Signed Print
September 2007Sotheby's New York - United StatesDiploma - Signed Print
April 2003Christie's London - United KingdomDiploma - Signed Print
November 1995Christie's New York - United StatesDiploma - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

An example of Hockney’s early approaches to etching, the emotive, gestural and almost cartoon-like piece was produced as a visual protest against what Hockney considered the Royal College’s outdated approach to assessment. Refusing to write the essay required for final examination, Hockney created a mock diploma in a whimsical dig at the academic establishment and its traditional values. This move, Hockney argued, reflected his own deeply held belief that art need not explain itself by way of accompanying texts, written in an inaccessible academic register. The abstracted figures in the etching are in fact visual metaphors for key members of RCA staff, including a registrar named Mr. Moon; depicted as a crescent moon with sharp, attacking teeth, this character recalls another of Hockney’s 1961 etchings, Gretchen And The Snurl (1961). Hockney’s approach in Diploma directly recalls the eminently political and seminal work, We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), the name of which references a poem by American writer Walt Whitman. Complete with graffiti-like text, the form of which directly echoes those scrawled across the surface of Diploma, made coded references to Hockney’s homosexuality at a time when it was still illegal in Britain.

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