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David Hockney
David Hockney was a British painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was known for his vivid, stylised realism and championed figurative work, often in a bold style, during a period when abstract art predominated.
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Born 9 July 1937 · Died 11 June 2026 · Q159907
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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2026· 30 entries
The Guardian: Who will make the bigger splash? Two blockbuster David Hockney exhibitions opening in Australia
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Starts at 60: David Hockney’s final masterpiece comes to Sydney
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Broadsheet: An Immersive, 360-Degree David Hockney Exhibition Is Coming to Carriageworks
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The Atlantic: Look Closer: David Hockney’s Rules of Beauty
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Public attention spiked: 19,587 Wikipedia readers in one day, 16.7× the usual 1,171, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: Death and tributes
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Public attention spiked: 14,784 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.6× the usual 1,171, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: By Hockney tidied refs #proveit
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Public attention spiked: 287,022 Wikipedia readers in one day, 245.1× the usual 1,171, with 301 article edits. Coverage that week: “Influential artist David Hockney dies at age 88” (USA Today).
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USA Today: Influential artist David Hockney dies at age 88
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Yahoo: In Pictures: David Hockney, the pop artist whose work endured down the decades
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Yahoo: David Hockney’s last major interview: ‘I assume I’ll die soon, so I want to work every day’
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Died 2026-06-11.
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“It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.”
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“How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?”
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“All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”
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“The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication.”
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“Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.”
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“How can [Tony] Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.”
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“There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.”
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“I'm aware it's now a hostile city [New York City]. I feel I'm in school, actually. There are signs everywhere you don't get in any other city. When you see all the smokers outside a building in New York, I just think the building is full of bad-mannered people who haven't thought, "We'll give them a little room to smoke in." That's what a reasonable person, a person with good manners, would do.”
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“I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.”
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“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”
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“Interviewer: Love is certainly at the center of tolerance. They're intertwined, in a certain way. It helps you appreciate difference.Hockney: Yes. And that's probably why I do portraits. Everybody's different; they look different, and are different. Maybe deep, deep down we're all the same. But on the surface we seem to be different, don't we?”
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“I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, "Let's have a look in the mirror." When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?”
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“In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.”
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“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.”
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“Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.”
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“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”
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2025· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2025).
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2023· 2 entries
Artnet: David Hockney Has Painted a Striking Portrait of Harry Styles, Set to Be Unveiled at the U.K.’s National Portrait Gallery
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The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presented "David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D
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2019· 2 entries
Created a studio at La Grande Cour, a rustic farmhouse near Beuvron-en-Auge in Normandy
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His early work featured in his native Yorkshire at The Hepworth Wakefield
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Queen Sonja Print Award (2018).
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With the sale of Piscine de Medianoche (Paper Pool 30) for $11
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2017· 3 entries
This time using the more advanced Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetric software which allowed him to stitch together and rearrange thousands of photos
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Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration of his production for Turandot
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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 2018
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2016· 2 entries
When his Woldgate Woods landscape made £9
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The Royal Academy exhibited Hockney's series entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life which travelled to Ca' Pesaro in Venice, Italy, to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2017 and to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Up to the current auction record of £762,000 in 2025
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2013· 2 entries
Wrote a foreword and provided illustrations for a book by the psychologist J
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"twenty-hour exposures" because each sitting took six to seven hours on three consecutive days
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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Merit (2012).
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Hockney was voted Britain's most influential artist in a poll of 1,000 British artists commissioned by The Other Art Fair
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Hockney, worth an estimated $55
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Hockney featured in BBC Radio 4's list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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2011· 1 entry
British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and in March 2013, he was listed as one of the Fifty Best-dressed Over-50s by The Guardian
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2010· 1 entry
And 2011, Hockney visited Yosemite National Park to draw its landscape on his iPad
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2009· 1 entry
"David Hockney: Just Nature" attracted some 100,000 visitors at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
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2008· 2 entries
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
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The top lot of the sale and a record price for a Hockney
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2005· 3 entries
Forbes: David Hockney In Paris: The Artist’s Largest, Most Joyful Exhibit Is Worth The Trip
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Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist and in 2012, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney
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Fought to stop the ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants
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2004· 2 entries
Hockney went to stay with Margaret and she helped him scan his sketchbook of Yorkshire landscape and he soon began using a Wacom pad and pen directly into Photoshop
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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
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2003· 1 entry
Was experimenting with Photoshop, scanning summer flowers and building up images in layers which Margaret printed out on an A3 printer
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1998· 1 entry
Completed his painting of the Yorkshire landmark Garrowby Hill
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Companions of Honour (1997).
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Awarded Media Award of the German AIDS Foundation (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Designed costumes and scenery for twelve opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Mexico City
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Which travelled to The Met, New York, and Tate, London
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1981· 1 entry
As well as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in 1987, Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in 1991 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1992 at the
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1980· 1 entry
Agreed to design sets and costumes for a 20th-century French triple bill at the Metropolitan Opera House with the title Parade
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1979· 1 entry
Hockney experienced hearing loss since the 1970s and used hearing aids since 1979, although he realised he was going deaf several years earlier.
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1978· 1 entry
Rented a home in the Hollywood Hills; he later bought and expanded the house to include his studio
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1974· 1 entry
Began a decade-long personal relationship with Gregory Evans, who moved with him to the US in 1976 and, as of 2019, remained a business partner
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1973· 1 entry
Hockney began a fruitful collaboration with Aldo Crommelynck, Picasso's preferred printer
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded John Moores Painting Prize (1967).
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1966· 2 entries
While working on a series of etchings based on love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P
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Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1975, and The Magic Flute for Glyndebourne in 1978
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1964· 1 entry
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
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1963· 2 entries
Painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering while the other washes his back
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And by 1970 the Whitechapel Gallery in London had organised the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions
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1962· 1 entry
Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest
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1954· 1 entry
And worked in etchings during his time at RCA
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-07-09.
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