David Hockney: A Retrospective, A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan
David Hockney: A Retrospective, A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan
Additional information
| Artist | David Hockney (b.1937) |
|---|---|
| Date | 1988 |
| Medium | Offset Lithograph |
| Size | 18 x 39.5 in. (46 x 101cm.) |
Description
This original poster is one of the series produced for David Hockney’s Retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1988. It features Hockney’s painting ‘A Walk Around The Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan’ a large scale painting on two canvases that Hockney produced in 1985 after a stay at the Mexican hotel .
A Walk Around The Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan was a highlight of Hockney’s landmark 1988 retrospective, shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art before touring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Tate Modern in London.
“It has so many different perspectives that you are forced to move your eye constantly…It is a totally impossible view from one point, yet there is a clarity and order about the picture. The effect of the space is extremely strong, yet it is not an illusion you want to walk into, because you are already in the picture and walking around”. David Hockney in a letter to friend R.B. Kitaj, A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán, Hockney: The Biography, p. 209
Please note that this poster is currently conservation framed in oak with UV protected ArtGlass.
