
20 Flowers
21 works

Celia in Wicker Chair (Black State), 1981
Softground etching and aquatint
36 x 29 1/2 in 91.4 x 74.9 cm
Hockney's interior subjects — studios, chairs, domestic spaces, the objects that inhabit his working environments — demonstrate his capacity to find compelling visual material in the immediate, everyday world. His chairs in particular have become signature subjects, their emptiness suggesting presence and absence simultaneously, their formal qualities offering opportunities for investigations of colour, line, and spatial relationship. This work reflects Hockney's deep engagement with the tradition of interior painting while bringing to it a contemporary freshness of observation and a distinctly personal visual vocabulary.

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