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The Third Love Painting

David Hockney, 1960

This work is one of a number of works painted at around the same time as Hockney declared his homosexuality and began to paint on the subject of homosexual love. Hockney deals with sexuality, and his own inclinations, in a manner which is both intimate and public. The gestural style of painting incorporating graffiti in this work owes much to the influence of Dubuffet, whose work impressed Hockney with its scored textured surfaces and its use of urban graffiti as a public measure of private obsessions.

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Title of artwork, date

The Third Love Painting, 1960

Date supported

1992

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

118.7 x 118.7 cm

Grant

25000

Total cost

250000

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