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Thursday, March 05, 2026

Record prices--David Hockney's English Garden--

David Hockney’s ‘English Garden’ Could Net Its Consignor a 700 Percent Return

The 1965 painting, considered the artist's first English landscape, returns to the block at up to 30 times its 1997 price.

A David Hockney landscape that last sold at auction for £89,500 ($149,116) in 1997 is returning to auction with a £2.5 million–£3.5 million ($3.4 million to $4.7 million) estimate at Sotheby’s London, marking a dramatic leap in value for the 1965 canvas.

Titled English Garden, the lush green-hued work was made while Hockney was briefly teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder, shortly after he left the Royal College of Art in London. It’s considered the artist’s first English landscape.

https://news.artnet.com/market/work-of-the-week-david-hockney-english-garden-2748979