DAVID HOCKNEY Lithograph for 1972 Olympics 1970, signed, dated and numbered

This rare, early pencil signed and numbered lithograph was created by David Hockney in 1970 (the year he signed it) to celebrate the 1972 Olympics in Munich Germany. The Olympic Committee selected several of the world's top artists, including David Hockney, Tom Wesselmann, Josef Albers and others to design limited edition lithographs to be sold to celebrate the Olympic games. Little did Hockney and the other artists know when they created these lithographs, however, that the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics would go down in infamy as the scene of a horrific terrorist attack where eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Nonetheless, or perhaps even more so, this is a collectible, desirable early 1970s Hockney print. 

SIGNATURE 

Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil on the recto (front)