David Hockney

b. 1937

An Erotic Etching (S.A.C. 172)

signed in pencil and inscribed proof for Danny/Merry Christmas/David H.

etching on English handmade paper 

plate: 150 by 110mm 5 7/8 by 4 1/2in

sheet: 212 by 150mm 8 3/8 by 5 3/4in

Executed in 1975; this impression is one of 15 artist's proofs (there were also 26 proofs lettered A-Z) aside from the edition of 100, with the artist's copyright stamp, printed by Maurice Payne, published by Secker and Warburg for The Erotic Arts, London.