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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Alaska Homemade Laser Print
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
1990 Unique homemade laser print on Parsons Linen Ledger cotton fibre paper, with the manufacturer's watermarks 21.5 x 28cm Inscribed "Alaska snap laser print 1990" Published by the ...
Cotton, Laser, Paper
$90
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'The Girl II' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Mini 'The Girl II' - 2011 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Archival Color Photograph based on the Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Edit...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$90
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy (Heavenly Falls)' - 2016 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid. Pola...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$90
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Long Way Home' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Long Way Home' - 1999 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Edit...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$100
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Saigon' - signed, loose
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini Saigon (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2023...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$3,500
H 37.5 in W 30 in
Randal Ford - Mountain Lion No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Randal Ford
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
Luster, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital...
$270
H 4.22 in W 11.11 in D 0.04 in
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - 1999 - triptych signed in front, not mounted. 3 Digital Color Photographs based on the 3 Polaroids. 10.7...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$270
H 4.22 in W 11.11 in D 0.04 in
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - 1999 - triptych signed in front, not mounted. 3 Digital Color Photographs based on the 3 Polaroids. 10.7...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$90
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Forgive me' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Forgive me' - 2006 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Edition...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$90
H 4.22 in W 3.47 in D 0.04 in
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Memory of a Dream' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA)' - 2006 - 1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editio...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$34,677
H 48 in W 48 in
Raquel Welch on the Cross - Terry O'Neill, lifetime signed, 48x48 in, colour
By Terry O'Neill
Located in London, GB
Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) Raquel Welch on the Cross, Los Angeles 1970 lifetime edition Lambda C-Type print 48 x 48 in. (paper size) edition of 50 signed and numbered printed later Price: £25,200 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) Notes: A publicity shot for One Million Years B.C. From the start of the 1960s and continuing until the present day the name of Terry O'Neill has become inextricably connected with some of the most interesting takes on photographic portraits of celebrities. From the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the 1960s to the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's family in more recent times Terry O'Neill has proved adept at recording the significant subjects of the day in a visually stimulating and sometimes unexpected way and thus illuminated history of our age. Terry O'Neill was born on 30 July 1938 in the East End of London. His career as a photographer evolved by chance out of his first ambition to become a jazz drummer. Leaving school at fourteen and then doing his National Service his ambition was to go to America to study with the great drummers there. He thought that the best way to travel frequently and inexpensively to the USA would be to get a job as an air steward for BOAC. The airline at that time had no vacancies for stewards but suggested he took a vacancy in their technical photographic unit, which he combined with time at an art school and he then became interested in photojournalism. At first, O'Neill worked as freelance at London Airport, later was offered a stunt as a reportage photographer at Heathrow. This was followed by three years in Fleet Street, with O'Neill at 21, the youngest photographer in Fleet Street taking pop pictures for the up-tempo Daily Sketch. One thing lead to another and O'Neill quickly became a significant image-maker and one of the group of talented young photographers who helped create the photographic icons of the 1960s and create part of the buzz that became Swinging London. The peer group that emerged in this decade included David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy from the East End and Patrick Lichfield and Lewis Morley...
Lambda, Photographic Paper
$270
H 4.22 in W 11.11 in D 0.04 in
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - signed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - 1999 - triptych signed in front, not mounted. 3 Digital Color Photographs based on the 3 Polaroids. 10.7...
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
$1,800
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in
Kristen, Painting by Chantal Joffe (from Kristen series)
By Miles Aldridge
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Miles Aldridge Kristen, Painting by Chantal Joffe (from Kristen series), 2010 Lambda print on photographic wove paper Framed Dimensions: 23.62 x 19.69 x ...
Photographic Paper, Lambda
Still Life with Hats
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
1973 Chromogenic print in colours on photographic paper Image 23.9 x 17.8 cm Sheet 26.9 x 20.8 cm From the Series Twenty Photographic Pictures by David Hockney Signed with initials a...
Photographic Paper, C Print
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H 24 in W 34 in
Venice Walk 1983 Vintage David Hockney Exhibition Poster in turquoise teal
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. Hockney’s keen eye and uncanny ability to capture his subjects’ individuality is evident in this casual portrait of Gregory Evans walking in Venice, California. Hockney’s longtime friend, one-time manager, and former lover, Evans has served as a longtime model and inspiration to the artist for over 40 years. Here, Gregory dons stylish heeled brown boots and flared blue jeans, with red backpack...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 39 in W 24 in
Vintage Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 vintage millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph
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H 4.14 in W 3.55 in
Byron Upton -- Unique, Polaroid Print, Photograph by David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
DAVID HOCKNEY Byron Upton, 1977 Unique polaroid print of Byron Upton Signed and Inscribed 'It's inspiring me already. Much love David’ in ink Photograph: 10.5 x 9.0 cm (4.1 x 3.5 ...
Polaroid
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H 4.14 in W 3.55 in
A Young Model -- Unique, Polaroid Print, Photograph by David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
DAVID HOCKNEY A Young Model, 1977 Unique polaroid print of Byron Upton Signed and titled in ink Photograph: 10.5 x 9.0 cm (4.1 x 3.5 in) PROVENANCE The estates of David & Ann Gr...
Polaroid
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H 39 in W 24 in
Exhibition Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in vintage millennial pink
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
Lithograph