Across a long lifetime and productive until the end, David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain’s most popular artist, and one of very few painters anywhere to be a household name: https://ft.trib.al/4VGjWzJ。ft
Tate. 'We are greatly saddened by the news of David Hockney’s death. Widely regarded as one of the most successful and recognisable artists of our time, he is an immensely important figure to Tate, with his work first entering our collection in 1963.
Tate. 'We are greatly saddened by the news of David Hockney’s death. Widely regarded as one of the most successful and recognisable artists of our time, he is an immensely important figure to Tate, with his work first entering our collection in 1963.
David was an endlessly inventive artist, with a unique vision of the world. He was always completely and courageously himself, both in his work and in life. He taught us about the joy of looking, seeing things the rest of us failed to notice - his witty and sharp observations a constant presence within his work and in person. The loss to the art world is immense: David's passing brings to a close an extraordinary body of work characterised by reinvention. He touched so many, with his astonishing talent, his love for art and life, and his profound and unconventional insights. His work continues to influence our culture, far beyond the art world.
We will be working closely with David's team to realise the two projects he was preparing for next year - a major exhibition at Tate Britain, spanning seven decades of his work, and a multimedia installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, bringing to life his celebrated designs for opera sets. Following on from Tate Britain’s 2017 Hockney exhibition, the most visited in the institution’s history, it is such an honour to offer so many the chance to experience his incredible artistry.
Hockney's work will live on at Tate for generations to come, and in museums around the world. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.'
Alex Farquharson - Director, Tate Britain
📷 Andrew Dunkley, David Hockney outside Tate Britain, 1998
📷 Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney, 1976, printed 2003, © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Presented by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 2010
David Hockney, one of Britain's most important and influential artists of the modern era, has died at the age of 88, his publicist has said.
In this clip from 1976, he speaks to Robert Robinson about leaving Bradford and initially feeling overawed at Royal College of Art in London before finding his way. He also gives his thoughts on the painting and art that influenced him.
BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjxdr27z4o
#DavidHockney #BritishArt #BBCArchive
Guardian. Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died australia
BBC Painter David Hockney was one of the most influential and recognisable British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Read more: https://bbc.in/43y8Tal
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of David Hockney and our thoughts are with his family.
The National Gallery has been privileged to present Hockney’s work across several decades. Most recently, in 2024, his paintings were shown alongside Piero della Francesca’s ‘The Baptism of Christ’ a work he admired deeply throughout his life. His longstanding affection for the Gallery was evident as early as 1979, when he wrote to then Director Sir Michael Levey: “I must tell you that I love the collection of the National Gallery.”
Hockney’s relationship with the Gallery was both personal and generative. The collection served as a continual source of inspiration, reflected most memorably in the groundbreaking 'Artist’s Eye' series. Invited by Michael Levey in 1981, Hockney curated an exhibition exploring the power of images—whether encountered in reproduction or in their original form—and the pleasures of looking. At its centre was his painting ‘Looking at Pictures on a Screen’ (1977), depicting his friend Henry Geldzahler studying reproductions of works by Vermeer, Van Gogh, Degas, and Piero della Francesca.
In 2000, as part of the Millennium exhibition 'Encounters: New Art from Old', Hockney was invited to create new work in dialogue with the Gallery’s collection. He produced a series of twelve portraits of Gallery warders using a camera obscura, drawing on his recent engagement with the work of Ingres, whom he believed had used optical devices such as the camera lucida. This project marked a significant moment in Hockney’s exploration of the relationship between art and technology, which he would later pursue in depth in his influential and controversial book 'Secret Knowledge'.
Across his career, Hockney returned again and again to fundamental questions about how we see, how images are made, and how art connects people across time. The National Gallery honours his extraordinary legacy, his restless curiosity, and his profound contribution to the history of art.
