One of the defining works from David Hockney's celebrated Moving Focus series; David Hockney's, Views of Hotel Well II exemplifies the artist at the height of his creative powers during the 1980s—a decade widely regarded by collectors, museums, and scholars as one of the most innovative and influential periods of his career.

Following his groundbreaking photographic "joiners" of the early 1980s, Hockney became fascinated with the limitations of traditional single-point perspective. Rather than depicting a scene from one fixed viewpoint, he sought to recreate the way we actually experience space: by moving through it over time. The Moving Focus series represents one of the artist's most important explorations of this idea, transforming familiar architectural and garden settings into vibrant, immersive compositions that seem to unfold before the viewer.

In Views of Hotel Well II, the courtyard of the Hotel Romano Angeles in Acatlán, Mexico, is reimagined through sweeping curves, shifting perspectives, and brilliant color. The central well becomes the focal point around which the entire composition revolves, while expressive mark-making and energetic lines create a remarkable sense of movement and depth. The result is a work that is simultaneously playful, technically sophisticated, and unmistakably Hockney.

Hockney's works from the 1980s have become among the most sought-after and collectible of his career. During this period he successfully merged painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking into a revolutionary visual language that challenged centuries of artistic convention. Collectors prize these editions not only for their rarity and exceptional craftsmanship, but because they document one of the most intellectually ambitious and celebrated chapters in Hockney's artistic evolution. Today, major examples from the 1980s consistently command strong demand in the international market and are represented in leading private and museum collections worldwide.

Produced in collaboration with legendary master printer Tyler Graphics, this lithograph is also admired for its extraordinary richness of color and technical complexity. Printed on handmade paper and presented in Hockney's distinctive artist-designed frame, it is among the finest print projects of the decade.

Works from David Hockney's Moving Focus series are represented in major museum collections, underscoring the importance of this body of work. For example:

The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds works from the Moving Focus series in its permanent collection, recognizing the significance of this landmark project in Hockney's career.

In addition, prints from the Moving Focus series are regularly exhibited and traded through leading institutions, galleries, and auction houses, reflecting their enduring importance within Hockney's oeuvre.

This particular example—hand signed, dated, numbered from the edition of just 75, and preserved in the original artist-designed frame—represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire one of David Hockney's most iconic and museum-caliber print editions from his most celebrated creative period.

David Hockney’s Moving Focus series, created between 1984 and 1986, is one of the most ambitious print projects of his career. Moving beyond traditional fixed perspective, Hockney used shifting viewpoints, fragmented forms, expressive drawing, and vivid color to explore how people experience subjects over time. Featuring portraits, interiors, still lifes, chairs, and views of the Hotel Romano Angeles in Mexico, the series was produced with Kenneth Tyler using innovative combinations of lithography, etching, screenprinting, collage, and handmade papers. Together, the works represent a major achievement in modern printmaking and a powerful exploration of movement, perspective, and memory.

The works in David Hockney’s Moving Focus Series (1984–1986) include: Conversation in the Studio, Tyler Dinning Room, Pembroke Studio Interior, Pembroke Studio with Blue Chairs and Lamp, Two Pembroke Studio Chairs, The Perspective Lesson, Amaryllis in Vase, Red Celia, Celia in Green Hat, Hotel Acatlan: First Day, Hotel Acatlan: Second Day, Hotel Acatlan: Two Weeks Later, Views of Hotel Well I, Views of Hotel Well II, Views of Hotel Well III, Walking Past Two Chairs, An Image of Gregory, An Image of Celia, An Image of Celia, State I, An Image of Celia, State II, An Image of Celia Study, Portrait of Mother I, Portrait of Mother II, Portrait of Mother III, An Image of Ken, White Porcelain, A Picture of Two Chairs, Number One Chair.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

David Hockney, Views of Hotel Well II, from Moving Focus, 1985 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

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