David Hockney's $90.3-million pool painting obliterates auction record for work by a living artist

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David Hockney’s 1972 painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” has sold for just over $90 million, an auction sale record for a living artist.

 

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And everyday we are reminded that obscene wealth not seen since the days of ancient Egypt is flaunted and spent on ornaments whilst society decays and the rich build their walls higher. Like the Romanovs they will not see the reckoning till it is upon them.

The painting seems, at first, like the perfect Los Angeles moment: a sun-swept afternoon of leisure at a hillside home. It's also indicative of a turn in the artist’s career, as he began painting his iconic swimming pool landscapes when he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-’60s.

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