How an ambitious young David Hockney tried to kick-start his career

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Letters from the archives of the Wakefield gallery show he had the chutzpah every young artist needs

Acts of audacious self-promotion in the contemporary art world now tend to be linked to names such as Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin, the Young British Artists who grabbed public attention in the 1990s. But research in the archives of a Yorkshire gallery has revealed that in the 1960s a student called David Hockney was also capable of a bold stunt.

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