Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Frontrunning The Tate Britain's Hockney Show

That's the headline at Art Market Monitor:

Tate Britain Announces Huge Hockney Retrospective, Let the Anticipatory Buying Begin!
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Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures), 1972
Just two weeks ago, Francis Outred declared to Colin Gleadell about David Hockney’s Umbrella selling for £3.1m, “This price will look cheap before too long.” Now we know why Outred could be so confident of the continuing arc of Hockney’s prices upward.
The Tate Britain has announced a major retrospective of the artist’s work in time for his 80th birthday. Here’s the Guardian on the announcement:
Hockney said he had enjoyed revisiting works he made decades ago. “Many of them seem like old friends to me now. “We’re looking over a lifetime with this exhibition, and I hope, like me, people will enjoy seeing how the roots of my new and recent work can be seen in the developments over the years.”...MORE