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Hangchow
Signed Print

David Hockney

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Medium: Photographic print

Year: 1981

Size: H 15cm x W 22cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Hangchow (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,700 and £2,550. This photographic print, created in 1981, has shown consistent value growth since its initial sale in January 2024. This is the first time this artwork has been sold at auction. Over the past five years, the average annual growth rate of Hangchow is 4%. The edition size of this artwork is not known.

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Auction Results

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January 2024SBI Art Auction Japan

Meaning & Analysis

Produced in 1981, a year which saw British artist David Hockney travel extensively around China, this signed photographic print references the capital of the Eastern Chinese region of Zhejiang, Hangzhou. Opting for a title which references the city’s romanised spelling, here Hockney uses the camera to capture a moment of stillness and rest. An ashtray is accompanied by two mugs and an ornately decorated bowl, arranged on a side table in between two armchairs, evoking an image of Hockney and his travel companions - Stephen Spender, a writer and poet, and friend, onetime partner and curator, Gregory Evans – in conversation. During the trip, Hockney marked a return to the camera – a medium he has used extensively as both a visual guide for his paintings and as a means to challenge static and unifocal modes of representation, as in his Photo Collages collection– and painted a large number of watercolours. These media, he argued, allowed him to continue making artworks in short breaks in an otherwise busy travel schedule. Images captured and painted during the trip were compiled in the volume China Diary, compiled in 1982. The influence of China on Hockney’s philosophy and artworks has been considerable: to this day, the artist often repeats a Chinese saying which states ‘You need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye, and the heart. Two won’t do’.

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