When English painter David Hockney first flew into Los Angeles in the early 1960s, he was struck by the aerial view of bright blue swimming pools scattered across the city. “In England, a swimming ...

When the hammer came down at Christie’s in New York on Thursday evening, it made more of a splash than a bang. David Hockney’s 1972 painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” had gone ...

David Hockney painted California (1965) after traveling to Los Angeles for the first time. Christie's An early David Hockney painting depicting a California swimming pool—one of the artist’s most ...

"The World According to David Hockney," by Martin Gayford, Thames & Hudson publishers, seems designed as a holiday stocking stuffer: colorful images by Hockney, including several greatest hits, and ...

(CBS) -- Acclaimed British painter David Hockney is poised to dethrone Jeff Koons for the highest auction sale of a work by a living artist. Hockney, known for his vibrant palette and iconic ...

The celebrated British painter David Hockney turned the swimming pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel into a law unto itself. The sheer plenty of L.A. pools had enthralled Hockney ever since from his ...

A painting by British artist David Hockney sold for an astonishing $90.3 million at a Christie’s auction Thursday, shattering the record for the sale of a piece by a living artist. The 1972 painting, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s big, popular David Hockney retrospective is more than worth your time. As far as I can tell, however, what it reveals is that the conventional opinion of the beloved ...

Acclaimed British painter David Hockney is poised to dethrone Jeff Koons for the highest auction sale of a work by a living artist. Hockney, known for his vibrant palette and iconic depictions of life ...

A David Hockney painting of a man in a pink jacket overlooking a sun-dappled swimming pool sold for $90.3 million at Christie’s in New York on Thursday—setting a record for a living artist at auction.