A HUGE book of Bradford artist David Hockney’s work spanning 60 years will go on display at a district art gallery.

A copy of David Hockney: A Bigger Book has been bought by Salts Mill for £1,750, to go on show at its 1853 gallery from today.

The 680-page book features a number of Hockney’s best works and has a limited edition of 10,000 copies all signed by the artist himself.

It features 450 pictures produced during the course of his illustrious career including oil paintings, photographs and drawings.

Each of the collection of 10,000 copies of the book is individually numbered and Salts Mill has received its copy ahead of the official distribution of the books later this month.

Paintings including Beverly Hills Housewife from 1967-68, A Bigger Splash and a portrait of Hockney himself are featured, as are paintings of street scenes and locations in Bradford and Eccleshill and an oil painting of the Grand Canyon.

The Hockney book weighs in at around 70lbs and comes with its own primary-coloured stand.

The book was unveiled by gallery staff yesterday.

Robin Silver, Salts Mill director, was delighted that the document, known as a sumo book, will be on permanent display in Saltaire.

He said: “We are very pleased it has come here.

“He started his career in Bradford. This is the first place it has come in the north of England.

“It also features pictures already on display at Salts Mill.

“It is a coup for the mill to get the book and it seems appropriate for it to be here in Bradford.

“It is definitely the biggest book that has come to Salts Mill.”

The work is the biggest and most comprehensive collection of pictures in one book of Hockney’s work.

The book spans six decades – from former Bradford Grammar School pupil Hockney’s first appearance on the public stage as a student in 1961, to work produced since he returned to California in 2013.

It also features early work such as the Love paintings (1960 and 1961), portraits of family and friends and self-portraits, which range from the sunshine and swimming pools of California to the Yorkshire landscape that caught Hockney’s imagination as a teenager.