Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing
Signed Print
David Hockney
£2,000-£3,050 Value Indicator
$3,800-$6,000 Value Indicator
$3,300-$5,000 Value Indicator
¥18,000-¥27,000 Value Indicator
€2,300-€3,500 Value Indicator
$19,000-$29,000 Value Indicator
¥360,000-¥560,000 Value Indicator
$2,450-$3,700 Value Indicator
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| December 2015 | Aspire Auctions - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| July 2011 | Christie's New York - United States | Picture of A Simple Framed Traditional Nude Drawing - Signed Print | |||
| March 2008 | Christie's New York - United States | 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.
