David Hockney portray of Harry Styles to go on present at National Portrait Gallery

A portray of the pop star Harry Styles created by English artist David Hockney will likely be displayed on the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Hockney, 86, painted the As It Was singer, 29, in his artwork studio in Normandy, France.

The portray reveals him sporting an orange and crimson cardigan with a pearl necklace and blue denims.

It is amongst greater than 30 new portraits that will likely be displayed for the primary time when David Hockney: Drawing from Life opens on 2 November.

Styles was previously a member of the boyband One Direction, which fashioned on The X Factor in 2010.

He has launched three solo albums, together with 2022’s Harry’s House, which went to primary on the official UK albums chart.

Portraits of Hockney’s mom, the late Laura Hockney; his good friend, the style designer Celia Birtwell; his former associate, curator Gregory Evans; and other people from the native Normandy group the place he lives will likely be displayed on the gallery.

The exhibition was beforehand on show on the National Portrait Gallery for simply 20 days in 2020 earlier than it was closed because of the pandemic.

In addition to the 33 new works, there are additionally colour-pencil drawings created in Paris within the early Seventies and a collection of drawings from the Eighties, when the artist created a self-portrait on daily basis over two months.

The artwork items have been rendered in pencil, pastel, ink and watercolour, with Hockney additionally making use of a 35mm digital camera and apps discovered on the iPhone and iPad.

Altogether round 160 works from private and non-private collections, together with from the artist himself, comprise David Hockney: Drawing From Life.

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Sarah Howgate, senior curator of latest collections on the National Portrait Gallery, mentioned: “Closing this five-star exhibition after just 20 days in 2020 was incredibly disappointing for the gallery and its many visitors, making this restaging of David Hockney: Drawing from Life all the more significant.

“Now revitalised with over 30 new energetic and insightful painted portraits of pals and guests to the artist’s Normandy studio, it’s a actual privilege to have the chance to collaborate with David Hockney once more.”

Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Nicholas Cullinan, added: “Following our reopening and the success of an excellent first summer time, I’m delighted to be restaging this main exhibition for David Hockney on the new National Portrait Gallery, which makes good on a pledge I made to David in March 2020 that we’d return to his fantastic exhibition in higher days.

“Hockney is one of the most internationally respected and renowned artists today, and to see his new portraits, made over the last couple of years and which demonstrate his constant and continuing ingenuity and creative force, is life-affirming.”

The National Portrait Gallery reopened in June after a three-year refurbishment costing £41.3m.