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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Eddy Frankel

David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris - review: still innovating, still fascinating

Wobbles and humour … Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Chair, July 2025.
Wobbles and humour … Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Chair, July 2025. Photograph: © David Hockney

He’s still at it, is David Hockney. At 88 years old, and more than 60 years into a career that has seen him rise to the very top of the contemporary art pile, Hockney is still painting, still experimenting, still innovating, and still having shows.

This exhibition – the first in a swish ultra-central London location for Annely Juda, his gallery since the 1990s – is packed with paintings so new you can almost smell the wet paint. The opening room is all eye-searingly bright still lifes: chairs, tables, fruit and flowers. It’s the most old-fashioned and staid of subject matter, but nothing Hockney does is that dull, is it?

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