"Woldgate Woods, 24, 25, 26 October, 2006" sold for $11.7 million. The previous auction record for Hockney was $7.9 million, set in 2009. Paintings by Gerhard Richter, Willem de Kooning and Jean ...

It’s why “David Hockney: Painting 2006-09,” a two-venue show of the artist’s foray into landscape painting, keeps packing in the crowds at PaceWildenstein’s midtown and Chelsea galleries.

Hockney’s landscapes are increasingly abstract from the naturalistic, using freer, more expressive strokes that sometimes don’t actually cover the bare canvas.

With their high-keyed colour and dramatic perspective, these woodland landscapes show Hockney’s talent for painting old subjects in new ways. David Hockney Tate Britan, London, until May 29th ...

David Hockney (b. 1937), Britain’s most celebrated living artist, turned 80 in July, giving museum curators in London, Paris and New York an occasion to mount a retrospective of his work over ...

In assessing the David Hockney survey at the Metropolitan Museum ... In this show, you get a lot of landscapes and interiors—or, in some ... But the abstract flourish can be read as serving a ...

A painting by David Hockney sold for £13.15 million at Sotheby’s on Bond Street this week. During this flat time for the art market, that’s a highly impressive number. Yet it is dwarfed by ...