David Hockney – he did it his way

David Hockney, the painter, the best liked and most successful despite critics’ misgivings, has died. His 13-room 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain attracted half a million visitors, with more at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the following year. His 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sold at auction in New York for $90.3m, the most expensive painting ever sold by a living artist.  His tendency to use garish colours and almost graphic-art te