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One of the most versatile and inventive English artists of the postwar era, David Hockney settled in Los Angeles in 1964. An especially iconic example from a group of double portraits of friends and associates from the 1960s, this painting depicts the contemporary-art collectors Fred and Marcia Weisman in the sculpture garden of their Los Angeles home. As stiff and still as the objects surrounding them, the couple stands apart, his stance echoed in the totem pole to the right, hers in the Henry Moore sculpture behind her. Brilliant light flattens the scene and sets the couple in sharp relief; they seem oblivious to each other as well as to their art.
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Photographing the Hockney retrospective at the press preview
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
November 27, 2017 - February 25, 2018
I was watching a video of David Hockney flipping through his sketchbooks and thought I'd try to copy one of his tree sketches from a landscape in my little sketchbook
Salts Mill - Bradford UK.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salts_Mill
An interesting place. A beautiful Grade II listed building that houses a permanent exhibition of works by Bradford born artist David Hockney. Stunning.
“BMW gave me the model of the car and I kept looking at it and looking at it, and then, I must admit, I also looked at the other Art Cars. In the end I thought, probably it would be good to perhaps show the car so you could be looking inside it.”
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BMW Art Car #14
The process leading up to the final work lasted several months, as Hockney not only concerned himself with the external surfaces of the car. He persisted in his idea, and endowed his work with an unusual transparency by allowing the inside of the car to be outwardly visible. Stylized intake manifolds of the engine appear on the bonnet, the driver is visible through the door – and, of course, a dachshund, too.
In his opinion, “Driving and design go hand in hand in a way. Traveling around in a car means experiencing landscapes – which is one of the reasons why I chose green as a color.”
There can be no doubt of Hockney’s love of cars. He enjoys driving immensely, especially when it takes him through the hilly countryside along the winding roads of California, his chosen home.
He is extremely fond of listing to classical music on the road. Clearly a person who understands how to live and enjoy life. His sensitive and equally distinctive perception of the experience of driving has led to a powerful interpretation of that experience.
Hockney’s personal resume on his work for BMW is unusually short, and yet it says all we need to know:
“It was lots of fun.”
“The car has wonderful contours and I followed them,” says David Hockney of the BMW 850CSi he designed. He admits to having playfully “destroyed” the outer surfaces of the car, whilst at the same time he respected its overall design.
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België - Belgium
October 2025
Art doesn't have to cost a fortune. Salts Mill is home to one of the largest collections of David Hockney's art. Entry to the gallery is free over several levels and its laid out in a non-stuffy way. A permanent exhibition of over 300 works of Hockney paintings, etchings, drawings, screens and even a very curious design for a post-box. There are family portraits, including a poignant one of his mother and father, informal sketches such as a ‘get-well’ vase of sunflowers, strange illustrations for fairy-tales, vibrant landscapes of the Yorkshire countryside, large murals, a colourful Caribbean screen and paintings of Salts Mill itself.
Oil on canvas with masking tape
Hockney was visited by his parents whilst he was living intermittently in Paris (1973-5). It was there that he made the preparatory drawings and took reference photographs for the planned painting. While selecting the works for Drawing from Life in Hockney’s Los Angeles studio, the artist rediscovered the painting, believing that after abandoning it, the work had been destroyed. The masking tape was originally used to hang a piece of paper over the central panel as Hockney re-worked the surrounding area.*
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