‘One of the greatest achievements of modern art’: The story behind David Hockney’s $44 million painting

‘One of the greatest achievements of modern art’: The story behind David Hockney’s $44 million painting

On November 17, during an evening dedicated to the major artistic movements of the 20th century, Christie’s auctioned the first of the double portraits that British painter David Hockney created in the mid-1960s. This painting is the last of the series of works that remained in private hands and which changed the course of his painting, becoming a landmark of Pop Art and of gay visibility.Seguir leyendo