David Hockney, After Blake: Less is Known Than People Think (2024)

This Hockney/Blake/Dante composition will form part of a huge retrospective of David Hockney’s work, Hockney 25, at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris.    –Contributor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

“Hockney needed help from his assistants in the studio as he created three new works that close out the show: a 2024 self-portrait of the artist in his London garden; and After Blake (2024) and After Munch (2023), two ambiguous scenes inspired by part of a headline he once saw in The New York Times: ‘Less Is Known Than People Think.’

“’These last paintings are very much about being at the end of life,’ said Rosenthal, the curator.”    –Eleanor Stanford, The New York Times, April 3, 2025

Contributed by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin