DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
A Moving Still Life, from The Blue Guitar
etching and aquatint in colors, on Inveresk mould-made paper, 1976-1977, signed in pencil, numbered 168/200 (there were also 37 artist's proofs), published by Petersburg Press, London and New York, with the stamped-title on the reverse, with full margins, in good condition, framed
Image: 13¹⁄₂ x 16³⁄₄ in. (343 x 426 mm.)
Sheet: 18 x 20³⁄₄ in. (457 x 527 mm.)

Scottish Arts Council 216; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 195

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Hockney was inspired by Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937) to create ten drawings in colored inks and crayons. He then collaborated with the printer Aldo Crommelynck to translate the drawings into a series of twenty mixed intaglio prints using a color-etching process initially developed for Picasso. Hockney plays linguistically with the title of the present sheet, "A Moving Still Life," drawing tension between motion and immobility.