Lot 1521
DAVID HOCKNEY INTEREST: A 19th/20th CENTURY FIVE-PANEL SCREEN
The mahogany frame with two brass collars on each edge, blank canvas panels
Each panel 200 x 79cm;
sold with a poster from the 1981 exhibition, showing Hockney standing by this screen. (2)
* This screen features in Hockney's Looking at Pictures on a Screen (1977) and was lent to the artist by the vendor's husband. The browser in the original oil was Hockney's friend Henry Geldzahler of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
During the 1970's the National Gallery instituted a program of exhibitions titled "The Artist's Eye". The museum invited a nominated artist to curate a small exhibition selecting works from the museum collection as well as his own work. Hockney's exhibition in 1977 was the last in the series. He decided to include the Vermeer, Piero de la Francesca, Van Gogh and Degas paintings which he had painted on the screen in his own painting Looking at Pictures on a Screen. This screen with the reproductions pinned onto it was also on view.
Provenance:
The vendor's husband collaborated with Hockney from 1963, publishing prints and being closely involved with the artist's exhibitions, opera sets and other aspects of Hockney's life.
