David Hockney: Drawing from Life at National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery in London will host a major thematic retrospective, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, from February 27 to June 28, 2020. The exhibition focuses on Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present, featuring 150 works from public and private collections worldwide. It explores his portraits in pencil, pastel, ink, watercolor, Polaroid, and iPhone/iPad apps, including studies for A Rake's Progress inspired by William Hogarth. The show examines drawing as fundamental to Hockney's practice, not just preparatory but a means of observing and expressing the world. Special focus is given to portraits, tracing influences from Holbein, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, and van Gogh. Hockney, born in Bradford in 1937, is celebrated as one of the 20th century's greatest artists and draftsmen.