David Hockney (b. 1937)

Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo Feb 16th 1983

Price realised GBP 32,500
Estimate
GBP 18,000 – GBP 25,000
Closed: 8 Mar 2017
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David Hockney (b. 1937)

Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo Feb 16th 1983

Price realised GBP 32,500
Closed: 8 Mar 2017
Price realised GBP 32,500
Closed: 8 Mar 2017
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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo Feb 16th 1983
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Luncheon at the British Embassy. Tokyo Feb 16th 1983 #10' (centre bottom edge)
photo collage on paper
45 5/8 x 82 ½in. (116 x 209.5cm.)
Executed in 1983, this work is number ten from an edition of twenty
Provenance
Gallery Bjorn Bengtsson, Varberg.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1983).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
P. Joyce, Hockney on 'Art', conversations with Paul Joyce, London 1999 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 172-173).
Exhibited
London, Hayward Gallery, Hockney's Photographs, 1983-1984, no. 91 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 28).
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Hockney, a Retrospective, 1988-1989, no. 89 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 225). This exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and London, Tate Gallery.
Tokyo, Odakyu Grand Gallery, David Hockney, 1989, no. 83 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 77). This exhibition later travelled to Gunma, The Museum of Modern Art; Chiba, The Seibu Museum and Osaka, Umeda Hankyu Gallery.
Tokyo, British Embassy, another example in the permanent collection since 1990.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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