Hockney's Foundation Now Controls How His Legacy Unfolds

The David Hockney Foundation, established in 2008, inherits stewardship of seven decades of work spanning from 1950s drawings to recent Normandy landscapes. It will control reproduction rights, lending decisions, and exhibition sequencing—power that shapes market recalibration and institutional retrospectives. How the Foundation curates his posthumous reputation, whether foregrounding his formal innovation or his populist appeal, will determine how his work is formally re-encountered.