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Exhibition: David Hockney: Drawing from Life

Location

National Portrait Gallery,

St Martin's Place, London,
WC2H 0HE

Dates

This exhibition runs from Thu, 2nd Nov 2023 to Sun, 21st Jan 2024.

Forthcoming dates:

Mon,
4th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 6pm)
Tue,
5th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 6pm)
Wed,
6th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 6pm)
Thu,
7th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 6pm)
Fri,
8th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 9pm)
Sat,
9th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 9pm)
Sun,
10th Dec 2023  
(10:30am - 6pm)

Cost: £23.50

Description

The Gallery’s autumn programme will see the return of the five-star exhibition, ‘David Hockney: Drawing from Life’, which was staged for just 20 days before the Gallery’s closure due to Covid in March 2020.

The exhibition explores the artist’s work over the last six decades through his intimate portraits of five sitters: his mother, Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself. His familiarity with the sitters enables him to work with a range of mediums and styles, from pencil, pen and ink and crayon, to photographic collage and the iPad. The 2023 exhibition will also debut a selection of over thirty new portraits.

Painted from life they depict friends and visitors to the artist’s Normandy studio between 2021 and 2022.


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Disclaimer

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This exhibition runs from Thu, 2nd Nov 2023 to Sun, 21st Jan 2024

This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:

December 2023

January 2024

Location

National Portrait Gallery,

St Martin's Place, London,
WC2H 0HE

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