Hockney Donates his Biggest Painting to Tate

David Hockney, one of Britain's leading contemporary artist, has donated one of his latest works to the Tate Gallery. The painting, which represents a winter landscape in the North of England, is itself composed of 50 smaller canvases and at 4.6 by 12.2 meters (15 by 40 feet) is the biggest the artist has ever produced.

Hockney choose to the device of smaller canvases because it allowed him to do the work without having to use a ladder. He had however to enlist the help of a digital camera and a computer.

"Bigger Trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-photographique" will be on display at Tate Britain in the autumn of 2009.

David Hockney
Bigger trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-photographique 2007
© David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt
Oil on 50 canvas
50 canvases (36 x 48'' EA.) 180 x 480'' Overall

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