Plenty of Van Gogh – More Hockney than Anything Else

What are we willing to pay dearly for during a multidimensional crisis? Unfortunately, at least three equally good answers must be taken into account. For light, for time (especially in the form of a short moment), for beauty in its abstract form. 

A 1969 painting by David Hockney was sold in Christies in London Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime. The painting was privately owned for over thirty years. The estimate provided for a price of 7-10 million pounds, the auction lasted six minutes, the buyer is also a private person.

Hockney is the author of the most expensively sold painting of a living artist (Pool with Two Figures For £70 million in 2018).

Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime He painted from a photograph taken while in the villa of director Tony Richardson. Port Sainte – Maxime can be seen on the other side of the bay from the hills above Saint-Tropez. The Côte d'Azur (Côte d'Azur), as the painter recalls, was experiencing its magnificent bloom (glamorous heyday) at the time. White stripe of pure Glamour Crosses the picture. It's just the morning of another beautiful day. 

In interviews given during the pandemic, which Hockney spent in Normandy said that "his era, it was the most free time you can imagine, now it's over".

Perhaps one answer to the question of what we are always willing to pay dearly for is: for a well-done illusion, one that gives a moment of relief. It can be framed in light, memory, dream. It may not be ours.

Rest a little man!