David Hockney Art For Sale

David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes. The artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and pleine-air paintings of the English countryside.

David Hockney is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s.

In 1973 David Hockney went to live in Paris, where Hockney took the opportunity to work with Aldo and Piero Crommelynck, who had been Picasso’s master printers, and produced a series of etchings in memory of Picasso who had died earlier that year. Hockney had been inspired by Picasso’s art since Hockney saw the Picasso exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the summer of 1960. In 1974 David Hockney had a large art exhibition of at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

Our Fine Art Gallery has the finest quality of David Hockney original prints, lithographs, screenprints, and posters. We have a large inventory available off-site and we encourage you to make an appointment to see specific works you are looking to collect. We are happy to meet you at either our art gallery showroom or at your home or office for a private presentation.

About David Hockney

David Hockney has always denied being a Pop Artist but is included under this heading because this is how the public perceives Hockney. The most highly publicized British artist since the Second World War, David Hockney was born in Bradford in 1937, the fourth of five children. By the time David Hockney won a scholarship to Bradford Grammar School at the age of eleven, Hockney had already decided that he wanted to pursue art. David Hockney drew art for the school magazine and produced art posters for the school debating society as a substitute for homework. At sixteen David Hockney persuaded his parents to let him go to the local art school, and this was followed by two years of working in hospitals as an alternative to National Service, as Hockney had registered as a conscientious objector.

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