CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/13/2023

The unmistakable portraiture of David Hockney

At last we are able to feature David Hockney’s much talked-about portrait of Harry Styles, made while the pop star was visiting the Pop artist’s remote, seventeenth-century cottage in northern France in the spring of 2022. It’s reproduced from David Hockney: Normandy Portraits, published to accompany the exhibition—which also comes with a previously published catalog, David Hockney: Drawing from Life—on view now at National Portrait Gallery, London, through January 21, 2024. Combined, the two books feature the artist’s most important and iconic sitters, from his partner Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima to his longtime muse Celia Birtwell, to his mother, Laura Hockney, and others equally close or, like Styles, equally spectacular. A number of superb self-portraits round the books out.