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 is prolific and works 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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ART SALE Original David Hockney Nichols Canyon Exhibition Poster Denmark
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Original oversized Hockney Lithograph Exhibition Poster of Nichols Canyon, in California Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark The lithograph was printed in Denmark, on high-...
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SALE David Hockney Park Hotel Munich Orig Exhibition Lithograph Poster Denmark
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
David Hockney Park Hotel Munich Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster Denmark 1972 David Hockney Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster entitled Park Hotel Munich published by the Louisiana Museum of Art. Denmark. Beautiful, calming, minimalist, David Hockney lithograph...
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Original Vintage Sport Poster 1972 Munich Olympics Diving David Hockney Germany
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport event poster for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich / Olympische Spiele Munchen featuring a great image by the notable British artist David Hockney (b 1937) depicting a diver with his reflection on the shaded water background. Limited Olympia edition 1971. This Munich Olympic diving poster...
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David Hockney, A Bigger Book
By David Hockney
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hardcover, 50 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in.), 498 pages, 13 fold-outs, with an adjustable bookstand designed by Marc Newson, plus an illustrated 680-page chronology book A Bigger Book, TASCHEN’s SUMO...
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David Hockney 1986 Pear Blossom Highway Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
David Hockney 1986 Pear Blossom Highway Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster Amazing, Out-of-Print, original, 1986 David Hockney Exhibition Lithograph Poster, entitled "Pear Blosso...
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David Hockney Original Vintage Poster 'Parade Metropolitan Opera New York 1981'
By David Hockney
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
David Hockney original vintage poster 'Parade Metropolitan Opera New York 1981' Created for the Opera Parade at the Metropolitan Opera in New...
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1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games - David Hockney Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Celebrated British artist David Hockney was one of several artists commissioned to create poster artworks to celebrate the 1983 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. The games in then Yugos...
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1988 David Hockney Original Exhibition Malcolm Bradford Hall Los Angeles
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
1988 David Hockney Original Exhibition Malcolm Bradford Hall Los Angeles Rare, Original, Vintage 1988 David Hockney Out-of-Print, limited edition Lithograph. Published in Yorkshire,...
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Original 1980s David Hockney Museum Exhibition Lithograph Poster Fiesta '88
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Original 1980s David Hockney Museum Exhibition Lithograph Poster "Fiesta '88 at the Bradford Festival Flowers, Apple & Pear on a Table", 1986 This gorgeous, vintage, vibrant, out-of...
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Original David Hockney Exhibition Lithograph Poster 8 Sun Chairs by a Pool 1976
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Original David Hockney Exhibition Lithograph Poster, entitled "8 Sun chairs by a Pool", was created in 1996 for Hockney's Drawing Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum. T...
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1972 Munich Olympic Games - David Hockney Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Celebrated British artist David Hockney was one of 29 artists commissioned to produce posters for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. In the run-up to ...
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David Hockney Hand Signed & Stamped First Edition Book That's The Way I See It
By David Hockney
Located in Studio City, CA
A David Hockney rare hand-signed first edition/ first printing (with full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1") hard cover fine art book "That's The Way I See It" published by Chronic...
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Original David Hockney Exhibition Lithograph Poster Beverly Hills Housewife 2001
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Rare Original Vintage David Hockney Pop Art Lithograph Exhibition Museum Poster Beverly Hills Housewife 2001. Denmark Very rare, Large Format, Original, Out-of-Print, David Hockney,...
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David Hockney. 220 for 2020
By David Hockney, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Year in Normandy with David Hockney. The course of the seasons in an artist’s book of iPad paintings. From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of Normandy...
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90s Original David Hockney The Other Side Louisiana Modern Exhibition Poster
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Rare, Oversized, 1993 Original David Hockney Louisiana Museum of Denmark Modern Art Exhibition Poster entitled The Other Side" Measurements: (approximately) 40" x 25" 101 cm x 63 c...
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David Hockney Images and Thoughts for Vogue magazine
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Poster in 1985 created for the exhibition "David Hockney Images and thoughts for Vogue magazine" for the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris. It promoted the work that the artist created...
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Original David Hockney Etching of Celia Birtwell
By David Hockney
Located in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire
Original David Hockney etching of Celia Birtwell, iconic British textile designer and fashion designer, signed, numbered 13 of an edition of 75, dated 1...
