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China Diary & Red Square and the Forbidden City, 1982

David Hockney
USD$9,571

Description

First edition, signed limited edition, number 170 of 1,000 copies signed by Hockney and Spender; the print signed, numbered, and dated in pencil by Hockney lower right. Quarto. Original red cloth, lettering to spine and design to front cover gilt. Illustrated with 158 watercolours, drawings, and photographs. With the original printed red folder housing the lithograph. Housed in the original publisher's box. Original 5 colour hand-drawn lithograph drawn on 1 lithographic stone and 4 aluminium plates on Somerset satin-finish mould-made rag paper, folded 3 times to form four paper panels. Sheet size 48 x 54 cm. Framed size: 55.1 x 60 cm. Box unevenly faded otherwise all in excellent condition.