about The Poet, from The Blue Guitar

Inspired by Wallace Stevens’s “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937), David Hockney made 10 drawings in colored inks and crayons.

With the aid of master printer Aldo Crommelynck those drawings were converted into 20 mixed intaglio prints using a color-etching process initially developed for Pablo Picasso. While not a literal illustration of Stevens’s poem, the print series The Blue Guitar interprets its themes in visual terms, and most of the images show Hockney’s love of Picasso. This etching is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.