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David Hockney

In memoriam Cecchino Bracci
etching and aquatint, 1962, on wove paper, a unique impression of this unrecorded print, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 1/1, with margins, laid to the backing with associated cockling and creasing to the sheet, light-staining, surface dirt in the upper left image, with occasional handling marks, remains of old glue to the left and right sheet edge, framed
P. 330 x 350mm., S. 450 x 500mm.

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Lot Essay

If, buried here, those beautiful eyes are closed
Forever, this is now my requiem.
They were alive and no one noticed them,
Now everyone weeps them, dead and lost.

In this etching David Hockney pays tribute to Francesco (Cecchino) Bracci (1529-1544), a young favourite of Michelangelo Buonarroti. The youths untimely death at the age of fifteen led Michelangelo to write forty-eight love poems dedicated to his memory, one of which Hockney quotes in this etching. This is the only known impression of this unpublished and unrecorded print. A painting with the same title hangs in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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