David Hockney

Acquired directly from the photographer circa 1986 by the present owner

The present work is a chromogenic print of David Hockney's unique and monumental collage Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, which represents the culmination of Hockney's experimentation with photographic techniques from Polaroids to photocopies throughout the early 1980s. Hockney states "it is the only picture that attempts to direct space, every other picture is about a surface—road signs, the road itself, shrubs, Joshua trees, and garbage at the side of the road. The parallels with the Xerox machine struck me forcibly. I constructed my picture with pictures of surfaces and the 'space' then is made in the mind, perhaps the only place it actually exists." (David Hockney Foundation, 1986)