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DAVID HOCKNEY (B.1937)
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Contemporary
Panama Hat, 1972
Etching and aquatint
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered from the edition of 125 (total edition includes
15 proofs and 60 in Roman numerals), on Crisbook handmade paper, co-published by
Brooke Alexander, New York, and Petersburg Press, London
Sheet and image: 41.6 x 34 cm (16 1/3 x 13 ½ in)
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Literature:
Scottish Arts Council 127
David Hockney: Prints 1954-1995, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, 1996, no. 119, p.91
This still-life of a coat hanging off the back of a bentwood chair, with a panama hat, pipe
and empty glass on the seat, depicts the personal effects of Hockney's great friend and
early champion, Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994), then curator of Twentieth Century Art
at the Metropolitan Museum. Geldzahler was a regular sitter for Hockney.
£ 36,000 / $ 50,000
