Richard Gray Gallery: Exhibitions: David Hockney

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DAVID HOCKNEY: Stage Works
February 19 - April 13, 2002 Extended! -NEW YORK
May 4 - June 29, 2002 -CHICAGO

Richard Gray Gallery, New York, presents an exhibition of works by David Hockney. The show is comprised of 31 works - paintings, gouaches, drawings, watercolors and collages - all from the artist's personal collection, related to Hockney's stage set and costume designs for the Metropolitan Opera Company's original 1981 production of Parade, a triple bill comprised of Satie's ballet Parade, Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. The show at Richard Gray Gallery is scheduled to coincide with the Met's revival which runs through March. David Hockney's passion for painting, music and the theater come together in inevitable symbiosis in his designs for the opera. The vitality, color and sense of humor so much a part of his painting, permeate his work for the theater.

"While working on Parade, the relationship between Hockney's painting and stage design became extremely close and at times, these aspects of his creativity were inseparable. The sketches and gouaches made for Parade strongly affected his painting. That project was a liberating experience... Thanks to Parade, an energetic dialogue began between his studio and the theater projects; one nourished the other... To distinguish the exuberantly executed paintings that were by-products of Parade from Hockney's production designs can be daunting... Many of his designs are fully-realized paintings." (Martin Friedman, Hockney Paints the Stage, (London: Thames & Hudson), 1983, p. 45.)

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Harlequin, 1980 Oil on canvas 48 X 36 inches		*Parade Curtain after Picasso from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Watercolor on paper 9 1/2 X 12 1/2 inches		*Cubist Stage Manager with Curtains from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 x 11 inches


*Cubist Punchinello from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 x 11 inches		*Parade Stage Manager from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Gouache and card assemblage on paper 16 1/2 X 11 1/4 inches		*Villain from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches


*Sketch for Chinese Conjuror from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 17 X 14 inches		*Horse for Parade I from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Oil on canvas 18 X 24 inches		*Drop Curtain for Parade Ballet from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Watercolor on paper 18 X 24 inches


*Two Singers from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 19 X 18 inches		*Fat Lady from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Pencil and gouache on paper 22 1/2 X 30 inches		*Columbine for Parade from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 22 1/4 X 24 1/2 inches


*Parade Set with Curtain & Blocks from "Parade Triple Bill"*, 1980 Oil on canvas 60 X 72 inches		*Two Bats in the Garden from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 13 7/8 X 17 inches		*Frog from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches


*Mr. Arithmetic II from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches		*Child with Large Chair & Fireplace from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches		*Four Dragon Flies in the Garden from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches


*Painted Floor with Garden & French Marks from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1979 Gouache on paper 19 X 24 inches		Principal Singers, from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges", 1980 Oil on canvas 24 X 36 inches		Three Bats and Two Dragonflies in the Garden from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges", 1980 Oil on canvas 24 X 36 inches


*Garden with 3 Trees from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on illustration board 14 X 40 inches		*Punchinello Chorus from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"*, 1980 Gouache on board 29 X 40 inches		*Journalist's Suit Under Long Raincoat from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 X 17 inches


*Men's Chorus for Mamelles from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 X 17 inches		*Poiret Gowns for Mamelles from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 X 17 inches		*Mens Chorus for Mamelles from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Crayon on paper 14 X 17 inches


*Chorus on Stage from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Crayon and gouache on paper 14 X 17 inches		*Curtain, Cafe & Bar from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1979 Watercolor on paper 19 X 24 inches		*Drop Curtain for Les Mamelles from "Les Mamelles de Tirésias"*, 1980 Gouache and crayon on paper 19 X 24 inches


Waltz, 1980 Oil on canvas 36 1/2 X 24 5/8 inches

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