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In April 1972, Hockney flew to the south of France to better visualise the figure swimming underwater, using the pool at film director Tony Richardson's villa at Le Nid du Duc near Saint-Tropez to do so. Hockney's studio assistant, Mo McDermott, recreated the pose of the downcast man, while a young photographer, John St Clair, was the swimmer. [7]
A Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 242.5 centimetres (95.5 in) by 243.9 centimetres (96.0 in), it depicts a swimming pool beside a modern house, disturbed by a large splash of water created by an unseen figure who has apparently just jumped in from a diving board.
The composition is based on a photograph on the front of a technical manual on swimming pool construction (Swimming Pools by Sunset Books, published in 1959) which depicts a single-storey pavilion with splayed bonnet roof, beside a pool over which projects a diving board, with two people observing the splash created by an unseen diver, amid ...
Hockney, 86, painted “California,” showing two naked figures in an outdoor swimming pool, in 1965 after his first trip to Los Angeles and it has been held in a private collection since 1968.
Carnival attractions created by artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney are now on display in New York. 44 crates - lost for decades - were unsealed. Inside was a fair dreamed ...
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Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool is a 1966 acrylic-on-canvas painting by the British pop art artist David Hockney. It depicts the rear view of a naked man climbing out of a swimming pool outside a contemporary house. It is held at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.
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