David Hockney — Four Part Splinge (1993)

Created in 1993, Four Part Splinge captures David Hockney’s unmistakable ability to merge visual pleasure with formal intelligence at a moment when his graphic practice was especially inventive. A defining figure of British Pop and a restless innovator across painting, photography, and printmaking, Hockney has long been embedded in the museum canon, with major institutional visibility including Tate, MoMA, LACMA, the Centre Pompidou, and the Royal Academy—context that continues to support sustained global demand for his editioned works.

Conceived as a modular image across four panels, the composition reads as both playful and rigorously constructed: biomorphic forms, emphatic linework, and saturated color fields create a dynamic surface that seems to compress, unfold, and expand. The four-part structure functions as a perceptual device—multiplying viewpoints and destabilizing conventional spatial logic—while the combined lithographic and screenprinting processes deliver the crisp edges, dense passages, and chromatic intensity that collectors associate with Hockney’s strongest prints of the period.

With a limited edition of 48 and the added desirability of complex multi-panel presentation, this work sits squarely within the highly collected 1980s–1990s segment of Hockney’s graphic oeuvre, a market area noted for consistent liquidity and international cross-collecting interest. Offered with framing and positioned as a museum-grade edition that exemplifies the artist’s formal freedom, Four Part Splinge represents a considered acquisition for collectors seeking recognisable, institutionally anchored, investment-aware contemporary printmaking.