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📷 by Annie Leibovitz - David Hockney in Los Angeles in 1983
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‘Can we ever have too much of a good thing?’
Miguel Cervantes,
Don Quixote, 1605
📷 driving along the shores of Lake Como 🌸🌿🚗🕊️springtime in Menaggio ..
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🎨 Frédéric Bazille - ‘Summer Scene’ .. ‘The Bathers’ - c 1869 | some leisurely play along the banks of the Lez river near Montpellier in the vivid sunlight of a summer’s day | @artistbazille 🌳🌿🕊️ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scè…
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“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”
— Hubert Reeves
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‘For me, the basis of art is love ..’
David Hockney
‘With his joie de vivre, until his final days, he marvelled at the world ..’
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🌳🌿🕊️ David Hockney drawing with his beloved dog Ruby beside him, under the trees in his home garden in Normandy, France, April 29 2020 | 📷 @Tate London
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In 2018 David Hockney’s ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ was sold for US $90.3M by Christies’ auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen - the highest price ever paid for an artist in their own lifetime (‘his scintillating pool paintings: like plunging into the water yourself ..’)
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‘An experimental and essential artist, he has left an enormous mark on the Art of our times ..’
Artist David Hockney spread his dreams both before our eyes and beneath our feet ..
🌳🌿🕊️🎨✍🏽 👉🏼 vogue.com/article/david-hock…
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David Hockney having fun on set of The Rake's Progress, presented by the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, in 1992 | His cross-hatched stage designs were so successful that they remain permanently in the Glyndebourne repertoire 📷 Craig Easton
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10 Jul 2025
He could be mistaken for David Hockney sitting by an LA pool? .. 📷 via Paul Bloemers 2023
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25 Apr 2023
David Hockney ‘Pool at The Hollywood Roosevelt’ painted in 1988 | Animation, with thanks to @larwoolf
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10 Jul 2024
David Hockney - Panama Hat On A Chair With Jacket, Bombay, 1972
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