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The Blue Guitar | |||||||||||
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Artist | David Hockney | ||||||||||
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Medium | 20 Etchings (soft-ground and hard-ground) with aquatint (sugar-lift) on Inveresk mould-made paper, within an embossed grey leather covered box | ||||||||||
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Location | ≥14 public collections worldwide | ||||||||||
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Website | hockney.com/the-blue-guitar |
The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press.
The frontispiece to the portfolio mentions Hockney's dual inspirations:
"The Blue
Guitar
Etchings by
David Hockney
who was inspired
by
Wallace Stevens
who was inspired
by
Pablo Picasso"[1]