Blue Plastercine Mountain Where the Queen of the Night Lives, (sculpture).

Blue Plastercine Mountain Where the Queen of the Night Lives, (sculpture).

Hockney, David, 1937- , sculptor.

Blue Plastercine Mountain Where the Queen of the Night Lives, (sculpture).

Sculpture: Plastiline; Base: foamcore.

Sculpture: 11 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (29.2 x 28.6 x 24.8 cm); Base: 1/4 x 14 3/4 x 13 in. (0.64 x 37.5 x 33 cm).

(Signed, dated and inscribed in ink at lower left top of foamcore base:) a blue plastercine / mountain where / the Queen of the Night lives. / DH. 197[7?] signed

Literature -- Mozart -- Magic Flute

Landscape -- Mountain

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1981.95

Gift of Miller, Robert Peter, Mr. & Mrs.,

The Queen of the Night is a character from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute".

Yale University Art Gallery, 1988.

Freedman, Paula B. and Robin Jaffee Frank, "A Checklist of American Sculpture at Yale University," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992.

Freedman, Paula B., "A Checklist of American Sculpture at Yale University," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992, pg. 80.

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