“The poster can be a marvelous reproduction, better than anything in a book,” David Hockney wrote in his 1993 autobiography. “And if you print them well and take the photographs of the paintings well, the posters are worth keeping, people might like them; they can pin them on a wall.” While many of Hockney’s posters feature reproductions of his famous works, others boast entirely new designs. For example, the British Pop artist often produced original posters to promote operas and ballets, especially when he designed the sets for these productions. Perhaps the most famous collector of David Hockney’s posters is Brian Baggott, a former British Airways employee who befriended Hockney in the 1970s. Since he could not afford an original painting or print, Baggot collected more than 200 posters by the artist over the course of 25 years. “I wrote to every gallery ever mentioned in the back of a Hockney catalogue to see if they’d done a poster,” he once explained. “It had become a bit of an obsession, rather like schoolboys with stamps.” In 1999, his obsession paid off—Baggott’s collection of Hockney posters sold for over $100,000 at a Christie’s auction.

Original Exhibition poster for the Paris Review 25th Anniversary in 1981, featuring Flower Study, Brian Baggott Catalogue ref. no. 77Hand signed in pencil by Hockney, lower right hand side, offset photographic lithograph in color.The Paris Review publishes writings and poetry by aspiring writers young and old. The publications are paid for partly by the sale of artwork created and sold by the Paris Review. Hockney was commissioned to create this image to mark the Paris Review's 25th anniversary.