I love to visit the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra. As well as holding Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon, this work is also in its collection. It's one of my favourites.
A diver, paper pool 17 (1978), made of twelve abutted sheets of handcoloured pressed paper pulp.
They also have this colour lithograph - An Afternoon Swim (1980) - printed from eight aluminium plates:
Sun On The Pool, 1982 composite polaroid, 34 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. I couldn't find who owns it or where it is located.
Robert Littman Floating In My Pool, 1982 photographic collage, 22 1/2 x 30 in.
A Bigger Splash, 1967acrylic on canvas, 96x96 in.
Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool, 1964acrylic on canvas, 36x48 in.
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), 1972 acrylic on canvas, 84x120 in. According to Wikipedia, on 15 November 2018, in nine minutes of bidding, it was sold to an unknown buyer for $90.3 million at Christie's auction house in New York City, setting an auction record for a living artist. It has been in private ownership since it was first sold, but has been shown in various exhibitions.
I bought this postcard of Swimming Pool Fire Island, a 1978 postcard.
and I bought a print of his poster for the 1972 Munich Olympics:
Here's a terrific article about Hockney's pool paintings, by Matthew Sperling in Apollo The International Art Magazine (4 Feb 2017). 'The Pull of Hockney's pool paintings'
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