The exhibit’s sprawling timeline, spanning from 1662 to 2023, is a reminder, of course, that Hockney did not invent the pool picture. The Bradford-born painter did, though, start a ripple effect, ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, as summer winds down, we’re taking one last dip in the pool with the 1973 David Hockney documentary A ...

One of David Hockney’s First Pool Paintings Is Going on View for the First Time in 40 Years “California,” which set the stage for the British artist’s later poolside pieces, is expected to ...

David Hockney said the interactive art extravaganza “Bigger ... Those pieces featured dozens of photos of friends and ... such as “A Bigger Splash,” his 1967 swimming pool painting; ...

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 ...

David Hockney in 1987 at his home in Los Angeles, ... (Pool with Two Figures)” ... David Hockney via Louis Vuitton Foundation; Photo By Jenni Carter/Art Gallery Of New South Wales.

Sixty years since David Hockney first plunged himself into the quiet magic of the swimming pool, purpose-built baths still continue to enchant Perhaps there was something in the water. But it didn’t ...