Lot Essay
Rudolf Rieser was the bookbinder who made the portfolio boxes for Six Fairy Tales.
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The Older Rapunzel, from: Six Fairy Tales
Details
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
The Older Rapunzel, from: Six Fairy Tales
etching, 1969, on Hodgkinson handmade wove paper, watermark DH/PP, signed in pencil, inscribed for Rudolf in brown ink verso, a proof aside from the numbered edition of one hundred, published by Petersburg Press, London, the full sheet, pale light-staining, a flattened crease in the lower margin, otherwise in good condition
Plate 227 x 255 mm., Sheet 445 x 402 mm.
The Older Rapunzel, from: Six Fairy Tales
etching, 1969, on Hodgkinson handmade wove paper, watermark DH/PP, signed in pencil, inscribed for Rudolf in brown ink verso, a proof aside from the numbered edition of one hundred, published by Petersburg Press, London, the full sheet, pale light-staining, a flattened crease in the lower margin, otherwise in good condition
Plate 227 x 255 mm., Sheet 445 x 402 mm.
Provenance
Rudolf Rieser, Cologne; a gift from the artist.
With Waddington Graphics, London; acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
With Waddington Graphics, London; acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Scottish Arts Council 84; Tokyo 81
Special notice
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