{"id":653,"date":"2026-06-12T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:42:00","slug":"painter-david-hockney-dead-at-88-see-his-most-expensive-works-and-how-much-they-sold-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Painter David Hockney Dead At 88: See His Most Expensive Works\u2014And How Much They Sold For"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Key Background<\/h2>\n<p>Hockney was formally trained as a painter in his teenage years at the Bradford School of Art and, by his early 20s, was making professional sales and starring in major exhibitions. He came out as gay when he was 23 years old\u2014seven years before homosexuality was decriminalized in the U.K., where he was born\u2014and several years later emigrated to California where he would go on to take inspiration in pop culture and California&#8217;s year-round summer. Many of Hockney\u2019s best-known paintings feature Los Angeles swimming pools and those works helped identify him as \u201cthe quintessential artist of Southern California\u2019s nouveau riche leisure life,\u201d the New York Times wrote. His early works openly depicted domestic gay life at a time when few other artists dared to do so, and he once described his paintings as \u201chomosexual propaganda.\u201d \u201cPortrait of an Artist,\u201d the record-holding painting, depicts a male swimmer in white trunks while Hockney\u2019s former lover, painter Peter Schlesinger, looks on from the side of the pool while fully clothed. Of his five most expensive works, the top three are portraits of gay men. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=651\">Justice Department Greenlights Paramount-Warner Bros Merger With No Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Crucial Quote<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;What one must remember about some of these pictures is that they were partly propaganda of something that hadn\u2019t been propagandised, especially among students, as a subject: homosexuality. I felt it should be done. Nobody else would use it as a subject because it was a part of me,\u201d Hockney famously said. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=649\">Judge Keeps Blocking Trump\u2019s $1.8 Billion Fund\u2014Until DOJ Can Prove It\u2019s Dead<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What To Watch For<\/h2>\n<p>How Hockney&#8217;s paintings continue to sell. There are currently three works by the artist for sale at Christie&#8217;s, two digital drawings and a charcoal sketch priced between $20,000 and $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=647\">How Trump Is Trying To Clear His Record\u2014Including Impeachments And Hush Money Conviction<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockney&#8217;s \u201cPortrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures)\u201d broke the record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction by a living artist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Painter David Hockney Dead At 88: See His Most Expensive Works\u2014And How Much They Sold For - 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