The Swimming Pool Painting Bilbao Museum

One swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.

The swimming pool painting bilbao museum.

Untitled guggenheim museum bilbao 2015. 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. Swimming pool artist david hockney has since returned to his native uk where the tate britain is presenting a best of exhibition spanning six. California was his muse and helped make him famous.

Hockney s own personal sales records are tied to pool related works. A similar work untitled was installed at the guggenheim museum. 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. In november 2018 it sold for us 90 3 million the highest price ever paid at auction for a.

There are few motifs more closely associated with hockney than the california swimming pool. Hockney first visited los angeles in 1963 a year after graduating from the royal college of art london. Yves klein s blue swimming pool from 1957 to now. 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.

Gouache on paper cut and pasted on painted paper overall 73 x 647 185 4 x 1653 3 cm. 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. Installed as nine panels in two parts on burlap covered walls 136 345 4 cm high. The swimming pool there is no piece of artwork by this name at the guggenheim bilbao.

He returned there in 1964 and remained with only intermittent trips to europe until 1968 when he came back to london. The title the swimming pool is one of a series of references to protagonist s swimming routine throughout the robert langdon series. 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. 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.

Maquette for ceramic realized 1999 and 2005. However yves klein has created numerous pieces of art in the color international klein blue. The museum of modern art new york.