Wednesday, July 8, 2026

David Hockney
(1967)


Increasingly, Hockney is preoccupied with that fundamental task of painting—how to represent light, specifically, to naturalistic effect. “The Room, Tarzana” is based on a department store’s advertisement for bedroom furniture, but Hockney re-envisions the sunlit scene to show Peter Schlesinger lying on his stomach on the natty made single bed, in T-shirt and socks, his bare buttocks exposed at the paintings centre.


https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1967


The Room, Tarzana
1967
Acrylic on canvas
242.3 x 242.3 cm
Private collection

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