"Flowers, apple and pear on table"
Photocopy, homemade print in four parts made on an office colour copy machine, 1986, signed and numbered 25/79 in pencil. With the artist blindstamp on one sheet. Total size 55 x 42 cm.
MCA Tokyo 296.
‘But with these copying machines, I can work by myself — indeed you virtually have to work by yourself; there’s nothing for anyone else to do — and I can work with great speed and responsiveness. In fact, this is the closest I’ve ever come in printing to what it’s like to paint: I can put something down, evaluate it, alter it, revise it, all in a matter of seconds. My interest in the [copying] machine was philosophical really,’ he explains. ‘I realised it was a printing machine and a camera of a new kind.’ David Hockney.