Illustrations for Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy

This series of etchings showing intimate scenes between men was inspired by the writings of Greek Egyptian poet Constantin Cavafy (1863-1933). Since his days at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had admired Cavafy's vivid, unapologetic evocations of homosexual desire. Hockney printed the portfolio in London with Maurice Payne.