小憩。很精彩。 #再也不會有的明亮目光
「如果你認為這個世界是美麗、刺激、神秘的，那你就會覺得自己很有活力。」—大衛霍克尼，
很普通的一個雨天，我最愛的畫家大衛霍克尼離開了，離他的89歲生日只差一個月，
對於這幾年不停接收到時代icon消逝的消息，和聽了很多超高齡化社會的概念，不知覺，開始對人60歲後還在工作這件事，變的體感一點都不陌生，微妙的是，自己感受到一股旺盛生命力，很多時候都從這些高齡長者身上散發出來的，
看到85歲的宮崎駿新作品締造票房紀錄後，宣布在製作下一部作品，87歲橫尾忠則新個展，展出100多幅新創作，或是當看到大衛霍克尼畫的畫 ，
看他畫泳池、樹木、花朵、小狗和朋友，也畫光線如何穿過空氣，季節如何緩慢更替，他反復描繪平常的風景，不是為了記錄它們，
#而是為了表達對日常的熱愛。
大衛霍克尼 在回憶錄說，「要是你願意，試試以一個獨眼巨人視角看看這世界，哪怕一秒也好」
在他的作品裡，#觀看的目光才是一種珍貴能力，
他到86歲還在不停創作，只是材料從畫筆變成iPad，疫情期間 ，他把iPad像速寫本放進口袋裡，用它來畫身邊看到的東西 ，自家泳池，高大樹木，窗外晨光，身邊的寵物，還有親愛的朋友，當他畫完一幅畫，會用郵件發給二十幾個朋友，天氣好時，每個朋友在早餐前，就能收到6幅他的原創畫作，他說：「我每天早晨都用iPhone畫下花草，再寄給我的朋友們，#這樣他們每天早上睜開眼就可以收到鮮花。」真是多麼可愛的人，
儘管那些新作品標示是「疫情時期的創作」，但後來留意到，作品數量龐大 ，等於在那2年多，他等於幾乎每天創作，而我每次看著那些作品，腦子一直被一股無比熱情赤誠的生命力震撼到，讓人完全對 「年紀」這件事又有很多新的體悟 ，
我特別喜歡他晚年畫的樹，他畫的樹，顏色有一種植物學家的嚴謹，每處細微變化都不放過，因為他說每2分鐘光線就會變化，看到景色也不同，
他筆下的每一棵樹都高聳入雲 ，#就像在幫忙支撐天空不讓它塌下 ，他筆下 那片用很多很多線和一些點搭建的自然世界，曾給過我很多安慰。就像大衛霍克尼心裡那片天空，高高昂起，閃閃發亮，
記得86歲的David Hockney，結束在倫敦Lightroom的沉浸式個展，展覽裡展出他用拍立得創作拼貼時間的流逝，也看到觀眾被他用iPad畫的春天環繞，
當被記者問到他和一系列流行的梵谷、莫內沉浸式展覽比較時，記得David Hockney不擔心的說:
「他們只是在再現梵谷和莫內，但他們已經去世，不能創造新的東西，但我還活著，所以我可以讓事情變得更好。」
他說這些話時，肉眼可見又老了些，但那閃閃發亮的眼神 ，就像他背後那一大片他畫出的濃重草地翠綠色，還在持續傳達自己對世界的「新認識」，
當時就覺得86歲的David Hockney永遠不會老去，甚至比20歲的年輕人更年輕，
#因為他心裡永遠住了一大片的春天，就像某一段歌詞：「原來春天這麼美，幸好沒腐爛在冬天」
有人說，AI也能畫出這樣的畫，
但自己覺得，這樣說的人很外行，
他心裡那種完全不抗拒新事物，
將其變成自己厲害之處的內心，
#真是AI永遠模仿不來的心曠神怡，
‘If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, then you feel quite alive.’
— David Hockney
We remember David Hockney, one of the most beloved artists of modern times, whose striking images captured his joie de vivre.
Over an impressive 70-year career, he never stopped finding new ways to imagine and portray the world around us, or explore new horizons, both geographic and artistic.
Beneath his vivid, joyful palette lay a simple yet powerful message: ‘there are joys in life, sometimes very small and very close to you’.
From painting and printmaking to photography and iPad drawings, Hockney left his mark on every medium he touched and brought more colour into our lives.
