DAVID HOCKNEY
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DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH b.1937 - )
Painter, dramatist and poet L-R: Bob Holman, Christopher Isherwood and David Hockney
L-R Holman – Isherwood - Hockney
Conversation with Christopher Isherwood and Bob Holman Chromogenic print photocollage, Santa Monica March 14, 1983 43.3 x 63.8 inches
110 x 162 cm.
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NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
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19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
Signed, titled, dated and numbered '#5' in white ink (on the mount) Provenance: Richard Gray Gallery; present owner Illustrated: >David Hockney Cameraworks Alfred Knopf NY 1984 >Hockney’s Photocollages by Anne Hoy, published in David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA/Abrams 1988 >David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA 1988 >David Hockney:New Work-Painting, Gouaches, Drawings, Photo Collages 1984 >Photographs by David Hockney B J Bradley, Tuttle Pub 1986 NOTE: Pre 1982: David Hockney scorned the camera as nothing more than a recording devise. He said: “You’d never look at a photograph for more than thirty seconds, unless there were a thousand faces and you were looking for your mother.” “Photography is all right, if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops-for a split second.” Post February 26, 1982: “David Hockney February 26, 1982, was gifted with a packet of Polaroid film by a prescient museum curator. Hockney began his first 30 print composite. His work with photographs, from September 1982 to August 1986 included 40 Polaroid collages and
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
231 photocollages using both a Pentax 110 single lens reflex and a 35mm Nikon camera. During these years, Hockney experimented heavily with photocollage, creating works he calls joiners. He has made no large-scale photocollages since, it remains a major single body of work within his career. Hockney explores lines and edges in his photography. Artists at the very beginnings of photography in 1839 explored light. Hockney is a modern artist with modernist concerns. Whereas the first photographic artists were excited by the opportunity to explore light while retaining renaissance perspective, the modernist artist wanted to be free of renaissance perspective. Photo-collage adds a footnote to Cubism and to the Paragone, the age-old competition between artists for the supremacy of their media. In the Renaissance, sculptors claimed superiority over painters because a single work could depict a work in three dimensions. With Cubism, by contrast, Picasso could combine all the planes of fruit in a plate on a table, on a single pictural surface. Here Hockney manages to record the intricacies of a complex interior with all the excitement Cezanne raised painting a plate of peaches on a table, with a cacophony of photographs *Hockney’s Photocollages by Anne Hoy, published in David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA/Abrams 1988 At auction, David Hockney’s photographs at a high price of $194,500., lags far behind prices realized for his paintings and some of his works on paper. His pool series on paper routinely sell well ($600,000.) while Hockney paintings at auction have soared ($7,992,500). Prices for important photographs seem almost ‘limitless’ – The high price being $4,338,500 set this past November. Hockney photo-collages are seriously undervalued. The ten highest priced photographs to date, sold at auction, some by ‘painters’ others by photographers are:
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
1. Andreas Gursky Rhein II 1999 Edition of 6 Estimate $2,500,000 - $3,500,000. Sold for $ 4,338,500 Christies NY Nov 8, 2011 2. Cindy Sherman Untitled #96 (1981) Edition 10/10 Estimate 1,500,000 - $2,000,000. Sold for $3,890,500. May 2011 Christies NY May 11, 2011 3. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) Edition of 2. Estimate $1,500,000-$2,000,000. Sold for $3,401,000. Sotheby’s NY 2007 4. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition of 6. Estimate $1,771,653 - 2,362,204 Sold for $3,346,456. Sotheby's London 2007 5. Edward Steichen The Pond-Moonlight (1904), Estimate $700,000-$1,000,000. Sold for $2,928,000. Feb 2006 Sotheby's NY 6. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) Edition of 2. Estimate $700,000-$900,000. Sold for $2,840,000. Sotheby’s NY 2007 7. Cindy Sherman Untitled #153 Edition 5/6 Estimate $2,000,000-$3,000,000. Sold for $2,770,500. Phillips Nov 2010 8. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition of 6. Estimate $2,500,000-$3,500,000. Sold for $2,480,000. Phillips de Pury NY February, 2007. 9. Andreas Gursky Los Angeles Cibachrome 1998 Estimate $1,589,825 - 2,384,737 USD Sold for 2,384,737 Sotheby’s London Feb 27, 2008 10. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition 6/6 $2,256,000. Phillips de Pury NY February 2007
It isn’t improbable to envision David Hockney photo-collages reaching significantly higher prices.
