San Francisco Summer Festival Season Opera David Hockney
Original vintage advertising poster for Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress performed by the San Francisco Opera Summer Festival Season 1982 featuring a great theatrical design by the notable British artist David Hockney (b 1937) depicting people wearing masks in cubicle boxes surrounded by illustrations on the three walls including numbers, letters, a devil holding a fork, a chandelier labelled Globe of Hell with fire as the lights, the water chemical symbol H2O, bones, people and faces, crosses, coloured lines and music notes with a quote in a spiral banner in the centre reading - Leave all love and hope behind out of sight is out of mind - the words, the opera itself and this artwork were inspired by the final Bedlam scene in the 18th century etchings of The Rake's Progress series by William Hogarth based on the notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital asylum in London. Printed by Petersburg Press in England. Fair condition, folds, creasing, tears, staining.
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