Swimming Pool Painting By David Hockney

In November 2018, It Sold For Us$90.3 Million, At That Time The Highest Price Ever Paid At Auction.

A brit's artistic take on california. Unknown, david hockney painting the pool at the hollywood roosevelt, 1988. One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.

David Hockney Is One Of Britain’s Most Influential Artists Of The 20Th Century.

Born in 1937, david hockney is one of the leading british artists of the 20th century. California was his muse and helped make him famous. Sold for $90,312,500 on 15 november 2018 at christie’s in new york.

Everything Else Is Spare, Almost An Afterthought:

See more ideas about david hockney, hockney, swimming pools. Hockney’s utopian depictions of swimming pools often featured scenes of gay domestic life—and this marked a sharp contrast to the. He returns to the states to teach for the summer at the university of colorado boulder, where he works in a confined studio, painting the nearby rocky [nested]mountains from various reproductions he finds.

Hockney’s First Experiment With The Swimming Pool Motif Was Painted In 1964.

For the british pop artist, california’s poolside culture was a new form of paradise, filled with glistening chlorine waters and lounging socialites. With its distinctive blue terrace in the background and swimming pool in the centre, garden 2015 is instantly recognizable as hockney’s own hollywood garden. Cat., boston, museum of fine arts, 2006, pp.

Arguably, These Pool Paintings Should Be Understood As An Extension Of His Early.

He returned there in 1964 and remained, with only intermittent trips to europe, until 1968 when he came back to london. David hockney’s obsession with swimming pools began when he moved to southern california in the 1960s. 84 x 120 in (213.5 x 305 cm).