14th Jun, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
469
David Hockney OM, CH, RA (b.1937)
“Diptychon” (1989)
Signed and dated (19)89, numbered 6/50, homemade print, 43cm by 55cm
Provenance: Gilden's Arts Gallery, London
Sold together with the Gilden's Arts certificate of authenticity
Sold for £7,500
Estimated at £5,000 - £7,000
Coloured photocopy on two sheets of laid paper.
The piece is float-mounted and hinged at the corners to the backboard. It is made of two pieces of paper with a join down the middle. Slight cockling to the paper. Some very light surface dirt and debris trapped under the glass. Slight handling crease upper right-hand side and one to the top right corner. A thumb-sized yellow/brown mark right of centre of top edge above the red, possibly glue that has been transposed? A small mark of a similar colour below the third red line and two to the top left edge, one to the right of the numbering and one below. The tiniest nick to the right of the bottom edge. Not examined out of the frame.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 14th Jun, 2025
Two interesting works by Alfred Wallis, self-taught fisherman-artist from St Ives, will lead the Modern & Contemporary Art Sale; Sailboats and Fish and Steamboats and Lighthouse were purchased by the vendor’s grandmother directly from the artist. Heading a good offering of Northern Art in the sale are three works by Helen Bradley, who reinvented herself as an internationally acclaimed artist aged 75. Using a soft yet colourful palette and simple two-dimensional figures, she illustrated short narrative accounts based on early childhood memories of growing up in the Edwardian era.
Other artists represented in the sale include David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Madeline Green, Norman Cornish, Brian 'Braaq' Shields, Sally Arnup, Kenneth Armitage, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Howard Hodgkin.
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