David Hockney, “Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool”, 1966, Acrylic on Canvas, 152 x152 cm, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

“Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool” is an acrylic on canvas painting by British pop artist David Hockney completed in 1966. It depicts the rear view of a naked man climbing out of a swimming pool outside a contemporary house.

The painting depicts the communal pool of the apartment block at 1145 Larrabee Street, Hollywood, which was then the home of art dealer Nicholas Wilder. A naked Peter Schlesinger, then 18 years old, is shown climbing up and out of the pool. Hockney, in his characteristic style, simplifies and flattens the image, and the rippling surface of the water is abstracted into wavy white lines on blue, similar to a comic or an advertisement.

The figure in the painting is based on a polaroid photograph Hockney took of Schlesinger standing up against the hood of his own MG auto. In 1967, Hockney’s painting won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, England.