Name: Views Of Hotel Well I
Brand: David Hockney
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

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The value of David Hockney’s Views Of Hotel Well I (signed) is estimated to be worth between £35,000 and £50,000. This lithograph print, created in 1985, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 1%. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £43,213 in January 2024 to £92,662 in May 2021. This work has an auction history of 15 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2005. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Meaning & Analysis

This signed print by British artist David Hockney was produced in 1985, it depicts the inner courtyard of the Hotel Acatlan in Mexico. The focal point of the image – a well – gives the print its name. A series of paths wind around the centre of the image in an example of Hockney’s deconstructive approach to perspective.

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View Of Hotel Well I is a signed lithograph print by British artist, David Hockney. Together with View Of Hotel Well II and III, it depicts the inner courtyard of the Hotel Acatlán in Mexico, which Hockney visited in 1984. Casting a multi-perspectival lens over the scene – in this case, his eye – Hockney renders his vision in bright complementary colours. Depicting his static subject exactly how he perceives it, this work recalls another depicting a similar subject matter, the muted piece Mexican Hotel Garden, produced in the previous year. In 1985, Hockney had a new hearing aid fitted. Commenting on its benefits, he once remarked, ‘Music is more alive again and sounds seem spatial, and made me think that over the last years to compensate for my muffled ears I developed a strong visual space sense I say this because I’m very aware I seem to see in another way that has to do with noticing movement of the eye (time) and perception of space’. Certainly, in this print there is both a dynamic musicality to the artist’s choice of colour, and a vibrant, perspective-bending approach to space that is testimony to the artist’s unconventional way of seeing and absorbing the world.