Picture "My Window. No. 778" (2011-2019)

Immediately upon waking up, while still lying in bed, he artistically captured the first impression of the day with a sensitive gaze: The view from his bedroom window in Yorkshire, UK.

He compares iPad painting to watercolour painting - only it is even faster, making it perfect for capturing the changes of spring, the changes of light in an instant: "There is magic in an iPad," says Hockney.

iPad drawing, 2011-2019. Edition: 250 copies on archival paper, numbered, signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 56 x 43.5 cm. Size in frame 68 x 55 cm as shown.

About David Hockney

The artist David Hockney (born in 1937 in Bradford, UK) grew up in a working-class family in northern England. The already famous artist came to Los Angeles at the age of 26 and immediately fell in love with the dazzling city. The casualness, the Californian light and the bright colours really inspired him in his work.

Inspired by the never-ending summer on the American West Coast, sunny optimism returned to his previously rather gloomy works and swimming pools became his most important motif. His first "Pool Painting" was created in 1964 after a visit to a wealthy collector. Soon many were to follow and they are still among the artist's most sought-after motifs today. In Hockney's work, the pool subject stands for hedonism, sexual freedom and lust for life. The Briton is one of the most renowned and successful artists worldwide. His works can be found in all important museums of contemporary art. He returned to live and work in England in 2000.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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