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The Student - Signed Print by David Hockney 1973 - MyArtBroker

The Student
Signed Print

David Hockney

£12,500-£19,000Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$23,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥180,000 Value Indicator

€14,500-€22,000 Value Indicator

$130,000-$200,000 Value Indicator

¥2,440,000-¥3,720,000 Value Indicator

$17,000-$26,000 Value Indicator

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58 x 44cm, Edition of 90, Aquatint

Medium: Aquatint

Edition size: 90

Year: 1973

Size: H 58cm x W 44cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: May 2025

Value Trend:

8% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
May 2025
Lempertz, Cologne
Germany
$14,500
$17,000
$21,000
February 2025
Christie's New York
United States
November 2024
Nosbüsch & Stucke
Germany
December 2023
Lempertz, Cologne
Germany
December 2023
Grisebach
Germany
November 2023
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2022
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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The value of David Hockney's The Student (signed) is estimated to be worth between £12,500 and £19,000. This aquatint print, created in 1973, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 8%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold 3 times, with an average selling price of £12,361. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £6,863 in December 2023 to £17,072 in June 2022. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 31 times at auction since its initial sale in April 1998. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

This signed print by much-loved British artist David Hockney is a tribute to Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, it depicts Hockney standing next to a bust of his idol, positioned on an ornate marble plinth. Issued in an edition of 90, it was produced at around the same time as another print in the series – Artist And Model – during a period in which Hockney had been living in Paris. Whilst in Paris, Hockney had taken the opportunity to visit the studios of Aldo and Piero Crommelynck, who had been Picasso’s master printers, producing a pair of etchings in tribute to the Spanish artist who had died earlier in the same year. Despite the similarities of their subject matter – the symbolic depiction of Hockney’s indebtedness to Picasso – both prints differ considerably. In The Student, Hockney depicts himself standing next to a bust of one of his greatest inspirations; carrying a blank canvas, Hockney’s place in the composition suggests him being Picasso’s equal. In stark contrast to the formality of The Student, Artist And Model sees the pair sat together, engaged in conversation. However, Hockney is nude: without the influence of Picasso, he suggests, he would be quite literally denuded of his capacity as an artist.

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