Presented in partnership with Celine, London’s Contemporary Evening Auction offers a vibrant masterpiece by David Hockney.
Executed at a critical moment in the development of David Hockney’s remarkable career, L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime of 1968 is a work of pivotal significance that brilliantly embodies the artist’s masterful synthesis of photography, painting, and drawing. The present work is an impressively scaled example of Hockney’s celebrated series of pictures inspired by the South of France, exquisitely rendering the landscape and architecture of the French Riviera in brilliant colour. Directly following his sun-drenched Californian swimming pools and preceding his meticulously rendered double portraits, the burgeoning naturalism of the present work heralds a new direction in Hockney’s practice that would bring forth some of the most iconic and acclaimed masterworks of his career.
The auction takes place at Sotheby’s London on 9 October 2024.
