His Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at auction in New York for a record £70 million

Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.

Hockney's “Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures)” broke the record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction by a living artist.

Artist David Hockney has died at 88