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Igor Stravinsky – Metropolitan Opera

David Hockney

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Artwork details

Title
Igor Stravinsky - Metropolitan Opera
Description

A large-format poster produced in silkscreen; a smaller offset version was also produced measuring 96.5 x 43.2 cm. The design was for Le Rossignol with music composed by Igor Stravinsky and stage set designed by Hockney. Vera Russell (née Lindsay)was a British Shakespearean actress appearing on the stage and in television productions in the 1930s and 1940s. She was married from 1956 to 1971 to the art critic John Russell. Together, they were a noted couple in the British art scene.

We also have for sale in the gallery another Hockney print, Homage to Michelangelo, for which Vera Russell was the model.

Date
1981
Edition
Unknown
Signature
Signed
Sheet
204.5 x 88 cm
Status
Available
Price
£22,500.00
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.

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