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 ...

Christie's An early David Hockney painting depicting a California swimming pool—one of the artist’s most iconic and celebrated motifs—could sell for more than $20 million when it goes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Hockney was once described as "cooler than ... some of his best known work — realistic depictions of swimming pools and Hollywood architecture. His six-metre-long painting, Santa Monica ...

LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Even today, "New York Times" critic Walker Mimms reviewing "The Swimmer," a summer group show dedicated to swimming and pools, had to mention "...the absence of David Hockney, the Rembrandt of pools." ...