Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rose and Chris Prater
Collection
The Institute of Contemporary Arts Portfolio
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293" aria-label="More by David Hockney" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Hockney</a>
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
abstraction
actions: expressive
actions: processes and functions
adults
curtain
eroticism
from recognisable sources
furnishings
homosexuality
male
man
man-made
natural phenomena
nudes
objects
people
sex and relationships
shower
smiling
society
washing / drying
water
<p>This print of a naked youth behind a translucent shower curtain is based upon the photograph of a sixteen year old boy published in the American magazine, Physique Pictorial. As Hockney discovered, when he visited Los Angeles, the models used by the magazine were local boys, some of them just released from prison, who were persuaded to pose nude in pools and showers for a few dollars. The disparity between the classical ideal presented in the magazine and the real life circumstances of the models perhaps accounts for the ironic title of Hockney's print.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print screenprint
26 March 2002 – 19 January 2003
2003-01-19
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2002-03-26
Pin Up: Glamour and Celebrity Since the Sixties
Collection based display
14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
2009-11-14
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
2009-11-14
David Hockney, London and Los Angeles 1960 - 1968
Loan-out
5 February 2014 – 28 September 2014
2014-09-28
5 February 2014 – 11 May 2014
2014-05-11
2014-02-05
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
7 June 2014 – 28 September 2014
2014-09-28
2014-06-07
Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, UK)
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
2014-02-05
Hockney, Printmaker
Loan-out
5 April 2017 – 1 October 2017
2017-10-01
5 April 2017 – 1 October 2017
2017-10-01
2017-04-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-04-05
Queer British Art
Exhibition
21 March 2019 – 28 May 2023
2023-05-28
21 March 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
2019-03-21
Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
http://seoulmoa.org/html/eng/menu01/contents05.jsp
1 September 2019 – 1 January 2020
2020-01-01
2019-09-01
M Woods Museum (Beijing, China)
1 February 2020 – 13 September 2020
2020-09-13
2020-02-01
Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg, Germany)
http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de
18 October 2021 – 23 January 2022
2022-01-23
2021-10-18
Centre for Fine Arts - BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium)
10 February 2022 – 19 June 2022
2022-06-19
2022-02-10
Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
http://www.kunstforum-wien.at
8 July 2022 – 30 October 2022
2022-10-30
2022-07-08
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
28 January 2023 – 28 May 2023
2023-05-28
2023-01-28
Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
2019-03-21
David Hockney
Tate partnerships & programmes
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
image: 914 × 581 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> of a naked youth behind a translucent shower curtain is based upon the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of a sixteen year old boy published in the American magazine, Physique Pictorial. As Hockney  discovered, when he visited Los Angeles, the  models used by the magazine were local boys, some of them just released from prison, who were persuaded to pose nude in pools and showers for a few dollars. The disparity between the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> ideal presented in the magazine and the real life circumstances of the models perhaps accounts for the ironic title of Hockney's print.</p>
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abstraction actions: expressive actions: processes and functions adults curtain eroticism from recognisable sources furnishings homosexuality male man man-made natural phenomena nudes objects people sex and relationships shower smiling society washing / drying water