News of David Hockney’s death at his London home on 11 June 2026, aged 88, reverberated across the art world. 

One of the most celebrated British artists of the modern era, Hockney is best remembered for his sun-drenched California swimming pools, intimate double portraits, vivid Yorkshire landscapes, and, later, iPad drawings that showed his curiosity never dimmed.

At auction, Hockney’s defining moment came in 2018, when Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for US$90.3 million at Christie’s New York, briefly making him the world’s most expensive living artist. Here, we look back at the ten most expensive paintings by the British master ever sold under the hammer.