1990
Edition Size: N/A
Sheet Size: 27 x 42.5 cm
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Alaska Portrait
By David Hockney
1990
Unique homemade laser print on Parsons Linen Ledger cotton fibre paper, with the manufacturer’s watermarks
27 x 42.5cm
Published by the artist
Gifted by David Hockney to his friend Vera Russell, who featured in several portraits
Born in Bradford England on the 9th July 1937 David Hockney was interested in art from a very early age, and was an admirer of Fragonard, Picasso and Matisse. The fifth of six children his parents encouraged his artistic experimentation. He went to the Bradford College of Art 1953-57. To fulfil his national service, he worked in hospitals as he was a conscientious objector to war. Then in 1959 he was accepted into the Royal College of Art, Graduate school in London.
