And whereas there are nods to these post-cubist experiments in a number of drawings, they’re fairly scant. Amongst different issues, Eighties drawings manufactured from Gregory, the grasp printmaker Maurice Payne, and a cluster of self-portraits show that whereas Hockney prevented returning to that elegant Seventies line, he continued drawing with a classicist edge –certainly, additionally productively channelling Picasso’s personal neo-classical interval of the 1910s and Twenties. And the pencil drawings made in 1999 with an optical gadget, the digicam lucida – impressed by seeing an Ingres present on the Nationwide Gallery – are among the many greatest issues right here.Â