The Wave
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1990
Sheet: 27×38 inches (68.6 x 96.5 cm)
Edition: 50
Artist’s Proofs: 12 AP (numbered in Roman numerals)
Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, New York
Literature: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (324)
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp
“Here I’m on the edge of the largest swimming-pool in the world – the Pacific Ocean … When you live this close to the sea, where it literally comes up and splashes the windows, it is not the horizon line which dominates, but the close movement of the water itself.”
Auction Results
Christie’s online: 23 July 2024
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 81,900
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
The Wave, a Lithograph (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 324), 1990
Lithograph in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 36/50 (there were also twelve artist’s proofs)
Sotheby’s London: 7 June 2024
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 26,400 / USD 33,660
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
The Wave, 1990
Lithograph printed in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 8/50
Bonhams Los Angeles: 3 October 2023
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 48,640
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 1/50
Bonhams Los Angeles: 28 September 2021
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 69,062
Lithograph in colors, on Arches paper
Signed in pencil, dated and annotated ‘A.P. V/XII’ (aside from the edition of 50)
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 60,000
The Wave, A Lithograph, 1990
Lithograph in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 12/50 (there were also twelve artist’s proofs)
Phillips New-York: 25 October 2019
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 25,000
USD 43,750
DAVID HOCKNEY
The Wave, A Lithograph, 1990
Lithograph in colors, on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dated and numbered ‘A.P. VII/XII’ in pencil
(an artist’s proof, the edition was 50)