Art World Mourns David Hockney at 88 as Tate Hails 7-Decade Legacy
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 12
Art World Mourns David Hockney at 88 as Tate Hails 7-Decade Legacy
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 12
Summary
David Hockney died peacefully at home on June 11, one month before his 89th birthday, prompting tributes across Britain and Europe to one of contemporary art’s defining figures.
Tate Britain called Hockney an “immensely important” and “endlessly inventive” artist whose work closed an extraordinary 7-decade career marked by constant reinvention.
The Bradford-born artist moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and became globally identified with works including A Bigger Splash, My Parents and Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.
The Pompidou Centre said the artist leaves works that remain “dazzling, alive and eternal,” underscoring an influence that stretched beyond painting into photography, printmaking and digital art.