
David HockneyBritish, 1937–2026May one see it?
Washington, D.C., United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
1987–1994
Operas in Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Mexico City
Hockney designs Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera (1987), Puccini’s “Turandot” for the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1991) and Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten” for the Royal Opera House in London (1992). In 1994 he designs costumes and scenery for twelve opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia in Mexico City.
1988
A LACMA retrospective, travelling to the Met and Tate
In 1988 LACMA hosts a Hockney retrospective, which then travels to the Met in New York and Tate in London.
1989 · Award
Praemium Imperiale
1990
He declines a knighthood
In 1990 Hockney is offered a knighthood and declines it.