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Monday, October 5th, 2020

David Hockney : Drawing From Life

David Hockney “Self Portrait with Red Braces” 2003 Watercolor on paper 24 x 18 1/8″ © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt

 

It’s always heartening to hear about life going on in this oppressive Lockdown (socially distanced naturally).  So this piece of joy landed in our in box this morning and it really needs sharing

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York’s latest Exhibition has just opened.  Its called Drawing From Life and is the work of David Hockney probably the world’s greatest living queer artist 

Featuring about 100 drawings, this exhibition will be the first to focus on his portraits on paper and one of very few exhibitions to investigate his drawing practice.  The exhibition will be unique in exploring Hockney’s practice on paper through a small group of sitters he has depicted repeatedly over the years: his muse and confidante, the designer Celia Birtwell; his mother; his friend and curator Gregory Evans, master printer Maurice Payne; and the artist himself.

The exhibition will trace a trajectory from Hockney’s early works as a student, to his Ingres-like portraits of the 1970s, and his return to the sketchbooks in the early 2000s.  

 

David Hockney: Drawing From Life

Oct. 2 through May 30 at the Morgan Library & Museum,
225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan;  212-685-0008,

https://www.themorgan.org

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1954 self-portrait collage made mostly from small colorful scraps of glossy magazine images.Credit…David Hockney, Bradford Museums & Galleries, Bradford, U.K

 

“Gregory. Los Angeles. March 31st 1982,” composite Polaroid.Credit…David Hockney

 

David Hockney, Gregory, 1978, Colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14” © David Hockney.Photo: Richard Schmidt, Collection: The David Hockney Foundation

 

Th Exhibition originated in the National Portrait Gallery In London  early this year : here is a s trailer they made for it

 


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