David Hockney Swimming Pool Painting

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David hockney swimming pool painting.

A bigger splash is one of a number of paintings hockney made of californian swimming pools. 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. A swimming pool painting by david hockney could become the most valuable work of art by a living artist sold at auction. He has captured the moment just after someone has dived in.

Artwork page for a bigger splash david hockney 1967 on display at tate britain. The tangled designs on the bottom of the pool itself make it seem like its own abstract painting within the painting. He chose a new. Hockney s first experiment with the swimming pool motif was painted in 1964.

David hockney with a model in the pool at hockney s house in the hollywood hills in a 1978 photograph by michael childers. Michael childers hockney s swimming pool paintings exerted a powerful influence on other artists. It measures 7 ft 10 ft 2 1 m 3 0 m 1 and depicts two figures. Picture of a hollywood swimming pool is an interesting almost minimalist take on the subject.

One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer. The first started in 1971 was inspired by the serendipitous juxtaposition of two photographs on the artist s studio floor. Realizing the futility of his efforts hockney abandoned that effort and reinvigorated started the painting all over again. One of the most iconic images in the artist s oeuvre david hockney s portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a story of two compositions.