It was created with meticulous care, simplified, but enlarging his earlier paintings entitled A Little Splash (1966) and The Splash (1966) (both are held in private collections the latter was sold for £2.6 million in 2006 and for £23.1 million in 2020, both times by auction at Sotheby's in London ). Hockney's composition is based on a photograph of a swimming pool in a book and an earlier drawing by Hockney of Californian buildings. A thickening in the white line atop the building's flat roof emphasizes the place where the diver has entered the water. The chair lies further back along the same diagonal line. The diver is not visible, presumably still under the water. In the foreground, a yellow diving board slants away from lower right corner, leading the viewer's gaze towards the centre of a large swimming pool, where water fountains into the air, capturing the moment right after someone has dived in. A shadow under the chair suggests that the sun is high in the sky, around noon. In the background, two palm trees loom over a large single-story house, with flat roof and large sliding glass doors, in front of which an empty director's chair with thin crossed legs stands on a wide pink patio. Description Ī Bigger Splash shows a typical California day – warm and sunny, with a cloudless blue sky. Luca Guadagnino's 2015 film A Bigger Splash (a loose remake of La Piscine) was also named after the painting. Jack Hazan's fictionalised 1973 biopic, A Bigger Splash, concentrating on the breakup of Hockney's relationship with Peter Schlesinger, was named after the painting. It was painted in California between April and June 1967, when Hockney was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. Measuring 242.5 centimetres (95.5 in) by 243.9 centimetres (96.0 in), it depicts a swimming pool beside a modern house, disturbed by a large splash of water created by an unseen figure who has apparently just jumped in from a diving board. For the films, see A Bigger Splash (1973 film) and A Bigger Splash (2015 film).Ī Bigger Splash is a large pop art painting by British artist David Hockney.
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