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A Bigger Grand Canyon is a 1998 painting by David Hockney consisting of 60 canvases (in a 12x5 arrangement) that produce one large (7.4m-wide) picture. It hangs in the National Gallery of Australia, which bought it in 1999 for $4.6 million. [1] The Cubist-type painting portrays the Grand Canyon from many viewpoints and times of day. [2]
Pages in category "Paintings by David Hockney" ... A Bigger Grand Canyon; A Bigger Interior with Blue Terrace and Garden 2017; A Bigger Splash; Bigger Trees Near ...
One of the works displayed, the 60 canvas A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). In 2007 the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao stated [1] they had no desire to do a retrospective of Hockney’s works instead, focussing on his current work around his return to the UK, specifically his native Yorkshire, after a long stay in California.
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
Private funding supported his notable acquisitions of David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon for $4.6 million in 1999, Lucian Freud's After Cézanne for $7.4 million in 2001 and Pregnant Woman by Ron Mueck for $800,000. He also introduced free admission to the gallery, except to major exhibitions.
It was gifted to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Graeme Lorimer in 1975. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The painting depicts a vast, desolate landscape of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River , mostly in gray and dark brown, extending towards the horizon, where can be seen rocky peaks, canyons and rivers, from a high point of view, while some clouds darken ...