ARTIST David Hockney could smash his own record at auction with a painting from his Woldgate Woods series expected to fetch up to £9.2 million.
The artist, 79, created six paintings of Woldgate Woods in the East Riding of Yorkshire, charting the changing seasons, in 2006.
The image, comprised of six large canvases, is expected to fetch up to $12 million at Sotheby’s in New York in November.
Much of the Woldgate Woods series remains in Hockney’s own collection. The painting to be auctioned next month, Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 & 26, 2006, comes from a private collector.
The Yorkshire-born artist painted the work on six canvases as a way of achieving the mammoth scale for the landscape, despite being limited by the size of the staircase at his Bridlington studio.
Hockney’s previous record was for Beverly Hills Housewife, which sold for 7.9 million dollars.
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