May 12, 2016 - Sale 2415

Sale 2415 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
DAVID HOCKNEY
A Souvenir of a Triple Bill for Andrea Velis.

Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 1982. 400x540 mm; 15 3/4x21 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, numbered 58/300 and inscribed "for Andrea Velis" in pencil, lower margin, and "Andrea" in watercolor, lower image.

Andrea Velis, who died in 1994, was one of the Metropolitan Opera's best-loved performers. As a tenor he sang more than 60 roles at the Met and, in a professional career that spanned 40 years, he performed 1,867 times at the world famous venue.