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French Shop - Signed Print by David Hockney 1971 - MyArtBroker

French Shop
Signed Print

David Hockney

£4,750-£7,000Value Indicator

$9,500-$14,500 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,000 Value Indicator

¥45,000-¥70,000 Value Indicator

5,500-8,500 Value Indicator

$50,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

¥930,000-¥1,370,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$9,500 Value Indicator

5% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 500

Year: 1971

Size: H 53cm x W 45cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s French Shop (signed) from 1971 is estimated to be worth between £4,750 and £7,000. This intaglio print has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 71 total sales since its entry to the market on 24th October 1997. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £5,550, across a total of 6 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,264 in October 2023 to £10,000 in January 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2025Christie's London United Kingdom
January 2025Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House United Kingdom
October 2024Hall's Fine Art United Kingdom
October 2024Sotheby's New York United States
September 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
December 2023Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

French Shop is a signed print by British artist David Hockney from 1971 - the year in which Hockney completed his iconic painting, Mr. And Mrs. Clark And Percy, depicting lifelong friend and muse, Celia Birtwell, and her then husband, Ossie Clark. It depicts the exterior of a French grocery shop visited by Hockney during his travels in southwestern France in the same year. A bold, hard-edged shop sign bearing the words ‘ALIMENTATION’ echoes the simple lines of the shop roof, its windows, and what appears to be a chain link fly screen hung across its entrance. The architectural focus of the work mimics some of the artist’s most iconic pieces, including A Bigger Splash (1967), a painting sure to include the stylish forms of Modernist architecture, typical of Los Angeles, in its background. Hockney’s fascination with organic forms also permeates the piece, with its depiction of a cactus-like plant recalling both the artist's California home, and the vegetal focus of the Home Made Prints series. French Shop also makes an extended use of the cross-hatching characteristic of Hockney’s many etchings, evoking the rigid forms of the artist’s set designs for a 1975 showing of The Rake’s Progress, as seen in his poster print, An Exhibit Of Costumes (1975) – part of the Hockney And The Stage series.

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