By Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail
Published: 01:29 BST, 4 May 2019 | Updated: 01:30 BST, 4 May 2019
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David Hockney has shown us over many decades how he sees the world in a different way. Now Britain’s greatest living artist will reveal how he sees himself.
The National Portrait Gallery is to stage an exhibition of his drawings, spanning self-portraits from his school days to his new work.
It will be the first major show devoted to the art master as a draughtsman in more than 20 years, exploring the ‘many different stylistic turns’ the 81-year-old has taken, from the 1950s to the present day.
Pencil drawings created during his spell in Paris in the 1970s will be featured, alongside works from a two-month period in the 1980s when he created a self-portrait every day. David Hockney is pictured in a portrait, left, and in February last year, right
Sketchbooks from Hockney’s art school days in Bradford will go on display, alongside new and previously unseen works.
