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Located in a former priory, the Granet Museum, a veritable institution of the city of Aix en Provence, displays a magnificent retrospective devoted to David Hockney in partnership with the Tate Gallery.
The great British artist, who has lived in Normandy since 2019, presents here the progression of his work from the end of the 1950s to his most recent creations. His works are showcased in a space of more than 700 meters square which houses the vast London collection and some loans from private collections, for a total of 103 works.
These six decades testify to his immense talent, from his first drawings imbued with the teachings of the great masters of the 19th and 20th centuries to his infinite admiration for Cézanne and Van Gogh, from his passion for Norman landscapes in acid colors to the representation of swimming pools following his stay on the west coast of the United States.
Born in Bradford in the United Kingdom in 1937, he studied at the Bradford School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He was interested in different artistic techniques, acrylic painting, engraving, drawing, photography, digital works and collages.
The exhibition follows a chronological order and illustrates the artist’s various sources of inspiration as well as his obsession with representations of perspective.
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