🖼️ Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) · David Hockney
Saturday, January 1, 1972
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Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972. It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer. In November 2018, it sold for $90.3 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist. David Hockney, 1972 — painted at 35. Canvas and acrylic paint. 213.5 × 305 cm. Pop art. Image: Wikipedia's (still in copyright, shown as posters are). Wiki link
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