Peter Schlesinger

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Peter Schlesinger (born April 2, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) [1] is an American artist, author, and former artist's model, perhaps most well known for being the subject in numerous notable canvases by the British painter David Hockney.

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Biography

Peter Schlesinger was an 18-year-old student at UCLA when he met the then 28-year-old artist David Hockney, who was teaching a summer class at the university. They began a long affair; Schlesinger relocated with Hockney to London[ when? ], where he subsequently undertook to study at the Slade School of Art. [2] Whilst in a relationship with Hockney, he was often the artist's subject and muse; he appears in some of Hockney's best-known works, including Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) [3] —which, in 2018, sold for over $90 million, setting the monetary record for a painting by a living artist— Peter Schlesinger with Polaroid Camera, and Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool . [4] [5]

Schlesinger went on to pursue his own career as a visual artist, creating sculptures, paintings, and photographs. [6]

Books

His photography is the subject of two volumes for which he also wrote the text; A Chequered Past (2003, Thames and Hudson) [7] and Peter Schlesinger: A Photographic Memory 1968–1989 (2015, Damiani; co-authored with Hilton Als). [8] [9]

Personal life

The 1974 film A Bigger Splash (named after Hockney's famous painting) is about the breakup of Schlesinger's relationship with Hockney.

Schlesinger's later partner was the Swedish photographer Eric Bowman, with whom he shared a home in Bellport on Long Island. [10]

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