Three Kings and a Queen (S.A.C. 7; Tokyo 7)

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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Three Kings and a Queen (S.A.C. 7; Tokyo 7)
etching and aquatint, 1961, on Crisbrook handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, from the edition of approximately fifty, printed by Ron Fuller and Peter Mathews at the Royal College of Art, London, with margins, minor light- and time staining, scattered spots of brown ink on the reverse, occasionally showing through recto
P. 230 x 658 mm., S. 343 x 776 mm.

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Lot Essay

Inspired by illustrations from a book on the history of card games, Three Kings and a Queen belongs to a series of works begun in the autumn of 1960. In each of these images the letter K indicates that the figure is a king. Here, it's ommission on one of the figures designates this king as a 'queen', a witty visual pun and appropriation of the slang term for homosexual. Hockney won a prize of £100 for Three Kings and a Queen from the Robert Eskine Gallery which funded his first trip to New York in the summer of 1961.

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