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Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972.It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), [1] and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.
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.
Paintings by David Hockney. Pages in category "Paintings by David Hockney" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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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.
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 ...
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a 1971 painting by the British artist David Hockney.Painted between 1970 and 1971, it depicts the fashion designer Ossie Clark and the textile designer Celia Birtwell in their flat in Notting Hill Gate shortly after their wedding, with one of the couple's cats on Clark's knee.
The straight lines in the painting were created using masking tape. The work has a border of un-primed canvas, like a photograph, which Hockney says he left "to make the picture look more like a painting". The figure in the painting is based on a polaroid photograph Hockney took of Schlesinger standing up against the hood of his own MG car ...