Lightning
Print
1973 (printed and published)
1973 (printed and published)
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| Place of origin |
David Hockney first visited California in 1964 and visited and worked there from time to time until he decided in 1978 to settle there permanently. In 1965 he worked on A Hollywood Collection, a suite of prints, with master printer Ken Tyler, who ran the printmaking studio Gemini GEL. Although he made other prints with Gemini in the years between 1965 and 1973, The Weather Series was the second major suite made there. It is in part inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image however also suggests 18th and 19th century European depictions of landscape and weather, with overtones of the caricature style of Hogarth.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph and screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | David Hockney: Lightning. One of a suite of 6 prints entitled 'The Weather Series' 1973 |
| Physical description | a single jagged rod of lightning through the centre of the image, against a background of a stormy grey sky (single black cloud above more distant scattered smaller clouds). A low horizon, with a hilly landscape and a road winding between the hills from the centre of bottom margin to middle distance. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 50/98 |
| Marks and inscriptions | David Hockney 73/ Lightning / 50/98 (Signed and dated in red crayon. Inscribed with title in blue crayon. Numbered in red crayon.) |
| Production | Catalogue Raisonné: N= Nottingham: Midland Group Galleries: 'David Hockney Prints 1954-1977.' Nottingham 1979 Attribution note: From a suite of six prints |
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| Summary | David Hockney first visited California in 1964 and visited and worked there from time to time until he decided in 1978 to settle there permanently. In 1965 he worked on A Hollywood Collection, a suite of prints, with master printer Ken Tyler, who ran the printmaking studio Gemini GEL. Although he made other prints with Gemini in the years between 1965 and 1973, The Weather Series was the second major suite made there. It is in part inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image however also suggests 18th and 19th century European depictions of landscape and weather, with overtones of the caricature style of Hogarth. |
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| Other number | N.139 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.57-1975 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2008 |
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