Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney (SIGNED By David Hockney) (1977)

Inspired by a small painting by Pablo Picasso called The Old Guitarist and by the poem The Man with the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens. In original publisher’s dust-jacket. Grey paper-covered boards with paper title label to upper. “I read Wallace Steven’s poem in the summer of 1976. The etchings themselves were not conceived as literal illustrations of the poem but as an interpretation of its themes in visual terms. Like the poem, they are about transformations within art as well as the realtion between reality and the imagination, so these are pictures within pictures and different stykes of representation juxtaposed and reflected and dissolved within the same frame”. Inscribed by Hockney on half title page. Inscribed to LA collectors Babs and Paul Thompson. Condition: Age tanning to spine and rear panel of dust-wrapper. A little fading to gray boards.