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sellercoresellercore Payment I Shipping I Policies DAVID HOCKNEY "BLUE GUITAR: A TUNE" ETCHING & AQUATINT 18x20" ARTIST: DAVID HOCKNEY TITLE: "BLUE GUITAR: A TUNE" MEDIUM: ETCHING & AQUATINT SIZE: 18x20" EDITION: OF 35 AP YEAR: 1976 SIGNATURE: HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED IN PENCIL. Certificate of Authenticity included. Artwork is in excellent condition. Additional images available upon request. From the Blue Guitar Portfolio. David Hockney spent the summer of 1976 on Fire Island, New York, with art curator Henry Geldzahler and poet Christopher Isherwood, reading the poems of Wallace Stevens. He especially loved the long poem entitled The Man with the Blue Guitar, which had been inspired by Picasso�s painting The Old Guitarist of 1903. Hockney had admired the works of Picasso for a long time, and he was excited by the way Stevens had woven an allusive and musical text around the theme of the interplay between reality and imagination. The Blue Guitar, etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso, and they were published both as a portfolio and as a book in spring 1977. In his introductory note, Hockney wrote, � The etchings themselves were not conceived as literal illustrations of the poem but as an interpretation of its themes in visual terms. Like the poem, they are about
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