Hockney portraits

David Hockney

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.' David Hockney

David Hockney is one of the most widely lauded and influential modern visual artists. An essential contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, his work helped to precede the postmodern art movement, and unsurprisingly, they covered every aspect of the human condition.

Lily Edith Lacey-Hastings on Instagram: “The curator takes her seat among the eighty-one others. 'He has got me …’. . . Edith Devaney David Hockney 2016 . . #davidhockney #hockney…”

Portrait of Peter Langan with a glass of wine

British artist David Hockney (b. 1937) has lived in Los Angeles off and on for nearly 40 years. In 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, which opens on Sunday, April 15, he offers a vibrant and intimate view of the various people who fill his world. None of the portraits were commissioned, and his subjects are from all walks of life: Hockney invited family members, fellow artists, art dealers, curators, employees, close friends, and acquaintances to sit for him over a period of two or three days.

Paintings began in 2013 with scores of people asked to sit, but none of them will know if they are immortalised on canvas until exhibition opens next year

View Henry Geldzahler (1981) By Hockney David; crayons and gouache on paper; 42.5 x 34.5 cm. (16¾ x 13 5/8 in.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Los Angeles’ Getty Center is celebrating David Hockney’s 80th birthday with a two-part exhibition of self-portraits and photographs.

"There is nothing except the canvas, the artist, his gaze, and you," says Stephanie Barron, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "That's it. The rest of the world just fades away."