A paean to Los Angeles: David Hockney’s ‘Nichol’s Canyon’

The star lot of auction house Phillips’ recent ’20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale’, English painter David Hockney’s ‘Nichols Canyon’ is the subject of this video.

From his swimming pools of 1960s to the California landscape of the 1980s, the Los Angeles lifestyle and landscape is one of Hockney’s dearest and most iconic subjects, and ‘Nichols Canyon’ marked the beginning of the artist’s renowned body of panoramas of the city most dear to him.

Depicting his daily drive from home to studio, and encompassing a wide range of influences from Henri Matisse to Chinese landscape painting, this stunning large-scale work captures Hockney at the full height of his power.

View the original video here.

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