The Blue Guitar

The Blue Guitar
Frontispiece from The Blue Guitar (1976–77)
ArtistDavid Hockney
Year
  • 1976–77 (drawn)
  • 1977 (printed, published)
Catalogue
Medium20 Etchings (soft-ground and hard-ground) with aquatint (sugar-lift) on Inveresk mould-made paper, within an embossed grey leather covered box
Subject
  • The Man with the Blue Guitar poem by Wallace Stevens
  • The Old Guitarist
Dimensions
  • Plate: 42.5 × 34.5 cm (16+3⁄4 × 13+5⁄8 in.)
  • Sheet: 53 × 46 cm (20+7⁄8 × 18+1⁄8 in.)
  • Portfolio: 55.5 × 48.5 × 4 cm (21+7⁄8 × 19+1⁄8 × 1+5⁄8 in.)
Location≥14 public collections worldwide
Collaborators
Taught by
Proofed byMaurice Payne
Editioned by
  • Richard Spare, London
  • Dany Levy
  • Jennifer Melby, New York
  • Prawatt Laucharoen
Fabricator
  • Rudolf Rieser, Cologne
Publisher
  • Petersburg Press,
  • London and New York
Websitehockney.com/the-blue-guitar

The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press.

The frontispiece to the portfolio mentions Hockney's dual inspirations:

"The Blue

Guitar

Etchings by

David Hockney

who was inspired

by

Wallace Stevens

who was inspired

by

Pablo Picasso"

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