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George, Blanche, Celia, Albert And Percy, London, January - Signed Print by David Hockney 1983 - MyArtBroker

George, Blanche, Celia, Albert And Percy, London, January
Signed Print

David Hockney

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112 x 119cm, Edition of 20, Photographic print

Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 20

Year: 1983

Size: H 112cm x W 119cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: June 2025

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
June 2025
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
N/A
N/A
N/A
March 2017
Christie's London
United Kingdom
May 2015
Phillips London
United Kingdom
February 2015
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2013
Christie's London
United Kingdom
June 2012
Phillips London
United Kingdom
November 2005
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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The value of David Hockney’s George, Blanche, Celia, Albert And Percy, London, January, a signed photographic print from 1983, is estimated to be worth between £17,000 and £26,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of five total sales since its entry to the market on 29th November 2005. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £19,000, across 1 total sales. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £16,150. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 20.

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Meaning & Analysis

This signed photographic print is part of the much celebrated – and much imitated – Photo Collages collection of works by British artist David Hockney. Characteristic of Hockney’s lengthy engagement with photomontage in this period, this piece makes use of a methodology he initially named ‘drawing with a camera’ but which were later dubbed ‘joining’. Marking an extended visit to London from his home in California, here Hockney depicts a domestic scene featuring one of his most famous muses, British textile and fashion designer, Celia Birtwell. Accompanied by her children and their pet cat, Percy – immortalised alongside Celia and her then husband Ossie Clark in the internationally famous double portrait, Mr. And Mrs. Clark and Percy (1971) – this print is a standout example of Hockney’s nuanced, multi-perspectival approach to photography. Informing a public lecture delivered at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the same year, Hockney’s sustained interest in the photograph plays into this print’s sense of self-awareness. Camera in hand, Hockney is to be found at the rear of the composition, reflected in a mirror, its frame a self-referential nod to a long-term questioning of representation and perspective figured by several recurring motifs, including the trompe l’œil frame in the A Hollywood Collection series, and theatre drop curtain in Hockney And The Stage

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