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NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
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David Hockney Title
Beverly Hills housewife (diptych)
Description
David Hockney (b. 1937)Beverly Hills Housewifesigned, titled and dated '"A More ...
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Year of Work
1966-1967
Size
Height 72 in.; Width 144.1 in. / Height 182.9 cm.; Width 366 cm.
Misc.
Signed, Inscribed
Sale of
Christie's New York: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 [Lot 00014] Post War and Contemporary Evening Sale
Estimate
6,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD
Sold For
7,922,500 USD PREMIUM
1
David Hockney Title
Autumn Pool (Paper Pool 29) (in 6 parts)
Description
DAVID HOCKNEYAutumn Pool (Paper Pool 29), 1978Colored and pressed paper More ...
Medium
colored and pressed paper pulp
Year of Work
1978
Size
Height 72 in.; Width 85 in. / Height 182.9 cm.; Width 215.9 cm.
Misc.
Signed
Sale of
Phillips de Pury & Company London: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 [Lot 00013] Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP (1,108,823 - 1,584,032 USD)
Sold For
1,329,250 GBP (2,105,575 USD)
Full details
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NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
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David Hockney Title
Imogen + Hermiane, Pembroke studios, London, 30th July (in 63 parts)
Description
a composition of 63 unique Polaroid SX-70 prints, initialed, titled, and dated in ink More ...
Medium
Polaroid print, mntd
Year of Work
1982
Size
Height 30 in.; Width 22.5 in. / Height 76.2 cm.; Width 57.2 cm.
Edition
unique
Misc.
Signed, Inscribed, Stamped
Sale of
Sotheby's New York: Monday, June 21, 2010 [Lot 00006] Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Sold For
194,500 USD PREMIUM
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH b.1937 - )
Painter, dramatist and poet L-R: Bob Holman, Christopher Isherwood and David Hockney
L-R Holman – Isherwood - Hockney
Conversation with Christopher Isherwood and Bob Holman Chromogenic print photocollage, Santa Monica March 14, 1983 43.3 x 63.8 inches
110 x 162 cm.
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
Signed, titled, dated and numbered '#5' in white ink (on the mount) Provenance: Richard Gray Gallery; present owner Illustrated: >David Hockney Cameraworks Alfred Knopf NY 1984 >Hockney’s Photocollages by Anne Hoy, published in David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA/Abrams 1988 >David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA 1988 >David Hockney:New Work-Painting, Gouaches, Drawings, Photo Collages 1984 >Photographs by David Hockney B J Bradley, Tuttle Pub 1986 NOTE: Pre 1982: David Hockney scorned the camera as nothing more than a recording devise. He said: “You’d never look at a photograph for more than thirty seconds, unless there were a thousand faces and you were looking for your mother.” “Photography is all right, if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops-for a split second.” Post February 26, 1982: “David Hockney February 26, 1982, was gifted with a packet of Polaroid film by a prescient museum curator. Hockney began his first 30 print composite. His work with photographs, from September 1982 to August 1986 included 40 Polaroid collages and
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
231 photocollages using both a Pentax 110 single lens reflex and a 35mm Nikon camera. During these years, Hockney experimented heavily with photocollage, creating works he calls joiners. He has made no large-scale photocollages since, it remains a major single body of work within his career. Hockney explores lines and edges in his photography. Artists at the very beginnings of photography in 1839 explored light. Hockney is a modern artist with modernist concerns. Whereas the first photographic artists were excited by the opportunity to explore light while retaining renaissance perspective, the modernist artist wanted to be free of renaissance perspective. Photo-collage adds a footnote to Cubism and to the Paragone, the age-old competition between artists for the supremacy of their media. In the Renaissance, sculptors claimed superiority over painters because a