England have a knack for creating stars that are unlike any other. Coming from the counter-culture, they often come from music, from the Beatles and the Stones to the punks. Or fashion, like the inimitable Vivienne Westwood, both a revolutionary in good taste and a very honorable DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire). More improbable still, it creates stars of the art when France wisely remains on this side of the phenomenon. Without doubt, it is this particular mixture of conventions and fantasy, unbridled creativity and a keen sense of the nation that makes the Big Island a unique land. David Hockney, the most expensive living painter since the $ 90.3 million (77 million euros) auctioned at Christie's in New York in November 2018, is of this envied category.
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Checked tweed suit, red tie, round glasses always pop, flat cap, David Hockney is a painter "larger than life" like his panoramic paintings.
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