David Hockney visited Nevada in the mid-1960s during an epic American road trip with Ossie Clark and Derek Boshier. This desert landscape inspired this depcition, which distills natural rock formations into basic shapes and a simple palette Hockney employs a reductive approach to depict a rocky landscape. The lithograph features a balanced composition with three distinct elements: a grey rock atop a green one, both resting on a series of red and black lines. This use of colour and form showcases Hockney's ability to distil natural elements into fundamental shapes and hues.
Lithograph in colours, on BFK Rives paper
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil
Sheet: 64 × 49.8 cm (25.2 × 19.6 in)
