David Hockney

Hockney has maintained residences and studios in Bridlington and London, along with two properties in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964—one in the Hollywood Hills and another in Malibu. He also operates an office and stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.

On November 15, 2018, Hockney’s 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) achieved a historic sale at Christie’s auction house in New York City, fetching $90 million (£70 million) and becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist ever sold at auction. This sale surpassed the previous record held by Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange), which sold for $58.4 million in 2013. Hockney retained this record until May 15, 2019, when Koons reclaimed the title with the sale of Rabbit for over $91 million at Christie’s in New York.