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UNITED KINGDOM / London: David Hockney
by Modem
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until Sunday October 02 2016

Royal Academy of Arts
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Burlington House, Piccadilly
W1J 0BD London
United Kingdom



82 Portraits and 1 Still-life

David Hockney returns to the RA with a remarkable new body of work. Embracing portraiture with a renewed creative vigour, he offers an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two years.

After his monumental landscape exhibition burst to life in our Main Galleries in 2012, Hockney turned away from painting and from his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Slowly he began to return to the quiet contemplation of portraiture, beginning with a depiction of his studio manager. Over the months that followed, he became absorbed by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.

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