Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

David Hockney. A Retrospective [SIGNED AND HAND STAMPED BY DAVID HOCKNEY]

Tuchman, Maurice; Stephanie Barron (Eds.)

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 288 [24]pp. Original color-illustrated stiff wraps with peach and blue lettering on cover, blue on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece artwork. Signed and hand-stamped by David Hockney, signature in blue and red, on half-title.

"As one of the most innovative and productive artists at work today David Hockney has been the subject of more than two hundred solo exhibitions and participated in another two hundred group exhibitions, and his work has been discussed in books and periodicals extensively. Now, on the occasion of his fiftieth year, we survey a quarter-century of his art in this retrospective exhibition and book." (Powell, LACMA Director)

Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of Hockney's work, few in b/w. Several of the reproductions of Hockney's work on folding plates or double-paged. Contains the catalog of the exhibition, chronology, photo sources and credits, an extensive bibliography, and index at rear. Very light wear along edges of binding with last twenty-four pages with light wavyness at foredge corner due to water exposure. Pages six and seven to last with small 1/2 by two 1/2" abrasion at bottom of pages near gutter. Very good condition. Item #56154

Price: $500.00