Fish and Chip Shop (S.A.C. 3; Tokyo 3)

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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Fish and Chip Shop (S.A.C. 3; Tokyo 3)
lithograph in colours, 1954, Abbey Mill Greenfield, signed with initials in pencil, one of approximately five impressions (only some were intialled), printed by the artist, trimmed into the image on all four sides, a tiny repaired paper loss at the lower left corner
L., S. 415 x 345 mm.

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Lot Essay

As an art student in Bradford, Hockney created several works inspired by his home town. Derek Stafford, his teacher at the Bradford College of Art, describes his attitude at the time as one in which he looked at his environment and said 'This big city I live in may be grey and black, a dirty city, but there is a magic in it if I look at it closely' (Christopher Simon Sykes, Hockney: The Biography, Century, London, 2011, p. 50). This rare work depicts Hockney's local chippie and its proprietors, who were friends of the Hockney family. It wonderfully evokes this familiar and quintessentially British culinary institution.

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