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David Hockney b.1937

Hotel Acatlán: Second Day (from the Moving Focus series)

1984-85
lithograph in colors on TGL handmade wove paper in two parts image: 26½ h × 74 w in (67 × 188 cm) sheet: 28¾ h × 76 w in (73 × 193 cm)
estimate: $60,000–80,000
result: $81,900
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Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘6/98 David Hockney 1984-5’. This work is number 6 from the edition of 98 printed and published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mt. Kisco, NY.
literature: M.C.A.T. 270 | Tyler Graphics 283

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Road Trip, Interrupted

David Hockney, Hotel Acatlán, and the ‘Moving Focus’ Series

David Hockney at work in the courtyard of Hotel Acatlán. Photo: Kunstmuseum Luzern

David Hockney discovered the Hotel Acatlán, shown in this print, while en route to Mexico City—car trouble forced him to delay his trip. As the title Hotel Acatlán: Second Day suggests, the present work is based on sketches that Hockney made on his second day at the inn, and he would make more sketches and a subsequent work (Hotel Acatlán: Two Weeks Later) on his return journey from Mexico City. The hotel is also the subject of the View of Hotel Well series of three lithographs, which each regard the courtyard's central well from a different vantage.

Each of these works inspired by the Mexican hotel are part of Hockney’s Moving Focus series, which comprises 29 prints made in collaboration with Tyler Graphics master printer Kenneth Tyler between 1984 and 1986. As the Smithsonian Institution observes, “In contrast to most print series, in which there is usually a cohesion of subject matter, style, and size, the Moving Focus prints include interiors, chairs, vases with flowers, views from a Mexican hotel, and portraits, all of varying sizes. What unifies the series is the artist’s obsession with the depiction of space: the use of reverse perspective, the experience of being within a space, and the exploration of multipoint perspective.” 

David Hockney b. 1937

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David Hockney is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and of the British pop art movement. A painter, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer, his unmistakable style breaks boundaries both in the rules of art and across multiple artistic movements. Born in 1937 in Bradford, England he studied at the Royal College of Art, but did not graduate on account of declining to submit an essay along with his final work. In the 1960s, his bright, figurative paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools accompanied by Californian landscapes as wells as personal subject matter including portraits of friends ignited his career. In 1963, at the age of 26, he had his first one-man show and in 1970 the White Chapel Gallery exhibited his first retrospective.

In the early 1980s, he began working in photocollage, or “joiners” as he called them, exploring movement and photography. In a recent 2016 exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, Hockney debuted a series of works created on the iPhone and iPad exhibiting his love for technology.

Hockney is a highly celebrated artist receiving the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles in 1993, the Lorenzo de’ Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy in 2003, and appointment to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 among many others. His work is also held amongst some of the most distinguished collections around the world including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery London, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. David Hockney lives and works in the Hollywood Hills, California.

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