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Facts

Born July 9, 1937 • Bradford • England
Died June 11, 2026 (aged 88) • London • England
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (1989)

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David Hockney
David Hockney stands in front of his long, colorful landscape painting A Year in Normandy at the Orangerie museum in Paris, wearing a plaid suit and flat cap.
A man stands in a gallery looking at David Hockney's painting A Bigger Splash, which shows a splash in a bright blue swimming pool in front of a modern house with palm trees.
Visitors in a gallery view three David Hockney paintings-Looking At Pictures On A Screen, My Parents, and Mount Fuji and Flowers-displayed on gray walls with wooden floors.
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