Sun [color trial proof]

1973

David Hockney

Artist, British, born 1937

Ron Olds

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Donna Rae Hirt

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Robert Knisel

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on Arjomari wove paper [color trial proof]

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    image: 76.84 × 64.14 cm (30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 94.62 × 77.79 cm (37 1/4 × 30 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.23.185

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Tankosha 1996, no. 127 [color trial proof]

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 438.

1996

  • Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan. David Hockney: Prints 1954-1995. Tokyo, Japan: Museum of Contemporary Art and Tankosha Publishing Co., 1996, no. 127.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 23.6. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

upper center in green pencil: Sun; lower center in red pencil: Colour trial proof I (without 4th printing - before 3rd printing stone addition. 5th + 6th printings are from the first trial plates before edition plates; lower right in red pencil: David Hockney 73.; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: DH73-501

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q75122699

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