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Lightning - Signed Print by David Hockney 1973 - MyArtBroker

Lightning
Signed Print

David Hockney

£12,500-£18,000Value Indicator

$26,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

$23,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥170,000 Value Indicator

€14,500-€21,000 Value Indicator

$130,000-$190,000 Value Indicator

¥2,430,000-¥3,510,000 Value Indicator

$17,000-$24,000 Value Indicator

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79 x 65cm, Edition of 98, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 98

Year: 1973

Size: H 79cm x W 65cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: March 2025

Value Trend:

9% AAGR

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
March 2025
Christie's London
United Kingdom
$14,500
$17,000
$21,000
October 2023
Sotheby's New York
United States
March 2019
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
January 2017
Skinner, Marlborough
United States
November 2012
Sotheby's New York
United States
October 2012
Christie's New York
United States
September 2012
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
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The value of David Hockney’s Lightning (signed), a screenprint from 1973, is estimated to be worth between £12,500 and £18,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £13,000, across a total of 1 sale. This work has an auction history of 11 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2004. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 98.

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Meaning & Analysis

This print sees a fork of lightning strikes above a darkened valley, emerging like a bright white flash out of thick clouds. It brings with it a shower of rain that soaks the lines of trees below. The raincloud is contrasted with lighter fluffy white clouds just beneath it which suggest finer weather is on the way, reflecting the changeability of high pressure and the potential for a thunderstorm to clear the way for sun.

Lightning is part of the artist’s The Weather series, in which he studied various atmospheric effects and created scenes inspired in part by Japanese prints, in part by his own take on the Southern Californian landscape. Entirely monochrome, the work is also closely related to the artist’s landscapes in his 1969 series Illustrations For Six Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm. The perspective of the composition also recalls many of his later views of Yorkshire in which we are looking down on a road weaving between hills in a suggestion of distance, filled with the nostalgia of the road trip. Dating to 1973 The Weather series was produced in collaboration with master printers Gemini G.E.L. of LA whom Hockney had worked with before on portfolios such as A Hollywood Collection and with whom he would make the famous Friends series.

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