Hockney work tipped to bust auction record

Updated September 13 2018 - 4:31pm, first published 4:28pm
David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" is tipped to break auction records.
David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" is tipped to break auction records.

A painting by the British artist David Hockney is expected to sell for some $US80 million ($A112 million) at Christie's, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.