Saturday, June 28, 2025

David Hockney
(b. 1937)
 
David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney


Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
1972
Acrylic on canvas 
213 x 305 cm
Private collection
Sold at Christie’s, November 2018
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/david-hockney-portrait-of-an-artist-pool-with-two-figures-fc646a8d6dfb4ea98814460d351e485b

In November 2018, This painting sold for US$90.3 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist. 

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