Never take David Hockney’s genius for granted – The Yorkshire Post says

An entire creative lifetime separates the earliest works on display from the latest – the former produced in his art school days in Bradford, where he framed himself more in the Hogarthian mould; the latter rendered in Rembrandt’s signature walnut-brown. Taken together, they present the world’s best-selling artist in a surprisingly intimate light.

Much of Hockney’s private life has remained just that, as evidenced by the 1975 work of himself with his mother and father, which he abandoned, apparently to their dismay. Its inclusion in the new exhibition lets some light in on a particularly individual chapter of Yorkshire life.

Hockney’s genius is one we may be guilty of having taken for granted. The opportunity to appraise his whole body of work, in one of the world’s most important spaces, is an opportunity to remedy that.