Gregory Evans
Gregory Evans
Signed Print
David Hockney
£1,750-£2,650
$3,500-$5,500 Value Indicator
$3,150-$4,750 Value Indicator
¥16,000-¥24,000 Value Indicator
€2,100-€3,200 Value Indicator
$17,000-$26,000 Value Indicator
¥340,000-¥510,000 Value Indicator
$2,200-$3,350 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 90
Year: 1976
Size: H 107cm x W 74cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | Bonhams New Bond Street | United Kingdom | |||
| November 2023 | Sotheby's Online | United Kingdom | |||
| October 2023 | Bonhams Los Angeles | United States | |||
| September 2022 | Bonhams Los Angeles | United States | |||
| September 2022 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2020 | Bonhams Los Angeles | United States | |||
| July 2020 | Forum Auctions London | United Kingdom |
Meaning & Analysis
While Hockney’s other portrait of Gregory Evans, his lover of ten years, from the 1976 Friends series shows the sitter at close quarters, here Evans is held at a distance. Formally dressed and sat in a modernist chair his appearance and setting belies his intimacy with the artist. The lack of background or props serves to emphasise this distance, and encourages the viewer to pay close attention to Evans’s clothes – he wears a very ’70s suit, complete with floppy bow tie – his cherubic curls and blank expression. Over the course of more than 50 years Hockney has depicted Evans in numerous sketches, paintings and prints. The two first met in 1971 and developed a strong connection which can be felt in other portraits of Evans as well as Small Head of Gregory. When Hockney was asked in an interview who the love of his life has been he replied, ‘Maybe Gregory’. Here however we see Evans more as a sitter than a subject of the artist’s affections, as if Hockney’s aim were to present an objective portrait devoid of intimate references on the surface. However on closer inspection we can see signs of his affection or at least close attention, perhaps in the softness of Evans’ curls, the slightly awkward pose of his hands and his ambiguous expression.
