The Marriage

Medium: Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Year: 1962
Image: 12 x 15 1/2 inches (30.5 x 39.7 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/8 x 25 inches (51×64 cm)
Edition: 75
Artist’s Proofs: 16 AP
Publisher: Petersburg Press, London
Printer: Birgit Skiold, London
Literature: Scottish Art Council (14); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (30)

Signed, dated and numbered in pencil

 

“I never seem to be able to go around a museum at the same pace as anybody else, and when I went to the Pergamon Museum with Jeff we got separated. Suddenly I caught sight of him standing next to an Egyptian sculptured figure, unconcerned about it because he was studying something on the wall. Both figures were looking the same way, and it amused me that in my first glimpse of them they looked united.”

 

This etching is the graphic version of a painting entitled The first marriage (a marriage of styles), dated 1962, and in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. The motif is based on a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, when his travel companion stood next to the sculpture of a seated woman.

 

 

Auction Results

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Ketterer Munich: 15 June 2024
Estimated: EUR 6,000
EUR 6,858 / USD 7,200

DAVID HOCKNEY
The Marriage, 1962
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Signed, dated and numbered
From an edition of 75 copies

Sotheby’s London: 15 November 2023
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 8,255 / USD 10,313

DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Marriage (S.A.C. 14; MCA Tokyo 30), 1962
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 16/75
This impression is number 16 from the edition of 75 plus 16 proofs