“Put your phone down, look with both eyes.”
— David Hockney
David Hockney at Rising Glen, California, in 1978. Photo: Michael Childers / Corbis via Getty Images。Christie’s
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HOMMAGE • C'est avec beaucoup d’émotion que nous apprenons la disparition de David Hockney.
D'octobre 2021 à février 2022, le musée de l’Orangerie a eu le plaisir et l’honneur de présenter "A Year in Normandie", ensemble d’œuvres réalisé à partir de mars 2020, début du confinement lié à l’épidémie de COVID-19.
Hockney réalise sur iPad, en l’espace de quelques semaines, plus de cent images. À la manière des impressionnistes, il capture les effets de lumière et les changements climatiques avec dextérité selon toutefois une palette vive et lumineuse, des compositions en aplats juxtaposés aux accents pop. Les jours s’égrènent, le confinement s’achève et le printemps laisse place à l’été, à l’automne puis à l’hiver. Hockney n’a pas seulement peint le printemps, mais une année entière.
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HOMAGE • It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of David Hockney.
From October 2021 to February 2022, the Musée de l’Orangerie had the pleasure and honor of presenting “A Year in Normandie,” a collection of works created beginning in March 2020, at the start of the lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hockney created more than one hundred images on an iPad in the space of a few weeks. In the manner of the impressionists, he captures the effects of light and climatic changes with dexterity, but employs a bright and luminous palette, creating compositions in juxtaposed flat tints with pop accents. The days tick by, the lockdown ends, and spring gives way to summer, fall and winter. Hockney did not just paint the spring, but an entire year.
📷 Mai 2021, David Hockney en repérage au musée de l'Orangerie pour son projet "A Year in Normandie" [David Hockney at the Musée de l'Orangerie for his project “A Year in Normandie”]. © David Hockney
ELLE Beloved British artist #DavidHockney has died at the age of 88, his publicist confirmed today.
A statement said: ‘The celebrated British artist David Hockney, one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away peacefully at home on 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday.’
The painter, who is regarded as one of the most well-known and influential artists in contemporary Britain, boasted a career spanning seven decades.
Read more at the link in our bio.
David Hockney: ‘I suppose essentially I am saying we are not sure what the world looks like. An awful lot of people think we do, but I don’t’
Hockney has died aged 88, was widely considered Britain’s greatest living artist, his popularity impervious to critical maulings.
Read about Hockney's work and life 👇
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David Hockney has passed away at 88, leaving behind a legacy as a Bradford-born artistic genius whose work once fetched a record-breaking £70 million at auction.
Born in Bradford in 1937, he grew up as one of five children in a tight-knit family jammed into a tiny terrace house, where wartime paper shortages forced him to sketch on the kitchen floor and in church hymn books.🖌
As a scholarship boy at Bradford Grammar, he famously refused to do any subject but Art, writing "I am no good at science but I can draw" on an exam paper despite a tutor's warning that enthusiasm for art alone would not make a career.🎨
He spent his National Service as a conscientious objector washing bodies in a morgue, before moving to the Royal College of Art in London where he lived in an unheated garden shed and spent every waking hour painting.
His early work bravely explored politics, literature, and his own homosexuality at a time when it was still illegal, forcing audiences to confront his personal identity and desires.
He later fled the dreariness of post-war England for Los Angeles in 1964, swapping British oil paints for bright Californian acrylics and creating his famous swimming pool series to celebrate a culture of freedom and leisure.
Even as a world-celebrated artist who became wealthy enough to spend time with royalty, he remained fiercely independent and frequently clashed with political figures.
He heavily criticised Margaret Thatcher's government for being anti-gay, campaigned against Clause 28, and later expressed a deep hatred for the "cultural bossiness of New Labour" under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
In his later years, he defied the cynical and conceptual trends of the modern art world by returning to traditional landscapes, painting the lush meadows of the Yorkshire Wolds and his final home in Normandy.❤
He spent his final years under 24-hour medical care, travelling alongside his dachshund and two medical assistants who were inevitably immortalised in his art. A massive retrospective exhibition is currently being planned at the Tate Modern to celebrate what would have been his 90th birthday in 2027.
