"It is a seminal painting. It really lays the foundations for everything that was to come after. The painting has gone on display at the auction house's central London galleries before its sale on 4 March, with an estimate of 2.5m-3.5m."
"Here I am surrounded by these beautiful Rocky mountains, he told his biographer. I go into the studio no window! And all I need is a couple of little windows. Looking for inspiration, he came across a photograph in American Vogue by Horst P Horst of a sculptured topiary garden at Haseley Court, Oxfordshire."
"You have a pang of nostalgia, maybe a bit of homesickness, looking back at England's green and pleasant lands I think that spurred him on to paint home. English Garden is Hockney's first fully realised English landscape and was painted at a time when abstract art, not figurative, was the dominant force."
David Hockney's 1965 painting English Garden is being displayed publicly for the first time in thirty years before its auction at Sotheby's with an estimated value of 2.5m-3.5m. Painted while Hockney was teaching at the University of Boulder, Colorado, the work emerged from his homesickness and nostalgia for England. Inspired by a photograph in American Vogue of a sculptured topiary garden at Haseley Court in Oxfordshire, the painting represents Hockney's first fully realized English landscape. Created during a period when abstract art dominated, English Garden proved pivotal in establishing the foundations of Hockney's artistic practice and remains significant in art history, demonstrating his distinctive approach to figurative landscape painting.
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