For half a century, the boy from Bradford, as he still ... apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier." Portraits—people—prove a uniquely apt lens for bringing Hockney's ...

An 1889 self-portrait shows him with a saintly halo and a devilish snake (with Garden of Eden apples ... lived a life of hedonism that ended in heart failure exacerbated by syphilis. Still ...