David Hockney portrait honouring 86th birthday unveiled
A portrait of British artist David Hockney was created to mark the artist's 86th birthday.
He is depicted wearing his trademark tweed suit, round yellow spectacles and a flat cap with a bunch of daffodils pinned to his jacket, standing in front of his Polaroid artwork titled Gregory Swimming Los Angeles March 31st 1982. The Californian swimming pool became Hockney’s great subject and a setting for a number of his major paintings, including 1967 piece A Bigger Splash.
He added he had been texting Hockney’s nephew about the portrait unveiling, as the artist was occupied painting on a canvas in a field near his home in Normandy, France. “ really proud of it. opening couple of weekends he wasn’t here, he was in his house in London, but one of his assistants came up with his iPad and was FaceTiming him from the space, showing him people in the space.The chalk portrait was commissioned to celebrate Hockney’s 86th birthday on the 9th July.Mr Slaney said: “He’s not coming back but this is why we did it, we wanted to send him the photos of people enjoying it.
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