DAVID HOCKNEY'S QUARANTINE WAS SPENT IN NORMANDIE & HE HAS THESE WORKS TO SHOW FOR IT

The upcoming exhibition Ma Normandie at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Paris presents a dozen new works by David Hockney spread over 3 galleries.

Hockney and his longtime assistant settled in a house in the French countryside, set up a studio in the adjacent barn and he started painting in March 2019. 

He began painting a long panorama representing a 360° vision of what surrounded the house. This first work was followed by several views of the house, a 17th-century traditional, half-timbered cottage. 

When summer came, he embarked on a series of acrylic paintings depicting a view of the village of Beuvron-en-Auge, the apple and pear trees in the garden and trees in the morning mist, capturing the changing light and sky. 

A 108-page hardback catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Jean Frémon, Donatien Grau from Musée d’Orsay, Paris and from Hockney himself.

Ma Normandie is David Hockney’s sixth exhibition at Galerie Lelong & Co. since 2001.