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David Hockney

David Hockney (Born 1937) is active/lives in New York, California / England.  David Hockney is known for Pop art painting, printmaking, digital, design and photography.

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One of the foremost painters, designers, and photographers of the 20th-century contemporary art scene in the United States and England, David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.  He experimented with numerous styles including that of 15th-Century Italian master, Piero della Francesca and with a variety of subject matter including portraits and other depictions of family and people he met in his extensive travels.

He studied at Bradford College of Art in 1957, and in 1962 at the Royal College of Art.  In the 1960s, much of his work was a homage to his heroes that included Picasso, Dubuffet, and Matisse, and in style was much influenced by Abstract Expressionism*.  In the mid 1970s, he spent three years in Paris and then traveled to Los Angeles, where he did a series of lithographs* and also did his first opera design, which was for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.  In 1988, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, awarded him an honorary doc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 26676 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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