Lot Essay
Hockney revises the Brothers Grimm's fairytale, recasting the Princess as an obstacle to Rumpelstiltskin's real love, which is for the Prince.
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Rumpelstiltskin (S.A.C. 15; Tokyo 31)
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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Rumpelstiltskin (S.A.C. 15; Tokyo 31)
etching and aquatint, 1962, on Crisbrook handmade paper, a very good, richly inked impression, signed, dated and inscribed proof in pencil, from an unnumbered edition of approximately ten, printed by Peter Mathews at the Royal Academy of Art, London, the full sheet, with deckle edges on three sides, in good condition
P. 300 x 500 mm., S. 388 x 560 mm.
Rumpelstiltskin (S.A.C. 15; Tokyo 31)
etching and aquatint, 1962, on Crisbrook handmade paper, a very good, richly inked impression, signed, dated and inscribed proof in pencil, from an unnumbered edition of approximately ten, printed by Peter Mathews at the Royal Academy of Art, London, the full sheet, with deckle edges on three sides, in good condition
P. 300 x 500 mm., S. 388 x 560 mm.
Special notice
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