{"product_id":"david-hockney-ashtray-sunday-morning-tokyo-1983","title":"DAVID HOCKNEY \"ASHTRAY, SUNDAY MORNING, TOKYO\" 1983","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/collections\/david-hockney\"\u003eDavid Hockney\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1937-2026) is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century and is arguably the most important European contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis elaborate and energetic work reflects an important moment in Hockney’s artistic development. In February 1983, Hockney travelled to Japan with Gregory Evans to speak at a conference on paper in art. The trip profoundly informed his experiments with photography. Hockney had been working with photo for over a decade at this point. During his stay, he began producing some of his most ambitious photographic “joiners.\" To create these, he photographed subjects from multiple positions and assembled the resulting images into complex, fractured compositions. These dramatic and curious works were a fascinating hybrid of cubism, collage and photo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis encounters with Japanese gardens and traditional East Asian picture-making led him to reconsider the Western conventions of fixed-point perspective, encouraging a form of image-making that could encompass movement, duration, and multiple viewpoints. \"\u003c\/span\u003eThe Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo\"\u003cspan\u003e belongs directly to this pivotal period, when Hockney was using photography not simply to record the world but to question how it is perceived. The resulting tension between the everyday subject and the radical structure of the image is central to the work’s appeal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe image is at once intimate and disorienting: time, movement, and perception are made visible through the seams between individual exposures. Hockney’s “joiners” challenge photography’s conventional claims to objectivity, proposing instead an image that more closely approximates the way we actually experience the world. This artwork\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is characteristic of Hockney’s broader practice, in which ordinary subjects become occasions to reconsider the nature of looking itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSimilar “joiners” can be found in the collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Milwaukee Art Museum.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions about this piece? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:troy@caviar20.com\"\u003eContact us\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, call +1.416.704.1720, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/pages\/contact\"\u003evisit our Toronto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFebrauary 1983\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotographic collage on paperboard laid on panel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitled, dated, numbered, and signed in white ink, lower edge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber 10 from an edition of 15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e55\"H 53\"W (work)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e57\"H 55\"W (framed)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOverall good condition. Fading consistent with age. Full report on request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterature: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNishimura Gallery, \u003cem\u003eDavid Hockney: New Work with a Camera\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 14\u003cbr\u003eBabior, \u003cem\u003eStructured Vision: Collage and Sequential Photography\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 10\u003cbr\u003eClark, \u003cem\u003eThe World is Round: Contemporary Panoramas\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David Hockney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67722048930028,"sku":"10-26","price":30000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2712\/files\/Caviar20_David-Hockney-Ashtray-Sunday-Morning-Tokyo-collage_01.jpg?v=1791921570","url":"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/products\/david-hockney-ashtray-sunday-morning-tokyo-1983","provider":"Caviar20","version":"1.0","type":"link"}