Hockney was a globally celebrated painter who helped lead the Pop art movement in the 1960s, spent time in California, and defiantly refused to give up smoking.

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

David Hockney, one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of modern times, has died aged 88.

Artist David Hockney has died at 88

The British artist David Hockney has died aged 88.

Fu uno degli esponenti più noti della pop art: aveva 88 anni

Hockney "passed away peacefully at home on 11 June," just one month before his 89th birthday, his publicist has said.