David Hockney returns to Guggenheim Bilbao with a remarkable new body of work. Embracing portraiture with a renewed creative vigour. he offers an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two or three years.
After his monumental landscape exhibition, Hockney turned away from painting his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Over the months that followed, he became absorved by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.
His subjects include office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists. Each work is the same size, showing his sitters in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background and all were painted in the same time frame of three days.
David was born in Bradford, England, in 1937. He attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. He loved books and was interested in art from an early age, admiring Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard.
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