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Homage To Michelangelo - Signed Print by David Hockney 1975 - MyArtBroker

Homage To Michelangelo
Signed Print

David Hockney

£3,750-£5,500Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$10,000 Value Indicator

¥35,000-¥50,000 Value Indicator

4,450-6,500 Value Indicator

$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥730,000-¥1,070,000 Value Indicator

$4,700-$7,000 Value Indicator

6% AAGR

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Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 200

Year: 1975

Size: H 78cm x W 99cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Homage To Michelangelo (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,750 and £5,500. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £2,219 in October 2022 to £6,500 in February 2023. This intaglio print, created in 1975, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 26 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2001. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2023Christie's New York United States
May 2023Uppsala Auktionskammare Sweden
February 2023Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
October 2022SBI Art Auction Japan
April 2022Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
September 2020Shannon's United States

Meaning & Analysis

This signed print, entitled Homage To Michelangelo (1975), is by much-loved British artist David Hockney. Created using etching and aquatint printmaking techniques, it was released in an edition of 200 and belongs to the artist’s  Influences series. It depicts two expressionless women as they walk towards one another, clutching a newspaper and a handbag, respectively. Behind the women, studies of works by Italian High Renaissance artist, Michelangelo, have been gesturally inscribed into an un-inked area resembling a wall, which engenders a stark light-dark contrast with the pair’s drab clothes. Literary references permeate the print, with the words ‘in the room’ and ‘THE WOMEN come and go talking of Michelangelo’ appearing on the wall in a coded reference to T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. The cross-hatched ground upon which the two women walk evokes the rigid forms of Hockney’s set designs for a 1975 showing of The Rake’s Progress, as seen in his poster print,  An Exhibit Of Costumes (1975). This print was produced in order to feature in the portfolio Omaggio a Michelangelo, published in 1975 to mark what would be Michelangelo’s 500th birthday, and featuring artworks from the likes of André Masson, Henry Moore and Eduardo Paolozzi. A copy of the print has hung on the Second Floor of the British Library in London for many years.

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