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Henry With Cigar - Signed Print by David Hockney 1976 - MyArtBroker

Henry With Cigar
Signed Print

David Hockney

£1,550-£2,350Value Indicator

$3,050-$4,650 Value Indicator

$2,800-$4,200 Value Indicator

¥14,000-¥22,000 Value Indicator

1,900-2,850 Value Indicator

$15,000-$23,000 Value Indicator

¥290,000-¥440,000 Value Indicator

$1,950-$2,950 Value Indicator

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 25

Year: 1976

Size: H 27cm x W 27cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Henry With Cigar (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,550 and £2,350. This lithograph print from 1976 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of five sales since its entry to the market in May 2008. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has varied from £1,219 in November 2023 to £4,776 in November 2021. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 25.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
November 2021Bonhams New York United States
December 2018Sotheby's New York United States
July 2015Christie's New York United States
May 2008Lempertz, Cologne Germany

Meaning & Analysis

While working on such famous portraits as My Parents And Myself (1975), Hockney took a series of photographs to serve as studies for individual figures. The period of late 1970s marks Hockney’s growing distrust towards photography, a medium which, in the artist’s view, allows one to capture details at a high level of accuracy but does not necessarily correspond with the experience of reality by the individual. In 1976, the artist moves away from the use of the photographic image as a point of reference for portraits. The shift makes itself present in Henry With Cigar through Hockney’s use of tusche, a diluted form of lithographic ink that renders Geldzahler’s facial features in a series of marks and blotches resembling strokes of the Oriental brush.

The use of tusche here can be seen to encapsulate the artist's desire to distance himself from the tradition of naturalism with its precise use of a hard line and down-to-earth approach towards the representation of the human subject. Although Geldzahler’s likeness is immediately recognizable in the print, Hockney’s way of treating the subject is different compared to his earlier portraits characterised by precise details and crisp linear outlines. Displaying the economy of means, thick blotches, and bold strokes, the print represents Hockney’s embracing of a more freewheeling approach to the art of portraiture.

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