Yorkshire Wolds Hockney painting fetches £11.2m

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    A painting of the Yorkshire Wolds, created from memory in California by Bradford-born artist David Hockney, fetched £11.2m at an auction in London.

    The painting, called Double East Yorkshire, was one of just two of his Yorkshire landscape pictures in private hands.

    The 4m-wide piece was expected to fetch up to £15m when it was auctioned at Sotheby's last night (26 June).

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