$35 M. Hockney California Landscape to Sell at Phillips

Phillips has unveiled plans to auction a $35 million David Hockney landscape this winter. Nichols Canyon (1980) will hit the block during the house’s 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York on December 7. The work will go on view at Phillips in London from October 26–November 1, and will then make appearances in Hong Kong and New York.
Hockney made the seven-by-five-foot canvas following his move to Los Angeles in 1978. The present work is one of two monumental wor