single work could depict a work in three dimensions. With Cubism, by contrast, Picasso could combine all the planes of fruit in a plate on a table, on a single pictural surface. Here Hockney manages to record the intricacies of a complex interior with all the excitement Cezanne raised painting a plate of peaches on a table, with a cacophony of photographs *Hockney’s Photocollages by Anne Hoy, published in David Hockney-A Retrospective LACMA/Abrams 1988 At auction, David Hockney’s photographs at a high price of $194,500., lags far behind prices realized for his paintings and some of his works on paper. His pool series on paper routinely sell well ($600,000.) while Hockney paintings at auction have soared ($7,992,500). Prices for important photographs seem almost ‘limitless’ – The high price being $4,338,500 set this past November. Hockney photo-collages are seriously undervalued. The ten highest priced photographs to date, sold at auction, some by ‘painters’ others by photographers are:
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES
1. Andreas Gursky Rhein II 1999 Edition of 6 Estimate $2,500,000 - $3,500,000. Sold for $ 4,338,500 Christies NY Nov 8, 2011 2. Cindy Sherman Untitled #96 (1981) Edition 10/10 Estimate 1,500,000 - $2,000,000. Sold for $3,890,500. May 2011 Christies NY May 11, 2011 3. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) Edition of 2. Estimate $1,500,000-$2,000,000. Sold for $3,401,000. Sotheby’s NY 2007 4. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition of 6. Estimate $1,771,653 - 2,362,204 Sold for $3,346,456. Sotheby's London 2007 5. Edward Steichen The Pond-Moonlight (1904), Estimate $700,000-$1,000,000. Sold for $2,928,000. Feb 2006 Sotheby's NY 6. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) Edition of 2. Estimate $700,000-$900,000. Sold for $2,840,000. Sotheby’s NY 2007 7. Cindy Sherman Untitled #153 Edition 5/6 Estimate $2,000,000-$3,000,000. Sold for $2,770,500. Phillips Nov 2010 8. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition of 6. Estimate $2,500,000-$3,500,000. Sold for $2,480,000. Phillips de Pury NY February, 2007. 9. Andreas Gursky Los Angeles Cibachrome 1998 Estimate $1,589,825 - 2,384,737 USD Sold for 2,384,737 Sotheby’s London Feb 27, 2008 10. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) Edition 6/6 $2,256,000. Phillips de Pury NY February 2007
It isn’t improbable to envision David Hockney photo-collages reaching significantly higher prices.
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES 1
Full details
David Hockney Title
Beverly Hills housewife (diptych)
Description
David Hockney (b. 1937)Beverly Hills Housewifesigned, titled and dated '"A More ...
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Year of Work
1966-1967
Size
Height 72 in.; Width 144.1 in. / Height 182.9 cm.; Width 366 cm.
Misc.
Signed, Inscribed
Sale of
Christie's New York: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 [Lot 00014] Post War and Contemporary Evening Sale
Estimate
6,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD
Sold For
7,922,500 USD PREMIUM
1
David Hockney Title
Autumn Pool (Paper Pool 29) (in 6 parts)
Description
DAVID HOCKNEYAutumn Pool (Paper Pool 29), 1978Colored and pressed paper More ...
Medium
colored and pressed paper pulp
Year of Work
1978
Size
Height 72 in.; Width 85 in. / Height 182.9 cm.; Width 215.9 cm.
Misc.
Signed
Sale of
Phillips de Pury & Company London: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 [Lot 00013] Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP (1,108,823 - 1,584,032 USD)
Sold For
1,329,250 GBP (2,105,575 USD)
Full details
PRINCIPALS
NEW YORK CITY
Vered Janet Lehr
891 Park Avenue New York NY 10021 TEL/FAX 212 288 6234
Estab. 1972
[email protected]
19TH and 20TH CENTURY MASTERS and ART ADVISORY SERVICES 1
Full details
David Hockney Title
Imogen + Hermiane, Pembroke studios, London, 30th July (in 63 parts)
Description
a composition of 63 unique Polaroid SX-70 prints, initialed, titled, and dated in ink More ...
Medium
Polaroid print, mntd
Year of Work
1982
Size
Height 30 in.; Width 22.5 in. / Height 76.2 cm.; Width 57.2 cm.
Edition
unique
Misc.
Signed, Inscribed, Stamped
Sale of
Sotheby's New York: Monday, June 21, 2010 [Lot 00006] Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Sold For
194,500 USD PREMIUM
