The Swimming Pool Painting Bilbao Museum

1957 recreated in 2018 installation view museum of old and new art.

The swimming pool painting bilbao museum.

Swimming pool artist david hockney has since returned to his native uk where the tate britain is presenting a best of exhibition spanning six. Gouache on paper cut and pasted on painted paper overall 73 x 647 185 4 x 1653 3 cm. Installed as nine panels in two parts on burlap covered walls 136 345 4 cm high. This painting depicts a splash in a californian swimming pool.

A similar work untitled was installed at the guggenheim museum. Frieze installed at a height of 65 165 cm. The title the swimming pool is one of a series of references to protagonist s swimming routine throughout the robert langdon series. California was his muse and helped make him famous.

The swimming pool there is no piece of artwork by this name at the guggenheim bilbao. However yves klein has created numerous pieces of art in the color international klein blue. The aforementioned portrait of an artist is his most expensive painting while piscine de medianoche paper pool 30 1972 remains his priciest work on paper having earned 11 7 million at sotheby s new. The museum of modern art new york.

Nine discourses on commodus by cy twombly guggenheim museum bilbao the matter of time by richard serra built between 1994 and 2005 these set of eight sculptures by richard serra are made from weathered steel and showcase the evolution of the artist s sculptural forms. Hockney s own personal sales records are tied to pool related works. Yves klein s blue swimming pool from 1957 to now. Once inside the hall visitors access the atrium the real heart of the museum and one of the signature traits of frank gehry s architectural design.

In november 2018 it sold for us 90 3 million the highest price ever paid at auction for a. Portrait of an artist pool with two figures is a large acrylic on canvas pop art painting by british artist david hockney completed in may 1972 it measures 7 ft 10 ft 2 1 m 3 0 m and depicts two figures. Hockney first visited los angeles in 1963 a year after graduating from the royal college of art london. There are few motifs more closely associated with hockney than the california swimming pool.

The pool painting 3 metres wide was an unquestionable standout at tate britain s hockney retrospective last year and was then displayed at the centre pompidou in paris and the metropolitan. One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer. With curved volumes and large glass curtain walls that connect the inside and the outside the atrium is an ample space flooded with light and covered by a great skylight.