Maurice with Flowers, 1976
Lithograph
Maurice
Master printer, Maurice Payne’s lifelong friendship with the artist began in London in the mid-1960s, when they worked together on the etching suite, Illustrations from Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy (1967). For a time, Maurice worked as his assistant on significant print projects including Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1969) and The Man with the Blue Guitar (1976-77).
In 1998, after a period of 20 years, they collaborated again when Maurice set up a print studio in Los Angeles. To encourage the artist, he would take the ready-prepared etching plates up to Hockney’s house in the Hollywood Hills and then take them back down the hill to print on a press he set up in West Hollywood. Working from life Hockney drew still lifes and portraits of his friends including his loyal dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie. At the time Hockney was working on monumental landscapes of the American West in his studio while making these intimate portraits in the domestic setting of his home.*
From the exhibition
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
(November 2023 - January 2024)
David Hockney (b.1937) is regarded as one of the master draughtsmen of our times. He widely champions drawing, which is at the heart of his studio activity and has underpinned his work throughout his life. From the early pen and ink and coloured pencil drawings, to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology, the artist’s inventive visual language has taken many different stylistic turns.
Over the past six decades he has never stood still, or rested on a particular approach, medium or technique, remaining inquisitive, playful and thought provoking while generously sharing his ideas with his audience. His drawing reflects his admiration for both the Old Masters and ‘modern Masters’ from Rembrandt to Picasso.
Drawing from Life explores the artist’s unique vision of the world around him, which is played out in portraits of himself and his intimate circle. A room of new ‘painted drawings’ of visitors to his Normandy studio in 2021-2 offer a glimpse of Hockney’s continuing working life.
All works in the exhibition are by David Hockney..
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in National Portrait Gallery
Maurice with Flowers, 1976
Lithograph
Maurice
Master printer, Maurice Payne’s lifelong friendship with the artist began in London in the mid-1960s, when they worked together on the etching suite, Illustrations from Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy (1967). For a time, Maurice worked as his assistant on significant print projects including Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1969) and The Man with the Blue Guitar (1976-77).
In 1998, after a period of 20 years, they collaborated again when Maurice set up a print studio in Los Angeles. To encourage the artist, he would take the ready-prepared etching plates up to Hockney’s house in the Hollywood Hills and then take them back down the hill to print on a press he set up in West Hollywood. Working from life Hockney drew still lifes and portraits of his friends including his loyal dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie. At the time Hockney was working on monumental landscapes of the American West in his studio while making these intimate portraits in the domestic setting of his home.*
From the exhibition
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
(November 2023 - January 2024)
David Hockney (b.1937) is regarded as one of the master draughtsmen of our times. He widely champions drawing, which is at the heart of his studio activity and has underpinned his work throughout his life. From the early pen and ink and coloured pencil drawings, to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology, the artist’s inventive visual language has taken many different stylistic turns.
Over the past six decades he has never stood still, or rested on a particular approach, medium or technique, remaining inquisitive, playful and thought provoking while generously sharing his ideas with his audience. His drawing reflects his admiration for both the Old Masters and ‘modern Masters’ from Rembrandt to Picasso.
Drawing from Life explores the artist’s unique vision of the world around him, which is played out in portraits of himself and his intimate circle. A room of new ‘painted drawings’ of visitors to his Normandy studio in 2021-2 offer a glimpse of Hockney’s continuing working life.
All works in the exhibition are by David Hockney..
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in National Portrait Gallery