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Each month, weâre spotlighting an artist we loveâand whose work is currently live for bidding on [Artnet Auctions](. This month: David Hockney.
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David Hockney
Eine (Part 1), 1991
Est. $6,000â8,000
David Hockney
Celia with Green Hat, 1984
Est. $20,000â30,000
"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."
â David Hockney
1 Born in 1937 in Bradford, England, he was the fourth of five children.
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Hockney attended the Royal College of Art, but almost did not graduate over a disagreement about the number of life paintings required to receive
a degree.
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Heâs always been an art world darling. In 1963, the year after he graduated from the RCA, his first solo show at Kasmin Gallery in London sold out.
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He has a habit of turning down the crown. In 1990, he refused the offer of a knighthood, and in recent years, turned down a chance to paint the queen.
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He did, however, accept the prestigious Order of Merit from Queen
Elizabeth II in 2012, but he also once said he has technically lived in California for longer than he has lived in the UK.
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His iPad paintings have swept galleries and museums alike since he started creating them in 2010, making him one of the only artists of his generation to embrace tech to the extreme.
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In the 1970s, he once [lent his car to Artnet founder Hans Neuendorf]( so Hans could take his U.S. driver's license exam!
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