David Hockney
(British, born 1937)
Tree, 1968
colour lithograph
65.0 x 50.0 cm
86.0 x 70.0 cm (frame)
editioned lower left: Artist's proof
signed and dated lower right: David Hockney '68
Estimate:
$6,000 - $8,000
Sold:
$6,136 (inc. BP)
© David Hockney
lot details
86.0 x 70.0 cm (frame)
signed and dated lower right: David Hockney '68
Published by Petersburg Press, London
Rex Irwin Esq., Sydney
Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney (donated by the above for fundraising auction)
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Exhibited
David Hockney: Paintings, prints and drawings 1960 – 1970, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2 April – 3 May 1970, and touring, cat. P.28 (another example)
David Hockney Prints: 1954–1977, (organised by Scottish Arts Council and Petersburg Press), Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK, 20 January – 24 February 1979, cat. 61 (another example)
David Hockney: 1954–1995, A Print Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 9 October – 15 December 1996, cat. 61 (another example)
Wang Jia Qi fundraising auction (Sydney Children’s Hospital), Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 24 March 2001
Literature
David Hockney: Paintings, prints and drawings 1960 – 1970, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1970, cat. P.28, p. 85 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this print are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (as ‘Coloured tree’), Government Art Collection, United Kingdom and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin


