The Royal Academy of Arts in London has just announced un upcoming exhibition featuring portraits by David Hockney. Slated to open next year, the show will include over 70 portraits the artist has been steadily producing over the past 2 years.
None of the portraits were commissioned, so each sitter had little idea that Hockney would ask to paint them. Each person was asked to sit for three days, in the same chair, in front of the same blue curtain. All the works are painted in acrylic and on the same size canvas of 48in x 36in (122cm x 91cm).
Read more via the Guardian online.
Click here to see images from David Hockney’s recent L.A. Louver exhibition, that included a number of his portrait paintings.
IMAGES: (left to right) Oona Zlamany, 22-23 July, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm); Ray Charles White, 12-16 February, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)