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Catherina Dorothea Viehmann - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker

Catherina Dorothea Viehmann
Signed Print

David Hockney

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Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 100

Year: 1969

Size: H 60cm x W 43cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney’s Catherina Dorothea Viehmann (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,350 and £5,000. This intaglio print, created in 1969, has shown consistent value growth and is a rare artwork, having been sold 6 times at auction since its initial sale on 29th November 2004. The hammer price over the past 12 months has ranged from £3,024 in September 2021 to £3,226 in March 2021. The average annual growth rate for this piece is 6%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
March 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
June 2019Galerie Kornfeld Germany
September 2015Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2009Christie's London United Kingdom
November 2004Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

​​Catherina Dorothea Viehmann sits with her arms folded on a table, as if she has been lifted from a tavern scene or the background of a Buegel painting. In this work Hockney has decided to pay homage to this woman by copying the portrait of her by Ludwig Emil Grimm, brother of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. As with the original the background is stripped of detail and our focus is drawn to her expressive face, the placement of her hands and the swathe of fabric wound at her throat. Her name is inscribed on the table, along with the words ‘Märchen frau’, or fairy woman.

Hockney published his Illustrations For Six Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm in 1969 in collaboration with Paul Cornwall-Jones of Petersburg Press. The series of monochrome etchings, which recall some of the works from A Rake’s Progress in style, were an immediate success and were reproduced in a book by Oxford University Press which has sold over 150,000 copies to this day. Commenting on his love for the fairy tales Hockney said, “They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral.”

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