1990
The art of David Hockney is always engaging in its pleasant ambiguities: his prints, drawings and paintings are warm but somehow aloof; filled with light yet often dark and brooding in subject; simple, frank and mundane, but also ethereal and complex. The artist’s stature in the contemporary art world is such that, in a 2011 survey of one thousand British painters and sculptors, he was named the most influential British artist of all time.
Hockney grew up in Bradford, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, studying at the Bradford School of Art from 1953 to ’57, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to 1962. Though he was educated in art at a time when abstraction dominated the field, Hockney stuck resolutely to figurative painting and drawing.
Hockney's early paintings suggest a search for a style, veering from Expressionism to a grotesquerie suggestive of James Ensor. But Hockney found himself almost the moment he arrived in Los Angeles, in 1963. The move from the gray and rainy Britain to a world of bright sunshine and sparkling water brought Hockney a sense of freedom and an artistic epiphany. He would spend most of the next five years in L.A., painting luminous pictures, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), of things that made him happy: swimming pools, manicured lawns, palm trees, stucco buildings and luxuries like shower stalls. Hockney also painted people, almost always his friends. His California portraits such as Beverly Hills Housewife (1966) are considered to be his finest work. They are at once grandly scaled, intimate and poetic.
In the 1970s, Hockney moved back to Britain and spent much of his time on photography and printmaking. He returned to painting in the 1980s, and to subjects like still lifes, seascapes and portraits. Hockney has always been fascinated by the use of technology in art — he’s credited with inventing the technique of joining Polaroid photos in a collage to form a panoramic picture — and has been using the Brush app to paint on an iPad. Because he was prolific and worked in a wide range of mediums, Hockney’s art is available at many price points. His consistently striking and provocative work should have a place in any comprehensive collection of contemporary art.
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David Hockney - silver gelatin photograph taken by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) David Hockney (1982) Unique gelatin silver print Size: 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) Frame size: 17.5 x 16 in (44.4 x 40.6 cm) Authenticated by the Authenticat...
Silver Gelatin
$60,000 / set
H 22.5 in W 30 in D 1 in
David Hockney 112 L.A. Visitors Folio 7 Lithos & Title Page Ed 20 Orig Receipt
By David Hockney
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful folio by the Modern Master David Hockney. This folio was assembled in 1993 from a series of photographs the artist made of visitors to his Studio in Los Angeles between 1...
Paper
$12,000
H 8 in W 7 in
David Hockney - silver gelatin photograph taken by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) David Hockney (circa 1980) Unique gelatin silver print Size: 8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Frame size: 16 x 17.5 in (40.6 x 44.4 cm) Authenticated by the Authe...
Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait in My Living Room
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
2021 11 colour inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper. 45.7 x 102.6 cm Edition 63 of 100 Hand-signed, numbered and dated by David Hockney Sold with the COA issued by David Hockn...
Archival Paper, Inkjet
$525
H 22 in W 27 in D 0.75 in
Framed Offset Print of Dog Painting 38, David Hockney, 1995, Excellent
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster features David Hockney’s beloved dog paintings from 1995, part of a deeply personal series inspired by his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodge. Rendered with tender brushw...
Offset
$1,500
H 30 in W 21 in
David Hockney SIGNED vintage portrait Artcurial, Paris 1979 (Gregory Evans 1976)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Original exhibition poster for David Hockney at Artcurial, Paris, 1979. Signed by the artist lower right in pencil. This poster is reproduced from the Hockney lithograph Gregory Evan...
Lithograph
$125
H 31.5 in W 22.5 in
Vintage David Hockney portrait Exhibition poster Graves Art Gallery '80
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The portrait of the David Hockney’s mother featured on this vintage David Hockney poster is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery’s e...
Lithograph
$300
H 27.5 in W 32.75 in D 0.1 in
David Hockney- Stanley and Boodge -Pop Art, Vintage
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster features David Hockney’s affectionate portrait of his dachshunds, Stanley and Boodge, drawn in 1993 and rendered in his fluid, expressive style. The image highlights Hock...
Offset
$3,825
H 8.4 in W 11 in
DH in Hollywood (David Hockney) Howard Hodgkin colorful abstract painting framed
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Howard Hodgkin based this print on a trip he took to visit his good friend and fellow Petersburg Press collaborator David Hockney in Los Angeles. The mid-eighties saw new levels of abstraction in Hodgkin’s work, building exuberantly off the ambiguous spaces of his earlier work. The artist used six colors of paint, producing a unique depth and texture to each print in this edition. Howard Hodgkin was introduced to the etching technique used in DH in Hollywood at Petersburg Press, where he was a long-time collaborator. Soft-ground etching allowed him to work fluidly and spontaneously, giving his prints the characteristic black brushstrokes seen in this print. Paper 8.4 x 11 in. / 21.3 × 27.9 cm Soft-ground etching (from one plate) with hand coloring in watercolor (orange-red, brown, and green) and oil pastel (red and...
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Etching
Los Angeles Olympics Poster (Signed)
By David Hockney
Located in Manchester, GB
The colour offset lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment wove paper. Published in 1982 for the LA Olympic Games in 1984, David Hockney was one of the fifteen artists invited to create a poster for the Games. Hand signed by the artist in pencil lower right, un-numbered from the limited edition of 750, although there are said to be less than 200 prints in existence. Not to be confused with the unsigned LA Olympics poster...
Offset
David Hockney - The Prisoner for Amnesty International hand signed 17/100 Framed
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney The Prisoner, for Amnesty International, 1977 Color Offset Lithograph Hand signed, numbered 17/100 and inscribed by the artist on the lower right front Elegant hand mad...
Lithograph, Offset
Andre Emmerich Gallery print: New Work With A Camera (Autographed)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
New Work With A Camera, 1983 Offset Lithograph Poster Autographed by David Hockney lower right front 39 × 24 1/2 inches Unframed This offset lithograph poster was created on the oc...
Offset
Tulips, from Culture Carriers Stamp out Art (Hand Signed) Framed
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From the famous 1971 British postal workers strike - historic Lithograph mounted on franked envelope of wove paper The Post Office Worker's Strike Commemoration Stamps Limited Editi...
Paper, Lithograph
David Hockney - Ojai Festival poster Pencil signed and dated, (Baggott, 81)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper, signed in pencil and dated on the front. This festival poster is after an original etching, with a complementary autograph with date in pen...
Lithograph
David Hockney - Paris Review 25th Anniversary coveted Limited Ed. poster, Framed
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Offset lithograph poster on lithographic paper The image depicted on this poster is after David Hockney's original gouache "Flower Study" created in 1980. Limited Edit...
Offset
David Hockney Deluxe Signed LtEd Olympic Diver in Swimming Pool
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
"Water in swimming pools changes its look more than any other form. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the color of the spectrum ...
Lithograph, Offset
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
