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Afternoon Swimming - Signed Print by David Hockney 1980 - MyArtBroker

Afternoon Swimming
Signed Print

David Hockney

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79 x 99cm, Edition of 55, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 55

Year: 1980

Size: H 79cm x W 99cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: September 2022

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
N/A
N/A
N/A
October 2021
Christie's New York
United States
October 2019
Christie's New York
United States
October 2018
Christie's New York
United States
April 2017
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
March 2017
Christie's London
United Kingdom
October 2013
Phillips New York
United States
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The value of David Hockney’s Afternoon Swimming (signed) is estimated to be worth between £170,000 and £260,000. This lithograph print, created in 1980, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 9 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2012. In the last 5 years, the hammer price has ranged from £240,000 in September 2022 to £303,010 in October 2021. The average annual return for the seller over the past 5 years has been £231,023. This work is part of a limited edition of 55.

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Meaning & Analysis

The pool that is so ubiquitous in Hockney’s LA period is here transformed from the still, flat style of A Bigger Splash to a more transparent lithograph, filled with figures – or perhaps just the same figure repeated as they swim lengths – and movement. A red lilo floats on the surface of the pool looking like a section of an overstuffed armchair and presenting an image of relaxation which is at odds with the vigorous exercises of the swimmer(s). Hockney’s brushstrokes on the lithograph stone are hugely expressive and suggest he may have been using tusche (diluted lithographic ink) in order to achieve this watery and free effect. In this way the work appears almost fauvist in style, recalling the work of Matisse, particularly in the splash of water in the right hand side and the black outlines of trees or plants that act as a background. Hockney moved to LA in 1964, in search of the sharp light and shadows he had seen in Hollywood movies as a student. Comparing the move to ‘Van Gogh going to Arles’, he sought to escape what he saw as the greyness of post-war England, and in Afternoon Swimming it appears he succeeded.

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