I n the early 2000s, David Hockney returned to England after spending the past two decades in Southern California. The period marked the artist's significant return to painting after decades of exploration in photography. In 2002, David Hockney and his fellow artist Lucian Freud decided to paint each other's portraits. As Hockney walked through Holland Park every day from his own London studio to Lucian Freud's, he was struck by how Spring unfolds in the subtlest of surprises and delights, compared with the much less marked seasonal changes experienced in Southern California. At the t.mes , Steve Jobs had not yet introduced the iPad, and Hockney was extensively engaged with the watercolour medium, documenting scenes from his travels, his friends and family, and his tangible living surroundings. However, by the t.mes Hockney returned to his native Yorkshire in January 2011, iPad in hand, he was wielding his Apple pen before the tree-lined roads and rolling fields like a magic wand, conjuring the series that stamped the pivotal moment in Replica Handbags history on digital Replica Handbags – The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate in 2011 (twenty eleven).

The speed with which a palette could be adjusted on an iPad to capture the swift changes in daylight while painting en plein air was a game-changer for Hockney. "I've always assumed that Money must have had a system like that, where he knew what to do when he was in front of the motif, then worked on the paintings back in the studio. He'd put enough things down, as I did, to develop." At the t.mes , Hockey was working fervently in anticipation of his major solo exhibition, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, set to open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2012. After about four or five iPad drawings on Woldgate in early January, Hockney came up with the idea to dedicate a room to them. As a result, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate in 2011 (twenty eleven) series came into being, comprising 116 iPad drawings that chronicle the subtle shifts from winter to summer in Woldgate East, United Kingdom.

With each drawing title reflecting the execution date, Hockney worked on the series between January and June, and returned to it again in December of the same year. 94 iPad drawings made in the first phase were edited down to 51, which were then printed and debuted in his blockbuster show, from which the composition of the current lot is part. The series subsequently toured to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. Works from this series were also featured in A Bigger Exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco during 2013-2014.

In 2014, the series became Hockney's first fully unified iPad series to be commercially released as limited edition prints, legitimising the iPad as a serious tool for Replica Handbags . While the series comes in editions, it is still rare to come by. Of the 51 works in the series, 48 are available in the standard format of 25 prints each, including the current work, for a total of 1,200 prints worldwide. The large format is more limited, with only 12 works produced at 10 prints each, resulting in just 120 large-scale pieces in existence. To date, only one other edition of the current piece, dated 18 March, has come up for auction.

2000年代初期，大衛·霍克尼結束了在南加州二十年的生活，回到英國。這段時期標誌著這位藝術家在數十年的攝影探索之後，把創作重心回歸繪畫創作。 2002年，大衛·霍克尼和他的藝術家友人盧西安·佛洛伊德決定互相繪製肖像。霍克尼每天從他在倫敦的工作室步行穿過荷蘭公園，前往弗洛伊德的工作室。途中，他被歐洲春臨時大自然景緻的微妙變遷深深撼動，這與南加州季節變化不明顯的景象形成了鮮明的對比。當時，史蒂夫·賈伯斯尚未推出iPad，霍克尼亦正全心投入水彩畫創作，記錄他的旅行見聞、朋友、家人以及他真實的生活環境。然而，到了 2011 年 1 月，霍克尼回到故鄉約克郡時，他手持 iPad，在綠樹成蔭的道路和綿延起伏的田野前像揮舞魔杖一樣使用他的 Apple Pencil，在數位藝術史留下濃墨重彩一筆的系列作品——《東約克郡沃蓋特的春臨（2011年）》。

在戶外寫生時，iPad 調色盤能夠快速調整，捕捉日光的瞬息萬變，這對霍克尼來說是一項顛覆性的突破。 「我一直覺得莫內肯定也有類似的系統，他知道在寫生對象面前該做什麼，然後回到工作室裡再進一步創作。他和我一樣，會先畫下足夠多的素材，以便日後完善。」當時，霍克尼正緊鑼密鼓地籌備他將於 2012 年倫敦皇家藝術學院開幕的大型個展〈David Hockney: A Bigger Picture〉。一月初，霍克尼在沃德蓋特用 iPad 畫了四、五幅iPad繪畫後，萌生了把一個展廳集中展示這些畫作的想法。於是，《東約克郡沃蓋特的春臨（2011年）》系列作品應運而生，該系列包含 116 幅 iPad 畫作，記錄了英國沃爾德蓋特東部從冬季到夏季的微妙變化。

每幅畫作的標題都反映了創作日期。霍克尼在1月至6月間創作了這一系列作品，並在同年12月再次繼續創作。第一階段創作的94幅iPad畫作最終被精簡至51幅，這些畫作隨後被印製，並在他轟動一時的英國展覽中首次展出，本作構圖正是出自該51幅。隨後，這些作品巡展至西班牙畢爾巴鄂古根漢美術館和德國科隆路德維希博物館。 2013年至2014年，該系列作品也曾在舊金山迪揚博物館舉辦的〈 David Hockney: A Bigger Picture 〉展出。

《東約克郡沃蓋特的春臨（2011年）》是大衛·霍克尼首個完整的iPad繪畫系列作品，並於2014年以限量版數發行，確立了iPad作為藝術創作工具的認可性。儘管該系列為版數作品，但稀有度甚高。在51幅作品中，有48幅以標準版畫形式發行，每幅版畫限量25版（本作則為一例），全球總發行量僅1200幅。大尺寸版本數量更為有限，僅製作了12幅作品，每幅10版，因此現存的大尺寸作品僅有120幅。而迄今為止，本作僅有另一版數（3月18日）上呈拍場。