illustrations

FIGURES


Frontispiece. Detail of photo composite, 2008 © David Hockney. Photo: David Hockney and Jonathan Wilkinson.

1 David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, London, 1972. Color photograph, 26½ × 13½ in.

2 David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972. Acrylic on canvas, 84 × 120 in.

3 David Hockney, My House, Montcalm Avenue, Los Angeles, Friday, February 26th, 1982. Composite Polaroid, 11 × 34 in.

4 David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Henry Geldzahler, New York, 1975. Color photograph, 11 1/8 × 14 1/8 × in.

5 David Hockney, Stephen Spender, April 9th, 1982 (detail). Composite Polaroid, 34¾ × 30 in.

6 David Hockney, Arnold, David, Peter, Elsa, and Little Diana, 20th March 1982. Composite Polaroid, 21¼ × 26½ in.

7 David Hockney, Mother, Bradford, Yorkshire, 4th May 1982. Composite Polaroid, 56 × 23½ in.

8 David Hockney, Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso, Los Angeles, 24th March 1982. Composite Polaroid, 48½ × 26½ in.

9 Pablo Picasso, The Red Armchair, 1931. Oil and enamel on panel, 51 5/8 × 38 7/8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg, 1957.72. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © The Art Institute of Chicago.

10 Pablo Picasso, Artist and Model Reclining Nude and Man in Profile, March 29, 1965. Oil on canvas, 19¾ × 24 in. Collection David Hockney. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

11 David Hockney, First Expedition to Yosemite, May 1982. Photographic collage, 30¼ × 22¼ in.

12 Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, ca. 1434/1436. Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 35½ × 137⁄16 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, Image © Board of Trustees.

13 Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ. ca. 1450. Egg tempera on paper, 65¾ × 45¾ in. The National Gallery, London. Photo: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, N.Y.

14 David Hockney, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Sept. 1982. Photographic collage, 52 × 61 in.

15 David Hockney, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Sept. 1982. Photographic collage, 48 × 56½ in. 35

16 David Hockney, Sitting in the Zen Garden at the Ryimageanji Temple, Kyoto, Feb. 19, 1983. Photographic collage, 57 × 46 in.

17 David Hockney, Walking in the Zen Garden at the Ryimageanji Temple, Kyoto, Feb. 1983. Photographic collage, 40 × 62½ in.

18 David Hockney, Paul Explaining Pictures to Mie Kakigahara, Tokyo, Feb. 1983. Photographic collage, 35 × 45 in.

19 Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Peasant Wedding Dinner. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium. Photo: Scala / Art Resource, N.Y.

20 David Hockney, Sunbather, 1966. Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 72 in.

21 David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 84 × 120 in.

22 David Hockney, Kerby (After Hogarth) Useful Knowledge, 1975. Oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in.

23 David Hockney, Santa Monica Blvd., 1978–80. Acrylic on canvas, 86 × 240 in.

24 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Paris, June–July 1907. Oil on canvas, 96 × 92 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Acquired through the Lille P. Bliss Bequest. (333.1939). Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, N.Y. © ARS, N.Y.

25 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Boy Leading a Horse, Paris, 1905–6. Oil on canvas, 86 7/8 × 51 5/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. The William S. Paley Collection. (575.1964). Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, N.Y. © ARS, N.Y.

26 David Hockney, The Desk, July 1st, 1984. Photographic collage, 46 × 48 in.

27 David Hockney, Help, 1962. Oil, ink, and Letraset on canvas, 12½ × 9¾ in.

28 David Hockney, Play within a Play, 1963. Oil on canvas and Plexiglas, 72 × 78 in.

29 Pearblossom Highway, Palmdale, California, April 1986. Photo: Richard Schmidt.

30 David Hockney, Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1983. Charcoal, 30 × 22½ in.

31 David Hockney, Snails Space with Virilities, “Painting as Performance,” 1995–96. Oil on 2 canvases, acrylic on canvas, covered Masonite, and wood, 84¼ × 264 × 135 in.

32 David Hockney, Jonathan Silver, 1996. Oil on canvas, 25½ × 32 in.

33 David Hockney, North Yorkshire, 1997. Oil on canvas, 48 × 60 in.

34 David Hockney, Salts Mill, Saltaire Yorks., 1997. Oil on 2 canvases, 48 × 120 in.

35 Camera lucida drawings in David Hockney’s Los Angeles studio, September 10, 1999. Photo: Richard Schmidt.

36 Andy Warhol, Still Life, 1975. Image © Andy Warhol Foundation / Corbis. Artwork: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Corbis.

