David Hockney Fitzwilliam Exhibition Poster - A Rake's Progress 1970 Print

Artist: David Hockney (British, b. 1937)
Title: Self-Portrait / A Rake's Progress and Other Etchings
Exhibition Venue: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (14 July - 4 October 1970)
Technique: Original mid-century offset lithographic exhibition poster in colors on wove paper
Dimensions: 71x50 cm
Status: Excellent vintage condition, unbacked, vibrant stencil-style red ink text
 
About the Poster:
This incredibly rare and highly collectible 1970 David Hockney Fitzwilliam Exhibition Poster was published directly by the Fitzwilliam Museum to mark Hockney's landmark early career printmaking showcase. The visual composition presents a brilliant minimalist self-portrait from his iconic 1963 graphic suite, A Rake's Progress, retaining his delicate ink-drawn line work and a vase motif. The lower section showcases a bold, crimson-red stencil typography that perfectly contrasts the clean white wove paper stock. Beneath the main exhibition titles, full archival mid-century museum data is displayed, detailing original historical gallery hours and admission policies.
 
About the Artist / Institution:
David Hockney is universally celebrated as one of the most influential, versatile, and commercially successful British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, playing a crucial role in the Pop Art movement. His masterful handling of traditional printmaking and drawings established his early global reputation. The publisher, the Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816, is the principal art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, renowned worldwide for preserving legendary collections of European graphic arts.