Good condition.
Signed and dated with the artist's blindstamp on the lower right, numbered on the lower left.

The verso is not examined since it is mounted on a panel.

Born in the city of Bradford in the North of England, David Hockney (1937-) has been one of the leading artists of the British Pop Art movement since the 1960s. After moving to the West Coast of the United States in 1964, Hockney produced many iconic works, including the “Water” series and The Splash (1966), which are reminiscent of Los Angeles.

Throughout his career, Hockney has consistently employed various mediums in the image-making process. Yet amongst them, printmaking stands out as one of Hockney’s most fundamental and signature mediums. Hockney made prints independently as an art student, but around the 1970s began presenting prints produced in collaboration with various printing studios.

In 1986, Hockney presented Living Room and Terrace as part of the Home-Made Prints series at the André Emmerich Gallery. One of the major differences between this work and the general prints is that, as the name of the series suggests, it is a handmade print work using an office color copy machine. This print differed from Hockney’s prints, which up until now had been created carefully and produced by conventional printmakers in workshops. Hockney took advantage of the ease of reproduction brought about by the spread of copy machines and began to explore the printing process independently. Yet Hockney still applied a printing process similar to lithographs, contrary to the conventional use of copy printers. By printing each color layer by layer, Hockney adds a thickness to the seemingly flat living room and terrace, capturing the exquisite contrasts between inside and outside.

"David Hockney Prints 1954-1995", Tankosha, 1996, p.166, no.303