Hockney s own personal sales records are tied to pool related works.
The swimming pool painting bilbao museum.
The aforementioned portrait of an artist is his most expensive painting while piscine de medianoche paper pool 30 1972 remains his priciest work on paper having earned 11 7 million at sotheby s new.
Swimming pool artist david hockney has since returned to his native uk where the tate britain is presenting a best of exhibition spanning six.
Yves klein s blue swimming pool from 1957 to now.
The museum of modern art new york.
With curved volumes and large glass curtain walls that connect the inside and the outside the atrium is an ample space flooded with light and covered by a great skylight.
He returned there in 1964 and remained with only intermittent trips to europe until 1968 when he came back to london.
California was his muse and helped make him famous.
A similar work untitled was installed at the guggenheim museum.
Untitled guggenheim museum bilbao 2015.
Hockney first visited los angeles in 1963 a year after graduating from the royal college of art london.
In november 2018 it sold for us 90 3 million the highest price ever paid at auction for a.
The pool painting 3 metres wide was an unquestionable standout at tate britain s hockney retrospective last year and was then displayed at the centre pompidou in paris and the metropolitan.
However yves klein has created numerous pieces of art in the color international klein blue.
Frieze installed at a height of 65 165 cm.
There are few motifs more closely associated with hockney than the california swimming pool.
Portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a large acrylic on canvas pop art painting by british artist david hockney completed in may 1972 it measures 7 ft 10 ft 2 1 m 3 0 m and depicts two figures.
Gouache on paper cut and pasted on painted paper overall 73 x 647 185 4 x 1653 3 cm.
Nine discourses on commodus by cy twombly guggenheim museum bilbao the matter of time by richard serra built between 1994 and 2005 these set of eight sculptures by richard serra are made from weathered steel and showcase the evolution of the artist s sculptural forms.
The swimming pool there is no piece of artwork by this name at the guggenheim bilbao.
Once inside the hall visitors access the atrium the real heart of the museum and one of the signature traits of frank gehry s architectural design.
Installed as nine panels in two parts on burlap covered walls 136 345 4 cm high.
The title the swimming pool is one of a series of references to protagonist s swimming routine throughout the robert langdon series.
1957 recreated in 2018 installation view museum of old and new art.