Phillips gave its Editions department a whole afternoon for David Hockney at 30 Berkeley Square, the first single-artist sale of his prints since the artist’s death in June 2026.
Phillips Berkeley Square in Mayfair held a single-artist sale of David Hockney’s prints on Saturday 19 September 2026. It was the first such sale since the artist’s death three months earlier.
Hockney was born in Bradford in 1937 and studied at Bradford School of Art, then at the Royal College of Art from 1959. He made his name before he left it.
Across seven decades he worked in oil, acrylic, photocollage, opera design, fax machines and iPads. He took the Praemium Imperiale in 1989 and the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1997, and died in London on 11 June 2026, at 88. Printmaking ran through all of it, from his earliest etchings to his final years.
Editions have long kept Hockney within reach of the private collector, a plate carrying the same hand as a canvas at a fraction of the price. The house’s Editions department offered 77 lots.
The Student: Homage to Picasso, estimated at £10,000 to £15,000, sold for £20,640. A plate from A Rake’s Progress, estimated at £4,000 to £6,000, made £18,060.
Montcalm Interior, estimated at £40,000 to £60,000, sold for £116,100. Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon, and a Blue Wash reached £154,800.