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Gregory Watching The Snow Fall, Kyoto, Feb 21st 1983 - Signed Print by David Hockney 1983 - MyArtBroker

Gregory Watching The Snow Fall, Kyoto, Feb 21st 1983
Signed Print

David Hockney

£12,500-£19,000Value Indicator

$25,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$23,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥110,000-¥170,000 Value Indicator

15,000-23,000 Value Indicator

$120,000-$180,000 Value Indicator

¥2,460,000-¥3,750,000 Value Indicator

$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator

-12% AAGR

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Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 20

Year: 1983

Size: H 108cm x W 115cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney's Gregory Watching The Snow Fall, Kyoto, Feb 21st 1983 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £12,500 and £19,000. This photographic print, created in 1983, has an auction history of five total sales since its entry to the market in April 2013. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £9,414, across a total of 1 sale. The artwork has shown a negative average annual growth rate of -12% and the edition size is limited to 20.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2024Los Angeles Modern Auctions United States
October 2019Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2019Sotheby's New York United States
April 2014Sotheby's New York United States
April 2013Christie's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The creator of this print, British artist David Hockney, once remarked that ‘depiction goes on whether painting does it or not’. As such, here we see Hockney move away from painting and towards the representational potential of the camera and the photograph. Unsatisfied with the limitations of a singular image – the enforcer of a Renaissance-era perspective, where one is always what art historian Marco Livingstone dubs a ‘static’ viewer – Hockney works to incorporate multiple images into a single composition. Much like the rest of the artworks in the Photo Collages series, produced mostly at the beginning of the 1980s, this print experiments with different ways of seeing and different perspectives. Returning to the traditional Japanese ‘Minka’ home first depicted in Gregory Reading In Kyoto (1983), we watch Hockney watching Gregory, laying in bed, himself watching the snowfall outside. Allowing for a fluidity which matches that of the human eye, Hockney’s complex, baroque arrangement of these many individual photographs upend the fixed-point perspective of the observer in Western art. The ideas present in this work were committed to a public lecture at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, entitled ‘On Photography’, perhaps in a reference to the eponymous book by American cultural theorist Susan Sontag (1977). In this lecture, Hockney advocated for a new form of image-making which would better reflect the human experience.

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