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David Hockney 'Nichols Canyon' | New York | December 2020

From his swimming pools of 1960s to the California landscape of the 1980s, the L.A. lifestyle and landscape is one of Hockney’s dearest and most iconic subjects, and 'Nichols Canyon' marked the beginning of his renowned body of richly-painted panoramas of the city most dear to him. Depicting his daily drive from home to studio, and encompassing a wide range of influences from Henri Matisse to Chinese landscape painting, this stunning large-scale work captures Hockney at the full height of his power. Phillips is proud to present this work, the most significant landscape by Hockney to ever appear at auction, as the star lot in our 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 7 December.

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