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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 26, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 31 | $****** - ****** | WHAT ABOUT THE CAVES |
paintings
92.1 x 122.3 cm (36.26 x 48.15 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1991 on the reverse
The Artist
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California (acquired from the above in 1998)
Private Collection, Beverly Hills
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, David Hockney: Recent Pictures, January - February 1992, p. 19, no. 9, illustrated in colour
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; and Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, David Hockney, June 1992 - February 1993, p. 93, no. 68, illustrated in colour (Brussels); cover and p. 93, no. 68, illustrated in colour (Madrid)
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Paintings as Performance, May - June 1996
Manchester, Manchester City Art Galleries, David Hockney: You Make the Picture – Paintings and Prints 1982 - 1995, November 1996 - February 1997, n.p., no. 35, illustrated in colour
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Espace/Paysage, January - April 1999, p. 134, illustrated in colour
Bonn, Kunst und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Exciting Times are Ahead, June - September 2001, p. 165, no. 59, illustrated in colour
Paul Melia and Ulrich Luckhardt, David Hockney: Paintings, Munich and New York 1994, p. 165, no. 97, illustrated
Marco Livingstone, David Hockney, London 2005, p. 256, no. 193, illustrated in colour
Nikos Stangos, Ed., David Hockney: That’s the Way I See It, London 1993, p. 223, no. 321, illustrated in colour
David Hockney and Hans Werner Holzwarth, Eds., David Hockney. A Bigger Book, London 2016, pp. 258-59, illustrated in colour
signed, titled and dated 1991 on the reverse
oil on canvas
92.1 by 122.3 cm. 36 1/4 by 48 1/4 in.
