The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge
Signed Print
David Hockney
£30,000-£45,000Value
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¥5,580,000-¥8,360,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Photographic print
Format: Signed Print
Year: 1982
Size: H 277cm x W 147cm
Edition size: 20
Signed: Yes
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The value of David Hockney's The Brooklyn Bridge is estimated to be worth between £30,000 to £45,000. This photographic print, signed by the artist, has been sold in the United Kingdom and the United States with a total of 4 sales at auction since its first sale in 2010. The hammer price in the last five years has been stable at £28,000, providing an average return to the seller of £23,800. Despite an average annual growth rate of -4%, this artwork remains a significant piece of Hockney's portfolio. The edition size of The Brooklyn Bridge is limited to just 20, making it a rare and valuable addition to any art collection.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | The Brooklyn Bridge - Signed Print | |||
| March 2018 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | The Brooklyn Bridge - Signed Print | |||
| May 2015 | Sotheby's New York - United States | The Brooklyn Bridge - Signed Print | |||
| February 2010 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | The Brooklyn Bridge - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This 1982 signed print by British artist David Hockney depicts the iconic Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, United States. A limited edition of 20 and part of the Photo Collages collection, this print is a prime example of one of the artist’s ‘joiner’ images. Comprising multiple photographs taken over an extended period, here we see this world-famous landmark in greater detail than ever before.
An iconic part of the Photo Collages collection, this 1982 signed print by British artist David Hockney was produced in an edition of 20. Like several other of the images in this series, such as Graffiti Palace, New York (1982) and Sunday Morning Nov 28th 1982 Mayflower Hotel N.Y. (1982), it was initially composed during a trip to New York that Hockney made in November of 1982. An American city with which Hockney had considerable involvement during the 1980s – he acted as a stage and costume designer for numerous performances at the Metropolitan Opera early in the decade – New York, and another of its key landmarks, is here the subject of the artist’s disruptive, multifocal gaze. A wonderful example of one of the artist’s many ‘joiner’ images, The Brooklyn Bridge is symptomatic of Hockney’s unique approach to likeness and photography – a medium he described as ‘small’ and ‘lifeless’. Remarking that photography is ‘easy, really. All you need an eye’, Hockney asserted that its main shortcoming was to do with vision: ‘You never see things like that. It’s just not true’. In The Brooklyn Bridge, therefore, we are given a multitude of different perspectives which show us everything from Hockney’s brogues to the bridge cables high above his head. An artistic trailblazer, this print acts as a precursor to a similar work by one of Hockney’s contemporaries, Andy Warhol, who would go on to depict the bridge in the piece Brooklyn Bridge (F. & S. II.290) 1983, its centennial year.
