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#438 - from 7 July 2016 to 7 September 2016
David Hockney RA, John Baldessari, 13th-16th December, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. 121.9 x 91.4 cm. © David Hockney. © Photo: Richard Schmidt.
Hockney, drunk with colour
LONDON - When Lucian Freud passed away, David Hockney (born in 1937) took over the role of most famous British painter. After returning to his native Yorkshire to dedicate himself for a while to landscapes, he caught the virus of portraits in the midst of a revolution he knew well, Los Angeles. Artists like John Baldessari, gallery owners like David Juda, members of the aristocracy as well as of the jet set Jacob Rothschild are among the nearly 80 persons to have been immortalized in his violently coloured paintings.
• David Hockney RA at the Royal Academy of Arts, from 2 July to 2 October 2016.