Lightning

1973

David Hockney

Artist, British, born 1937

Ron Olds

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Jeff Wasserman

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Ron McPherson

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph and screenprint on Arjomari wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.

  • Dimensions

    image: 79.06 × 64.93 cm (31 1/8 × 25 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 99.7 × 80.3 cm (39 1/4 × 31 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.56.54

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Tankosha 1996, no. 130

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1976 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 2015-2017.

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 441.

1996

  • Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan. David Hockney: Prints 1954-1995. Tokyo, Japan: Museum of Contemporary Art and Tankosha Publishing Co., 1996, no. 130.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 23.21. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

upper center in blue pencil: lightning; lower left in red pencil: 7/98; lower right in red pencil: David Hockney 73; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: DH73-569

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Wikidata ID

Q65567592

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