Renée Vivien, David Hockney

Born: Renée Vivien (1877)
Died: David Hockney (2026)

Born on this day

11JunBorn 1877149th birthday

Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien wrote love between women into French poetry and returned to Sappho as a source for a modern literary life.

Died on this day

11JunDied 2026

David Hockney

He made gay intimacy an open subject of painting and kept testing how pictures could represent people, places, movement and the experience of looking.