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British artist (born )

"Hockney" redirects here. For the British politician, see Damian Hockney. For the art history theory, see Hockney–Falco thesis.

David Hockney (born 9 July ) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.^[2][3]

Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington and London as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu.

He has an office and stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard^[4] in West Hollywood, California.^[5][6][7]

On 15 November , Hockney's work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction.^[8][9][10] It broke the previous record which was set by the sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) for $ million.^[11] Hockney held the record until 15 May when Koons reclaimed the honour by selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.^[12]

Early life and education

David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney ()^[13][14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business,^[15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura () née Thompson,^[16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.^{[17][18][19][20]} He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art (his teachers there included Frank Lisle^[21] and his fellow students included Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Norman Stevens, David Oxtoby, and John Loker)^[22][23][24] and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R.

B. Kitaj^[19] and Frank Bowling. While at the school Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work.^{[citation needed]}

At the Royal College of Art, Hockney featured–alongside Peter Blake–in the exhibition New Contemporaries, which announced the arrival of British Pop art.

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He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements which are similar to some of Francis Bacon's works.

When the RCA said it would not let him graduate if he did not complete an assignment of a life drawing of a live model in , Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest. He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination and said that he should be assessed solely on his artworks.

Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded him a diploma. After leaving the RCA, he taught at Maidstone College of Art for a short time.^[25] He taught at the University of Iowa in ^[26] Hockney also taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder in Next he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from to and then at the University of California, Berkeley in ^[27]

Career

In , Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium using vibrant colours.

He lived at various times in Los Angeles, London, and Paris from the late s to s. In he began a decade-long personal relationship with Gregory Evans who moved with him to the US in and as of remains a business partner.^[28]

In he rented a home in the Hollywood Hills; he later bought and expanded the house to include his studio.^[29] He also owned a 1,square-foot beach house at Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, which he sold in for about $&#;million.^[30] In the s, Hockney returned more often to Yorkshire, usually every three months, to visit his mother^[31] who died in Until , he rarely stayed for more than two weeks,^[31] when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill, encouraged him to capture the local surroundings.

At first he did this with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood. In , he completed his painting of the Yorkshire landmark, Garrowby Hill.^[32] Hockney returned to Yorkshire for increasingly longer stays and by was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolour.^[31]

He set up residence and studio in a converted bed and breakfast, in the seaside town of Bridlington, about 75&#;mi (&#;km) from where he was born.^[33] The oil paintings he produced after were influenced by his intensive studies in watercolour, a series titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire (–).^[34] He created paintings made of multiple smaller canvases—two to fifty—placed together.

To help him visualise work at that scale, he used digital photographic reproductions to study the day's work.^[31] In spring he stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy, during the global COVID pandemic.

Work

Hockney has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolours, photography, and many other media including a fax machine, paper pulp, computer applications and iPad drawing programs.^[35] The subject matter of interest ranges from still lifes to landscapes, portraits of friends, his dogs, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Portraits

Hockney has returned to painting portraits throughout his career. From , and for the next few years, he painted portraits and double portraits of friends, lovers, and relatives just under life-size in a realistic style that adroitly captured the likenesses of his subjects.^[36] Hockney has repeatedly been drawn to the same subjects – his family, employees, artists Mo McDermott and Maurice Payne, various writers he has known, fashion designers Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark (Mr.

and Mrs. Clark and Percy, –71), curator Henry Geldzahler, art dealer Nicholas Wilder,^[37] George Lawson and his ballet dancer lover, Wayne Sleep, and also his romantic interests throughout the years, including Peter Schlesinger and Gregory Evans.^[38] Perhaps more than all of these, Hockney has turned to his own figure year after year, creating over self-portraits.^[39]

From to Hockney used a camera lucida for his research into art history as well as his own work in the studio.^[40][41] He created over drawings of friends, family, and himself using this antique lens-based device.

