Lot 55
Lot 55
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: six plates

Price Realised GBP 15,120
Estimate
GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000
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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: six plates

Price Realised GBP 15,120
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Price Realised GBP 15,120
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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: six plates
six etchings with aquatint, 1969-70, on Hodgkinson handmade wove paper, watermarked initials PP and DH, each signed in pencil, inscribed Grimm, Ed. D and numbered 39/100 on the reverse, published by Petersburg Press, London, 1970, lacking the bound volume with text and 39 plates, loose (as issued) in blue calf boards
465 x 317 mm. (overall)
Literature
Scottish Arts Council 71, 83, 90, 92, 94 and 98;
Tokyo 68, 80, 87, 89, 91 and 95
FURTHER DETAILS
This lot comprises:
The princess in her tower (SAC. 71);
The enchantress with the baby Rapunzel (SAC. 83);
The sexton disguised as a ghost stood still as a stone (SAC. 90);
The haunted castle (SAC. 92);
A black cat leaping (SAC. 94); and
The Glass Mountain (SAC. 98)

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