Paper Pool: Diving Board
A vibrant work from David Hockney's celebrated Paper Pool series, depicting an abstracted swimming pool with a black diving board rendered in luminous blues and turquoise tones. The composition features Hockney's signature exploration of water, light, and California modernism through bold geometric forms and saturated color. This piece exemplifies Hockney's lifelong fascination with pools as both subject matter and formal exploration.
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Within this study, all eyes eventually fall on David Hockney's 'Paper Pool: Diving Board', one of two such paintings in this Holmby Hills garden house.. The vibrant blues provide a visceral foil to the lush green foliage peeking through the windows.. The light fixture is from Pagani studios. - Via Michael Smith
Collectors of David Hockney
Artists in conversation
Wayne Thiebaud
American · b. 1920
Thiebaud shared Hockney's vibrant use of color and bold outlines, and both artists worked within a pop influenced realism that celebrated everyday subjects with a joyful, accessible visual language.
Alex Katz
American · b. 1927
Katz mirrors Hockney's flat, graphic treatment of figures and portraits alongside a cool, contemporary sensibility that blends fine art tradition with modern visual culture.
Patrick Caulfield
British · b. 1936
A fellow British Pop Art contemporary, Caulfield used bold outlines, flat color, and architectural interiors in ways that closely parallel Hockney's own graphic and decorative compositional approach.
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