Picture Of A Landscape In An Elaborate Gold Frame, 2
Picture Of A Landscape In An Elaborate Gold Frame, 2
Signed Print
David Hockney
£9,500-£14,000
$19,000-$28,000 Value Indicator
$17,000-$25,000 Value Indicator
¥90,000-¥130,000 Value Indicator
€11,500-€17,000 Value Indicator
$90,000-$140,000 Value Indicator
¥1,850,000-¥2,730,000 Value Indicator
$12,000-$18,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 85
Year: 1965
Size: H 38cm x W 30cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | Bonhams Los Angeles | United States | |||
| February 2020 | Wilson55 | United Kingdom | |||
| March 2019 | Christie's London | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2018 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| December 2015 | Aspire Auctions | United States | |||
| December 2012 | Christie's London | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2009 | Ketterer Kunst Hamburg | Germany |
Meaning & Analysis
Picture Of A Landscape In An Elaborate Gold Frame by David Hockney is a signed lithograph dating to 1965. Part of the series named A Hollywood Collection, it is accompanied by five other prints of similar style and subject. Here we see Hockney employing the trompe l’oeil device to produce a ‘play within a play’ effect that he had been experimenting with in earlier prints and paintings and would return to throughout his career. The work is ostensibly a representation of a tree however the viewer is distanced from the subject by the elaborate gold frame of the title which suggests we are looking at a picture of a picture of a tree. In this way Hockney refers back to the old masters before him by using a trope from art history to give the impression that we are being shown the fictional collection of a Hollywood star, at the same time offering a meta commentary on representation and collecting. This deliberate artifice is then juxtaposed with the natural element of the tree. As well as being a striking print the work hints at Hockney’s playful side, his admiration for the lineage of artists that came before him and his desire to see himself as part of a canon.
