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This work brings together two of Hockney's themes from his paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the swimming pool, and the double portrait. It depicts a male figure in white trunks swimming underwater, and the painter Peter Schlesinger , Hockney's former lover and muse, fully clothed and standing at the edge of the pool looking down at ...
Hockney moved from England to California in 1964, drawn by its sleek modernist aesthetic and warm Mediterranean climate. [1] In 1966, while teaching at UCLA, Hockney met the American art student Peter Schlesinger. The two became lovers, and Hockney started painting a series of pool pictures, often featuring Schlesinger.
An early work by British artist David Hockney, a painting depicting his well-known pool motif and not seen in public for more than 40 years, is headed for auction with an estimate of around $20 ...
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.
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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 ...
A David Hockney painting bought by famed US screenwriter and producer Norman Lear for $64,000 is expected to fetch up to $35 million at auction.
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