At 87, David Hockney is hardly hurting for major retrospectives. There’s 400 of his works hanging in Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton right now. But tucked away in St James at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert is something that hasn’t been attempted before.
In The Mood For Love: Hockney in London 1960-1963 brings together some of the great artist’s earliest works, made while he was still a student at the Royal College of Art up until he left for America. The sun-drenched colours of California would come later. This palette is London postwar grey grime, with splashes of red, white and blue.
