{"product_id":"9780500028810","title":"The Beverly Hills Housewife","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Sun-drenched ... charming' Guardian  'Intriguing' The Financial Times  'Deeply moving' The Spectator  'Clever ... entertaining' The Times  'Excellent' The Literary Review  'Truly illuminating' Edmund de Waal  'Evokes an all-but-lost universe' Sir Norman Rosenthal   From James Cahill, author of the much-acclaimed Tiepolo Blue and The Violet Hour, comes a panoramic portrait of 1960s LA and Californian culture, seen through the eyes of a young David Hockney and the enigmatic socialite Betty Freeman.  In the summer of 1966, David Hockney paid a visit to a wealthy Los Angeles art collector. Her name was Betty Freeman. He had intended to paint her swimming pool, but was rapidly entranced by Freeman herself.    Hockney, soon to embark on a series of Los Angeles paintings that would become icons of their time and place, immortalized Freeman in Beverly Hills Housewife (1966-67), a sunlit vision of the collector on the terrace of her modernist h\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Cahill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57203434815866,"sku":"9780500028810","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9780500028810.jpg?v=1787674037","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780500028810","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}