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David Hockney
1937-2026 · Pop art, Figurative painting
The club deal
- Status
- Fundraising open
- Minimum per member
- USD 100,000 (US residents: USD 200,000 individuals, USD 1,000,000 entities)
- Fundraising target
- 5,000,000 USD
- Selection window
- 12 months, with return of the capital if no suitable work is found
- Vehicle
- a dedicated SPV for this artist
- Expected exit
- between 3 and 7 years, through auction or private sale
How the club deal for each artist works · Costs
If no suitable work is found within 12 months, the capital paid in is returned.
Price range of the works the club looks for
from 2,000,000 to 45,000,000 USD (2-45 million for major paintings, up to 90 million for masterpieces of the 1960s-1970s; prints and iPad works 20,000-2.5 million)
Market liquidity: high
Biography
David Hockney, born in Bradford, emerged from the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s as a leading figure of British Pop. Moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he painted swimming pools, sunlit houses and double portraits such as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, and Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, which made him one of the most popular living painters. Later he explored photographic joiners, opera design, vast Yorkshire landscapes and iPad drawings made in Normandy. He died in London in June 2026, aged 88. His market is very deep, from prints and iPad editions to museum-level canvases, and Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) set his record at 90.3 million dollars in 2018.
Auction record
90,312,500 USD: Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972, Christie's, New York, 2018-11-15 (source)
Recent auction results
- 44,340,000 USD: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (1968), Christie's, New York (source)
- 4,640,000 USD: Dog Painting 17 (1995), Christie's, Londra (source)
- 3,740,000 USD: Henry Reading (1985), Sotheby's (source)
- 3,190,000 USD: The Only One with Waves (1991), Phillips (source)
- 2,570,000 USD: English Garden (1965), Sotheby's, Londra (source)
- 2,550,000 USD: 10th-22nd June 2021, Water Lilies in the Pond with Pots of Flowers, (source)
Market data: public auction results with date, auction house and source, the same data as Unicorn Art Watch.
Museums
- Tate Britain, Londra
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Centre Pompidou, Parigi
- Salts Mill (1853 Gallery), Saltaire
Sources
Prices and news on Unicorn Art Watch · Guides on investing in art on Unicorn Private Research
Risk: Investing involves the risk of losing capital.