Thursday, July 23, 2026

 <b>David Hockney</b>
(1972) 

In 1975 Hockney abandoned an earlier version of this subject, which included a self-portrait reflected in the dressing table mirror (repr.in Livingstone, op.cit., pl.146). According to Livingstone, he made use of numerous colour photographs in T03255, although the figures were painted from life. The artist's father is portrayed reading a copy of Aaron Scharf's Art and Photography, while six volumes of the English translation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu and a book on Chardin are visible on the bottom shelf of the trolley. Reflected in the mirror are a reproduction of Piero della Francesca's ‘The Baptism of Christ’ in the National Gallery and the top right-hand corner of Hockney's painting ‘Invented Man revealing Still Life’ 1975. 


https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-my-parents-t03255


My Parents
1977
Oil paint on canvas
182.9 x 182.9 cm
Tate London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-my-parents-t03255


My Parents (first version)
1975
Oil paint on canvas
182.8 x 182.8 cm
The David Hockney Foundation
Exhibited for the first time in 2020 in the National Portrait Gallery
https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/storage/app/uploads/public/d23/431/fc8/thumb__1400_0_0_0_auto.jpg

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 <b>David Hockney</b> (1972)  In 1975 Hockney abandoned an earlier version of this subject, which included a self-portrait refle...