2026-06-12T06:58:02-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
英国艺术家大卫·霍克尼的公关团队周五宣布，这位被视为当代艺术最具影响力和标志性人物之一、以绚丽色彩描绘世界的画家，享年88岁，已与世长辞。
博尔顿与奎因公关公司在一份发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中，将霍克尼称为“20世纪和21世纪当代艺术最重要的人物之一”，并证实他于周四“在伦敦的家中平静离世”。他将于下月迎来89岁生日。
声明补充道：“他长达70年的职业生涯和多产的作品，以图像创作的多媒体手法、对描绘与透视本质的知性探索，以及始终如一颂扬和描绘周遭世界的热忱为特色。”
声明提到，霍克尼身后留下了长期伴侣兼爱人让-皮埃尔·贡萨尔维斯·德·利马、两位兄弟，以及“众多侄女、侄子、侄孙女和侄孙子”。
2025年4月7日，在法国巴黎路易威登基金会举办的“你还记得他们无法抹杀春天——大卫·霍克尼25”展览期间，英国艺术家大卫·霍克尼在自己的作品前留影。吕克·卡斯特尔/盖蒂图片社
作为20世纪60年代波普艺术运动的核心艺术家之一，霍克尼作为画家和素描大师享誉全球，直至去世前仍坚持创作、实验和展出其广受好评的作品。
伦敦蛇形画廊目前正在举办他在该馆的首次个展，该展览由艺术家本人密切协作策划，展出了他的新作。
伦敦泰特美术馆和奥斯陆蒙克博物馆的未来展览计划正在筹备中。
霍克尼在全球范围内广受赞誉：1997年，英国授予他名誉勋位；2026年，他成为极少数获得法国 prestigious 荣誉军团军官勋章的非法国公民之一。
霍克尼1937年出生于英格兰北部的西约克郡，先后在家乡布拉德福德艺术学校和伦敦皇家艺术学院学习，并以金牌奖章的优异成绩毕业。
他很快便崭露头角，成为新一代英国艺术家中的开创性人才，创作题材涵盖1964年迁居的无忧无虑的60年代加州，以及故乡约克郡的田园风光。
2023年6月12日，在伦敦泰特现代美术馆新展开幕的“捕捉瞬间”展览的拍照环节中，一名观众观赏大卫·霍克尼的作品《艺术家肖像（泳池与两个人物）》（1972年）。贝琳达·焦/PA图片社/盖蒂图片社
2018年，他的标志性泳池画作《艺术家肖像（泳池与两个人物）》在纽约以9030万美元的价格成交，创下在世艺术家作品拍卖的新纪录。一年后，这一纪录被杰夫·昆斯的《兔子》打破。
他的公关团队的声明指出，霍克尼始终保留着约克郡口音，同时也是一位终身坚定的吸烟者，称赞吸烟给他的生活带来了乐趣。
声明称：“他直到临终前都一直在吸烟。”
David Hockney, renowned U.K. artist and Pop art movement leader, dies at 88
2026-06-12T06:58:02-0400 / CBS/AFP
British artist David Hockney, considered one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant color, has died aged 88, his publicist announced Friday.
Describing Hockney as “one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries,” the Bolton & Quinn public relations firm confirmed to CBS News in a statement that he had “passed away peacefully at home” in London on Thursday. He would have marked his 89th birthday next month.
“His seven-decade career and prolific oeuvre was characterized by his multi-media approach in image making, an intellectual inquiry into the nature of depiction and perspective, and a sustained commitment to celebrating and portraying the world around him,” the agency’s statement added.
It noted that Hockney is survived by his long-time partner and companion Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima, two brothers and “numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.”
British Artist David Hockney poses in front of his work during the “Do You Remember They Can’t Cancel The Spring – David Hockney 25” Exhibition at Louis Vuitton Foundation, April 7, 2025, in Paris, France. Luc Castel/Getty
One of the leading artists involved in the Pop art movement in the 1960s, Hockney was globally renowned as a painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting his acclaimed work right up until his death.
London’s Serpentine Gallery is currently holding his first exhibition there, which was conceived in close collaboration with the artist and showcases new paintings by him.
Future exhibitions at Tate, London, and the Munch Museum in Oslo were in development.
Hockney was lauded globally, with Britain bestowing the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1997, while in 2026, he became one of the few non-French citizens to be awarded the rank of Officier in France’s prestigious Legion d’Honneur.
Born in 1937 in West Yorkshire, northern England, Hockney trained at the Bradford School of Art in his hometown and then at London’s Royal College, from which he graduated with a Gold Medal distinction.
He would soon emerge as one of the seminal talents in the new generation of British artists, capturing everything from carefree 1960s California — where he moved in 1964 — to the bucolic landscapes of his native Yorkshire.
A person looks at David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972, during a photo call for London’s Tate Modern’s new Capturing the Moment exhibition, June 12, 2023. Belinda Jiao/PA Images/Getty
In 2018, his iconic swimming pool picture, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold for $90.3 million in New York, setting a new auction record for a living artist. He was unseated by Jeff Koons’ “Rabbit” a year later.
Hockney always retained his Yorkshire burr and was also a committed life-long and defiant smoker, praising the pleasure it brought him in life, his publicist’s statement noted.
“He smoked up to the end,” it said.
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