ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN www.archeus.com David Hockney, Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book, from Paper Pools, 1980 ARTIST David Hockney (b.1937) TITLE Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book, from Paper Pools MEDIUM Lithograph in colours DATE 1980 SHEET SIZE 10 1/2 x 9 in : 26.6 x 22.9 cm EDITION From the edition of 1000, signed, numbered and dated by the artist NOTES This work is accompanied by the book Paper Pools, also signed by the artist, having its original box for which the print was made PRINTERS Printed by Roger Campbell, Lee Funderburg and Kenneth Tyler PUBLISHER Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York LITERATURE Tokyo 234 : Tyler 269 REFERENCE A20-01 Based on drawings made at the pool of Ken Tyler’s house in New York in 1978, Hockney embarked on an ambitious series of 11 Lithographs of Water, which were completed two years later as well as a book and accompanying print, Paper Pools, which documented the creation of the famous series of works. David Hockney, Paper Pools, 1980 David Hockney David Hockney is considered one of the most technology, using xerox machines and more recently influential British artists of the twentieth century, iPhones and iPads to create works. and was a key member of the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, he studied In October 2006 the National Portrait Gallery at the Royal College of Art. He was featured in the in London held one of the largest ever displays exhibition Young Contemporaries with Peter Blake, of Hockney’s portraiture work, including 150 of and was almost instantly successful as an artist. his paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and photocollages from over five decades. Hockney In 1963 Hockney visited New York where he met himself assisted in displaying the works, and the Andy Warhol. He subsequently settled in California, exhibition proved to be one of the most successful and was inspired to make a series of paintings of in the gallery’s history. In June 2007, Hockney’s largest swimming pools in Los Angeles, in the comparatively painting Bigger Trees Near Warter which measures new medium of acrylic. A Bigger Splash, from this 15x40’ and was painted on 50 individual canvases, was series is in the permanent collection of the Tate included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Gallery. In 1967 his painting, Peter Getting Out Of In 2008, he donated this work to the Tate Gallery. Nick’s Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. A Bigger Picture, the Royal Academy’s 2012 David Hockney exhibition became the best attended Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more in the institution’s history, often staying open late precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of into the evening to accomodate visitors. Hockney Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject turned down a Knighthood in 1990, but accepted an he combined them to make a composite image. invitation to become Companion of Honour in 1997. Hockney created these photomontage works mostly He is a Royal Academician, and recently received the between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as Order of Merit. “joiners”. These works show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer’s perspective. In 2019, Hockney briefly became the most expensive In later works Hockney changed his technique and living artist in history when Portrait of an Artist (Pool moved the camera around the subject instead. with Two Figures) sold for $90,312,500 at Christie’s Hockney has always embraced new media and in New York ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN www.archeus.com All enquiries: Brian Balfour-Oatts [email protected] US: 1-212-652-1665 UK: +44 (0)7979 695079.