Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Signed Print
David Hockney
£4,000-£6,000 Guide
AUD7,000-AUD10,000 Guide
CAD6,000-CAD9,000 Guide
CNY30,000-CNY45,000 Guide
€4,000-€7,000 Guide
HKD35,000-HKD50,000 Guide
¥620,000-¥930,000 Guide
$4,000-$7,000 Guide
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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Critical Review
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.
