He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David Hockney, who has died aged 88, lived and painted the truth

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

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

Artist David Hockney has died at 88

Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died

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His publicist, Erica Bolton, says he died on Thursday, a few weeks short of his 89th birthday.

British painter David Hockney, whose vibrant portraits and sun-drenched depictions of the everyday made him one of contemporary art’s most beloved figures, has died.

He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David…

He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David…

Considered a superstar of pop art, the UK painter was one of the world's most influential artists during his lifetime.

British artist David Hockney's paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, from carefree 1960s California to the bucolic landscapes of his native Yorkshire.

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Capturing the azure swimming pools and lithe, tanned bodies of LA to the Yorkshire fields of his youth, Hockney was one of the most prolific and revered artists of his generation

David Hockney, one of the most influential contemporary British artists of the 20th and 21s centuries, has passed away

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One of the most influential figures of the art world, Hockney was famous for works such as “A Bigger Splash,” depicting modernist architecture and a glinting swimming pool in Los…

Celebrated Northerner's work spanned swimming pools of California to English landscapes

The British artist, whose brightly coloured renditions of California made him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on Thursday.

British artist David Hockney, whose paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art, dies aged 88.

British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88, his…