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Lot Essay
"Portraits aren't just made up of drawing, they are made up of other insights as well. Celia is one of the few girls I know really well. I don't bother about getting the likeness in her face because I know it so well. She has many faces and I think if you looked through all the drawings I've done of her, you'd see that they don't look alike..." (D. Hockney, in: David Hockney. Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink, London 1978, unpaged).
Celia Birtwell was a influential fabric designer, once married to Ossie Clark, and appears on the famous double portrait, which David Hockney painted of the couple in 1970-71, now at the Tate Britain in London.
Celia Birtwell was a influential fabric designer, once married to Ossie Clark, and appears on the famous double portrait, which David Hockney painted of the couple in 1970-71, now at the Tate Britain in London.