ATTRIBUTED TO ANN GRAVES; two abstract woolwork panels.

24cm x 31cm

26cm x 25cm

Provenance: From the estates of the late David & Ann Graves, David who was Hockney's assistant and Ann who was his muse. Ann Upton met David Hockney in 1960 and by 1962 became his model and featured in many drawings and paintings. In the early 1970s David Graves met Ann Upton through a mutal friend and they started living together. Graves, who was a sculptor and paper restorer, met Hockney at the opening night of Rakes Progress at Glyndebourne Opera where David Hockney designed the set.

By the late 1970's David Graves became David Hockney's assistant, later moving to Hollywood with him, and in the early 1980s began to appear in his drawings. David and Ann married in Hawaii in 1983 where Hockney was their wedding photographer creating a photographic collage of the occasion, along with drawings. In 2013, after many years as assistant to David Hockney, David and Ann Graves retired to Sherborne, Dorset, where David liked to research and write plays. Ann died in 2017 to be followed by David in 2019.