Rest in peace Andy, a true Bradford legend.❤ #NewsForYou
David Hockney has passed away at 88, leaving behind a legacy as a Bradford-born artistic genius whose work once fetched a record-breaking £70 million at auction.
Born in Bradford in 1937, he grew up as one of five children in a tight-knit family jammed into a tiny terrace house, where wartime paper shortages forced him to sketch on the kitchen floor and in church hymn books.🖌
As a scholarship boy at Bradford Grammar, he famously refused to do any subject but Art, writing "I am no good at science but I can draw" on an exam paper despite a tutor's warning that enthusiasm for art alone would not make a career.🎨
He spent his National Service as a conscientious objector washing bodies in a morgue, before moving to the Royal College of Art in London where he lived in an unheated garden shed and spent every waking hour painting.
His early work bravely explored politics, literature, and his own homosexuality at a time when it was still illegal, forcing audiences to confront his personal identity and desires.
He later fled the dreariness of post-war England for Los Angeles in 1964, swapping British oil paints for bright Californian acrylics and creating his famous swimming pool series to celebrate a culture of freedom and leisure.
Even as a world-celebrated artist who became wealthy enough to spend time with royalty, he remained fiercely independent and frequently clashed with political figures.
He heavily criticised Margaret Thatcher's government for being anti-gay, campaigned against Clause 28, and later expressed a deep hatred for the "cultural bossiness of New Labour" under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
In his later years, he defied the cynical and conceptual trends of the modern art world by returning to traditional landscapes, painting the lush meadows of the Yorkshire Wolds and his final home in Normandy.❤
He spent his final years under 24-hour medical care, travelling alongside his dachshund and two medical assistants who were inevitably immortalised in his art. A massive retrospective exhibition is currently being planned at the Tate Modern to celebrate what would have been his 90th birthday in 2027.
Every day would be a different colour... Cameras give you a certain kind of view, but it's not the human view."
Celebrated British artist David Hockney has died at the age of 88.
In 2012, Hockney told Andrew Marr why he loved to get outside and paint. The sequence was filmed at one of the artist's favourite painting spots in his native Yorkshire, known as The Tunnel.
It is from David Hockney: The Art of Seeing, which took a deeper look at his Royal Academy exhibition, A Bigger Picture. 啊bbc arts語風景 照片 樹 天天不同 Constable的限制無法現場畫
Design Museum
Remembering David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of our time 🩵
A pivotal figure in the pop art movement, Hockney rose to prominence while studying at the Royal College of Art. Over the decades, his bold use of colour, playful experimentation, and embrace of new technologies – from Polaroids to iPads – helped cement his legacy as a visionary across both fine art and design.
His celebrated pool paintings captured the carefree spirit of 1960s California, when backyard swimming pools became aspirational symbols of modern living and postwar prosperity.
This poster, which is part of the Design Museum collection, was created for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The tiled design at the bottom mimics the playful wave pattern Hockney painted onto the floor of his own LA pool. It was last on display as part of our 2025 exhibition, Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style.
畫時年輕 每天沒壓力照自己喜歡的畫下去 喜歡南加州的氣候光線 The artist David Hockney, 88, died at his home in London on Thursday. Hockney’s brightly colored paintings depicting California defied the mid-20th century’s dominant abstract schools and drew attention to figurative art. Read his NYT obituary: https://nyti.ms/43yLOUT
“Nature is never spent.” — David Hockney Following the news of his death at the age of 88, we examine a few lesser-known facts about the prolific British artist
站在展覽作品前給人排照 Remembering one of Bradford's finest, David Hockney, who has died at the age of 88 ❤️
He was known as one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of modern times.
Following the sad news, his publicist Erica Bolton said today: "David Hockney’s enduring legacy reflects his underlying enthusiasm for life, his outstanding sense of humour, his immense generosity, and his investigative curiosity encapsulated by his signature phrase, Love Life."
