David Hockney: ‘Drawing From Life’ at National Portrait Gallery
National
Portrait Gallery, Charing Cross Road
Until Jun 28 2020
The first
major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years,
David Hockney: Drawing from Life, explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the
1950s to the present by focusing on depictions of himself and a small group of
sitters close to him: his muse, Celia Birtwell; his mother, Laura Hockney; and
friends, the curator, Gregory Evans, and master printer, Maurice Payne.
Featuring
around 150 works from public and private collections across the world, as well
as from the David Hockney Foundation and the artist, the exhibition will trace
the trajectory of his practice by revisiting these five subjects over a period
of six decades. Highlights include a series of new portraits; coloured pencil
drawings created in Paris in the early 1970s; composite Polaroid portraits from
the 1980s; and a selection of drawings from an intense period of self-scrutiny
during the 1980s when the artist created a self-portrait every day over a period
of two months.
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