In 1978, Michael Childers persuaded a skeptical David Hockney, then wearing a brand-new linen suit, to sit in a dinghy in the photographer’s pool in the Hollywood Hills. The resulting images were inspired by the French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue’s (1894–1986) images of his brother, Maurice “Zissou” Lartigue. Hockney had that year decided to make Los Angeles his permanent home and had been working with Peter Schlesinger on a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Britain. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)