Hockney’s portraits provide glimpses into the lives of those in his inner circle. For this picture of artists Shirley Goldfarb and Gregory Masurovsky, painted in his Paris studio, Hockney deployed an unconventional stagelike setting that recalls linear perspective paintings from the Renaissance. The pulled-back curtain reveals Masurovsky sitting at a table below two bookshelves, pen in hand, perhaps in an allusion to his work as a printmaker and typographer. Goldfarb, center stage in her signature beatnik stylings, appears to be in a separate space with the couple’s Yorkshire terrier; one of her paintings hangs on the wall behind them.
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