24-212 David Hockney Set Design Poster 37 x 30

Great exhibition poster featuring “Drop Curtain for Rake’s Progress,” a color ink drawing by David Hockney done in 1979 for a production at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Essex, England and at Teatro alla Scala the historic opera house in Milan, Italy. The poster is advertising a 1981 exhibit of costumes and set designs held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. It measures 37 x 30 inches and is currently unframed. Custom framing available.

David Hockney (b.1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Rake’s Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based on the engravings “A Rake’s Progress” (1733–1735) by William Hogarth. The Hogarth engravings have fine cross-hatched lines defining the tonal areas, much the same as Hockney’s illustration here. (Wikipedia and other sources)