David Hockney wife: Is David Hockney married?

English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer David Hockney. As a result of a painting by Hockney selling for $90.3 million in November 2018, he is now the most expensive living artist in the world.

Another of his works sold earlier in 2018 for $28.5 million. On July 9, 1937, the fourth of five children, he was born. Born with synesthesia, Hockney experiences synesthetic color vision in reaction to musical stimuli.

He attended the Royal College of Art in London where he participated in the “Young Contemporaries” show, which heralded the debut of British Pop art. Hockney is openly gay, and unlike Andy Warhol, with whom he shared a long friendship, his portraits investigated the nature of homosexuality.

David Hockney wife: Is David Hockney married?

Longtime companion Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima is Hockney’s current spouse.e also serves as Hockney’s principal assistant and goes by the name JP.

In the early hours of March 18, 2013, Dominic Elliott, Hockney’s 23-year-old helper, died after using drain cleaner at Hockney’s Bridlington studio; he had also previously consumed beer, cocaine, ecstasy, and temazepam.