In , the Royal Academy exhibited Hockney's series entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life which traveled to Ca' Pesaro in Venice, Italy, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in and to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Hockney calls the paintings started in "twenty-hour exposures" because each sitting took six to seven hours on three consecutive days.^[42]

Printmaking

Hockney experimented with printmaking as early as a lithograph Self-Portrait in and worked in etchings during his time at RCA.^[43] In , the print workshop Gemini G.E.L.

approached him to create a series of lithographs with a Los Angeles theme. Hockney responded by creating The Hollywood Collection, a series of lithographs recreating the art collection of a Hollywood star, each piece depicting an imagined work of art within a frame. Hockney went on to produce many other portfolios with Gemini G.E.L.

including Friends, The Weather Series, and Some New Prints.^[44] During the s he produced several series of prints he thought of as 'graphic tales', including A Rake's Progress (–63)^[45] after Hogarth, Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy ()^[46] and Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm ().^[47][43]

In Hockney began a fruitful collaboration with Aldo Crommelynck, Picasso's preferred printer.

In his atelier, he adopted Crommelynck's trademark sugar lift, as well as a system of the master's own devising of imposing a wooden frame onto the plate to ensure colour separation. Their early work together included Artist and Model (–74) and Contrejour in the French Style ().^[43] In –77 Hockney created The Blue Guitar, a suite of 20 etchings, each utilising Crommelynck's techniques and filled with references to Picasso.

The frontispiece to the suite mentions Hockney's dual inspiration; "The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso".^[48] The etchings refer to themes in a poem by Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar. It was published by Petersburg Press in October That year, Petersburg also published a book in which the images were accompanied by the poem's text.^[49]

In the summer of , David Hockney stayed for six weeks with his friend the printer Ken Tyler at Tyler's studio in New York, Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Tyler invited Hockney to try a new technique with liquid paper. The process is painting with the paper itself, so the artist had to do it himself by hand. Each image becomes a unique work between printmaking and painting. In six weeks, Hockney created a total of 29 artworks with a series of 17 sunflowers and swimming pools.^[50] Many of the works are very similar, differentiated by changes in colour choice and application of the colour.

Bruno wollheim david hockney biography In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses what the scenes of Yorkshire and California have in common. The unexpected parallel he draws between East Yorkshire and Los Angeles—both anonymous places on which he has left an indelible imprint—is about love and connection, and also about something else quite simple: David paints in order to understand himself and his surroundings. When David arrived in Southern California in it was considered an artistic backwater. Never one to subscribe to conventional hierarchies, especially concerning high and low art, David saw Los Angeles as the home of Disney and Hollywood and as such a world capital of the visual.

Some are solely coloured using paper pulp, while some use spray paint to achieve certain details.^[51]

Some of Hockney's other print portfolios include Home Made Prints (),^[52]Recent Etchings () and Moving Focus (–),^[53] which contains lithographs related to A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan.

A retrospective of his prints, including 'computer drawings' printed on fax machines and inkjet printers, was exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London 5 February – 11 May and Bowes Museum, County Durham 7 June – 28 September , with an accompanying publication, Hockney, Printmaker, by Richard Lloyd.^[43]

Photocollages

In the early s, Hockney began to produce photo collages—which, in his early explorations within his personal photo albums, he referred to as "joiners"^[54]—first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints.

Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.^[55] Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works.

Some pieces are landscapes, such as Pearblossom Highway #2,^[2][56] others portraits including Kasmin ;^[57] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, .^[58]

Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late s that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses.

He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realised it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room.

He began to work more with photography after this discovery, stopping painting for a while to pursue this new technique exclusively.

However over time, he discovered what he could not capture with a lens, saying: "Photography seems to be rather good at portraiture, or can be. But, it can't tell you about space, which is the essence of landscape.

For me anyway. Even Ansel Adams can't quite prepare you for what Yosemite looks like when you go through that tunnel and you come out the other side."^[59] Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one-eyed' approach,^[60] he returned to painting.

Other technology

In December Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox, a computer that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen.

