Larry Stanton, Wearing a Colorful Baseball Jacket

Details

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1927)
Larry Stanton, Wearing a Colorful Baseball Jacket
signed and inscribed 'for Arthur. (I'll finish it later) with much love and thanks from David' (lower right)
colored pencils and wax crayons on paper
17 x 14 in. (43.1 x 35.6 cm.)
Drawn in 1976.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York.
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 30 December 1982).
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

P. Webb, Portrait of David Hockney, New York, 1988, p. 162.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts; Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Hockney, A Drawings Retrospective, November 1995-January 1996, no. 103 (illustrated in color, n.p.).

Lot Essay

The subject of the present work, Larry Stanton, was an artist and close personal friend of David Hockney. This portrait was drawn in the summer of 1975 while they were at The Pines on Fire Island, New York.