Most beautiful works we have ever known !

A Bigger Splash, 1967
Without doubt his most iconic work. Hockney delivers here an ideal vision of California in the late 1960s. The image is inspired by an advertisement seen in a magazine dedicated to swimming pools... Of great geometric rigor, that only the splash comes to disturb, the image borders on abstraction. The yellow diving board in the foreground, however, gives the idea of depth. The painting is bordered by a clear frame in the manner of a Polaroid, which the artist began to use at that time.
ortrait of an Artist (Pool with Two People), 1972
Hockney painted this deeply sentimental picture shortly before his breakup with Peter Schlesinger. The latter is watching a young man swimming: the artist gives his lover the place he usually reserves for himself. The work was born of two photographs taken by Hockney, one of a swimmer in a pool, the other of Peter, motionless, staring at the ground. After a first version in 1971, which he abandoned, he returned to his subject after a new series of photographs taken by the director Tony Richardson during a stay in France, which allowed him to find a solution to his problem of perspective.