Meanwhile, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria Siddall, hailed Hockney as “one of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries” while Sir Nicholas Serota, chairman of Arts Council England, praised him as an “artist of constant invention” who was “full of humility about his achievements, but his work was admired across the world”.
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