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The painting’s owner, who was not identified by the BBC, said his grandfather met a young Hockney while working at a train station in the English village of Trimley St Marty in 1957. Hockney and his companion were a peculiar sight for the quiet station, their arms loaded with art supplies and clearly far between meals. As the story was told, the grandfather—called Wallace by his grandson—invited them to his home for a Sunday lunch.
“He said ‘Oh, bring a painting,’ and Wallace bought a painting from each of them,” the painting’s owner recalled. Maas, who had surely heard a few tall tales as host of the long running series, was “initially incredulous,” but later research revealed that Hockney had been in the area in 1957 on a sort of pilgrimage to the Suffolk countryside that had inspired painter John Constable.
Hockney, now 85, is one of the most popular and easily recognized painters of his generation. His best-known works are of people and places charged with memory and smoothly rendered with intense colors and a dreamlike distortion. He has made some of the twentieth century’s most iconic depictions of Southern California, such as the famously languorous .
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