The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled several artists. In –, David's sister, Margaret, began experimenting with digital photography, scanning and computer printing, particularly making images of flowers scanning a small Japanese vase and fresh flowers.^[61] In , she was experimenting with Photoshop, scanning summer flowers and building up images in layers which Margaret printed out on an A3 printer.^[62] In , David went to stay with Margaret and she helped him scan his sketchbook of Yorkshire landscape and David soon began using a Wacom pad and pen directly into Photoshop.^[63]

Since , Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone^[64] and iPad^[65] application, often sending them to his friends.^[65] In and , Hockney visited Yosemite National Park to draw its landscape on his iPad.^[66] He used an iPad in designing a stained glass window at Westminster Abbey which celebrated the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

Unveiled in September , the Queen's Window is located in the north transept of the Abbey and features a hawthorn blossom scene which is set in Yorkshire.^[67]

From to , Hockney created multi-camera movies using three to eighteen cameras to record a single scene. He filmed the landscape of Yorkshire in various seasons, jugglers and dancers, and his own exhibitions within the de Young Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.^[68] His earlier photo collages influenced his shift to another medium, digital photography.

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He combined hundreds of photographs to create multi-viewpoint "photographic drawings" of groups of his friends in ^[69] Hockney picked the process back up in , this time using the more advanced Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetric software which allowed him to stitch together and rearrange thousands of photos.

The resulting images were printed out as massive photomurals and were exhibited at Pace Gallery and LACMA in ^[70]

Plein air landscapes

In June , Hockney's largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, which measures 15 by 40 feet ( by &#;m), was hung in the Royal Academy's largest gallery in its annual Summer Exhibition.^[71] This work "is a monumental-scale view of a coppice in Hockney's native Yorkshire, between Bridlington and York.

It was painted on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over five weeks last winter."^[72] In , he donated it to Tate in London, saying: "I thought if I'm going to give something to the Tate I want to give them something really good. It's going to be here for a while. I don't want to give things I'm not too proud of I thought this was a good painting because it's of England it seems like a good thing to do."^[73] The painting was the subject of a BBC1 Imagine film documentary by Bruno Wollheim called David Hockney: A Bigger Picture () which followed Hockney as he worked outdoors over the preceding two years.^[74]

Theatre works

Hockney's first stage designs were for Ubu Roi at London's Royal Court Theatre in ,^[75]Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England in , and The Magic Flute for Glyndebourne in ^[76] In , he agreed to design sets and costumes for a 20th-century French triple bill at the Metropolitan Opera House with the title Parade.

The works were Parade, a ballet with music by Erik Satie; Les mamelles de Tirésias, an opera with libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Francis Poulenc, and L'enfant et les sortilèges, an opera with libretto by Colette and music by Maurice Ravel.^[77] The reimagined set of L'enfant et les sortilèges from the exhibition Hockney Paints the Stage is a permanent installation at the Spalding House branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

He designed sets for another triple bill of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps, Le rossignol, and Oedipus Rex for the Metropolitan Opera in ^[78] as well as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in ,^[79]Puccini's Turandot in at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten in at the Royal Opera House in London.^[76] In , he designed costumes and scenery for twelve opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Mexico City.

Technical advances allowed him to become increasingly complex in model-making. At his studio he had a proscenium opening 6 feet (&#;m) by 4 feet (&#;m) in which he built sets in scale.

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He also used a computerised setup that let him punch in and program lighting cues at will and synchronise them to a soundtrack of the music.^[76]

In , Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration of his production for Turandot.^[80] The majority of his theatre works and stage design studies are found in the collection of The David Hockney Foundation.^[81]

Exhibitions

David Hockney has been featured in over solo exhibitions and over group exhibitions.^[82] He had his first one-man show at Kasmin Limited when he was 26 in , and by the Whitechapel Gallery in London had organised the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions.^[83] LACMA also hosted a retrospective exhibition in which travelled to The Met, New York, and Tate, London.

In , he was included in the cross-generational Whitney Biennial, where his portraits appeared in a gallery with those of a younger artist he had inspired, Elizabeth Peyton.^[5]

In October , the National Portrait Gallery in London organised one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and photocollages from over five decades.

