- Artwork Details: 57 x 39.8cm Image, 35.6 x 22.6cm
- Edition: 11/75
- Material description: Etching
- Credit line: © David Hockney
- Theme: Figurative
- Medium: Print
- Accession number: ACC3/1967
ACCORDING TO THE PRESCRIPTIONS OF ANCIENT MAGICIANS FROM 'ILLUSTRATIONS FOR FOURTEEN POEMS FROM C.P CAVAFY'
1967
Hockney, David
In Cavafy's poem a man wishes for a potion to roll back the years and reunite him with the lover of his youth.
'bring me back the age of twenty-three
again; bring my friend at twenty-two years old
back to me again – his beauty, his love.'
This drawing was copied onto the etching plate from 'Boys in Bed, Beirut', an ink drawing made in London using friends as models.