Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Medium: Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on English handmade paper
Year: 1961
Image: 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches (40×50 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches (47×57 cm)
Edition: Approximately fifty impressions (unnumbered)
Printer: Ron Fuller and Peter Mathews at the Royal College of Art
Literature: Scottish Arts Council (10), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (10)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower edge
Auction Results
Property from the Petersburg Press Archives
Sotheby’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 5,000 – 7,000
USD 3,175
UNSIGNED CANCELLATION PROOF
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, 1961
(Scottish Arts Council 10; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 10)
Etching and aquatint printed in red and black on English handmade paper
Signed and inscribed in the plate David Hockney. Cancelled
This impression is an archive cancellation proof aside from the numbered edition of approximately 50
Printed by Ron Fuller and Peter Matthews at the Royal College of Art
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 12,800 / USD 16,068
Etching and aquatint in black and red on Crisbrook handmade wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, from the edition of approximately fifty impressions
Bonhams London: 16 December 2021
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 16,500 / USD 22,047
Etching and aquatint in red and black on wove paper
Signed and dated ‘David Hockney ’61’ in pencil
From the edition of approximately fifty impressions
Sotheby’s London: 17 March 2020
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 9,000
GBP 10,000 / USD 12,116
DAVID HOCKNEY (b.1937)
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL (S. A. C., MCA TOKYO 10), 1961
Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on English handmade paper
Signed in pencil, dated, titled, numbered 1/50