The Wick List

Viewing David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery

The Wick Culture - Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

Above Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

The Wick Culture - Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

Above Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

The Wick Culture - Lucie-Lune Lambouley and Louis-Martin Lambouley (2022). David Hockney. Copyright © David Hockney, 2022

Above Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

Above Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

David Hockney: Drawing From Life
National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin’s Place

2 November 2023 – 21 January 2024

David Hockney’s “Drawing From Life” ran for just 20 days at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 before it was cut short due to the pandemic. Don’t miss the next iteration, bolstered by over 30 new portraits of the friends and visitors to his Normandy studio between 2021 to 2022. Even Harry Styles is rendered in Hockney’s deceptively simple, yet confident hand, sporting a striped cardigan and pearls.

Among the original sitters were his mother, Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself, all drawn with a rare intimacy and familiarity. This is Hockney the draughtsman at his very best.