The Most Expensive Works by David Hockney Sold at Auction
David Hockney, one of the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century, died on June 11, at age 88 at his home in London.Since the early 1960s, Hockney has been a fixture in the contemporary art world, first rising to prominence as British Pop artist, who unabashedly explored queer desire at a time that homosexuality was still illegal in the UK. In the ensuing decades, he ventured across painting, drawing, printmaking, and iPad compositions, often painting the people and places that he sp
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