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Michael Childers, born 1944, American, David Hockney with Bora Bora Sunglasses, 1978
- Title:
David Hockney with Bora Bora Sunglasses
- Date:
- 1978
- Medium:
- Inkjet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm), Image: 19 × 12 5/8 inches (48.3 × 32.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in black ink, center: "inkjet | David Hockney - 'Bora Bora' | Los Angeles | 1978"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2016.38.46
- Classification:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Associated People:
- Hockney, David (born 1937), English painter, printmaker, and photographer
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:73343
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In 1978, Michael Childers persuaded a skeptical David Hockney, then wearing a brand-new linen suit, to sit in a dinghy in the photographer’s pool in the Hollywood Hills. The resulting images were inspired by the French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue’s (1894–1986) images of his brother, Maurice “Zissou” Lartigue. Hockney had that year decided to make Los Angeles his permanent home and had been working with Peter Schlesinger on a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Britain. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
In 1978, Michael Childers persuaded a skeptical David Hockney, then wearing a brand-new linen suit, to sit in a dinghy in the photographer’s pool in the Hollywood Hills. The resulting images were inspired by the French photographer Jean-Henry Lartigue’s (1894–1986) images of his brother, Maurice “Zissou” Lartigue. Hockney had that year decided to make Los Angeles his permanent home and had been working with Peter Schlesinger on a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Britain. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
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