37 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Lady William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, née Lady Mary Acheson, 1816. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943 (43.85.6). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

38 David Hockney drawing with a camera lucida, 1999. Photo © Phil Sayer.

39 Albrecht Dürer, Artist Drawing a Lute, from the artist’s treatise on geometry, 1525. Woodcut. Photo: Snark / Art Resource, N.Y.

40 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da), Young Boy Singing and Playing the Lute, 1595. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo: Scala / Art Resource, N.Y.

41 Giotto di Bondone, Marriage at Cana (detail), 1303–6. Wall fresco, 78¾ × 721⁄8 in. Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Photo © Scala.

42 Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano, ca. 1455. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, N.Y.

43 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da), The Supper at Emmaus, 1601. Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 54¾ × 76¾ in. The National Gallery, London. Photo: Nimatallah / Art Resource, N.Y.

44 Paul Cézanne, Apples and Biscuits, ca. 1880. Oil on canvas, 17¾ × 21 5/8 in. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, RF 1960-11. Photo: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, N.Y.

45 David Hockney, Lawrence Weschler, Los Angeles, 20th September 1999. Pencil on gray paper using a camera lucida, 22¼ × 15 in.

46 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da) (copy after), The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601–2. Oil on canvas, 421⁄8 × 57½ in. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Scala / Art Resource, N.Y.

47 Diego Rodriguez Velázquez, Triumph of Bacchus (Los Borrachos), 1628. Oil on canvas, 65 × 88 5/8 in. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Photo: Scala / Art Resource, N.Y.

48 Giovanni Bellini, The Doge Leonardo Loredano, ca. 1500. The National Gallery, London. Photo: Alinari / Art Resource, N.Y.

49 Hans Holbein the Younger, The Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532. Oil on oak panel, 37 7/8 × 33¾ in. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Inv. 586. Photo: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, N.Y.

50 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Pope Leo × with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi, ca. 1517. Oil on panel, 603⁄8 × 46 7/8 in. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari / Art Resource, N.Y.

51 David Hockney,Twelve Portraits after Twelve Portraits after Ingres in a Uniform Style, 2000. Details of nine originals, in pencil, crayon, and gouache on gray paper, using a camera lucida, each original 221⁄8 × 15 in. Photos: Richard Schmidt: (top left) Ron Lillywhite, London, 17 December 1999; (top center) Devlin Crow, London, 11 January 2000; (top right) Pravin Patel, London, 5 January 2000; (center left) Jack Kettlewell, London, 13 December 1999; (center) Graham Eve, London, 7 January 2000; (center right) Ken Bradford, London, 20 December 1999; (bottom left) Maria Vasquez, London, 21 December 1999; (bottom center) Brain Wedlake, London, 10 January 2000; (bottom right) Fazila Jhungoor, London, 18 December 1999.

52 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portraits in a Uniform Style: (top left) Dr. Thomas Church (detail), 1816. Graphite on paper, 8 × 6¼ in. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; (top center) André-Benoit Barreau, called Taurel (detail), 1819. Graphite, 113⁄8 × 81⁄8 in. Collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, Paris; (top right) Charles Thomas Thruston, 1816. Graphite and watercolor, 8¼ × 63⁄8 in. Private collection; (center left) Jean-François-Antoine Forest, 1823. Graphite, 127⁄16 × 8¾ in. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; (center) Guillaume Guillon Lethière (detail), 1815. Graphite on paper, 10 5/8 × 8½ in. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; (center right) Portrait of a Man, possibly Edmé Bochet, 1814. Graphite on paper, 8 5/8 × 6½ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art; (bottom left) Portrait of Madame Adolphe Thiers, 1834. Graphite on paper, 129⁄16 × 97⁄16 in. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; (bottom center) Monsignor Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny (detail), before end of May 1816. Graphite and watercolor, 10 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. Private collection; (bottom right) Madame Louis-François Bertin, née Geneviève-Aimée-Victoire Boutard (detail), 1834. Graphite on paper, 12 5/8 × 9½ in. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

53 Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Husband and Wife, ca. 1543. Oil on canvas, 38 × 45½ in. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

54 Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Husband and Wife (detail), ca. 1543. Oil on canvas, 38 × 45½ in. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

55 Jan van Eyck, The Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami(?) (The Arnolfini Marriage), 1434. Oil on wood, 32¼ × 23½ in. The National Gallery, London.

