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Artist and Model (© David Hockney)
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© David Hockney

Artist and Model

Artist: David Hockney (born 1937)

Location: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

Date: 1973 - 1974

Materials: half-ground etching, soft-ground etching, & sugar-lift aquatint

Dimensions: 57 x 44 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £15,525)

Vendor: Waddington Graphics

Review number: 3575 (1991)

Description:
This print is made as a hommage to Picasso. Hockney portrays himself as the artist's model. His nakedness expresses his vulnerability, but also places him in context with a theme used again and again by Picasso.

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