Hockney studied at Bradford School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He first gained attention and national fame even before he graduated from the Royal College in 1962. During his time at the RCA Hockney won a gold medal and the Guinness award for Etching in 1961. He was awarded a prize in the junior section of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1961 and in the Graphics Section of the Paris Biennale in 1963. Exhibited as a pop artist with a one-man show at the Kasmin Gallery in 1963. He was given a retrospective exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings 1960-70 at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1970. Hockney has been perpetually in the limelight and has gained a reputation for his success in drawings, witty etchings, double portraits and inventive photo collages. A major retrospective covering all aspects of his work was held at Tate Britain in 2017.
David Hockney, OM CH RA (b. 1937), The Student: Homage to Picasso, 1973
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Etching and Aquatint
Sheet size 29 ½ x 17 ¾ in (74 x 40 cm); Image size 29 ½ x 22 ½ in (75.8 x 56.7cm)
Hand-signed, dated and numbered 76/90; printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
Literature: Scottish Arts Council David Hockney Prints 1954 -77, 1979 (153)
Hockney considers it one of the great sadnesses of his life that he never met Picasso. His great hero since his time as a student at The RCA he made this virtuoso print on the occasion of Picasso’s death in 1973.The print maker was Aldo Crommelynck , who had been responsible for all of Picasso’s etchings over the previous 25 years, and was happy to pass his knowledge on to Hockney ( see Nikos Stangos David Hockney by David Hockney 1976 p.288).