David Hockney iPad drawings of Yorkshire Wolds sold at Sotherby’s

A collection of David Hockney’s iPad drawings of the Yorkshire Wolds sold at auction for £6.2 million.

The 17th edition is titled The Coming of Spring at Woldgate and was begun in 2011, six years after Hockney replaced Beverly Hills with Bridlington.

They had previously gone under pressure at Sotheby’s in London, where the collection sold for more than double its estimate.

Sotheby’s said it was the largest group of Hockney’s iPad drawings and called it “an extraordinarily rare opportunity” for buyers.

The 17 works came from a private collection and the sale coincided with the Frieze art fair.

Hockney, now 88, continued the series until the spring, returning to different parts of Woldgate every day since he made the first drawing in January 2011.

Sotheby’s said he planned to paint at an outdoor easel but realized “it’s a little difficult when you’re standing there in the winter” and turned to his iPad to carry out the project.

The entire series was later unveiled as part of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2012.

Hockney grew up in Bradford but spent many of his school holidays stocking maize in East Yorkshire.

He visited Yorkshire more frequently in the 1990s to visit his mother and later when his close friend Jonathan Silver was diagnosed with cancer.