Name: Untitled No. 346
Brand: David Hockney
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

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David Hockney's Untitled No. 346 (signed), a digital print from 2010, is estimated to be worth between £23,000 and £35,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of 17 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2017. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £12,000 in December 2020 to £28,000 in May 2024. The average annual growth rate of this work is an impressive 19%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

Meaning & Analysis

Untitled No. 346, is a digital print released in 2010 in an edition of 1000, has been executed by the much loved British artist David Hockney on an iPad. The image has then been printed in colour.

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Untitled No. 346 is a digital print on archival paper of an iPad drawing, executed by David Hockney in 2010. Set against a lavender blue background is a vase of fuschia and peach tulips, placed in an ornately detailed white vase. The ‘brush’ marks left by Hockney’s stylus on the screen of his iPad are scratchy, mimicking the pen marks of a rough preparatory sketch. More than a move from traditional painting technique in favor of technological ones, Hockney sees the two methods as complementary to each other as these new tools contribute to the artist’s creative process. Hockney has explored the same themes throughout his decades-long career: landscapes, self-portraits and still-lifes. Yet, Hockney has relentlessly renewed these recurring subject matters in his methods of representation which drove him to adopting digital media, Hockney once joked: “drawing was going out of style actually, it was, [and] I’m amazed that it’s the telephone that can bring back drawing.”