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Title: Nude 17th June 1984 [Teresa Russell] Medium/Date: Photo-collage, 17th June, 1984 Ed of 20 Published by: Petersburg Press Size: 71.25 x 48.75 x 3 inches 180.78 x 123.82 x 7.62 cm Signed: Signed, titled, numbered and dated lower front Provenance: Acquired from the Artist; Andre Emmerich Gallery NY; Private collection NY Exhibited: Exhibited: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC "Representation Abroad: Diversity" 1985; XIII Biennale de Paris, 1985; University Art Museum, U/CA Berkeley1988; LACMA 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art 1988; Tate Gallery 1988-9 Illustrated: Illustrated: David Hockney: New Work, Andre Emerich, Exhibitiion Cat, 1984; NY Magazine, 9/15/86, p.82; David Hockney-A Retrospective LaCMA/Abrams1988 pp 57-58, fig 9 Biography: <DAVID HOCKNEY b.1937 One of today's foremost painters, designers, and photographers of the 20th-century contemporary art scene in the Unit>Provenance: ed States and England. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. David Hockney’s work with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage filled a brief but important period of his working career. Using varying numbers (~5-150) of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photos are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work which has an affinity with Cubism, an affinity which was one of Hockney's major aims. Some of these pieces are landscapes, others portraits, but none other is a female nude – Theresa Russell is a bigger than life female nude presented in a Marilyn-esque pose reminescent of Marilyn's 1953 Playboy cover. Hockney's creation of the "joiners" [photo-collages] occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles. He took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photography. David Hockney’s works coveted. They are in all major international museums worldwide including The J Paul Getty Museum; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Art Institute of Chicago; The National Gallery of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Tate Museum, London; The Centre Georg Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Australia. Vered Gallery offers paintings, sculptures, works on paper and photographs by Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Richard Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Fernando Botero, Cartier-Bresson, Marc Chagall, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Wolf Kahn, Jeff Koons, Fernand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Henry Matisse, Thomas Moran, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol and Carleton Watkins. Condition reportCondition of the Hockney photo-collage is very fine. It is in its original frame,
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