David Hockney at LACMA

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art here is presenting through Sept. 4 David Hockney Portraits, the first exhibition devoted solely to Hockneys portraiture, one of the most significant facets of his work.

This groundbreaking exhibition, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Portrait Gallery in London, in collaboration with LACMA and senior curator Stephanie Barron, surveys half a century of the artist's career, revealing some of his most profound compositions, new and old.

For decades, Hockney has revisited the same intimate subjectsfriends, family, lovers, and even himselfunveiling the often circular nature of his artistic preoccupation and also underscoring the range of his creative practice.

In part because of his pioneering portraits, Hockney rapidly became the best-known British artist of his generation. It is through the lens of Los Angeles, however, that much of his work is viewed. Fittingly then, David Hockney Portraits comes to L.A.the city the artist has long called homeand to LACMA, which has already presented two previous exhibitions devoted to the artist.