David Hockney, 25th Anniversary of the Paris Review (Hand signed by David Hockney), 1981

David Hockney

25th Anniversary of the Paris Review (Hand signed by David Hockney), 1981

Offset Lithograph on wove paper (Hand Signed by the artist)

Pencil signed by David Hockney on the front

36 × 26 1/2 inches

Unframed

Very rare and desirable when hand signed. This dazzling pencil signed offset lithograph was created by David Hockney to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Paris Review. It was part of a series of works created over the years by renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Christo, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Alex Katz and others who were commissioned to create works to raise funds for the Paris Review literary publication. As this was a lithographic poster created to celebrate the 25th Anniversary, it was not numbered - but it is hand signed by Hockney. Only a limited number of these 25th Anniversary posters were signed by the artist to raise funds for the publication.

Published by Petersburg Press.

About David Hockney:
David Hockney has produced some of the most vividly recognizable images of this century.
His ambitious pursuits stretch across a vast range of media, from photographic collages to full-scale opera stagings and from fax drawings to an intensive art historical study of the optical devices of Old Masters. David Hockney received the gold medal for his year at London’s Royal College of Art in 1962. The artist had his first one-man show in 1963 at the age of 26, and by 1970 the first of several major retrospectives was organized at Whitechapel Gallery, London, which subsequently traveled to three additional European institutions. Hockney has received a vast number of accolades throughout his career, including nine honorary degrees from institutions worldwide.
"Most artists, good artists, trust their intuition. I trust mine. Sometimes it leads you to make mistakes, but that hardly matters… There is no such thing as failure, you just learn from it and go on. That’s the way I see it."- David Hockney

Courtesy of Pace Gallery