A painting by Bradford-born and world-famous artist David Hockney is being displayed at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery as part of a major National Portrait Gallery scheme.
The Coming Home project sees 50 portraits of iconic individuals from the national collection traveling to the towns and cities most closely associated with their subjects.
Hockney’s painting ‘Self-Portrait with Charlie’ is on display in the Hockney Gallery in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall until 14 July 2019.
The artwork was created in his Hollywood Hills studio in 2005 and is from a series of large single and double figure paintings, all of which were completed in just a few sittings.
Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery said: “We are delighted to lend David Hockney’s Self-Portrait with Charlie to Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in the artist’s hometown of Bradford, and a place I also used to visit as a child, as part of our exciting new Coming Home initiative. We hope that sending portraits ‘home’ in this way will foster a sense of pride and create a personal connection for local communities to a bigger national history; thus helping us to fulfil our aim of being truly a national gallery for everyone, in our role as the nation’s family album.”
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