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Catherina Dorothea Viehmann - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker

Catherina Dorothea Viehmann
Signed Print

David Hockney

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60 x 43cm, Edition of 100, Intaglio

Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 100

Year: 1969

Size: H 60cm x W 43cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: September 2021

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Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2021
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
N/A
N/A
N/A
March 2021
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
June 2019
Galerie Kornfeld
Germany
September 2015
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2009
Christie's London
United Kingdom
November 2004
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
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The value of David Hockney’s Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, a signed intaglio print from 1969, is estimated to be worth between £2,850 and £4,300. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This piece has an auction history of six sales since its entry to the market in November 2004. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £3,024 in September 2021 to £3,226 in March 2021. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £2,656. This work is part of a limited edition of 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

​​Catherina Dorothea Viehmann sits with her arms folded on a table, as if she has been lifted from a tavern scene or the background of a Buegel painting. In this work Hockney has decided to pay homage to this woman by copying the portrait of her by Ludwig Emil Grimm, brother of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. As with the original the background is stripped of detail and our focus is drawn to her expressive face, the placement of her hands and the swathe of fabric wound at her throat. Her name is inscribed on the table, along with the words ‘Märchen frau’, or fairy woman.

Hockney published his Illustrations For Six Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm in 1969 in collaboration with Paul Cornwall-Jones of Petersburg Press. The series of monochrome etchings, which recall some of the works from A Rake’s Progress in style, were an immediate success and were reproduced in a book by Oxford University Press which has sold over 150,000 copies to this day. Commenting on his love for the fairy tales Hockney said, “They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral.”

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