Look Closer: David Hockney’s Window Onto Paris

© Estate of David Hockney. Edition of 75. Photograph by Richard Schmidt. David Hockney, Contrejour in the French Style, 1974. Etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint. David Hockney, who died at 88 in June, became famous as a young artist for imbuing 20th-century life with the formality and stasis of early Renaissance painting. His sharp-edged figures stand by the pool or sit by a coffee table in spaces as orderly as those in a Fra Angelico annunciation. The real world does not look so tidy,…