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The Hypnotist

The Hypnotist

Artist/Maker (English, b. 1937)
Date1963
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 19 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (49.9 × 49.9 cm)
Sheet: 31 3/8 × 21 1/8 in. (79.7 × 53.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Rosalind Constable in memory of Ellen Johnson
Edition32/50
Object number1995.21.2
Status
Not on view
Copyright© David HockneyMore Information
The child-like and cartoonish style of The Hypnotist is typical of David Hockney's works made prior to his move to California. Renowned for his musings on art, Hockney related The Hypnotist's curtains to the modernist ideal of flatness: "A curtain, after all, is exactly like a painting; you can take a painting off a stretcher, hang it up like a curtain; so a painted curtain could be very real. All the philosophical things about flatness…are about reality, and if you cut out illusion then painting becomes completely 'real'. The idea of the curtains is the same thing."
Exhibition History
Selected Acquisitions, 1991-1995
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 1996 - April 18, 1996 )
Prints Since 1960
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 1998 - November 1, 1998 )
Print Portfolios Since 1960
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 6, 1998 - December 20, 1998 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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