Yves Marie
Yves Marie
Signed Print
David Hockney
Lithograph, 1974
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 27cm x W 21cm
Critical Review
This signed lithograph by British artist David Hockney is part of the artist’s Portraits collection. Published in an edition of 75 in 1974, this atmospheric work depicts the artist’s friend, Yves Marie, sitting in a chair facing away from the artist. A table with a vase of flowering lilies has been placed to the sitter’s left.
This signed lithograph by much loved British artist David Hockney was released in 1974 in an edition of 75. Hockney embraces figurative drawing with a renewed vigor offering intimate snapshots at people who have entered, and changed, his life. Hockney has invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio. His subjects - all family, friends and acquaintances, each embody a distinctive personality that leaps off the surface with warmth and immediacy, such is Hockney’s skill at rendering his subjects. On the subject of portraiture, Hockney confesses: “it is your mood and their mood together that creates whatever’s there”. An avid portraitist throughout his career, Hockney has painted, drawn and printed hundreds of portraits since the mid-1960s.
