HOCKNEY, David (b.1937, illustrator) and Constantine P. CAVAFY (1863-1933). Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy. Translated by Nikos Stangos and Stephen Spender. London: Alecto, 1967.
HOCKNEY, David (b.1937, illustrator) and Constantine P. CAVAFY (1863-1933). Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy. Translated by Nikos Stangos and Stephen Spender. London: Alecto, 1967.
Limited edition, number 285 in Edition B from a total limitation of 670 copies, signed by the artist. Hockney first encountered Cavafy through the writings of Lawrence Durrell, which prompted him to borrow an English edition of the poems from the Bradford public library in 1960 – a book he later admitted to never having returned. In Fourteen Poems, Hockney employs a sparse style that pictorially complements the clarity and simplicity of Cavafy's poetic tone. The etchings – which reflect the themes of homosexual desire in Cavafy’s poems – were published in the year that Parliament finally de-criminalised homosexuality in England and Wales, but when the subject was still highly controversial.
Folio (455 x 315mm). The complete set of 12 bound etchings with aquatint, on Crisbrook handmade paper, signed and numbered in pencil on the justification, the etchings stamped ea 362-373 respectively on the verso. Original red cloth, housed in black cloth slipcase (slipcase slightly scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Sir Colin St John Wilson and M.J. Long.
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HOCKNEY, David (b.1937, illustrator) and Constantine P. CAVAFY (1863-1933). Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy. Translated by Nikos Stangos and Stephen Spender. London: Alecto, 1967.
Limited edition, number 285 in Edition B from a total limitation of 670 copies, signed by the artist. Hockney first encountered Cavafy through the writings of Lawrence Durrell, which prompted him to borrow an English edition of the poems from the Bradford public library in 1960 – a book he later admitted to never having returned. In Fourteen Poems, Hockney employs a sparse style that pictorially complements the clarity and simplicity of Cavafy's poetic tone. The etchings – which reflect the themes of homosexual desire in Cavafy’s poems – were published in the year that Parliament finally de-criminalised homosexuality in England and Wales, but when the subject was still highly controversial.
Folio (455 x 315mm). The complete set of 12 bound etchings with aquatint, on Crisbrook handmade paper, signed and numbered in pencil on the justification, the etchings stamped ea 362-373 respectively on the verso. Original red cloth, housed in black cloth slipcase (slipcase slightly scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Sir Colin St John Wilson and M.J. Long.
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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