On 17 October 2025, Sotheby’s sold 17 prints from The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate from a single collection, achieving new auction records for the series.
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The David Hockney Sale:
The Arrival of Spring
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring | 2025 | Sotheby’s
“It was a wonderful Spring, and we always planned to record it
I just didn’t realize the iPad would be part of it then.”
White Glove Sale
17 Lots
GBP 6,210,300 / USD 8,343,538
Average
GBP 365,312 / USD 490,796
He was speaking shortly after he completed an epic work in what was then a very new medium. Early the following year this series of over fifty pictures filled the grandest gallery in the Royal Academy. Hockney entitled this monumental, multiple work, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven). Hockney’s initial idea had been to paint the season of new growth as it evolved from day to day. But working at an easel en plein air, he reflected, was ‘a bit difficult when you are stood out there in the winter’. After he had made a ‘four or five’ iPad drawings on Woldgate in early January, it struck him that ‘we could do the whole room in this way, the iPad would be very good for it’. Between January and June he did 94 iPads, but he edited them down to 51 – of which the 17 in this collection include many of the finest.
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 762,000 / USD 1,023,745
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 19 February
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 698,500 / USD 938,435
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 28 April
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 635,000 / USD 853,125
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 2 June
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 419,100 / USD 563,060
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 17 May
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 406,400 / USD 546,000
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 27 April
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 406,400 / USD 546,000
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 22 March
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 381,000 / USD 511,875
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 1 January
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 330,200 / USD 443,625
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 4 May
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 330,200 / USD 443,625
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 16 March
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 304,800 / USD 409,500
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 4 January
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 279,400 / USD 375,375
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 11 May
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 254,000 / USD 341,250
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 3 January
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 241,300 / USD 324,185
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 12 April No. 1
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 215,900 / USD 290,060
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 15 March
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 203,200 / USD 273,000
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 12 April No. 2
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 190,500 / USD 255,935
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 30 April
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25
The David Hockney Sale: The Arrival of Spring
Sotheby’s London: 17 October 2025
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 152,400 / USD 204,750
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 24 April
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/25