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David Hockney (British, b.1937)
LOT ID: 65812
Amaryllis in Vase (from Moving Focus series), 1985

Lithograph, on TGL handmade paper
46 х 32.5 in. (116.84 x 82.55 cm.)
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, recto
Edition 45/80
Foundry/Publisher Tyler Graphics, Ltd.
Lot description
Image: 46 x 32½ in.
Sheet: 50 x 36¼ in.

'Amaryllis in Vase' from Hockney's 1984-87 'Moving Focus' series, is one of the artist's most coveted large-scale color lithographs printed from ten aluminum plates. Created with Ken Tyler, the Moving Focus print series were the culmination of Hockney’s experimentation with Cubism. The painterly quality of 'Amaryllis in Vase' reveals Hockney's mastery of complex printing techniques. The series was based on a series of drawings he had done the autumn before he began this collaboration with Tyler Graphics.

An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. Best-known for his 1960s series featuring Los Angeles swimming pools and their denizens, Hockney paints in a bright and deliberately naive style drawing his subject matter from popular culture. In his first mature works of the 1950s, Hockney painted narratives, often unabashedly featuring gay themes, in an expressionistic almost childlike manner. Moving to California inspired him to produce the simplified archaic forms in bright California colors for which he is now best known. David Hockney is based in Yorkshire and London, England.
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  • David Hockney

    Amaryllis in vase (Tyler 272; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 266)
    color lithograph
    (H 46.0, W 32.5) in.
    (116.9 x 82.6) cm.
    Ed. AP 4/16
    Sold for: US$98,500 €
    Friday, December 16, 2011
    Christie's New York
    Lot 00905

  • David Hockney

    Amaryllis in a vase
    color lithograph
    (H 46.0, W 32.5) in.
    (116.9 x 82.6) cm.
    Ed. 65/80
    Sold for: US$50,000 €
    Thursday, October 27, 2011
    Sotheby's New York
    Lot 00273

  • David Hockney

    Amaryllis in a vase
    color lithograph
    (H 46.0, W 32.5) in.
    (116.9 x 82.6) cm.
    Ed. 6/80
    Sold for: US$43,750 €
    Saturday, October 30, 2010
    Sotheby's New York
    Lot 00258

  • David Hockney

    Amaryllis in vase
    color lithograph
    (H 46.0, W 32.5) in.
    (116.9 x 82.6) cm.
    Ed. 55/80
    Sold for: US$43,750 €
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    Christie's New York
    Lot 00141

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