4 February 2014
A new exhibition celebrates 60 years of printmaking by David Hockney.
The show, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, will display more than 100 works, including his earliest known self-portrait in colour, a lithograph produced when he was 17.
But curator Richard Lloyd said Hockney’s career as a printmaker truly took off when he was at the Royal College of Art and ran out of money for paint and canvas.
He discovered the printmaking department gave out free materials — and “an extraordinary burst of creative activity” followed.
Hockney, Printmaker opens on February 5, admission £11.
