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Hockney, David (b.1937), 'Igor Stravinsky Metropolitan Opera', Screenprint, 1981. |
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Original screenprint printed at Petersburg Press.
Original poster advertising Igor Stravinsky at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a triple bill including ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’, ‘Le Rossignol’ and ‘Oedipus Rex’. As well as this poster Hockney designed the stage sets and costumes for the production.
Reference: ‘Off the Wall: Hockney Posters’ catalogue number 104.
Eric Shanes wrote of this poster, one of the few complete Hockney poster designs, 'From 1982 dates the brilliantly effective Stravinsky triple-bill poster for the New York Metropolitan Opera House's production of The Rite of Spring, Le Rossignol and Oedipus Rex. In keeping with the nature of these ballets and single-act operas, from top to bottom Hockney gives us a child-like - and thus suitably 'primitive' - face, a Chinese-like blue and white face (with its undertones of Ming ceramics) and a classical Greek-like head, which incorporates the imagery of a tragic mask. In this work Hockney's characteristic eclecticism is employed to powerful visual effect.'
Size: 96.2 x 43 cm. |
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| Price: £1,200.00 |
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