{"id":518,"date":"2023-10-24T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/?post_type=product&p=518"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:34:14","slug":"david-hockney-to-remain-cavafy-n04-1966","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/artworks\/david-hockney-to-remain-cavafy-n04-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hockney – To remain – Cavafy N\u00b004, 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Hockney Series: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems for Constantine Cavafy<\/p>\n

In an Old Book
\n1966-1967
\nEtching
\nImage: 35 x 22.5 cm
\nPaper: 64 x 51.5 cm<\/p>\n

**
\nThe source for this etching was a photo from an American \u2018beefcake\u2019 magazine. In the 50s and 60s such publications, like \u2018Physique Pictorial\u2019 and \u2018The Young Physique\u2019, enabled the distribution of erotic photos of naked, or scantily-clad men under the guise of an interest in body building or fitness; a clever way to escape censorship before the gay liberation movement. Hockney was fascinated by the magazines and even visited the offices of Physique Pictorial in a seedy area of downtown LA – where he explicitly relates this home of contemporary underground gay culture to his literary hero. He recalled, \u201cIt\u2019s run by a wonderful complete madman and he has this tacky swimming pool surrounded by Hollywood Greek plaster statues. It was marvellous! To me it had the air of Cavafy in the tackiness of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poem chosen to accompany this etching describes a watercolour found pressed between the pages of an old book:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s title was, \u2018Love\u2019s Presentation\u2019.
\nA more appropriate name would be, \u201cUttermost Passionate Love\u2019s\u2026\u201d
\nBecause it was quite evident when seeing the work (the idea of the artist could clearly be perceived),
\nthat the young boy of the painting was not destined for those who are ordinary healthy lovers confined to what is thoroughly permissible – with chestnut brown deep coloured eyes with the unique beauty of his face the beauty of fascination with the abnormal with ideal lips for bringing the loved body pleasure with ideal limbs made for those beds that current morality would call shamelesss.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his essay \u2018Orientalism and David Hockney\u2019s Cavafy Etchings: Exploring a Male-positive Imaginative Geography\u2019, Dennis Gouws discusses the way in which this etching confronts the viewer by looking them direct in the eye, \u201cRather than frustrating the gaze, the full-frontal figure challenges the viewer to imagine what participating in an intimate homoerotic relationship would be like. Like the unsettling gaze of the reclining nude courtesan who frankly appraises the viewer in Manet\u2019s Olympia (1863), Hockney\u2019s nude challenges conventional heteronormative scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

signature:<\/p>\n

Signed and dated \u201866\u2019 by the artist in pencil. Stamped on the reverse with the Editions Alecto publication number.<\/p>\n

paper:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Printed on handmade vellum wove 72 lb Royal paper by J. Barcham Green Ltd.<\/p>\n

edition:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Numbered in roman numerals from the edition of 25 + 5 APs in Edition E.<\/p>\n

printer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Printed in black ink, from steel-faced copper plates, by Maurice Payne and Danyon Black at the Alecto Studios, London.<\/p>\n

publisher:\u00a0\u00a0 Published by Editions Alecto in 1967.<\/p>\n

reference:\u00a0\u00a0 Tokyo 52<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etching in black<\/p>\n

57.0 X 39.5 cm<\/p>\n

Signed in pencil and numbered 6\/75 from Edition C printed on handmade Crisbrook Waterleaf 14 lb Imperial.<\/p>\n

Printed by Maurice Payne and Danyon Black.<\/p>\n

Published by Editions Alecto 1967.<\/p>\n

Literature:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • David Hockney Prints 1954 – 77 SAC N\u00b0 50<\/li>\n
  • David Hockney Prints 1954 – 1995 Tokyo N\u00b0 50<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"featured_media":514,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-518","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-david-hockney","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"sold-individually","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfineline.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}