The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work he completed in Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January , was one of the gallery's most successful. In , "David Hockney: Just Nature" attracted some , visitors at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.^[31]

From 21 January to 9 April , the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture,^[84] which included more than works, many of which take entire walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms.

The exhibition is dedicated to landscapes, especially trees and tree tunnels of his native Yorkshire.^[85] Works included oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings created on an iPad^[86] and printed on paper. Hockney said, in a interview, "It's about big things. You can make paintings bigger.

We're also making photographs bigger, videos bigger, all to do with drawing."^[87] The exhibition drew more than , visitors in under 3 months.^[88] The exhibition moved to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain from 15 May to 30 September, and from there to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, between 27 October and 3 February ^[89]

From 26 October to 30 January David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition was presented at the de Young Museum, one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.^[90] The largest solo exhibition Hockney has had, with works of art in more than 18, square feet, was curated by Gregory Evans and included the only public showing of The Great Wall, developed during research for Secret Knowledge, and works from to in a variety of media from camera lucida drawings to watercolours, oil paintings, and digital works.

From 9 February to 29 May David Hockney was presented at the Tate Britain, becoming the most-visited exhibition in the gallery's history.^[91] The exhibition marked Hockney's 80th year and gathered together "an extensive selection of David Hockney's most famous works celebrating his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video across six decades".

Tabish Khan in his five-star review for Londonist draws attention to Hockney's adaptation of new technology for the exhibition stating “What we love the most about Hockney is that he doesn't stop experimenting with age. Many of his iPad drawings are on display and while not his finest work, they show he's willing to try out new tools and techniques”.^[92] The show then travelled to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[93] The wildly popular retrospective landed among the top ten ticketed exhibitions in London and Paris for with over 4, visitors per day at the Tate and over 5, visitors per day in Paris.^[94]

After the blockbuster exhibitions in of the works of decades past, Hockney went on to display his newest paintings on hexagonal canvases and mural-size 3D photographic drawings at Pace Gallery in ^[95] He revisited paintings of Garrowby Hill, the Grand Canyon, and Nichols Canyon Road, this time painting them on hexagonal canvases to enhance aspects of reverse perspective.^[96] In , his early work featured in his native Yorkshire at The Hepworth Wakefield.^[97] In April–June an exhibition "Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction" was held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge^[98] and at the city's Heong Gallery.^[99] In the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presented "David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D.

Schnitzer and His Family Foundation." The exhibition is the largest retrospective print exhibition of Hockney's career, with more than colourful prints, collages and photographic and iPad drawings, in a variety of media, spanning six decades of the artist's career.^[]

Personal life

Hockney came out as gay when he was 23, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London.^[] Britain decriminalised homosexual acts seven years later in the Sexual Offences Act Hockney has explored the nature of gay love in his work, such in as the painting We Two Boys Together Clinging (), named after a poem by Walt Whitman.

In he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering while the other washes his back.^[38] In the summer of , while teaching at UCLA, he met Peter Schlesinger, an art student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became romantically involved.^[] Another of Hockney's romantic partners who was the subject of his work was Gregory Evans; the two met in and began a relationship in While no longer romantically involved, they still work together, with Evans managing the David Hockney Studio.^[] Hockney's current partner is longtime companion Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima.

Also known as JP, he also works with Hockney in his studio as his chief assistant.^[]

In March , Hockney's year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington studio; he had earlier taken both drugs and alcohol. Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he later died.

The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure.^[][][] In November Hockney sold his house in Bridlington ending his connections with the town.^[][]

Next he moved to Normandy and now lives near the village of Beuvron-en-Auge.

He holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which enables him to buy cannabis for medical purposes. He has used hearing aids since , but realised he was going deaf long before then.^[] As of , he has been keeping fit by spending a half hour in the swimming pool every morning;^[] he has been able to stand for six hours at the easel.^[]

Hockney has synaesthetic associations between sound, colour and shape.^[]

Collections

Many of Hockney's works are housed in the Gallery at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near his hometown of Bradford.

