David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" was auctioned Thursday at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City for a record $90 million, which ...

David Hockney in 1965. Photo by Tony Evans/Getty Images An early example of Hockney’s iconic pool paintings. Many of the techniques defining Hockney’s later works are explored in the 1965 ...

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 ...

Hockney, 86, painted "California", showing two naked figures in an outdoor swimming pool, in 1965 after his first trip to Los Angeles and it has been held in a private collection since 1968.

There’s only one thing we can readily predict when it comes to this artist: he’ll remain indefatigably prolific, and there ...

An early David Hockney pool painting, a signature subject for the 86-year-old English artist, is expected to sell for £16 million (US$20.3 million) at Christie’s London.

Art; From David Hockney to modern horror: the enduring symbolism of the swimming pool. On the sixtieth anniversary of David Hockney introducing the swimming pool into his painting California Art ...

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 ...

An early work by British artist David Hockney, a painting depicting his well-known pool motif and not seen in public for more than 40 years, is headed for auction with an estimate of around $20 ...