A Portrait of Rolf Nelson

Details

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
A Portrait of Rolf Nelson
lithograph in colours heightened with pink watercolour, 1965-68, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 7/12 (there were also eight proofs), the full sheet, with a deckle edge above and below, pale light-staining, a short tear at the upper sheet edge, otherwise in good condition
Image 620 x 610 mm., Sheet 1050 x 750 mm.

Provenance

An unidentified collector's stamp verso.

Literature

Scottish Arts Council 63

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Rolf Nelson (born 1935) was an American art dealer from New York. From 1963 he operated his own gallery on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, which had a significant influence on the southern Californian art scene of the 1960s, before moving back to New York in 1966.
In each impression of this print, produced in a very small edition, Hockney heightened the sitter's cheeks with pink watercolour.

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