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  • Artist David Hockney leaves Los Angeles to live in France because he can 'smoke in restaurants [tr]

    09/10/2019 2:17:51 AM PDT · by C19fan · 136 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 10, 2019 | Staff
    Famed British artist David Hockney is giving up Los Angeles after 55 years for Normandy, France, to live out the rest of his days. 'I can do twice as much work there, three times as much,' Hockney tells the Wall Street Journal of leaving the city that made him famous in the 1960s. 'I've probably not much time left and because I don't, I value it even more.' It's there in his new home, which he bought on a whim last year after seeing it for just 25 minutes, that the 82-year-old created his latest work inspired by the view...
  • David Hockney painting expected to break auction records

    09/13/2018 8:50:35 AM PDT · by C19fan · 30 replies
    AP ^ | September 13, 2018 | Joceyln Noveck
    One of David Hockney's famous "pool paintings" is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the $80 million range, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction. The British artist's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)," to be auctioned at Christie's in November, is considered one of his premier works. Christie's has estimated the work at about $80 million, but says it expects it to sell for more. The previous record for a work by a living artist was set by Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog," which sold for $58.4 million...