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Corpses On Fire - Signed Print by David Hockney 1969 - MyArtBroker

Corpses On Fire
Signed Print

David Hockney

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 100

Year: 1969

Size: H 45cm x W 39cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of David Hockney's Corpses On Fire (signed) is estimated to be worth between £750 and £1,100. This etching print from 1969 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of 17 total sales since its entry to the market in June 2000. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £732, across 4 sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £417 in October 2024 to £2,621 in March 2021, providing an average annual growth rate of 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
December 2024Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
October 2024Lehr Art Auktion Germany
October 2024Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
October 2024Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
July 2024Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
October 2023Bonhams New York United States
June 2022AAG: Arts & Antiques Group Netherlands

Meaning & Analysis

The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear tells the story of a young man whose distinguishing trait is fearlessness. The young man who has never experienced fear in his life travels around haunted places and exposes himself to petrifying views, driven by a curiosity about the unfamiliar human emotion. The trope Hockney alludes to specifically is the night when corpses are taken down from the gallows to be warmed by the fire. It is believed in the story that the view will fill the young man with fear, but ultimately it fails to do so.

Printed on Hodgkinson handmade paper, this etching belongs to Six Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, David Hockney’s first handmade book of etchings that was published by the Petersburg Press in association with the Kasmin Gallery in 1970. Speaking of his interest in this particular story, the artist commented, “I included other stories simply because they were strange. The Boy Who Left Home To Learn Fear is such a strange Gothic story; I’d no idea how to illustrate it. I only knew I wanted to do it.” The dominance of darkness, the nostalgic appearance of the two men, and a tangled web of dark lines covering their bodies capture the strangeness of the story, evoking the uncanny world of the classic German fairy tales.

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