Bradford's David Hockney is one of the world's best-selling living artists.

He is the only Briton named in a table of the ten best selling artists in a review which is about to be published in national arts magazine ArtReview.

The artist is placed ninth and is said to have sold 1,005 works at auction since 1970 for a total of more than £23.7 million.

American Jasper Johns comes top of the table reportedly selling 53 works with an overall selling price of a hefty £92.8 million. The Hockney list includes Portrait of Nick Wilder which fetched a record £1.8 million at Christies in New York last September.

The review says: "Hockney is the Bradford boy who arrived wide-eyed in LA and sold the 60s American dream of pools and sun back to the natives.

"He may be accused of a career spoiled by distractions - notably photography and theatre design - but his subtle portraits have made $2 million."

The review includes a grand procession of dignitaries in the semi-Egyptian style as one of Hockney's 'more flamboyant' works. The picture sold for $2.42 million in 1989. Today Hockney was said by his brother, Paul, to be travelling and unable to be contacted. Mr Hockney said he could not comment on behalf of David.

The list includes American, German, Colombian, Dutch and Spanish painters.

British painter Lucian Freud - who painted Hockney while he returned the favour - does not even make the top ten.

The last major Hockney exhibition in Britain opened in London in January. The pictures carried out in a notebook during his stay in Britain are part of the painting on paper event.

The June issue of ArtReview reveals the facts beneath the wealth of the artist including the top prices paid for works of art and the number of sales made.

It also includes a list of artists who have been financially successful but snubbed by the art world as they are viewed as too commercial. That list includes Jack Vettriano and Andrew Vacari.

ArtReview editor-in-chief Meredith Etherington-Smith said: "The list recognises that artists are the most powerful people in the art world. Here, we have pleasure in turning the spotlight on the artists themselves."