Hockney's celebrated career spanned seven decades, and his most famous paintings included The Splash, A Bigger Splash, Portrait Of An Artist (Pool With Two Figures), My Parents and Mr And Mrs Clark And Percy.
He was lauded for his use of different formats, embracing digital art and the use of iPads as much as traditional painting.
What is your favourite Hockney artwork? Let us know in the comments below 👇
The painter and New Yorker contributor David Hockney has passed away, at the age of 88. To celebrate his life and work, here are some of his covers.
David Hockney 💙 1937 – 2026
Our thoughts are with the friends and family of David Hockney, one of Britain’s best loved contemporary artists.
Hockney was one of the most internationally respected, renowned, and influential contemporary artists. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1937, Hockney rose to fame in the Pop art movement in the 1960s, and over the next six decades, his work embraced drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and stage design. His inventive visual language took many different stylistic turns from early pen and ink, and coloured pencil drawings to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology. As one of the world’s leading figurative artists, the National Portrait Gallery was privileged to collaborate with Hockney on several occasions, including the major David Hockney Portraits exhibition in 2006, and the recent David Hockney: Drawing from Life in 2020 and 2023. Many of his self-portraits now call our Collection their home, including Self-Portrait with Charlie (2005), currently on display in Room 30.
Portraits and people were central to his exploration of the world and a crucial part of his many creative endeavours, he said: ‘I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.’
📸 David Parry national portrait
In his early years David Hockney painted his London life: his friends, his homosexuality, his passion for the poems of Constantine Cavafy and Walt Whitman. But America freed him https://econ.st/3SDye07
Photo: Getty Images 信仰從心誠意作畫
In honour of the late David Hockney, travel back in time and experience a digital recreation of his 1981 National Gallery exhibition ‘The Artist’s Eye’.
Invited by then Director Sir Michael Levey, Hockney curated an exhibition exploring the power of images—whether encountered in reproduction or in their original form—and the pleasures of looking. At its centre was his painting ‘Looking at Pictures on a Screen’ (1977), depicting his friend Henry Geldzahler studying reproductions of works by Vermeer, Van Gogh, Degas, and Piero della Francesca.
In a bold and innovative gesture, Hockney displayed these original works alongside his painting and reconstructed the studio setting it depicted, inviting visitors to step into the scene themselves.
Learn more about how the exhibition came together here: https://bit.ly/3Slg5Ed
1937-2026 World-renowned artist David Hockney, known for his modern approach to portraiture and colorful figurative paintings, has died. He was 88.
He first came to prominence in the 1960s, bouncing between the British and American art scenes. In some of his early paintings, notably “We Two Boys Together Clinging” and “Two Men in a Shower,” Hockney explored same-sex relationships in an era when homosexuality was outlawed in Britain. In the late '60s and '70s, he painted his iconic depictions of vibrant swimming pools and other suburban domestic scenes set in sunny Southern California.
In 2018, PBS News's Jeffrey Brown spoke with Hockney as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of his portraits.
"I know the arguments about 'painting is dead.' But painting can't die, because photography is not good enough, actually. Not good enough," Hockney said. Photography is "just a snap. But, I mean, why not look longer at something? Look longer, and you maybe see more."
In later years, he used an iPad to draft his works, noting that he's "interested in using technology that's about pictures."
Serpent Gallery With profound sadness, we honour the memory of David Hockney.
David Hockney OM CH RA (b. 9 July 1937, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK - d. 11 June 2026, London) is considered one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art.
His seven-decade career and prolific oeuvre was characterised by his multi-media approach in image making, an intellectual inquiry into the nature of depiction and perspective, and a sustained commitment to celebrating and portraying the world around him.
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Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima © David Hockney
天天畫 Influential Yorkshire artist David Hockney has died aged 88.
He grew up in Bradford, but became famous worldwide for his peroxide blond hair and round glasses.
Despite his paintings selling for millions of pounds, he was often mocked for his accent. In an interview last year, he told BBC News how he responded in typical Yorkshire fashion.
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