The artist, cartoonist and graphic artist David Hockney, who achieved fame in the 1960s with the painting "A Bigger Splash" and is often associated with pop art, has died, his agent for the AFP news agency confirmed.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Hockney also worked with photo collages.
He was educated at Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in the UK - but it was in the US that he found some of his most famous motifs. He lived in Los Angeles for a long period and the city came to give a strong imprint to his work, including the characteristic swimming pool paintings.
Painted Harry Styles
Hockney said he fell in love with the subject when he flew from Britain to Los Angeles in 1964 and looked out the plane window.
"When I looked down, I saw blue swimming pools everywhere," he told publisher Dian Hanson in an interview published by Taschen in 2009.
In 2023, he exhibited his work at the National Portrait Gallery in London - with a number of new portraits, including one of the artist Harry Styles, who had come to Hockney's studio in France to sit as a model for two days.
Worked every day
"I didn't know who he was then, he was just another person who came to the studio. But now I know he's famous and I've seen all his music videos," Hockney told British Vogue.
Hockney worked until the last minute, aware that time was short.
"I guess I'm going to die soon so I want to work every day," he said in an interview with The Telegraph in October last year.
David Hockney was 88. He died at his home in London on Thursday, Le Figaro writes, just a month before his 89th birthday.
