The Beverly Hills Housewife

James Cahill

Hockney’s Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool

32.95 €

27.08.2026 (predobjednávka)

‘Truly illuminating’ Edmund de Waal

‘With novelistic and poetic skill, this book evokes an all-but-lost universe’ Sir Norman Rosenthal

A panoramic view of 1960s LA and Californian culture through the eyes of artist and subject: the youthful fascination of David Hockney and the knowing gaze of enigmatic socialite Betty Freeman.

In the summer of 1966, David Hockney paid a visit to a wealthy Los Angeles art collector. Her name was Betty Freeman. He had intended to paint her swimming pool, but was rapidly entranced by Freeman herself.

Hockney, soon to embark on a series of Los Angeles paintings that would become icons of their time and place, immortalized Freeman in Beverly Hills Housewife (1966–67), a sunlit vision of the collector on the terrace of her modernist home. Evoking the light and easy glamour of 1960s Los Angeles, the painting is one of the artist’s most seductive works, but it has always carried an air of mystery. Who was the woman in pink?

Like Hockney driving through the Hollywood Hills, James Cahill meanders – interweaving the artist’s discovery of Los Angeles with Freeman’s own evolution from aspiring pianist to photographer, philanthropist and collector – but never loses focus on the art. Oscillating between art history and anecdote, this is an eclectic study of an artist, his enigmatic muse and the beginning of a friendship that would shape the course of each of their lives.

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Autor	James Cahill
Vydavateľ	Thames & Hudson Ltd 181A High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QX, United Kingdom info@thameshudson.co.uk https://thamesandhudson.com/ +44 20 7843 1000
Jazyk	anglický
Väzba	Hardback
Počet strán	272
Formát	234 x 153
EAN	9780500028810
Rok vydania	2026
Edícia	Umelecké monografie