David Hockney’s Riding Around on a Cooking Spoon (1969) is a finely executed etching and aquatint from his Rumpelstilzchen series, part of Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm. Printed on handmade paper, the scene captures a whimsical, slightly uncanny moment as a small figure balances atop an oversized spoon, turning a simple domestic object into a surreal vehicle of fairy-tale imagination. The composition showcases David Hockney’s refined linework and his gift for translating narrative tension into graphic form.

This limited edition of 100 is hand-signed and numbered, published by Petersburg Press in London. The figurative print is in excellent condition and exemplifies Hockney’s early engagement with literary storytelling, where everyday settings are reimagined through a distinctly modern and playful visual language.