56 Jan van Eyck, Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1431. Silverpoint with white chalk on paper, 83⁄8 × 71⁄8 in. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

57 Jan van Eyck, Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1432. Oil on wood, 133⁄8 × 10¾ in. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

58 Dirck Bouts, Last Supper, ca. 1466. Church of Saint Peter, Louvain, Belgium.

59 Andrea del Castagno, Last Supper, 1447–49. Wall fresco, 1783⁄8 × 383 7/8 in. Cenacolo di Sant’Apollonia, Florence.

60 Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors) (computer-manipulated detail), 1533. Oil on wood, 81½ × 82½ in. The National Gallery, London.

61 Alhazan, “Archimedes using burning mirrors to destroy the Roman fleet in Syracuse harbour,” from Opticae thesaurus, containing Vitellionis thurinopoloni opticae libri decem, edited by Federico Risner, Basel, 1572.

62 Georges de La Tour, The Fortune Teller, ca. 1630. Oil on canvas, 401⁄8 × 48½ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

63 Frans Hals,Young Man with a Skull (Vanitas), 1626–28. Oil on canvas, 36¼ × 31¾ in. The National Gallery, London.

64 Anthony van Dyck, A Genovese Noblewoman and Her Son, ca. 1626. Oil on canvas, 74½ × 55 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

65 Jean-Siméon Chardin, The Silver Tureen, ca. 1728. Oil on canvas, 30 × 42½ inches. Image courtesy of Art Renewal Center.

66 Jean-Siméon Chardin, Return from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), 1739. Oil on canvas, 18½ × 15 in. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

67 Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Trabuc, September 5–6, 1889. Oil on canvas, 24 × 181⁄8 in. Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Dübi-Müller-Stiftung, Switzerland. Photo: Swiss Institute for Art Research.

68 Christ Pantocrator, ca. 1150. Byzantine apse mosaic. Cefalù cathedral, Sicily.

69 David Hockney, large-scale painted environment with separate elements based on Hockney’s design for “Bedlam” from Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress, 1983. Ink on canvas, acrylic on plaster, wood, and cloth, 120 × 192 × 192 in.

70 Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Adoration of the Lamb, panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Oil on wood, 54¼ × 953⁄8 in. St. Bavo, Ghent.

71 William-Adolphe Bouguereau, La Vague, 1901. Oil on canvas, 47¾ × 63¼ in. Private collection.

72 Saucer dish, Ming dynasty, Tianqi period, ca. 1625. From the John W. Gruber Collection © China Institute in America, New York City.

73 Christen Købke, Parti af Østerbro i morgenbelysning, 1836. Pencil and ink on paper, 81⁄8 × 12 7/8 in. © Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Photograph by SMK Foto.

74 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Avenue, on the Left a Woman with Child, ca. 1654. Pen and brown ink, wash, 315⁄16 × 9¼ in. Benesch 1341. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, KdZ 5211. Photo: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, N.Y. Photo: Jörg P. Anders.

75 Wang Hui and Kangxi court artists,The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Seven (detail), 1698. © The Mactaggart Art Collection, University of Alberta Museums, Alberta Canada.

76 Johannes Vermeer, The Little Street, ca. 1658. Oil on canvas, 213⁄8 × 173⁄8 in. © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Image courtesy of Art Renewal Center.

77 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, A Child Being Taught to Walk, ca. 1660–62. Pen on bistre, 3 5/8 × 5 5/8 in. ©The Trustees of the British Museum.

78 David Hockney, Road and Farmhouse, East Yorkshire, July 2004, from Midsummer: East Yorkshire, 2004. A thirty-six-part watercolor work on paper, each sheet 15 × 22½ in.

79 Hockney’s painting, Road to Thwing, Early Spring, 2006, coming into being. Photos: David Hockney and Jean Pierre Goncalves.

80 David Hockney and friends looking at Bigger Trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le motif pour le nouvel âge post-photographique, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007 summer exhibition. Photo: David Hockney and Richard Schmidt © David Hockney.

81 David Hockney, Trees near Thinxendale (August), 2007.

82 David Hockney,Trees near Thinxendale (December), 2007.