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Celia Seated In An Office Chair - Signed Print by David Hockney 1974 - MyArtBroker

Celia Seated In An Office Chair
Signed Print

David Hockney

£7,000-£10,500Value Indicator

$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator

$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥100,000 Value Indicator

8,500-12,500 Value Indicator

$70,000-$100,000 Value Indicator

¥1,340,000-¥2,000,000 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,000 Value Indicator

-8% AAGR

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Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 60

Year: 1974

Size: H 90cm x W 75cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Celia Seated In An Office Chair (signed) is estimated to be worth between £7,000 and £10,500. This intaglio print, created in 1974, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in May 1997. This work has an auction history of 14 total sales. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £6,682, across 1 total sale. The hammer price over the last five years has varied from £5,588 in November 2023 to £12,670 in September 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is -8%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 60.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2024Nosbüsch & Stucke Germany
September 2024Freeman's United States
November 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
November 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
April 2023Phillips New York United States
January 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2022Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago United States

Meaning & Analysis

This print portrays the designer on a classic swivel chair. She appears to be making a concerted effort to sit up straight and appears ill at ease in this position. Her face and body are slightly turned away from us, her features partly concealed by her shaggy curls.

As with many other of Hockney’s portraits of Birtwell, her style takes centre stage. The artist pays close attention to her garments, representing cut, patterns and accessories beautifully, perhaps in a bid to convey the sitter’s own gift for fashion. The soft tones of brown, black and red of her figure are set against the stark contrast of the turquoise chair as well as the paleness of her skin and the white of her blouse.

Many of Hockney's prints of Birtwell are lithographs but here we see him returning to the intaglio technique to achieve a more sketchy style, proving his ability to work across the various mediums of printmaking, and his constant desire for experimentation in his work. Portraits of Celia can be found in many of Hockney’s later print series including Moving Focus and the Gemini G.E.L. 1979 Portfolio, and she continues to be his muse even today; fresh portraits of her appeared in his 2016 show at the Royal Academy, entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life.

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