Bed call

Bosc d’Anjou posted a photo:

David Hockney (b.1937) – The room, Tarzana (1967). In a private collection, shown by courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery at the temporary exhibition “David Hockney 25” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, April-August 2025.

The curators explain: “Everything in this painting is real: the room, the Tarzana neighburhood [of Los Angeles], and the model, Hockney’s friend Peter Schlesinger whom he met in Los Angeles. But the latter was never in this room – it is from and ad – nor is the room in Tarzana, a name chosen because it is close to “Tarzan”‘. It was simply that the image of the bed, as the artist later explained, called for a presence.”