Viareggio

成交价英镑 44,450

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英镑 12,000 – 英镑 18,000

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David Hockney (b. 1937)

Viareggio

成交价英镑 44,450

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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Viareggio
coloured pencil on paper
signed with initials, dated and inscribed twice viareggio '62 DH. (lower right)
19 1/8 x 13½ in. (48.6 x 34.3 cm.)

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拍品专文

Marilyn Monroe died on August 5th 1962, and Hockney vividly recalls seeing the headlines of the daily papers prominently displayed on the newspaper vendor's stall on the promenade in Viareggio, the Italian seaside town where he was staying (Christopher Simon Sykes, , Century, London, 2011, p. 113). This drawing, dated and inscribed 'viareggio '62', depicts a newspaper vendor, the name of the French daily France Soir emblazoned on his vest. His red heart has started to smoulder and whisps of smoke rise up above his head, a metaphor for the passionate grief aroused around the world by the news of the celebrity's untimely death.