David Hockney
1 portrait of David Hockney
© The Lewinski Archive at Chatsworth / Bridgeman Images
David Hockney
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print, 1968
14 7/8 in. x 11 1/2 in. (377 mm x 291 mm)
Purchased, 1970
Photographs Collection
NPG x13726
Sitterback to top
- David Hockney (1937-), Artist. Sitter in 49 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski (1921-2008), Photographer. Artist or producer of 104 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
Taken in Hockney's studio in North Kensington; the painting in the background is A Neat Lawn, 1967.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 285 Read entry
Already famous before he left the Royal College of Art, London, in 1961, Hockney has acquired an international celebrity which tends to obscure his achievement. He is nevertheless one of the most accomplished and continuously inventive of contemporary artists, whether working as a painter, printmaker, photographer or theatre designer (for instance, his highly original designs for The Rake’s Progress for Glyndebourne). His line-drawings, classically composed portraits, and mesmeric swimming-pool paintings, are readily approachable, and have spawned many imitators, but his language remains entirely personal.
Jorge Lewinski was born in Poland, and came to Britain in 1942. He turned professional photographer in 1967, making a speciality of portraits of artists in their habitats, and studies of landscape. He is married to the photographer Mayotte Magnus. He portrays Hockney seated in front of his A Neat Lawn (1967; private collection, West Germany), in a composition of Hockneyesque neatness, the artist playfully juxtaposed with a lawn sprinkler. It is a disarming image of a disarming personality, which, like Hockney’s paintings, dares the spectator to search below the carefully ordered surface.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (sitter's studio, North Kensington, London)
Events of 1968back to top
Current affairs
Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech in Birmingham in opposition to anti-discrimination legislation and immigration from the commonwealth. The speech is usually regarded as racist and blamed for stirring up racial prejudice. Powell was sacked from the shadow cabinet as a result, but received considerable public approval at the time for his views.Fay Sislin becomes England first black woman police officer.
Art and science
Beaton Portraits is the first ever photographic exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Under the directorship of Roy Strong, the exhibition introduced a new, theatrical approach to display, and was so popular that the national press reported on the length of queues to get in and it had to be extended twice.International
Civil unrest escalates in France as student protesters, joined by striking workers, clash with the police. The events came to represent the conflict between the new, liberalised, left-wing generation and the forces of authority and conservatism. French protests were mirrored by others abroad including the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, where political liberalisation was achieved for a few months before the country was invaded by the Soviet Union.Comments back to top
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