Name: DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Brand: Alka Seltzer
Price: 10000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Alka Seltzer
etching and aquatint, 1961, on Crisbrook laid paper, a fine impression, with the aquatint printing particularly strongly, one of six proofs aside from the edition of 15, published by Petersburg Press, London, 1969
Plate 281 x 130 mm.
‌Sheet 386 x 289 mm.

R. B. Kitaj, London & Los Angeles (1932-2007); acquired directly from the artist; his sale, Christie's, London, 7 February 2008, lot 307.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Scottish Arts Council 6; Tokyo 6

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This etching relates to the painting 'The Most Beautiful Boy in the World'. 'Doll boy', the central character identified by the initials DB wears only a 'baby doll', a style of night-dress popularized by Carroll Baker in the film of the same name. 'Doll Boy was a reference to Cliff Richard, who was very attractive, very sexy... I used to cut out photographs of him from newspapers and magazines and stick them around my little cubicle in the Royal College of Art, partly because other people used to stick up girl pin-ups, and I thought, I'm not going to do that, can't do that, and here's something just as sexy, and I stuck them up. He had a song in which the words were, 'She's a real live walking talking living doll', and he sang it rather sexily...He's referring to some girl, so I changed it to a boy.' (David Hockney by David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, p. 63). 'Doll Boy' is further identified in the painting as a fellow student at the Royal College of Art, Peter Crutch. The inclusion of an Alka-Seltzer logo, which gives the etchings its title, playfully suggests the effervescent effect of a youthful infatuation.