EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Homecoming for Hockney a decade on By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 20:56 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 20:57 EDT, 17 October 2024 e-mail View comments Acclaimed as Britain's greatest living artist, David Hockney was left devastated by the death of his young studio assistant, Dominic Elliott, a decade ago. So much so that Hockney declared he would sell his five-bedroom home in Bridlington, on the Yorkshire coast, where Dominic took a cocktail of illegal drugs and alcohol with Hockney's ex-partner before drinking lavatory cleaner, leading to his death aged 23. After selling the house in 2015, Hockney lived mainly in Los Angeles and then in France .
Now, however, the Yorkshireman appears to have finally come home, at the age of 87. It appears Hockney has finally come home at the age of 87 (pictured in 2017, in Paris) A work by David Hockney, California (1965), worth around £16,000,000, March 2024 A woman looks at artworks by David Hockney, at Phillips in London, during the unveiling of the David Hockney auction highlights, September 14, 2023 I can disclose that the painter has quietly updated his details at Companies House to record that he is now a resident of the UK. The document for David Hockney UK Ltd was filed last week.
Hockney previously updated his place of residence to France in 2021 after moving to a 17th-century house in Normandy. He claimed his reason for moving was that he wanted the freedom to smoke in restaurants and because 't.