Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
‘I’ve always loved chairs: they have arms and legs, like people.’
—David Hockney🪑
What draws Hockney back to the ordinary? Under his brushstrokes, the chair becomes an homage to Vincent van Gogh, a site of invention, animated through new found perspectives, where viewpoints shift and the eye is set in motion. Saturated colour and subtle distortions lend it a vivid, almost human presence.
Both playful and profound, ‘The Chair’ captures a moment when Hockney reimagined how we see, transforming space, time, and the everyday into something entirely his own.
David Hockney (b. 1937), ‘The Chair’, 1985
📍 Exhibition: 24–27 March, 10:30am – 5:30pm, 6/F, The Henderson, Hong Kong
📅 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, Hong Kong, 27 March
‘I’ve always loved chairs: they have arms and legs, like people.’
—David Hockney🪑
What draws Hockney back to the ordinary? Under his brushstrokes, the chair becomes an homage to Vincent van Gogh, a site of invention, animated through new found perspectives, where viewpoints shift and the eye is set in motion. Saturated colour and subtle distortions lend it a vivid, almost human presence.
Both playful and profound, ‘The Chair’ captures a moment when Hockney reimagined how we see, transforming space, time, and the everyday into something entirely his own.
David Hockney (b. 1937), ‘The Chair’, 1985
📍 Exhibition: 24–27 March, 10:30am – 5:30pm, 6/F, The Henderson, Hong Kong
📅 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, Hong Kong, 27 March
