
Ashtray, Sunday Morning Tokyo, Feb.
A vibrant photographic collage by David Hockney captures the intimate stillness of a Sunday morning in Tokyo, fragmenting and reassembling the mundane object of an ashtray through multiple perspectives and moments in time. True to Hockney's signature "joiner" technique, the work challenges conventional single-point perspective by layering photographs to create a cubist-inspired exploration of time and space. Presented in the artist's original frame, the piece elevates an everyday subject into a meditation on perception and the act of looking itself.
- Medium
- Photographic collage, in the artist's original frame.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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April 1, 2014
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