Slow Rise
David Hockney
Slow Rise
lithograph & screenprint
1994
An original hand-signed David Hockney lithograph & screenprint print.
1994
Original lithograph and screenprint in 24 colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Hand-signed in pencil lower right David Hockney.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 68 (there were 33 additional proofs of various types for an overall edition of 101), numbered in pencil lower left. One plate from the series Some More New Prints. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles; printed by Stanley Baden, James Hirahara, James Reid and Stephanie Wagner at Gemini G.E.L.
Catalog: Gemini Work Number: DH93-1365; Gemini Online Catalogue Raisonné 23.96; M.C.A.T 342.
Image Size: 22 7/8 x 27 ½ inches
Sheet Size: 25 x 30 ½ inches
A pioneer of the 1960s British movement, David Hockney is one of the most celebrated and prolific artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Endlessly versatile, he has produced acrylic paintings, photo collages, full-scale opera set designs, and digital works created on iPads. Hockney first gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings of gay love. He moved to California in 1964 and captured his new home in sensual, pastel-hued scenes whose idyllic, sunny backdrops feature swimming pools, palm trees, and light, beautiful homes. Hockney has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among many other institutions. On the secondary market, his work has sold for more than $90 million.
Throughout his Some More New Prints series David Hockney continues his ode to Cubism, playing with multiple perspectives in homage to Picasso and Braque while also challenging our expectations of the genre by presenting us with a Cubist landscape of Southern California rather than a cafe scene in Paris.