David Hockney dies at 88. One of the representative artists of the modern era, born in the UK
David Hockney, a representative artist of modern art, has died at the age of 88.Summary
David Hockney, a representative artist of modern art, passed away at his home on June 11 at the age of 88. Born in Bradford, Northern England in 1937, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 and moved to Los Angeles in 1964. He gained instant fame with paintings of sunny scenes and pools in the West Coast, represented by works such as "A Bigger Splash" and "Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures)". The latter was sold for approximately 10.2 billion yen in 2018, the highest price for a living artist at the time. Throughout a career spanning over 70 years, he pursued the possibilities of artistic expression using diverse methods, including painting, photo collage, stage design, printmaking, and more recently, works created on an iPad. He was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour in the UK in 1997 and the Order of the British Empire in 2012, and was scheduled to receive the "Officier" grade of the French Legion of Honour in 2026. In 2017, a retrospective exhibition commemorating his 80th birthday toured the Tate Britain, the Centre Pompidou, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2025, a retrospective exhibition featuring over 400 works was held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Since March this year, an individual exhibition has been held at the Serpentine Gallery in the UK (until August 23), and exhibitions at the Tate and the Munch Museum in Oslo are also scheduled. In Japan, the "David Hockney Exhibition" was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2023.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)