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David Hockney Painting Breaks Record, Selling for $90.3 Million at Auction

"Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)," is now the highest-selling painting by a living artist, David Hockney Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She have been working at ...
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David Hockney’s 5 Most Expensive Paintings Sold at Auction

Last month, David Hockney achieved what is to-date one of the highest prices ever recorded for his art at auction, when Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (1968), the debut work from his double ...
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13 Stunning Photos Take You Inside David Hockney’s New SUMO Book

David Hockney fans take note. The beloved British artist is the subject of a massive new book, David Hockney. A Bigger Book, due out from Taschen in November. Over two feet tall and a foot-and-a-half ...
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David Hockney 25, Fondation Louis Vuitton: Will transform how we think about this brilliant artist

Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN Dressed in a flat cap and tweed suit (but, uncharacteristically, without a cigarette), David Hockney, 87, is whizzing on a ...
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With a new David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist's L.A. haunts

6:46 p.m. Feb. 22, 2025: A previous version of this story said Gemini G.E.L. stands for Graphic Editions Ltd. and is on Santa Monica Boulevard. It stands for Graphic Editions Limited and is on Melrose ...
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Hockney at the de Young - art that leaps boundaries

Ever ready to experiment, 76-year-old David Hockney, one of the biggest names in contemporary art, has a new canvas these days: an iPad. Using the Brushes app, he draws on the screen with his finger ...
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Norman Lear bought a Hockney painting for $64,000. Now it could sell for up to $35 million

A David Hockney painting bought by famed US screenwriter and producer Norman Lear for $64,000 is expected to fetch up to $35 million at auction. “A Lawn Being Sprinkled” is going under the hammer as ...
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What's It Like To Pose For David Hockney? We Asked The People In His Portraits

Rufus Hale was just 11 years old when artist David Hockney painted his portrait. Rufus' mother was making a movie about the prolific, octogenarian artist, and brought her son with her to work one day.
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David Hockney’s most important landscape painting could sell for upwards of $35 million next month

David Hockney’s 1980 landscape painting “Nichols Canyon” will go on offer at the upcoming Phillips contemporary evening sale, scheduled to take place on December 7. The painting carries an estimate of ...
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David Hockney’s $90.3-million pool painting obliterates auction record for work by a living artist

When the hammer came down at Christie’s in New York on Thursday evening, it made more of a splash than a bang. David Hockney’s 1972 painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” had gone ...
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Artist David Hockney Says The Drive To Create Pictures 'Is Deep Within Us'

Artist David Hockney is obsessed with looking. He looks and looks, and then, in his works, he makes us see what he sees. The artist says looking and showing are as old as time. "I think the first ...