Geography Book (Félicité's Only View from Abroad)

1974

David Hockney

Associated Names
David Hockney

Artist, British, born 1937

Aldo Crommelynck

Printer, French, 1931 - 2008

Petersburg Press

Publisher

This is a drawing of a house with an orangutan and trees in the foreground. The image shows a two-story house with a tiled roof, distinct brick patterns, a central door, and multiple windows. An orangutan is in front of the house, in motion, with a bright red garment. Two trees are on each side of the house with blue and red foliage. The sky and ground are depicted with simple lines.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground and hardground etching in red and blue on Arches wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.9 x 23.7 cm (8 5/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.6 x 42 cm (14 13/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1983.114.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Tankosha 1996, no. 151

  • Series Title

    Gustave Flaubert: A Simple Heart

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reader's Digest Association, New York; acquired 1983 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

Bibliography

1996

  • Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan. David Hockney: Prints 1954-1995. Tokyo, Japan: Museum of Contemporary Art and Tankosha Publishing Co., 1996, no. 151.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 74/100; lower right in graphite: David Hockney 74

Wikidata ID

Q74045848

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