Though the early performances of The Rake’s Progress were slow to sell out, it wasn’t long before it became the hottest ticket of the season. Hockney felt a little wistful when the first night was over. “I enjoyed it enormously especially the last three weeks,” he wrote to John Cox from Fort William in Scotland, where he had gone for a short holiday with Henry Geldzahler, “watching it all grow and take shape. I loved the performance;—the acting the singing the orchestra, and even my bit … I told you I felt sad last Saturday as for me it had all ended …”77 He did have something to look forward to, however: before the first performance was over, John Cox had already asked if he might be interested in collaborating on a future Magic Flute.
For Hockney, The Rake’s Progress was a dazzling success, opening up a whole new artistic world in which he could employ his talents. More importantly, being able to run riot with his imagination had released him from the rut in which he perceived himself to have got stuck. “Suddenly I realised I’d found a way to move into another area. In a sense I’d broken my previous attitudes about space and naturalism, which had been bogging me down. I’d found areas to step into which were fascinating: the space of the theatre. It also helped that it was a success, both critically and with the audiences … I then went back to Paris and started painting.”78
Hockney returned to Paris on a positive note, with the applause for The Rake’s Progress still ringing in his ears. He felt energized. The trials and tribulations of the previous few years—his break-up with Peter Schlesinger, the problems with Ossie Clark, the spectre of Jack Hazan’s A Bigger Splash, and his struggles with how to move forward in his painting—were behind him. He had a new, happy relationship with Gregory Evans, and his faith in his work had returned: inspired by John Kirby’s eighteenth-century book The Perspective of Architecture, he now started a new picture, Kerby (After Hogarth), in which, for the first time, he played with the idea of reverse perspective. His willingness to experiment with new ideas was undimmed. Ahead lay a time of great excitement.
NOTES
CHAPTER ONE
MY PARENTS
1 Bright Day, J. B. Priestley, Heinemann, 1946
2 Yorkshire: West Riding, Lettice Cooper, Robert Hale, 1950
3 Brotherhood and Democracy, William Ward, a pamphlet published by the Brotherhood Publishing House, 1910
4 Bright Day, op. cit.
5 Interview with Laura Hockney by John Hockney
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Interview with DH, June 2009
11 Postscript, a radio talk, J. B. Priestley, 29 September 1940
12 Interview with DH, June 2009
13 Interview with Paul Hockney, June 2009
14 Interview with Philip Hockney, August 2010
15 Ibid.
16 Interview with DH, June 2009
17 Interview with Laura Hockney by John Hockney
18 Interview with Margaret Hockney, June 2009
19 Postscript, op. cit.
20 Interview with DH, June 2009
21 David Hockney: My Early Years, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 28
22 Interview with DH, June 2009
23 Interview with John Hockney, August 2010
24 Interview with DH, June 2009
25 Ibid.
26 Interview with Margaret Hockney, June 2009
27 Interview with DH, June 2009
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 That’s the Way I See It, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1993, pp. 11–12
32 Interview with DH, June 2009
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 Wellington Road School Reports, Hockney Archive, Bridlington
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 Ibid.
39 A World to Build: Austerity Britain 1945–48, David Kynaston, Bloomsbury, 2008, p. 28
40 Diary of Laura Hockney
41 Interview with DH, June 2009
42 Ibid.
43 Information from Mike Powell, a fellow pupil
44 Bradford Grammar school report, 21 December 1948
45 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 29
46 Interview with DH, June 2009
47 Letter from R. B. Graham to Kenneth Hockney, 11 March 1950, Hockney Archive, Bridlington
CHAPTER TWO
SELF-PORTRAIT
1 Letter from R. B. Graham to Kenneth Hockney, 21 March 1950, Hockney Archive, Bridlington
2 Letter from A. Spalding to Kenneth Hockney, 5 April 1950, Hockney Archive, Bridlington
3 Interview with DH, February 2010
4 David Hockney: My Early Years, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 29
5 Bradford Grammar school report, 21 December 1950
6 Interview with DH, February 2010
7 Bradford Grammar school report, 27 July 1951
8 Interview with Laura Hockney, January 1973
9 Interview with DH, February 2010
10 Family Britain 1951–1957, David Kynaston, Bloomsbury, 2009, p. 545
11 Interview with Philip Naylor, October 2009
12 Diary of Laura Hockney
13 Interview with DH, February 2010
14 Information from Mike Powell
15 Diary of Laura Hockney
16 Ibid.
17 Portrait of David Hockney, Peter Webb, Chatto & Windus, 1988, p. 8
18 Bradford Grammar school report, 24 July 1953
19 Interview with DH, February 2010
20 Ibid., June 2009
21 Interview with Laura Hockney by John Hockney
22 Interview with DH, May 2006
23 Ibid., February 2010
24 Interview with Dave Oxtoby, February 2010
25 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 34
26 Interview with DH, February 2010
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Anecdote told in “Special Effects,” Anthony Bailey, The New Yorker, 30 July 1979
