{"id":359389,"date":"2026-06-13T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:31:08","slug":"david-hockney-helped-define-the-look-of-modern-california-heres-the-story-behind-his-record-breaking-painting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359389\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hockney helped define the look of modern California. Here&#8217;s the story behind his record-breaking painting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">David Hockney died on Thursday at age 88, marking the loss of one of the modern era&#8217;s most celebrated artists.News of David Hockney&#8217;s death highlights his role in 1960s pop art and his luminous California swimming pool paintings.His Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sold at Christie&#8217;s in New York on November 15, 2018, for $90.3 million, then the highest auction price for a painting by a living artist, surpassing Jeff Koons&#8217;s Balloon Dog (Orange) in 2013.Born in Bradford, England, he emerged as a defining voice whose work bridged British roots and California modernism.This video outlines the milestone sale and the themes that shaped his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Hockney died on Thursday at age 88, marking the loss of one of the modern era&#8217;s most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,146279,145676,146280],"class_list":["post-359389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-celebrated-artists","tag-david-hockney","tag-the-modern-era"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}