Beautiful And White Flowers
Beautiful And White Flowers
Signed Print
David Hockney
£1,500-£2,250 VALUE (EST.)
$2,800-$4,250 VALUE (EST.)
$2,500-$3,750 VALUE (EST.)
¥13,000-¥20,000 VALUE (EST.)
€1,750-€2,600 VALUE (EST.)
$14,500-$22,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥260,000-¥390,000 VALUE (EST.)
$1,850-$2,800 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Etching, 1966
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 34cm x W 22cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Hall's Fine Art - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| April 2021 | Sworders - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| June 2015 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| September 2007 | Waddington's - Canada | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| October 2006 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| October 2002 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print | |||
| October 2001 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Beautiful And White Flowers - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Beautiful And White Flowers (1966) is a signed etching by David Hockney that belongs to Illustrations For Fourteen Poems By C. P. Cavafy - a series of prints illustrating or loosely evoking the scenes and motifs from the Alexandria-born Greek poet’s works.
Opening with a young man’s declaration that he wants to abandon his long-term lover, Cavafy’s poem deals with the crisis of a romantic relationship between two men. What propels the motif of abandonment is the male figure’s desire to break away from the life in austerity by starting a relationship with a much more affluent man than him and his current lover. Although it finishes on a dramatic note, culminating in the image of the young man’s death and the abandoned lover’s longing, Hockney strives to extricate a positive dimension from Cavafy’s poem. Beautiful And White Flowers presents the viewer with a static, surprisingly lighthearted scene, in which one man is seen lying down on a sofa while the other stands behind with his hand tenderly touching the cushion. Through such a representation, the artist seems to move beyond the moment in time described in the poem and imagines the relation in its early, innocent phase.
