Patrons events
Patrons: David Hockney Opening Reception
Tuesday 28 June 2016 6.30 - 8.30pm
The Sackler Wing, Burlington House, The Royal Academy of Arts
Free, but please RSVP. Patrons only.
David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life
Celebrate the formal opening of the exhibition with the President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
After his monumental landscape exhibition burst to life in our Main Galleries in 2012, David Hockney turned away from painting and from his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Slowly he began to return to the quiet contemplation of portraiture, beginning with a depiction of his studio manager. Over the months that followed, he became absorbed by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.