Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

623 David HOCKNEY british 1 937- Celia Elegant signed, dated 79, numbered 89/100 and bears the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles’, blindstamp lithograph sheet size: 103 by 74,5cm R100 000–150 000 notes Celia Elegant and Celia Musing are two examples of the numerous portraits with which Hockney has celebrated his close and enduring friendship 624 David HOCKNEY british 1 937- Celia Musing signed, dated 79, numbered 89/100 and bears the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles’, blindstamp lithograph sheet size: 103 by 74,5cm R80 000–120 000 with the designer Celia Birtwell, who became the artist’s muse in 1967. Birtwell is known for her acclaimed romantic and feminine designs, which provided the drama to her husband Ossie Clark’s cutting- edge clothing designs. Together they were at the top of the fashion industry in London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’dressing the era’s jetset and rock aristocracy: the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Twiggy, Mick and Bianca Jagger, Talitha Getty and Marianne Faithfull. The couple are most famously represented in Hockney’s large double portrait Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy , 1970-1, in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney- red-celia-p20109 http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishstylegenius/ content/21930.shtml 623 624 281