Artist and Model

Medium: Hard-ground, soft-ground and lift-ground etching on Arches mould-made paper
Year: 1974
Plate: 22 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches (57.7 x 44.2 cm)
Sheet: 29 7/8 x 22 1/4 inches (75.8 x 56.5 cm)
Edition: 100
Artist’s Proofs: 23 (numbered in Roman numerals)
Publisher: Petersburg Press, New-York and London
Printer: Aldo Crommelynck
Literature: Scottish Arts Council (160), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (152)

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil with the blindstamp of the printer

Following Picasso’s death in April 1973, Hockney made two etchings in the spirit of Picasso’s renowned Vollard Suite (1930−37). In the present one, Hockney depicts an imaginary meeting with the modern master, casting himself as the nude model and using different etching techniques to distinguish the two: for Picasso, the looser “sugar-lift” method—which involves brushing the figure directly on the plate with a sugar-based fluid—and a more densely hatched line for himself. Hockney had been taught the sugar-lift technique that year in Paris by Aldo Crommelynck, the master printer of Picasso’s later etchings.

Source: The Morgan Library & Museum
Artist and Mode | David Hockney: Drawing from Life | The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions

Auction Results

Christie’s London: 25 September 2025
Estimated: GBP 22,000 – 30,000
GBP 44,450 / USD 59,805

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Artist and Model (Scottish Arts Council 160; Tokyo 152), 1974
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 1/100

Sotheby’s New-York: 15 April 2025
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 48,260

DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Artist and Model (Scottish Arts Council 160; MCAT 152), 1974
Etching on Rives BFK wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 64/100

Bukowskis Stockholm: 11 December 2024
Estimated: SEK 250,000 – 300,000
SEK 387,500 / USD 35,335

Sotheby’s New-York: 28 October 2022
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 37,800

DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Artist and Model, 1973-1974
Etching on Arches mould-made paper
Signed in pencil, dated 74 and numbered 17/100

Christie’s London: 28 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 27,720 / USD 29,735

DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Artist and Model, 1974
Etching, soft-ground etching, and lift-ground etching
Signed and dated in pencil, inscribed A.P.VI
An artist’s proof aside from the numbered edition of one hundred

Bonhams Los Angeles: 28 September 2021
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 50,312