Then a light clicked on for Ben-and a consuming passion for learning that catapulted him from 'zero' test grades to a Yale scholarship, a pioneering role in modern medicine, and an influence that has extended from inner-city schools to corporate boardrooms and Washington corridors of power. Such is his reputation among collectors that it is expected to fetch between $9m and $12m (£7.2m-£9.7m), which would break his auction record.In his grade school days, Ben Carson would hardly have been voted 'most likely to become a famous surgeon.' His classmates had already given him another label: class dummy.
The picture was included in the Royal Academy’s 2012 blockbuster exhibition of landscapes inspired by the artist’s native Yorkshire, which drew more than 600,000 visitors. On 17 November, Sotheby’s New York will auction one of his enormous paintings – titled Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006. It is organised with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The book’s publication comes ahead of his major retrospective at Tate Britain next February, in advance of his 80th birthday.
Interest in Hockney is as strong as ever. It’s the first time having a book in a size which is more like a painting, instead of a small reproduction.”
“When he started this process, it was relatively clear to him that this would be an … exhibition which will be seen all the time. “We did 19 dummies until the big one,” he said. He recalled the artist’s excitement at seeing the first dummy edition in January: “It’s the view you get when you go on the balcony and look out,” Holzwarth said. The book’s editor, Hans Werner Holzwarth, said that the composition – one of two new paintings of the same subject – is flooded with Hockney’s trademark palette of bright colours, particularly a brilliant blue. “Garden with Blue Terrace” 2015 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 72” Photograph: Richard Schmidt © David Hockney It also features works that have not been published before, such as his most recent painting – a vibrant view of his Los Angeles balcony, titled Garden with Blue Terrace. The selection includes some of his most-renowned paintings – notably A Bigger Grand Canyon, a vast, sprawling landscape, and A Bigger Splash, in which he captured the exquisite sparkle of a turquoise pool under the intense light of the California sky. There are also drawings, photocomposites, multiperspective collages, stage designs and multi-camera video works, reflecting his endless passion for experimentation.
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It includes his breakthrough in 1960s swinging London, his life by Los Angeles pools in the 1970s, his recent series of portraits, iPad drawings and Yorkshire landscapes. The book begins in 1953, when Hockney, then 16, was studying at Bradford School of Art. I am very pleased.” When everything is all packed up in its box, it needs two to three people to carry it. Hockney said: “I think both books sum up 62 years of work very well. It also comes with a companion volume of some 1,000 images, including many unseen drawings and photographs of the artist.
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It weighs 35kg, plus 15 more for the bookstand, designed by Marc Newson, with brushed aluminium legs coated in anodised red, yellow and blue – favourite Hockney colours – and an acrylic platform for holding the book. When the volume is open and its spreads are folded out, it spans 200cm x 70cm. It is a limited edition of 10,000, each numbered and signed by the artist, and with its own stand. Hockney will travel to Germany to attend the official launch and unveiling at the Frankfurt book fair on 18 October.Īt a cost of £1,750, it is not cheap, but then this is not your average art book. The book is a collaboration with publisher Benedikt Taschen, founder of Taschen Books. “You look at it in a different way simply because the reproductions are so much bigger,” he said. He sees David Hockney: A Bigger Book as an “exhibition” that can be viewed at any time. David Hockney: A Bigger Book Photograph: Taschen
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