David Hockney

£6,500-£10,000Value
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$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator

$11,000-$17,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥90,000 Value Indicator

€7,500-€11,500 Value Indicator

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¥1,230,000-¥1,890,000 Value Indicator

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The value of David Hockney’s The Marriage (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,500 and £10,000. This intaglio print, created in 1962, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 13 times at auction since its initial sale on 12th February 2005. In the past 12 months, the average selling price was £7,052, across a total of 2 sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £5,745 in August 2020 to £7,500 in June 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Auction Date

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Artwork

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Buyer Paid

November 2023

Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom

The Marriage - Signed Print

June 2023

Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom

The Marriage - Signed Print

August 2020

Wright - United States

The Marriage - Signed Print

June 2020

Germann Auctions - Switzerland

The Marriage - Signed Print

February 2019

Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom

The Marriage - Signed Print

September 2016

Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom

The Marriage - Signed Print

June 2015

Karl & Faber - Germany

The Marriage - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

This signed print by internationally venerated British artist David Hockney is from 1962. Issued in an edition of 75, it depicts a couple seen in profile and is a printed study for the larger painting, First Marriage (A Marriage Of Styles 1).

This signed print by much loved British artist David Hockney is from 1962 – a year marked by the artist’s graduation from London’s prestigious art school, the Royal College of Art (RCA). Like The Hypnotist MCA Tokyo, a print study for a larger painting named The Hypnotist, this work is a study for the painting First Marriage (A Marriage Of Styles 1). Depicting a couple in profile, the work makes use of the child-like and cartoon-esque style characteristic of Hockney’s depiction of the human form during this period. The female figure wears earrings which echo the concentric forms of her headband and Hockney’s caricature-like rendering of her breasts. Behind the couple is a simplistic portrayal of a palm tree – a recurring feature of Hockney’s 1960s etchings, as in Pacific Mutual Life (1964). The inspiration for this work came from a visit to Germany in the summer of 1962. Accompanied by an American friend, Hockney looked around East Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, where he saw his friend stand next to a seated Egyptian figure crafted in wood. One of the chief inspirations for this work is that of French Dadaist, Jean Dubuffet. Commenting on Dubuffet’s influence on his cartoon-like works of the early ‘60s, Hockney once said: ‘it was his style of doing images, the kind of childish drawings he used that attracted me.’