ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN www.archeus.com , Peter, 1969 ARTIST David Hockney (b.1937)

TITLE Peter

MEDIUM Etching and aquatint, on J. Green wove paper

DATE 1986

SIZE 92.5 x 71.0 cm: 36 3/8 x 27 15/16 in.

EDITION From the edition of 75, signed, numbered and dated by the artist

PRINTER Printed by Maurice Payne,

PUBLISHER Petersburg Press, London

LITERATURE Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Publ., David Hockney Prints 1954-1995, 1996, cat. no. 107, p.85, (illus.) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and Thames and Hudson, London, “David Hockney - A Retrospective” Exh. Cat, 1988, p.37 (illus. fig.23) Scottish Arts Council 110

REFERENCE A21-16 / C12-01 was an 18-year-old student at UCLA when he met David Hockney, who was teaching a summer class at the university. They began a long affair with Schlesinger travelling with Hockney between LA and London, where he enrolled at the Slade School of Art. Whilst with Hockney, he often modelled for the artist and appears in some of his greatest early works, including Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), Peter Schlesinger with Polaroid Camera and Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool.

Schlesinger went on to pursue his own career as a visual artist, creating sculptures, paintings, and photographs. David Hockney

David Hockney is considered one of the most In October 2006 the National Portrait Gallery influential British artists of the twentieth century, in London held one of the largest ever displays and was a key member of the Pop art movement of of Hockney’s portraiture work, including 150 of the 1960s. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, he studied his paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and at the Royal College of Art. He was featured in the photocollages from over five decades. Hockney exhibition Young Contemporaries with Peter Blake, himself assisted in displaying the works, and the and was almost instantly successful as an artist. exhibition proved to be one of the most successful in the gallery’s history. In June 2007, Hockney’s In 1963 Hockney visited New where he met largest painting Bigger Trees Near which Andy Warhol. He subsequently settled in California, measures 15x40’ and was painted on 50 individual and was inspired to make a series of paintings of canvases, was included in the Royal Academy swimming pools in Los Angeles, in the comparatively Summer Exhibition. In 2008, he donated this work new medium of acrylic. , from this to the Tate Gallery. series is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery. In 1967 his painting, Peter Getting Out Of A Bigger Picture, the Royal Academy’s 2012 David Nick’s Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at Hockney exhibition became the best attended the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. in the institution’s history, often staying open late into the evening to accomodate visitors. Hockney Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more turned down a Knighthood in 1990, but accepted precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of an invitation to become Companion of Honour Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject in 1997. He is a Royal Academician, and recently he combined them to make a composite image. received the Order of Merit. Hockney created these photomontage works mostly between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as In 2019, Hockney briefly became the most expensive “joiners”. These works show the movements of the living artist in history when Portrait of an Artist subject seen from the photographer’s perspective. (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90,312,500 at In later works Hockney changed his technique and Christie’s in New York moved the camera around the subject instead. Hockney has always embraced new media and technology, using xerox machines and more recently iPhones and iPads to create works. ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN www.archeus.com

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