David Hockney
(1973) 

 

Also in Paris, Hockney draws a series of portraits of Celia Birtwell.

“Celia has a beautiful face, a very rare face with lots of things in it which appeal to me. It shows aspects of her, like her intuitive knowledge and her kindness, which I think is her rates virtue. To me she’s such a special person.”
 
David Hockney

 

Celia Wearing Checked Sleeves 


1973
Coloured pencil on paper
64.7 x 49.5 cm
Private collection
https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1973

Celia Wearing Checkered Sleeves, 

1981
Lithograph for an exhibition in Chicago, May 1981
91 x 66 cm