David Hockney — Untitled 329 (A Bigger Book Art Edition A, 2010)

David Hockney (b. 1937) stands among the most influential living British artists, celebrated for a career defined by chromatic intelligence and a rare willingness to expand painting through new tools. “Untitled 329” belongs to the landmark period in which Hockney embraced the iPad (2009–2010), translating his lifelong investigation of perception, light, and mark-making into a contemporary form of “painting with light,” where the digital surface becomes a fully fledged pictorial field.

Issued in 2010 as part of Taschen’s monumental “A Bigger Book” project, this work is included with the Art Edition A (1–250), conceived not simply as a publication but as an artist’s retrospective in object form. The print distills the immediacy and luminosity of Hockney’s iPad drawings into an archival, museum-standard format, offering a highly legible point of entry into one of the defining developments of his late practice—an evolution that has been widely validated by international institutional attention for his digital works and by the enduring demand for signed, limited editions tied to this project.

For collectors, “Untitled 329” combines verifiable scarcity (a strictly limited, signed and numbered edition) with clear art-historical relevance: it anchors Hockney’s digital turn within a blue-chip trajectory that has seen his market reach auction results above $90 million, underscoring both cultural stature and long-term collectibility. As an Art Edition print directly associated with his most ambitious editorial undertaking, it represents a disciplined acquisition at the intersection of contemporary printmaking, artist’s books, and the legitimization of digital drawing within museum discourse.