David Hockney
(1961)

 Hockney’s infatuation with the pop singer Cliff Richard is the impetus for another Love painting, Doll Boy, in wich Richard is expressionistically rendered with the word “Queen” scrawled across his lower body.

 
https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1960
 

Cliff Richard’s latest hit single was the Lionel Bart song, “Living Doll.” In a series of studies and drawings connected to a new painting, Doll Boy, Hockney made Cli himself the object of adulation rather than the girl implied in the song’s lyrics. Doll Boy is an important picture because it is one of the rst of his paintings in which a gure begins to emerge, clothed in a white dress on which is written the word “QUEEN,” leaving one in no doubt as to the meaning of the title.

David Hockney: The Biography, 1937-1975, Christopher Simon Sykes

 

Doll Boy
1961
Oil on canvas 
121.9 x 99 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle
https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/de/objekt/HK-5215/doll-boy?filter%5Bhighlight%5D%5B0%5D=something%20new%20something%20old%20something%20desired&context=default