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David Hockney's Grimms Fairytales
David Hockney's Grimms Fairytales
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Gerrish Fine Art is delighted to present a group of ten hand-signed etchings from David Hockney’s Grimms Fairytales suite.
Hockney created 39 etchings for the series 'Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm'. The etching plates were hand-drawn by David Hockney in London between May and November 1969, proofed by Maurice Payne and printed by Piet Clement on W.S.Hodgkinson paper. Published by the Petersburg Press in association with the Kasmin Gallery in 1970.
For this series Hockney selected six stories from the 220 by the Brothers Grimm, which he'd delighted in since childhood. These include 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'.
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Image: Detail of David Hockney, Cold Water about to hit the Prince, Etching & Aquatint, 1969
They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral.
- David Hockney
This portrait is the first image of the series. Catherina Dorothea Viehmann was a German storyteller, her stories were an important source for the fairytales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
David Hockney (b.1937)
David Hockney is widely acknowledged to be Britain's greatest practitioner of the graphic arts. He began with lithography in 1954, as a sixteen-year-old student at the Bradford College of Art, and has gone on to master etching and even the fax machine, producing continuously experimental and vital graphic work for over 6 decades.
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