Tate Britain mounted its largest survey ever of JMW Turner’s watercolour masterpieces. David Hockney worked with Tate curators on the selection of the works for the exhibition. The BP Summer Exhibition Hockney on Turner Watercolours showcases Turner's unrivalled mastery of the medium, with the insights of a contemporary artist who is also an exceptional watercolourist.

Around 165 watercolours from the world’s greatest collection of Turners are on display including a number of recent acquisitions. Turner’s masterpiece The Blue Rigi (1842), which has recently been saved for the nation, will be one of the highlights in the exhibition.

Turner’s ground-breaking use of watercolour spanned his career. The exhibition follows a broadly chronological path, focussing on the main aspects of Turner’s output. From architecture to topography, ideal and historic landscape to study from nature, finished works to private sketches, illustrations to literature and works for the engraver, Hockney on Turner Watercolours will reveal Turner's extraordinary range as a watercolourist.

At the heart of the exhibition, Hockney presents his own selection of Turner's unique colour studies or 'beginnings' with his own commentary on the processes by which the artist constructed his perspectives and patterns of colour and light, and experimented with the potential of the medium itself.

David Hockney said: “Turner is one of the masters of watercolour. I am thrilled to be working with Tate on this major exhibition and to study in depth their extraordinary collection of Turner’s watercolours. This is one of the most challenging mediums for an artist to work with.”

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(Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise-- Colour Study 1797-8,Pencil and watercolour on paper)

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