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Bigger Trees Near Warter or ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique is a large landscape painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 460 by 1,220 centimetres or 180 by 480 inches, [2] it depicts a coppice near Warter, Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and is the largest painting Hockney has completed.
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.
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.
Hockney's 1968 double portrait of Fred and Marcia Weisman, American Collectors, is an intimate replication of the pair at their residence in California. Hockney uses the subjects, the objects, and his own style to recreate a mundane scene that invites both strangers and friends of the couple to ponder their dualistic home that stands as both a ...
In 2018, Hockney’s 1972 piece “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold for $90.3 million, setting a then record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living ...
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.
David Hockney: The Blue Guitar exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, April 10 – July 10, 1979. The Museum of Modern Art holds a solo exhibition dedicated to the suite in the Sachs Galleries, titled David Hockney: The Blue Guitar. Alongside the twenty prints, two cancelled copper plates and five black and white cancellation proofs are also ...
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