Zebra One Gallery, London is to host a Hockney exhibition from Thursday, July 9 till Thursday, July 23, featuring a series of etchings of gay lovers, including the love of his life, Gregory Evans.The six artworks are part of a series of lithographs David Hockney made for the book Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C P Cavafy, featuring his American and British friends and celebrating gay male love.Hockney recently revealed that despite a string of lovers, the love of his life was ‘maybe’ Gregory Evans, his 62-year-old manager, who features in the etchings.
Hockney and Evans had been lovers for about a decade during the 1970s, and have now worked together for more than 40 years.