Grey Blooms
Grey Blooms
Signed Print
David Hockney
£8,500-£12,500
$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator
$14,500-$21,000 Value Indicator
¥70,000-¥110,000 Value Indicator
€9,500-€14,500 Value Indicator
$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator
¥1,430,000-¥2,100,000 Value Indicator
$10,500-$16,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 50
Year: 1986
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Grey Blooms - Signed Print | |||
| September 2022 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Grey Blooms - Signed Print | |||
| September 2021 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Grey Blooms - Signed Print | |||
| July 2018 | Christie's New York - United States | Grey Blooms - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Grey Blooms (1986) is a signed print on Arches rag paper demonstrating David Hockney's fascination with the technology of photocopying. Overflowing with exuberant shapes, playful petal forms, and robust, curved lines, the print captures the creative evolution of Hockney’s style as he experiments with fragments of cutout paper and places them in unexpected spatial relationships. What interests the artist here is not the realism of representation present in his other flower paintings but bringing the commonplace subject matter closer to abstraction. The print shares a strong visual affinity with Henri Matisse’s Snow Flowers (1951), also composed from paper cutouts. As in the case of Matisse, the flowers here are vividly abstracted, exhibiting an imaginary undertone. The work was executed on an office copy machine and belongs to Home Made Prints, a series of thematically diverse works, such as Celia With Chair (1986), Man Reading Stendhal (1986) or Dancing Flowers (1986) similar in style to Grey Blooms. The artist has said in the context of photocopying that inspired Home Made Prints: “In fact, this is the closest I’ve ever come in printing to what it’s like to paint: I can put something down, evaluate it, alter it, revise it, all in a matter of seconds.”
