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David Hockney: Drawing from Life

November 2, 2023 - January 21, 2024

David Hockney Drawing from Life

David Hockney: Drawing from Life, which was staged for just 20 days before the National Portrait Gallery’s closure due to the Covid pandemic in March 2020 returns this November.

Read Mark Bibby Jackson’s review of the 2020 exhibition here.

The new exhibition will debut new portraits, depicting friends and visitors to the artist’s studio between 2020 and 2022, not seen in the original exhibition.

Celia, Carennac, August 1971 by David Hockney, Colored pencil on paper © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt, Collection The David Hockney Foundation
Celia, Carennac, August 1971 by David Hockney, Colored pencil on paper © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt, Collection The David Hockney Foundation

When Is It?

From 2 November 2023 – 21 January 2024

Where Is It?

National Portrait Gallery, London.

Further Information

To discover more about the exhibition, click here.

Main image: Vivien Leigh by Yevonde (1936, printed 2022-3), purchased with the Portrait Fund, 2021 © National Portrait Gallery, London.


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November 2, 2023
End:
January 21
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Venue

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place,
London,WC2H 0HEUnited Kingdom+ Google Map
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Mark Bibby Jackson

Before setting up Travel Begins at 40 and subsequently London Begins at 40, Mark was the publisher of AsiaLIFE Cambodia and a freelance lifestyle and travel writer. When he is not packing and unpacking his travelling bag, Mark writes novels, including To Cook A Spider, Peppered Justice and Unravelling the Web. He loves walking, eating, beer, isolation and arthouse movies, as well as talking to strangers on planes, buses and trains. He is cursed to come from a family of Leyton Orient fans.
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