David Hockney: IPad Art

As an avid collector of contemporary art during the 1980's and 1990's Ron and I were especially fond of David Hockney.  We were lucky enough to know Ellen Grinstein, the art dealer, and daughter of one of the founders of Gemini Gel.  Gemini Gel has been the premiere printer for many well known lithographers for the past 50 years.  They printed the works of Ellsworth Kelly, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein, just to name a few.  Ellen introduced us to the works of these artists, and were lucky enough to own works by these, and many other wonderful contemporary artists.

I'm not sure how I met Ellen, but we became fast friends, and for the many years that we bought art, she was the one we turned to.  Perhaps our best buy was a piece by Roy Lichtenstein that we bought over the telephone at a New York auction.  It was the day that Ytzik Rabin   was assassinated, and what was advertised as a big auction, with lots of interest, turned out not to be.  Apparently people were otherwise occupied because of the tragedy in Israel, and we bought a piece called "Peace through Chemistry 2" by Roy Lichtenstein, for half of it's estimated value.  But I digress.

We owned about 5 pieces by Hockney, including one from his swimming pool series, and several from his opera set series.  He is an amazing artist, and continues to reinvent himself.

At the moment, the LA Louvre gallery in Santa Monica is showing some of his new art.  It's all art he has created on his IPad.  My mom went to see it, and raved about it, so if you're in LA and the exhibit is still there, go see it.  I may just have to make a special trip, just to see it.

David Hockney lives and works in LA.  He continues to create and innovate.  He's definitely one of the great contemporary artists.  Some other time I will tell you the interesting story of how we came to own an oil of one of his dachshunds.  It's a wild one!