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Barbican Centre for the Arts, March 1982

David Hockney

Dovehouse Contemporary United Arab Emirates

Artwork details

Artist

David Hockney

Title

Barbican Centre for the Arts, March 1982

Description

Barbican Centre for the Arts,
March 1982

by David Hockney

Approximate dimensions: 95.3cm x 72.4cm

David Hockney's Barbican design builds a lively vertical composition from tilted panels, bright geometric shapes and contrasting patterns. Cloud-like white forms float across the dark upper background, while greens, blues, yellows and reds animate the central structure. The scattered Barbican lettering becomes part of this playful architecture, linking the poster's graphic purpose with Hockney's inventive treatment of space.

All works are supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Dovehouse Contemporary.

Date

1982

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

N/A - in short supply

Signature

Unsigned

Sheet

95.3 x 72.4 cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

The Artist

David Hockney

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.