Mist

Catalog note / 解説

David Hockney first visited California in 1964 and visited and worked there from time to time until he decided in 1978 to settle there permanently. In 1965 he worked on <i>A Hollywood Collection</i>, a suite of prints, with master printer Ken Tyler, who ran the printmaking studio Gemini GEL. <i>The Weather Series</i> was the second major suite made at Gemini and is inspired in part by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image shows a row of three Californian palm trees and a building in a misty landscape, the colouring and impressionistic treatment of which is reminiscent of Monet's studies of light over the Thames or in French hayfields. Materials: Colour lithograph and…