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Shoes, Kyoto - Signed Print by David Hockney 1983 - MyArtBroker

Shoes, Kyoto
Signed Print

David Hockney

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Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 15

Year: 1983

Size: H 76cm x W 66cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Shoes, Kyoto (signed) from 1983 is estimated to be worth between £45,000 and £70,000. This photographic print, created in an edition size of 15, is a rare artwork with an auction history of one sale on 3rd April 2016.

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Auction Results

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April 2016Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Shoes, Kyoto is a signed print by British artist David Hockney produced in 1983. Comprising many individual photographs of the same Japanese ‘Minka’ home depicted in other examples of Hockney’s ‘joiner’ or photo collage pieces, namely Gregory Reading In Kyoto (1983) and Gregory Watching The Snow Fall, Kyoto, Feb 21st 1983 (1983), it portrays a threshold complete with sliding doors. A line of neatly arranged shoes are positioned at the bottom of the composition alongside Hockney’s shoeless feet. Here, in a whimsical mode characteristic of Hockney’s wider œuvre, the artist passes comment on Japanese traditions; here we are witness to Hockney positioning himself on the inside of the home, in an area where custom prohibits the wearing of shoes, looking out towards an area where they are commonplace. Offering a fish-eye-like view of both the interior and exterior of the building, this piece stretches the perspectival and focal limits of traditional photography, allowing the viewer to essentially be in two places at once. Harnessing the representational potential of a new approach to the camera which had formed the basis of a public lecture Hockney gave at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the same year, the artist fights back against the ‘lifeless’ singular image and its primacy within the artistic productions of the era.