David Hockney Figures with Still Life Etching Edition of 200 From The Blue Guitar Series

Artist: David HockneyTitle: "Figures with Still Life" (from The Blue Guitar Series)Year: 1977Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Inveresk Mould-Made PaperSheet size: 21.65" x 18.9"Plate Size: 16.75" x 13.5"Edition Size: 200 Numbered, 35 Artists Proof (XXXV)Edition Number: 80/200Inscription: Signed "David Hockney"Documentation: Includes Gallery Certificate of Authenticity avid Hockney's Figures with Still Life belongs to The Blue Guitar, a portfolio of 20 color etchings created in 1977. The series interprets themes from Wallace Stevens's poem The Man with the Blue Guitar, which reflects on the creative act and the artist's role in reshaping reality through imagination. Rather than illustrating the poem directly, Hockney approaches it as a visual meditation, combining personal and art historical references with formal experimentation. In this composition, two figures engage across a modest still life of bottle, glass, and plate. One figure appears as a linearly structured silhouette built f