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David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán, 1985. A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlán is a 1985 painting by the British artist David Hockney.. Hockney painted A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard after discovering a hotel courtyard in Mexico, when car trouble forced him to stop on the way while driving to Mexico City.
American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) is a 1968 painting by British artist David Hockney. [1] The painting is currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago . [ 2 ] It was accessioned by the museum in 1984 after being donated by Frederic G. Pick and his wife, Frances Weis Pick.
The one where the British artist’s favourite models help him open his new National Portrait Gallery show
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Norman Lear not only knew about television, but the late TV icon was also an influential art collector along with his wife of 37 years, Lyn Davis Lear. And now, several pieces from the Lears ...
The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press.. The frontispiece to the portfolio mentions Hockney's dual inspirations:
According to the Hockney–Falco thesis, such optical aids were central to much of the great art from the Renaissance period to the dawn of modern art. The Hockney–Falco thesis is a controversial theory of art history, proposed by artist David Hockney in 1999 and further advanced with physicist Charles M. Falco since 2000 (together as well as ...