
20 Flowers
21 works

Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink, 1991
Lithograph Signed and numbered in pencil lower right/left.
height 39 in height 99 cm
David Hockney’s Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink (1971) is a witty and playful still life that demonstrates his ability to reimagine a traditional subject with contemporary sharpness. At first glance, the work depicts a vase of flowers placed against a patterned gray grid background, yet a closer look reveals that the bouquet is not made of natural blooms but is instead an artifice—crafted, as the title suggests, from “paper and ink.”The flowers are rendered in crisp, flat hues: bright reds, blues, purples, and yellows, their delicate outlines contrasted with the rigidity of the geometric wallpaper behind them. The vase, thin and elongated, holds the arrangement almost precariously, emphasizing the constructed rather than organic nature of the scene. At the base of the composition, Hockney places a row of colored pencils and crayons, a direct reminder of the tools of artistic invention. This witty addition collapses the distinction between the act of creation and the illusion of reality: the flowers exist because of these simple instruments.Hockney’s background grid recalls the cool rationality of minimalism, but his handling of color and line is playful, lighthearted, and unmistakably his own. In reducing the natural beauty of flowers to hand-made and hand-colored forms, Hockney makes a commentary on perception, reproduction, and the artificiality of representation. The work balances charm and irony, situating itself between traditional still-life painting and postmodern skepticism about originality.Ultimately, Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink is less about flowers themselves than about the act of looking and making. It reminds viewers that all depictions—no matter how lifelike—are constructions, mediated by paper, ink, and the artist’s hand. Would you like me to also expand this into a collector-focused piece that discusses its place in Hockney’s printmaking practice and its market significance?For more information or to buy Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink (1971) by David Hockney, contact our galleries using the form below.


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David Hockney prints for sale at Guy Hepner include works from his most collected series: the Swimming Pool lithographs, Blue Guitar, Paper Pools, Moving Focus, Celia, and the Yosemite Suite. David Hockney signed prints for sale and David Hockney original art for sale through our New York gallery are sourced from authenticated secondary market collections with full provenance documentation.
David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026) was the most celebrated British artist of his generation and one of the most actively traded names on the international secondary market. His luminous paintings, prints, and drawings — spanning swimming pools, landscapes, portraits, and iPad works — defined visual culture for over six decades and continue to command record prices at auction.
David Hockney art for sale encompasses a remarkably diverse body of work, from early etchings and lithographs to large-scale paintings and his celebrated digital iPad drawings. Hockney's position as the most valuable British artist was confirmed in November 2018 when Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) sold for US$90.3 million at Christie's New York — setting a world auction record for a living artist at the time.
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