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David Hockney Signed Lithograph Poster for Dessins et Gravures Exhibition, 1975
By David Hockney
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite engaging limited edition exhibition color lithograph poster on wove paper by renowned British UK artist David Hockney from his "Dessins et Gravures" show at Gal...
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David Hockney Signed Exhibition Poster - Two Boys Aged 23 or 24 - Berlin, 1968
By David Hockney
Located in Renens, CH
David Hockney Signed Exhibition Poster - Two Boys Aged 23 or 24 - Berlin, 1968 This poster features an original signature by David Hockney. Condition is as shown in the pictures. Fe...
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David Hockney Exhibition Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Philadelphia, PA
David Hockney exhibition poster from 1981 paintings and drawings for the Metropolitan operas parade a French Triple Bill. Poster was ...
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1981 David Hockney at Andre Emmerich - New York Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This wonderful poster promotes the David Hockney exhibition "David Hockney at Andre Emmerich" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York City in 1981, and features his wonderful 1969 ...
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2021 David Hockney - Works From The Tate Collection Original Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This wonderful poster promotes the David Hockney exhibition "Works From the Tate Collection, 1954-2017" held at the Bozar in Brussels, Belgium. The exhibition ran from October 8th 20...
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David Hockney Exhibition Print, framed
By David Hockney
Located in Toronto, CA
Framed exhibition print of artist David Hockney's show at Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York City, 1969.
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2001 David Hockney - Beverly Hills Housewife - Louisiana Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster featuring “Beverly Hills Housewife” by David Hockney is an iconic early work that captures his fascination with Los Angeles, domestic spaces, and the cool,...
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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...
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David Hockney, A Diver from Paper Pools Lithograph
By David Hockney
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exciting Hockney A Diver from Paper Pools Lithograph. This is a wonderful exciting lithograph, Original Exhibition Poster for The Australian National Gallery Canberra, Paper Pools, 1...
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1985 David Hockney - XVI RIP ARLES Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful piece was created by the great David Hockney for the 1985 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, or RIP Arles, one of the world’s most important a...
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SALE Original Vintage David Hockney Man Shower Beverly Hills Exhibition Poster
By David Hockney
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Very Rare, original, vintage, David Hockney exhibition poster from the 1992 David Hockney "Seven Paintings" exhibition at Tate Gallery UK. The original painting was created in 1962...
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$150 / item
David Hockney, My Window Artist's Book
By David Hockney, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Window to the World. David Hockney’s artist’s book in an unlimited XL-edition. When David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibi...
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1982 David Hockney- Bedlam - The Rake's Progress (Hand Signed) Vintage Art Print
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring David Hockney's 1975 "Detail of Bedlam" from the set created for the scene in the Igor Stravinsky opera "The Rake's Progress", this poster was created in 1982 for the San F...
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Original Vintage Exhibition 'David Hockney At Andre Emmerich' New York, 1969
By David Hockney
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage exhibition 'David Hockney At Andre Emmerich' New York, 1969 David Hockney original exhibition poster designed and c...
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1981 David Hockney - The Rake's Progress - Ashmolean Museum Original Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring David Hockney's 1975 "Detail of Bedlam" from the set created for the scene in the Igor Stravinsky opera "The Rake's Progress", this poster was created in 1981 to promote th...
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1996 David Hockney - A Drawing Retrospective - LACMA Vendor Original Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster featuring David Hockney's original exhibition poster drawing "8 Sunchairs by a Pool" was produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the USA to promote ...
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1982 David Hockney - Barbican Centre for the Arts - City of London Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring a detail from his 1982 artwork "Cubistic Bar", this brilliant poster promotes a David Hockney exhibition at the iconic brutalist Barbican Centre for the Arts in the City o...
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David Hockney - Museum of Fine Arts Boston Original 2019 Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful poster featuring David Hockney's 1998 painting "Garrowby Hill" was produced by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA in 2019 to promote works by the British artist ex...
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1984 David Hockney - Tate Gallery Original Vintage Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Produced by the Tate Gallery for their 1984 exhibition of the artist, this piece features David Hockney's beautiful 1984 work "Views of Hotel Well III". This marked one of several ke...
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David Hockney - Drawing With a Camera - Andre Emmerich Gallery Original Poster
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
This wonderful poster promotes the David Hockney exhibition "Drawing with a Camera" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York City in 1982 and features his photomontage depicting Gre...
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