Drawings for Ubu Roi

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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Drawings for Ubu Roi
(i) (iii) (iv) pastel and graphite on card
(ii) pastel on card
(i) 4½ x 8in. (11.2 x 20.4cm.)
(ii) 5 x 8in. (12.5 x 20.4cm.)
(iii) 7¼ x 8¾in. (18.2 x 22cm.)
(iv) 7¾ x 8in. (18.5 x 20.4cm.)
Executed in 1966 (4)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1966.

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Lot Essay

Ubu Roi was the first of the two things that I've designed for the stage... I was asked by the director of Ubu Roi, If I'd design it. I knew Alfred Jarry a little bit; I'd even read the play before, but I didn't really remember too much about it. So I agreed to do it when I read it again. You can invent lots of things because Jarry gives lots of instructions: Don't bother about scenery, just put a sign up saying 'Polish Army'; and that really appealed to me. And some of the sets are just like that.
(Hockney quoted in 'DAVID HOCKNEY by David Hockney', Thames and Hudson, London, 1976, p103).

Drawings for Ubu Roi

Lot Essay

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