Another large group of works are held by The David Hockney Foundation. His work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:

Recognition

In , Hockney's painting Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

In , the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Hockney its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work. He was offered a knighthood in but declined it, before accepting an Order of Merit in January ^[] He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Progress medal in ^[] and the Special th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in ^[][] He was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in ^[] and awarded The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh).^[] He is a Royal Academician.^[]

In , he was appointed to the Order of Merit, an honour restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to the arts and sciences.^[33] He was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles, in He was appointed to the board of trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York in and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts in In , Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy.^[] Commissioned by The Other Art Fair, a November poll of 1, British painters and sculptors declared him Britain's most influential artist of all time.^[] In , Hockney was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork–the Beatles' Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover–to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.^[]

He is an honorary member of the Printmakers Council.^[]

Art market

On 21 June , Hockney's painting The Splash sold for £&#;million.^[] It was offered for auction again on 11 February , with an estimate of £20–30&#;million^[] and sold, to an unknown buyer, for £&#;million.^[]

His A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 canvases that combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $&#;million.

Beverly Hills Housewife (–67), a foot-long acrylic that depicts the collector Betty Freeman standing by her pool in a long hot-pink dress, sold for $&#;million at Christie's in New York in , the top lot of the sale and a record price for a Hockney.^[5] This was topped in when his Woldgate Woods landscape made £&#;million at auction.^[] The record was broken again in with the sale of Piscine de Medianoche (Paper Pool 30) for $ million and then doubled in the same Sotheby's auction when Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica sold for $ million.^[]

On 15 November , David Hockney's painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's for $ million with fees, surpassing the previous auction record for a living artist of $ million, held by Jeff Koons for one of his Balloon Dog sculptures.^[] He had originally sold this painting for $20, in ^[9]

In recent years, David Hockney's iPad drawings have become the most successful segment of his print market.

Since the initial release of the Arrival of Spring in Woldgate series, prices have increased from roughly £19, in up to the current auction record of £, in ^[]

The Hockney–Falco thesis

Main article: Hockney–Falco thesis

In the television programme and book Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura as well as camera lucida and lens techniques that projected the image of the subject onto the surface of the painting.

Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually from Northern Europe to Italy, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting seen in the Renaissance and later periods of art. He published his conclusions in the book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, which was revised in ^[5]

Public life

Like his father, Hockney was a conscientious objector and worked as a medical orderly in hospitals during his National Service, –^[] David Hockney was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in ^[29] He was on the advisory board of the political magazine Standpoint;^[] he contributed original sketches for its launch edition in June ,^[] as well as agreeing to allow Standpoint to publish his previous views and pictures over the years.^[]

He is a staunch pro-tobacco campaigner.

In he fought to stop the ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants. At the Labour Party conference he held up a card saying "DEATH awaits you all even if you do smoke".^[] He was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio's Today programme on 29 December in which he aired his views on the subject.^[] In he wrote a foreword and provided illustrations for a book by John Staddon, Unlucky Strike.

In October , he and a hundred other artists signed an open letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, protesting against cutbacks in the arts.^[]

In popular culture

In , while working on a series of etchings based on love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P.

Cavafy, Hockney starred in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, entitled Love's Presentation.^[] He was the subject of Jack Hazan's biopic, A Bigger Splash, named after Hockney's pool painting of the same name.^[] Hockney was also the inspiration of artist Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for Hockney (), which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in ^[]

Hockney was inducted into Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame in ^[] In , Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist and in , fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney.^[] In , British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and in March , he was listed as one of the Fifty Best-dressed Overs by The Guardian.^[]

Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and pages for the December issue of the French edition of Vogue.

Consistent with his interest in cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell (who appears in several of his works) from different views for the cover, as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally. David Hockney: A Rake's Progress () is a biography of Hockney covering the years –, by writer/photographer Christopher Simon Sykes.^[]

In , Hockney featured in BBC Radio 4's list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

A panel of seven academics, journalists and historians named Hockney among the group of people in the UK "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character".^[] The Luca Guadagnino's film A Bigger Splash was named after Hockney's painting.^[] In , he was portrayed by Laurence Fuller in the 7th episode of the 1st season of Minx.

