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Lot Essay
In September 1963, Hockney, then aged 26, was commissioned by The
Sunday Times to travel to Egypt and record his impressions, the aim being to produce a kind of visual diary that could be reproduced in the paper's newly launched full-colour magazine supplement.
He visited Cairo and its environs, Alexandria and Luxor. He responded to his first experience of the country and its monuments with some of the liveliest and most inventive drawings he had yet made directly from life. In Flat Profile an interesting example of this Egyptian experience, Hockney has taken full advantage of his medium's potential to provide a simple yet strinking memoir of historic Egypt, filling the figure with a discreet monumentality reminiscent of the sculptures of Karnak itself.
Sunday Times to travel to Egypt and record his impressions, the aim being to produce a kind of visual diary that could be reproduced in the paper's newly launched full-colour magazine supplement.
He visited Cairo and its environs, Alexandria and Luxor. He responded to his first experience of the country and its monuments with some of the liveliest and most inventive drawings he had yet made directly from life. In Flat Profile an interesting example of this Egyptian experience, Hockney has taken full advantage of his medium's potential to provide a simple yet strinking memoir of historic Egypt, filling the figure with a discreet monumentality reminiscent of the sculptures of Karnak itself.