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Lot Essay
The swimming pool is David Hockney's icon. House, Palm and Pool depicts the luxurious setting of the pool at his home. The bright colors and the outdoor subject epitomize the West Coast lifestyle. In 1964, Hockney arrived in Los Angeles in hopes of fulfilling a long-standing ambition of having a sun-drenched swimming pool outside his home. Antithetical to everything Hockney had known in England, the swimming pool is a metaphor for the "the glamorous life." The subject, always lovingly executed, has never lost its luster for the artist.
House, Palm and Pool is a shining example of Hockney's romance with the California landscape and sophisticated modernism. While investigating the work of his forebears including Henri Matisse, Hockney has created his own pared down formal language of sinuous lines, shadows and luminous colors. In House, Palm and Pool, Hockney coaxes intense impact from swaths of pure color and economy of form. A seminal Hockney subject, House, Palm and Pool is a love letter to California living.
House, Palm and Pool is a shining example of Hockney's romance with the California landscape and sophisticated modernism. While investigating the work of his forebears including Henri Matisse, Hockney has created his own pared down formal language of sinuous lines, shadows and luminous colors. In House, Palm and Pool, Hockney coaxes intense impact from swaths of pure color and economy of form. A seminal Hockney subject, House, Palm and Pool is a love letter to California living.