David Hockney: Ten Things to Know About the Late British Artist

This piece was first published on 7 February 2017 and has since been updated.

Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1937, David Hockney spent more than six decades relentlessly reinventing and evolving his practice, ever since winning a scholarship to his local grammar school. To call him prolific would be an understatement: he moved effortlessly between painting, photography, collage, opera set design and, later, iPad drawings, united by an extraordinaryhellip;

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