32 Memoir by John Hockney, February 2010
33 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 34
34 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
35 The Forgotten Fifties, Exhibition Catalogue, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1984, p. 46
36 Encounter, December 1954
37 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
38 Ibid.
39 Interview with DH, February 2010
40 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
41 Interview with DH, February 2010
42 Interview with John Loker, February 2010
43 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
44 Interview with DH, February 2010
45 Diary of Laura Hockney
46 David Hockney Portraits, Exhibition Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, 2006, p. 26
47 Interview with Dave Oxtoby, February 2010
48 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 34
49 Interview with DH, February 2010
50 Interview with Philip Naylor, October 2009
51 Ibid.
52 Interview with Dave Oxtoby, February 2010
53 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
54 Information from Mike Powell
55 Interview with DH, February 2010
56 Ibid.
57 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 39
58 Memoir by John Hockney, February 2010
59 Diary of Laura Hockney
60 Interview with Laura Hockney, January 1973
61 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 39
62 Interview with DH, October 2009
63 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 38
64 Interview with Paul Hockney, October 2009
65 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
66 Interview with Dave Oxtoby, February 20
10
67 Interview with Derek Stafford, February 2010
68 Interview with Dave Oxtoby, February 2010
69 Diary of Laura Hockney
70 Letter to DH from RCAB, 4 March 1957, Hockney Archives, Bridlington
71 Interview with DH, February 2010
72 Interview with Derek Boshier, March 2010
73 Interview with DH, February 2010
CHAPTER THREE
DOLL BOY
1 Writing Home, Alan Bennett, Faber & Faber, 1994, p. 227
2 Interview with John Loker, March 2010
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Interview with DH, March 2010
6 Interview with John Loker, March 2010
7 Ibid.
8 The Parting Years: Diaries, 1963–74, Cecil Beaton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978, p. 400
9 Quoted in “Special Effects,” Anthony Bailey, The New Yorker, 30 July 1979
10 Interview with DH, March 2010
11 Quote from a letter written to John Hockney by Audrey Raistrick, 30 August 2002
12 Interview with John Hockney, May 2010
13 Interview with John Loker, March 2010
14 Letter from DH to his parents, Hockney Archives, Bridlington
15 Ibid.
16 Interview with John Loker, March 2010
17 The Royal College of Art, Christopher Frayling, Barrie & Jenkins, 1987, p. 137
18 Ibid., p. 132
19 Ibid., p. 133
20 Letter from DH to his parents, 3 October 1959, Hockney Archive, Bridington
21 Interview with DH, April 2010
22 Interview with Roddy Maude-Roxby, July 2010
23 Interview with Allen Jones, May 2010
24 The Last of England, Derek Jarman, Constable, 1987, p. 46
25 Interview with DH, April 2010
26 Ibid.
27 Interview with Allen Jones, May 2010
28 David Hockney: A Retrospective, LACMA/Thames and Hudson, 1988, Introduction by R. B. Kitaj
29 Interview with Allen Jones, May 2010
30 David Hockney: My Early Years, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 41
31 Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance, Claude Cernuschi, Icon Editions, 1992, p. 129
32 “The Quest for Fulfilment,” Ken Martin, Observer magazine, 16 March 1969
33 Interview with DH, April 2010
34 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 41
35 “The Quest for Fulfilment,” op. cit.
