In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- David Hockney born 1937
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 512 × 435 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1993
- Reference
- P20119
Summary
This is one of many portraits Hockney has made of his mother, Laura, since his early days at Bradford School of Art. His best-known representation of his parents is perhaps the large double portrait My Parents, 1977 (Tate Gallery T03255). Mrs Hockney was a more willing sitter than her husband, and the artist portrays her with great psychological insight. She was widowed in 1978.
Further reading:
Marco Livingstone, David Hockney: Faces 1966-1984, exhibition catalogue, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles 1987,
[n.p.]
Terry Riggs
November 1997
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