David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

British artist David Hockney died at home on Thursday aged 88, having become one of the world’s most famous artists through a wide-ranging practice that drew on sources from 15th-century Delft optics to the Apple iPad Pro. Born in Bradford in 1937, he studied at the Bradford School of Art and enrolled at the Royal College of Art in September 1959, gaining early prominence via the Young Contemporaries exhibition in 1961. He came out as gay while at the RCA and made early landmark works such as We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), while later achieving major institutional recognition including David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, featuring more than 400 works spanning from 1955 onward.

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