The art world honours David Hockney, ‘who flew the flag higher than any other British artist’

British artist David Hockney died at home on 11 June aged 88, prompting tributes from artists, curators, and museum leaders highlighting his influence across media. Tracey Emin called him a “great artist and a wonderful man” who changed perceptions of Britishness, while Edmund de Waal cited Hockney’s 20 mixed-intaglio colour etchings from 1976 that riff on Picasso’s The Old Guitarist (1903) and Wallace Stevens’ poem The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937). Artists quoted by The Guardian included Marlene Dumas, who recalled Hockney’s late-1960s etchings inspired by CP Cavafy, and Mark Wallinger, who said Hockney was “the best draughtsman since Picasso.” Institutions including the V&A and The Courtauld noted his experimentation from photo collages and perspective studies to iPad works and stage design, and Arts Council England chair Nicholas Serota cited nearly a million visitors to Hockney’s Paris exhibition last year at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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