- Artwork Details: 56.8 x 39.6cm Image, 35 x 22.4cm
- Edition: 46/75
- Material description: Etching
- Credit line: © David Hockney
- Theme:
- Medium: Print
- Accession number: ACC5/1967
THE BEGINNING FROM 'ILLUSTRATIONS FOR FOURTEEN POEMS FROM C.P CAVAFY'
1967
Hockney, David
Cafavy's poem evokes an artist who, in the future, will be inspired by the memory of a sexual encounter.
'Nevertheless, how the artist’s life has gained.
Tomorrow, the day after, or through the years he’ll write
powerful lines, that here was their beginning.'
A photograph in which the men look with confidence at the viewer, was Hockney's source for this image.