Hugely successful for his use of lively colour, his intimate scenes and his acceptance of new methods, David Hockney has died, peacefully, at home.
Best known for his swimming-pool paintings, produced after leaving the UK for California, Hockney documented his early life in Yorkshire and his social circle in London’s Notting Hill, becoming bolder with age. He returned to the UK several years ago and embraced technology, using photography, office machinery and later digital animation and electronics to produce his art. Yet his work throughout the 1960s and ’70s remain his most triumphant.
Hockney’s work broke records at auction, making the flat-capped dandy a wealthy man. His ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures)’ sold for US$90.3 million in 2018. He kept working until very recently, even after a stroke in 2012. His career spanned six decades.
