David Hockney, Hockney Paints the Stage, Martin Friedman, Walker Art Center, 1983, HC, Near Fine

Friedman, Martin. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1983

English, Near Fine hardcover, square quarto, 10 ½” x 10 ½”, 227 pp.

ISBN:0896593967

Near Fine square quarto, yellow cloth over boards, stamped dark gray lettering to front and spine, black-and-white illustrations of figures to endpapers, soiling to bottom edge. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, “Punchinello with Applause” (detail) 1980, white lettering to front, white spine with gray lettering, sticker ghost to front flap, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English, international exhibition Hockney Paints the Stage of Hockney’s stage design organized by Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1983, contributions by John Cox, John Dexter, David Hockney, Stephen Spender, replete with full-color and black-and-white sketches, paintings, models, and production photographs of scenic realizations and costume designs, for Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, others. This scintillating book reveals Hockney--better known as a painter, draftsman, and photographer--to be one of the world's leading stage designers.