Rain
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. The Weather Series was the second major suite made at Gemini and in part is inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. Here, he has wittily caused the printing ink to 'overflow' from the picture plane into the margin around the image.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph and screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | David Hockney 'Rain' from the suite of 6 plates entitled 'The Weather Series' 1973 |
| Physical description | A group of oval rings or ellipses with concentric rings in blue; ink dripping out of the picture plane onto the margin. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 50/98 |
| Marks and inscriptions | David Hockney 73/ Rain / 50/98 (Signed and dated in green crayon, inscribed with title in red crayon and numbered in green crayon.) |
| Production | Catalogue Raisonné: N= Nottingham: Midland Group Galleries: 'David Hockney Prints 1954-1977.' Nottingham 1979 |
| Subject depicted | |
| 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. The Weather Series was the second major suite made at Gemini and in part is inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. Here, he has wittily caused the printing ink to 'overflow' from the picture plane into the margin around the image. |
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| Other number | N.137 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.60-1975 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2008 |
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