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He Enquired After The Quality Signed Print
David Hockney: He Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print

He Enquired After The Quality

David Hockney

He Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print by David Hockney 1966 - MyArtBroker

He Enquired After The Quality
Signed Print

David Hockney

£3,050-£4,600 VALUE (EST.)

$6,000-$8,500 VALUE (EST.)

$5,000-$7,500 VALUE (EST.)

¥27,000-¥40,000 VALUE (EST.)

€3,500-€5,500 VALUE (EST.)

$29,000-$45,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥550,000-¥840,000 VALUE (EST.)

$3,750-$5,500 VALUE (EST.)

52% AAGR (5YR)

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Intaglio, 1966
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 35cm x W 22cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2022Phillips London - United KingdomHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
January 2022Phillips London - United KingdomHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
December 2021Bonhams New Bond Street - United KingdomHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
October 2019Bernaerts Auctioneers - BelgiumHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
September 2018Anderson & Garland - United KingdomHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
June 2018Stair Galleries - United StatesHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print
March 2018Bonhams Knightsbridge - United KingdomHe Enquired After The Quality - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

A man stands at a counter examining what appears to be a collection of scarves or scraps of material while the vendor looks at him expectantly, his suit jacket draped over one shoulder. The figures are picked out in fine lines, their outlines and features recalling Hockney’s sketches, here reproduced in etching. Behind the two men another one stands; seen through a window, he is shown reading a newspaper. There is a tension in the air as if this scene were just a front for a proposition, an anonymous encounter that could become something less transactional and more sensual at any moment. Entitled He Enquired After The Quality, the print belongs to the series Illustrations For Fourteen Poems By C.P. Cavafy which consists of thirteen etchings to accompany the Greek poet’s work. Each shows a scene of – or moments before – an erotic encounter, depicting the casual nature of homosexual assignations from the perspective of both spectator and interested party. The series was published in 1967, the same year Britain finally decrimilised homosexuality. In light of this, it can be read as a celebration of gay love, as well as a testament to the decades, if not centuries, of stigma and concealment.

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