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David Hockney Signed Poster New York University#1140688

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David Hockney Signed Poster New York University#1140688
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Artist: David Hockney

Title: Evening on Wheels, New York University

Year: 1980

Medium: Poster, Signed in pencil l.r.

Size: 29 x 21 inches




David Hockney (1937 - )



One of the foremost painters, designers, and photographers of the 20th-century contemporary art scene in the United States and England, David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He experimented with numerous styles including that of Italian master, Peiro della Francesca, and Hockney became one of the most important portraitists of his era, renowned for depictions of family and people he met in his extensive travels.



He studied at Bradford College of Art in 1957 and in 1962 at the Royal College of Art. In the 1960s, much of his work was a homage to his heroes that included Picasso, Dubuffet, and Matisse combined with the influence of Abstract Expressionism. In the mid 1970s, he spent three years in Paris and then traveled to Los Angeles where he did a series of lithographs and also did his first opera design, which was for Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress." In 1988, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, awarded him an honorary doctorate.



One of his closest friends in New York City was curator and leading art commentator, Henry Gedzhaler, with whom he traveled extensively in the 1970s and 1980s. Hockney did numerous paintings, lithographs and drawings that included Gedzhaler.



He has had numerous one-man shows ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:29</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:21</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:David Hockney Signed Poster New York University</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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