David Hockney - Red, Blue, and Green Flowers

Year: 1986
Medium: Home made print
From the edition of 59
Signed, dated and numbered
Size: 28 x 8.5 in (71.1 x 21.6 cm)
Frame size: 35 x 15 in (88.9 x 38.1 cm)
Printer/Publisher: Printed and published by the artist
Literature: Tokyo 300; Hockney, David, Home Made Prints, Self-published catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Andre Emmerich's New York gallery, Zurich, 1986, no.13 (illus.)
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David Hockney is known for his depictions of numerous subjects – his bright, cheerful palette capturing California pools, buildings, flowers, fruit, and friends. Over the course of many decades, Hockney sent illustrated bouquets to friends and family. (When he got an iPhone in 2009, he began drawing daily flowers to send to friends digitally – a concept he allegedly found thrilling. Exhibitions of flowers drawn on the Brush program of his iPad have since been held at the Centre Pompidou [Paris], the Tate [London] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York].) Many of his flowers illustrate Hockney’s use of non-perspective space adapted to his still-life works, in which he assumed the viewer was in the image with the work, instead of looking at it.