Art Market
From 1963, Hockney was represented by the art dealer John Kasmin. He is also represented by Annely Juda Fine Art, London. On 21 June 2006, Hockney's painting of The Splash fetched £2.6 million. His A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 paintings that combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $4.6 million. Beverly Hills Housewife (1966-67), a 12-foot-long acrylic that depicts the collector Betty Freeman standing by her pool in a long hot-pink dress, went for $7.9 million at Christie's New York in 2008, the top lot of the sale and a record price for Hockney.
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