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Hangchow
Signed Print

David Hockney

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15 x 22cm, Photographic print

Medium: Photographic print

Year: 1981

Size: H 15cm x W 22cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: January 2024

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January 2024
SBI Art Auction
Japan
£1,445
£1,700
£1,954
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The value of David Hockney’s Hangchow, a signed photographic print from 1981, is estimated to be worth between £1,500 and £2,250. This artwork has been sold once at auction on 28th January 2024. Over the past five years, the hammer price has remained consistent, with an average annual growth rate of 0%. The edition size of this work is not currently available.

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Meaning & Analysis

Produced in 1981, a year which saw British artist David Hockney travel extensively around China, this signed photographic print references the capital of the Eastern Chinese region of Zhejiang, Hangzhou. Opting for a title which references the city’s romanised spelling, here Hockney uses the camera to capture a moment of stillness and rest. An ashtray is accompanied by two mugs and an ornately decorated bowl, arranged on a side table in between two armchairs, evoking an image of Hockney and his travel companions - Stephen Spender, a writer and poet, and friend, onetime partner and curator, Gregory Evans – in conversation. During the trip, Hockney marked a return to the camera – a medium he has used extensively as both a visual guide for his paintings and as a means to challenge static and unifocal modes of representation, as in his Photo Collages collection– and painted a large number of watercolours. These media, he argued, allowed him to continue making artworks in short breaks in an otherwise busy travel schedule. Images captured and painted during the trip were compiled in the volume China Diary, compiled in 1982. The influence of China on Hockney’s philosophy and artworks has been considerable: to this day, the artist often repeats a Chinese saying which states ‘You need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye, and the heart. Two won’t do’.

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