David Hockney Swimming Pool Painting

He has captured the moment just after someone has dived in.

David hockney swimming pool painting.

Michael childers hockney s swimming pool paintings exerted a powerful influence on other artists. Hockney s first experiment with the swimming pool motif was painted in 1964. Realizing the futility of his efforts hockney abandoned that effort and reinvigorated started the painting all over again. He chose a new.

David hockney with a model in the pool at hockney s house in the hollywood hills in a 1978 photograph by michael childers. A bigger splash is one of a number of paintings hockney made of californian swimming pools. It measures 7 ft 10 ft 2 1 m 3 0 m 1 and depicts two figures. Christie s in new york announced on thursday that it was selling portrait of.

The splash is the only clue to their presence in the scene. Artwork page for a bigger splash david hockney 1967 on display at tate britain. A swimming pool painting by david hockney could become the most valuable work of art by a living artist sold at auction. Portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a large acrylic on canvas pop art painting by british artist david hockney completed in may 1972.

The first started in 1971 was inspired by the serendipitous juxtaposition of two photographs on the artist s studio floor. London reuters david hockney s los angeles pool painting the splash fetched 23 1 million pounds 29 9 million at a sale on london on tuesday auctioneers sotheby s said compared with a. David hockney in his hollywood hills studio in 2017. One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.