Artist, David Hockney, had as muses his Dachshunds, “Stanley” and “Boogie.” It is said that Hockney set up easels at different heights all over his house, canvas and palettes ready with paint near where his Dachshunds usually slept. When the dogs were in “position,” he’d rush over and do lightening fast paintings of them before they moved. Since 1995, he painted hundreds of portraits of the pair as they napped and played. “I make no apologies for the apparent subject matter…these two dear little creatures are my friends,” Hockney wrote. Paintings and drawings of Stanley and Boogie were published in 1998 in a book called, “David Hockney’s Dog Days.”
The photo is from an invitation to an exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rottredam, 1995.