David Hockney - Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) [1972]“Hockney’s most affecting portra

David Hockney - Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) [1972]“Hockney’s most affecting portraits, not surprisingly, are often those of people with whom he has close emotional bonds. These include the painting he made of Peter during the final months of their five years together. In them he acknowledges the shift in tone in their friendship, the emotional distance that was separating them from each other, even though he was not necessarily consciously seeking to illustrate the situation. It was perhaps more a question of an extremely sensitive person picking up signals that had not yet been openly communicated, and including them intuitively in his pictures. So it is that works featuring Peter Schlesinger. even in settings suggestive of joy, such as Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), exude a bittersweet atmosphere. … by showing another young man swimming towards Peter, the artist acknowledges lost love and his boyfriend’s desire for a new partner.”last week, D. Hockney became the most expensive painter alive with this painting selling for over 80M $ -- source link
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