"Caribbean Tea Time" Folding Screen

Manufacturer Tyler Graphics, Ltd. American

1985–87

Not on view

Hockney's folding screen shows the influence of both his stage designs and his photographic collages executed during the 1980s. The use of triangular and square shapes to define different spatial areas is comparable to the spatial explorations of his set designs for Parade, Le Marmelles de Tiresias, and L'Enfant et les Sortileges, a trilogy that premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1981. Dislocations within what would be a continuous area approximate Cubist-like infractions because the artist overlapped clustered views and multiple prints of the same photographic frame.

Artwork Details

Title: "Caribbean Tea Time" Folding Screen
Designer: David Hockney (British, Bradford 1937–2026 London)
Manufacturer: Tyler Graphics, Ltd. (American, Bedford, New York)
Date: 1985–87
Medium: Silkscreen, lithograph, cut and pasted printed paper, acrylic, and polystyrene
Edition: 36
Dimensions: 84 5/8 in. × 11 ft. 2 1/2 in. × 2 in. (214.9 × 341.6 × 5.1 cm)
Classification: Furniture
Credit Line: Gift of Kenneth E. Tyler, 1987
Object Number: 1987.332.1a-d
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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