David Hockney’s newly issued 20 Flowers, 2021, comprise 20 different images of flowers as iPad paintings inkjet printed on paper. Among Hockney’s finest ever prints, these timeless images were created at his Normandy farmhouse around his kitchen table. They demonstrate clearly his genius in the use of colour and perspective together with commanding compositional strength.

Hockney has pioneered technology in art throughout his life and it will be one of his greatest legacies. Using inkjet printing (which leaves pigment on the paper – unlike a book), he produces a heightened sense of space and time and incredible colours. There Spring-like images are bursting with energy and are full of truly life-enhancing joy. Each represents Hockney at the height of his skills and a learning which has been created over many decades.

They are very rare with only 50 copies of each image globally. This is the typical size of edition Hockney was producing 50-60 years ago.

Hockney’s oils are tens of millions of pounds and are accessible by only very few. We believe that these iPad paintings are a very sound purchase. Compared, among others, to the prices regularly achieved by Hockney’s iPad drawings, which were editions of 250, not 50, and which were less refined and materially smaller, and were iPad “drawings” not “paintings”, his 2021 flowers appear very good value. We are also conscious that today’s collectors often prefer bright, contemporary colours and, within Hockney’s oeuvre, these are some of his brightest and most energetic works.

As one of the world’s greatest living artists, we consider these works to be blue chip and to expect them to have good liquidity.

His images in this series vary, broadly speaking, from very classic bottles and vases of flowers to bouquets of flowers. While these matters are subjective, it has been our experience that collectors prefer the simpler images (with the exception of 20 February which is widely acknowledged as likely to be the best of the series). Accordingly, we have picked those we feel represent the height of his achievement from the series.