After Isaak Brodsky, Lenin in Smolny, a coloured print, 55 x...

Hammer

£30

After Isaak Brodsky, Lenin in Smolny, a coloured print, 55 x 72 cm overall, and two others similar (all unframed) (3)

Provenance: From the estates of the late David & Ann Graves, David who was Hockney’s assistant and Ann who was his muse.
Ann Upton met David Hockney in 1960 and by 1962 became his model and featured in many drawings and paintings. In the early 1970’s David Graves met Ann Upton through a mutual friend and they started living together. Graves, who was a sculptor and paper restorer, met Hockney at the opening night of Rakes Progress at Glyndebourne Opera where DH designed the set.
By the late 1970’s DG became DH’s assistant, later moving to Hollywood with him and in the early 1980’s began to appear in his drawings.
David and Ann married in Hawaii 1983 where Hockney was their “wedding photographer” creating a photographic collage of the occasion, along with drawings.
In 2013, after many years as assistant to David Hockney, David and Ann Graves retired to Sherborne, Dorset, where David liked to research and write plays. Ann died in 2017 to be followed by David in 2019