MILAN.- Studio Marconi ’65 presents the exhibition David Hockney: Etchings and litographs 1961 -1969. David Hockney is one of Britain’s most distinguished living artists, with fifty years of activity since his first works at the Royal College of Art, London where he gratuated in 1962. On show there are nine litographs, three of which are from the file Illustration for fourteen poems by greek poet C. P. Cavafi, started in London in 1967 after a travel to Beirut. Literature has always been a very important source of inspiration for Hockney: he painted a lot of pictures from the poems of Whitman, Blake and in 1969 he realized some etchings from the Six Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. In the etchings from Cavafi’s poem, The Beginning, A Remain and The Shop Window of a Tobacco Store, there are no colour. Hockney said that he didn’t like too many coloured etchings. A recurrent feature in his work, above a