Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Signed Print
David Hockney
£1,750-£2,550 VALUE (EST.)
$3,200-$4,700 VALUE (EST.)
$2,950-$4,300 VALUE (EST.)
¥15,000-¥22,000 VALUE (EST.)
€2,000-€2,900 VALUE (EST.)
$17,000-$25,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥280,000-¥410,000 VALUE (EST.)
$2,150-$3,150 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Lithograph, 1965
Signed Print Edition of 85
H 77cm x W 56cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | ||||
| Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | ||||
| Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | ||||
| October 2022 | Doyle New York - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| March 2022 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| February 2020 | Wilson55 - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| March 2019 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Depicting a nude female figure, this 1965 lithograph by Hockney at first appears like a traditional print. However upon closer inspection it becomes obvious that the artist has subverted the genre, and the medium, to create something new. By placing a frame around the image, he adds both surface and depth, creating a trompe l’oeil barrier between the viewer and the image. The nude is part of a series entitled A Hollywood Collection, in which Hockney presents all the key elements of a traditional art historical collection – from portrait, to still life, to landscape to nude – in a series of fictitious frames. Here he uses the medium of lithography to achieve a sketchy style for the drawing as well as a more polished and tonal finish for the simple frame. Hockney is said to have been inspired to create the series while passing a shop window full of frames on his way to the Gemini print studio, where this series was produced. The addition of a trompe l’oeil deception is also said to have been a nod to the artifice of LA where the seemingly unchanging weather and modernist architecture presented a sharp contrast to the ‘greyness’ of the London he had left the year before.