In BoJack Horseman, a caricature of Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) hangs on the wall of the title character's home office. In this version, horses replace the two human figures of the original.^[]

David Hockney Foundation

The David Hockney Foundation—both the UK registered charity and the US (c)(3) private operating foundation—was created by the artist in In , Hockney, worth an estimated $&#;million (approx.

£&#;m), transferred paintings valued at $&#;million (approx. £&#;m) to the David Hockney Foundation, and gave an additional $&#;million (approx. £&#;m) in cash to help fund the foundation's operations.^[]

The foundation's mission is to advance appreciation and understanding of visual art and culture through the exhibition, preservation, and publication of David Hockney's work.

Richard Benefield, who organised David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition in – at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, became the first executive director in January ^[]

The foundation owns over 8, works–paintings, drawings, watercolours, complete editioned prints, stage design, multi-camera movies, and other media.

They also hold sketchbooks and Hockney's personal photo albums from to The foundation manages various loans to museums and exhibitions around the world, including Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney! at the Getty celebrating his 80th birthday, and the retrospective exhibitions of – at the Metropolitan Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Tate Britain.

Books

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  Stangos, Nikos (ed.). Pictures by David Hockney. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink. London: Tate Gallery. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Looking at Pictures in a Book at the National Gallery (The artist's eye). London: National Gallery.
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  Photographs. New York: Petersburg Press. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). Hockney's Photographs. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. ISBN&#;.
• &#;; Stangos, Nikos (). Martha's Vineyard and other places: My Third Sketchbook from the Summer of . London: Thames and Hudson.

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• &#; (). David Hockney: Faces –. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.
• &#;; Stangos, Nikos (). That's the Way I See It. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN&#;.
• &#;; Spender, Stephen (). Hockney's Alphabet. London: Random House.

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• &#; (). David Hockney: Some Very New Paintings. William Hardie (Introduction). Glasgow: William Hardie Gallery. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Off the Wall: A Collection of David Hockney's Posters –94. Brian Baggott.

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Pavilion Books. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). David Hockney: Poster Art. Chronicle Books. ISBN&#;.
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  David hockney pop art: I have not conducted any type of gender survey myself, but I did notice that the women customers fell into two groups: those who found David a charming and loveable father figure and those who found him controlling, almost threatening. David Hockney video. I can report that he is a voracious reader, especially of history and biography. This was a surprising moment: I had not made a connection between his art and female taste, but David had.

  Picasso. Galerie Lelong. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). Une éducation artistique. Galerie Lelong. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Hockney's Pictures. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters (Expanded&#;ed.).

  Thames & Hudson; Viking Studio.^[]

• &#; (). Hockney on Art: Conversations with Paul Joyce. Paul Joyce. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). David Hockney's Dog Days. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.
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  A Yorkshire Sketchbook. London: Royal Academy of Arts. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Del Monico with Prestel. ISBN&#;.
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  A History of Pictures. Martin Gayford. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.

• &#; (). Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. Martin Gayford. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). David Hockney: Moving Focus. Texts by Catherine Cusset, Rineke Dijkstra, Fanni Fetzer, Frank Gehry, Jann Haworth, Allen Jones, Owen Jones, Helen Little, David Oxtoby, Eddie Peake, Andrew McMillan, Richard Morphet, Walter Pfeiffer, Christina Quarles, Bruno Ravella, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Ed Ruscha, Gregory Salter, Yinka Shonibare, Wayne Sleep, Ali Smith, Christine Streuli, Russell Tovey.

  Lucerne, London: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Tate Publishing. ISBN&#;.

In October Taschen published David Hockney: A Bigger Book, costing £1, (£3, with an added loose print). The artist curated the selection of more than 60 years of his work reproduced within pages. The book, weighing 78 lbs, had gone through 19 proof stages.^[] The book came with an (optional) substantial wooden lectern.

He unveiled the book at the Frankfurt Book Fair where he was the keynote speaker at the opening press conference.^[]ISBN&#;

Contributions by Hockney

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