David Hockney: Drawing from Life
Interesting exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of portrait drawings by David Hockney.
It was a rerun of a show which was closed by Covid which I had managed to go to so check out my original review. When I now look at how much I was out and about in London on the run up to lockdown I amazed I didn’t catch the lurgy.
This show was very similar, focusing on three friends plus his mother and self-portraits with an added section of portraits he did coming out of lockdown in his Normandy studio. There was a lovely sense the joy of being with people again but, from a couple where you know what the person looks like, I’m not sure they are particularly good portraits.
Closed 21 January 2024
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