36 Interview with DH, May 2010
37 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 41
38 Interview with Adrian Berg, May 2010
39 Interview with DH, May 2010
40 Ibid.
41 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 42
42 Interview with Allen Jones, May 2010
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 63
46 Ibid.
47 Interview with DH, May 2010
48 Ibid.
49 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
50 Ibid.
51 Interview with DH, May 2010
52 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 44
53 Ibid., p. 62
54 Ibid., p. 68
55 Not Drowning, But Waving, Peter Adam, André Deutsch, 1995, p. 207
56 Interview with Derek Boshier, March 2010
57 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 64
58 Interview with Keith Howes, Gay News, August 1976
59 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
60 Interview with DH, February 2010
61 Ibid.
62 Interview with Allen Jones, May 2010
63 Listener, 16 February 1961
64 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 42
65 Interview with DH, April 2010
66 The real title of this painting was Adhesiveness.
67 The Parting Years: Diaries, 1963–74, op. cit., p. 400
CHAPTER FOUR
“WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING”
1 Interview with John Kasmin, May 2010
2 London Calling, Barry Miles, Atlantic Books, 2010, p. 78
3 Interviewed in Kasmin, a film by Henry Herbert
4 Interview with John Kasmin, May 2010
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 “The Kasmin Gallery,” Lisa Tickner, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 30, no. 2; see note 20
10 Interview with John Kasmin, May 2010
11 Interview with Jane Kasmin, July 2010
12 Interview with John Kasmin, May 2010
13 Interview with Derek Boshier, March 2010
14 David Hockney: My Early Years, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 43
15 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
16 Portrait of David Hockney, Peter Webb, Chatto & Windus, 1988, p. 35
17 Interview with DH, May 2010
18 Interview with Mary Fedden, November 2008
19 Letter from DH to MB, 28 May 1961, quoted in Portrait of David Hockney, Peter Webb, Chatto & Windus, p. 40
20 See Canberra’s First Trip, www.britishpathe.com
21 Letter from DH to Hockney family, 4 May 1961, the Hockney Archive, Bridlington
22 Letter from DH to Laura Hockney, June 1961, the Hockney Archive, Bridlington
23 Interview with DH, May 2010
24 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
25 Letter from DH to Hockney family, 19 July 1961, the Hockney Archive, Bridlington
26 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
27 Interview with DH, May 2010
28 Letter from DH to RBK, August 1961, R. B. Kitaj Papers, UCLA Research Library, 1741/Box 59/F.17
29 Letter from the RCA registrar to Fred Coleclough, 3 November 1961, RCA Archives, RCA, London
30 Interview with Grey Gowrie, October 2010
31 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 66
32 Interview with John Kasmin, June 2010
33 Ibid.
34 Interview with DH, May 2010
35 Ibid.
36 Letter from the RCA registrar to Fred Coleclough, 3 November 1961, RCA Archives, RCA, London
37 Interview with Derek Boshier, March 2010
38 Interview with DH, May 2010
39 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 87
40 Patrick Procktor: Art and Life, Ian Massey, Unicorn Press, 2010, p. 41
41 “Beautiful or Interesting,” Art & Literature, No. 5, Summer 1964
42 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 67
43 The Times, 13 February 1962
44 “David Hockney, 1960–1965,” Mark Glazebrook, Mark Glazebrook Papers
45 Interview with DH, May 2010
46 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 88
47 “Words in Pictures,” Charles Ingham, University of Essex, 1986, p. A85
48 New Statesman, 16 March 1962
49 Story told to author by Roddy Maude-Roxby, July 2010
50 Interview with DH May 2010
51 Letter from J. Moon to F. Coleclough, RCA Archives, RCA, London
52 Interview with DH, May 2010
53 Diary of Laura Hockney
54 Ibid.
55 Ibid.
56 Sex and Violence, Death and Silence, Gordon Burn, Faber & Faber, 2009, p. 16
57 The Royal College of Art, Christopher Frayling, Barrie & Jenkins, 1987, p. 164
58 Town magazine, September 1962
59 Diary of Laura Hockney
60 Interview with Roddy Maude-Roxby, July 2010
61 Diary of Laura Hockney
62 Ibid.
CHAPTER FIVE
MAN IN A MUSEUM
1 Interview with DH, August 2010
2 Interview with Mark Berger, April 2010
3 Interview with DH, August 2010
4 “Beautiful or Interesting,” Art & Li
terature, No. 5, Summer 1964
5 Interview with Grey Gowrie, October 2010
6 Interview with John Kasmin, August 2010
7 DH to Paul Hockney, April 1961
8 Image in Progress, Exhibition Catalogue, Grabowski Gallery, London, August 1962
9 “David Hockney: A Note in Progress,” Guy Brett, London Magazine, April 1963
10 David Hockney: My Early Years, David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 89
11 Interview with DH, July 2010
12 Interview with John Kasmin, July 2010
13 Interview with Anne Graves, September 2010
14 Ibid.
15 Interview with DH, July 2010
16 Ibid.
17 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 89
18 Interview with Mark Berger, October 2009
19 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 90
20 “Hockney Abroad: A Slide Show,” Henry Geldzahler, Art in America, February 1981
21 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 90
22 Diary of Laura Hockney
23 Interview with DH, August 2010
24 Interview with John Kasmin, August 2010
25 David Hockney: My Early Years, op. cit., p. 92
26 Ibid., p. 93
27 Interview with DH, August 2010
28 Diary of Laura Hockney
29 Quoted in The Pearl of Days: An Intimate Memoir of the Sunday Times, Harold Hobson, Phillip Knightley and Leonard Russell, Hamish Hamilton, 1972, p. 350
30 Quoted by Mark Amory on the British Cartoon Archive, www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/markboxer
31 Editor-in-chief, Sir Denis Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton, 1989, p. 108
32 Ibid., p. 110
33 “Roy’s Coloured Baby,” Francis Williams, New Statesman, 29 February 1962
34 “British Painting Now,” David Sylvester, Sunday Times magazine, 2 June 1963
35 “The Point is in Actual Fact,” Ark, No. 10, 1967
36 Diary of Laura Hockney
37 Ibid.
38 Interview with DH, September 2010
39 The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, Victor Bockris, Fourth Estate, 1998, p. 139
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