The Marriage
The Marriage
Signed Print
David Hockney
£6,500-£10,000Value
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$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator
$11,000-$17,000 Value Indicator
¥60,000-¥90,000 Value Indicator
€7,500-€11,500 Value Indicator
$60,000-$100,000 Value Indicator
¥1,210,000-¥1,860,000 Value Indicator
$8,500-$12,500 Value Indicator
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Intaglio, 1962
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 28cm x W 38cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| June 2023 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| August 2020 | Wright - United States | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| June 2020 | Germann Auctions - Switzerland | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| February 2019 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| September 2016 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | The Marriage - Signed Print | |||
| June 2015 | Karl & Faber - Germany | The Marriage - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed print by internationally venerated British artist David Hockney is from 1962. Issued in an edition of 75, it depicts a couple seen in profile and is a printed study for the larger painting, First Marriage (A Marriage Of Styles 1).
This signed print by much loved British artist David Hockney is from 1962 – a year marked by the artist’s graduation from London’s prestigious art school, the Royal College of Art (RCA). Like The Hypnotist MCA Tokyo, a print study for a larger painting named The Hypnotist, this work is a study for the painting First Marriage (A Marriage Of Styles 1). Depicting a couple in profile, the work makes use of the child-like and cartoon-esque style characteristic of Hockney’s depiction of the human form during this period. The female figure wears earrings which echo the concentric forms of her headband and Hockney’s caricature-like rendering of her breasts. Behind the couple is a simplistic portrayal of a palm tree – a recurring feature of Hockney’s 1960s etchings, as in Pacific Mutual Life (1964). The inspiration for this work came from a visit to Germany in the summer of 1962. Accompanied by an American friend, Hockney looked around East Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, where he saw his friend stand next to a seated Egyptian figure crafted in wood. One of the chief inspirations for this work is that of French Dadaist, Jean Dubuffet. Commenting on Dubuffet’s influence on his cartoon-like works of the early ‘60s, Hockney once said: ‘it was his style of doing images, the kind of childish drawings he used that attracted me.’
