Kaisarion with all his Beauty
Medium: Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on J. Whatman handmade wove paper
Year: 1961
Image: 19 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (49.5 x 27.2 cm)
Sheet: 22 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches (58 x 39.5 cm)
Edition: Approximately 50
Publisher: The Artist
Printer: Ron Fuller and Peter Mathews at the Royal College of Art, London
Literature: Scottish Art Council (8); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (8)
“Before I left England , Robert Erskine had said to me Take some etchings and go and see William Lieberman at the Museum of Modern Art; I’m sure he’ll buy some off you. I thought, The Museum of Modern Art! I can’t do that. Anyway I took a bundle with me to New York, but I didn’t go to see him. I did meet him, however, later on, and he said Why haven’t you come to see me? Robert Erskine wrote me a letter about you. I didn’t think it would work like that. He did buy them; he took a copy of each of Kaisarion and Mirror, Mirror on the Wall for the Museum, and he sold all the other copies I’d taken. I got about two hundred dollars, which was a lot of money for me, and I bought a suit, and American suit, and bleached my hair.”
DAVID HOCKNEY, 1976, QUOTED IN DAVID HOCKNEY: THE COMPLETE EARLY ETCHINGS, 2017, P. 17
Auction Results
Property from the Petersburg Press Archives
Sotheby’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 6,000 – 8,000
USD 5,334
UNSIGNED CANCELLATION PROOF
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Kaisarion and All His Beauty, 1961
(Scottish Arts Council 8; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 8)
Etching and aquatint printed in red and black on J. Whatman handmade wove 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
Phillips London: 18 September 2025
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 15,480 / USD 21,055
An artist’s proof, the edition was approximately 50
Sotheby’s London: 15 November 2023
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 8,890 / USD 11,106
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Kaisarion and All His Beauty (S.A.C., MCA Tokyo 8), 1961
Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on J. Whatman wove paper
Signed in pencil and dated
One of approximately 50 impressions
Sotheby’s London: 15 November 2023
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 20,000
GBP 13,970 / USD 17,453
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Kaisarion and All His Beauty (see S.A.C., MCA Tokyo 8), 1961
The rare etching and aquatint on wove paper
Initialed and dated in black ink
This impression is a stage proof before the re-worked edition of 50
Bonhams London: 18 June 2020
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 15,062 / USD 18,714
Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on wove
Signed and dated in pencil, from an edition of approximately 50
Christie’s London: 21 March 2019
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 10,000 / USD 13,141
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Kaisarion with all his Beauty, 1961
Etching and aquatint printed in black and red on J. Whatman handmade wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil from the edition of approximately fifty impressions