David Hockney at the Halcyon Gallery review: an invigorating immersion into the great artist’s work

Such auction results make a splash: all those zeros. Plus they further cement the status of Hockney, now 87, as the greatest blue-chip brand name in the pantheon of modern British art. His most popularly beloved phases of painting – the California pool scenes of the 1960s, the evocatively contemporary portraits of the 1970s, and the more recent, epically scaled landscapes – are as instantly recognisable as the in-his-pomp, owlishly-preppy flair of the artist himself. Hockney (no David required) is a bona fide national treasure and global art celebrity.