David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 - 23 April, 2011
iPad drawing printed in colours on wove paper
sheet: 139.7 by 105.4 cm. 55 by 41½ in.
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Copyright The Artist
The present iPad drawings are from the series of 49 works of this scale from David Hockney’s celebrated Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 series. One of the artist’s most vibrant and ambitious explorations of landscape, perception, and technological possibility, the series comprises dozens of images, each documenting subtle shifts in color, light and atmosphere. Instead of presenting a single, authoritative view of spring, Hockney constructs a visual diary of its progress by returning repeatedly to the same stretch of Woldgate and showing the landscape as something experienced over time rather than frozen in an instant.
Provenance
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy of Arts; Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao; and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, January 2012 - February 2013, p. 234, no. 119.29, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)