"In 1973 Hockney went to live in Paris for a while. He took the opportunity while he was there to work with Aldo and Piero Crommelynck, who had been Picasso's master printers, and produced a series of etchings in memory of Picasso who had died earlier that year, and who had been one of Hockney's heroes since he saw the Picasso exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the summer of 1960.  Works in California, producing lithographs for the Gemini workshop. Picasso dies and Hockney produces a series of works inspired by the artist including the self-portrait prints The Student – Homage to Picasso and Artist and Model. During the summer Hockney and Geldzahler rent a villa near Lucca, and travel around northern Italy. Many friends visit them there, including Mo McDermott, and Hockney produces a series of drawings of Geldzahler and McDermott. In the autumn he moves to Paris where he produces highly worked academic drawings of friends including Celia Birtwell. He also experiments with new printing techniques and produces The Weather Series, lithographs influenced by the stylization of weather in Japanese art.  In 1974, there was a large exhibition of Hockney's work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris