David Hockney Prints

Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, being an important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Hockney famously turned down a knighthood.

David Hockney (1937 - ) has a prize-winning career as a student at the Royal College of Art where he met in the 1960's artists such as R.B. Kitaj, Peter Philips and Patrick Caulfield, who were to become stars of the British Pop Art Scene.

By his mid-20s, Hockney had already become one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Bristish artists and at only 26 had his first one-man show. In 1967 was awarded first prize in the John Moores Exhibition.

Hockney is a famed graphic artist with his famous portfolios including illustrations to Cavafy's Poems (1967) and Six Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1969). Photography was Hockney's main focus in the 1980s, with his experimentation of complex, Cubist-like photomontages.