David Hockney — The Beginning, Plate 9 from: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (Scottish Arts Council 55)

The Beginning, Plate 9 from: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (Scottish Arts Council 55)

$500
David Hockney (b. 1937) The Beginning, Plate 9 from: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (Scottish Arts Council 55) etching, 1966, on Crisbrook handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 4/75, (there were a further 45 signed impressions and an unsigned book edition of 550), published by Editions Alecto, London, 1967, with their blindstamp verso, the full sheet, time-staining across the sheet, an area of bleaching behind the numbering and paper losses along the upper and left sheet edges, other minor surface defects P. 350 x 220 mm., S. 567 x 402 mm.