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Lot Essay
8501 Hedges Places was the home of Arthur Lambert, a young financier from Washington and friend of Hockney's, living and working in LA.
'In the days before there were exclusively gay bars in LA, Lambert's house off La Cienega Boulevard, which had a vast living room on the first floor with great views, became a focal point for the gay community. `The police were very aggressive then', he [Lambert] says, 'and were constantly arresting people...You couldn't dance or anything like that, so we used to have dances at my house and it was always full of the most beautiful young boys'. It was not long before word of Lambert's lifestyle drifted back to his employers in Washington who fired him... He kept Hedges Place on, however, and when Hockney arrived at the end of March 1971 he was able to spend blissful hours there drawing and enjoying the company of boys such as Paul Miranda'. (Christopher Simon Sykes, Hockney - A Rake's Progess, Century, London, 2011, p. 250)
A pen and ink study for this lithograph was sold in these rooms on 21 June 2016, lot 200 (£52,500).
'In the days before there were exclusively gay bars in LA, Lambert's house off La Cienega Boulevard, which had a vast living room on the first floor with great views, became a focal point for the gay community. `The police were very aggressive then', he [Lambert] says, 'and were constantly arresting people...You couldn't dance or anything like that, so we used to have dances at my house and it was always full of the most beautiful young boys'. It was not long before word of Lambert's lifestyle drifted back to his employers in Washington who fired him... He kept Hedges Place on, however, and when Hockney arrived at the end of March 1971 he was able to spend blissful hours there drawing and enjoying the company of boys such as Paul Miranda'. (Christopher Simon Sykes, Hockney - A Rake's Progess, Century, London, 2011, p. 250)
A pen and ink study for this lithograph was sold in these rooms on 21 June 2016, lot 200 (£52,500).