Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(HOCKNEY, DAVID.) Grimm Brothers. Six Fairy Tales. 39 etchings by Hockney plus a suite of 6 Signed and numbered plates. Folio, handsewn and bound in full blue leather lettered in black by Rudolf Rieser; separate matching sleeve for suite of plates; matching slipcase, few nicks in the leather. London: Petersburg Press, (1970)

Additional Details

number 82 of 100 copies of edition a signed by hockney. The manuscript is based on the original edition of Manesse, published in Zürich and translated from the German and edited by Heiner Bastian in Berlin. The production was printed in four editions of 100 and 15 artist's proofs. This edition A includes: plate 6, A wooded landscape plate 12 Rapunzel plate 17 Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair plate 20, The sexton disguised as a ghost plate 35 A room full of straw plate 37 Pleading for the child. They are Signed by Hockney, lower right, and numbered on the verso.