Hockney now most expensive alive with work of 79.8 million

The Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney raised 79.

The 1972 work by the 81-year-old British artist is one of his most famous paintings. On the canvas a man in a pink jacket is shown looking at another figure swimming under water in a swimming pool. Who the buyer is, the auction house has not disclosed.