David Hockney's Assistant Died 'after Drinking Acid'

Hockney's Assistant Died 'after Drinking Acid'
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London, UNITED KINGDOM: British artist David Hockney attends a photocall at the Tate Britain gallery in central London, 11 June 2007, at the unveiling of the BP Exhibition: Hockney on Turner Watercolours. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see some of JMW Turner?s most spectacular, fragile and revealing works ? including a selection of studies personally chosen by David Hockney. Around 150 of Turner?s beautiful watercolours will be displayed, giving a comprehensive view of the artist?s astonishing use of watercolour, his techniques and his influences. An exhibition of new paintings by David Hockney also opens at Tate Britain on 11 June 2007. David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape marks the artist?s 70th birthday in July. The exhibition includes five large new paintings, each one around 12ft long. AFP PHOTO/SHAUN CURRY (Photo credit should read SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images)

Dominic Elliott, 23, died in March after he was taken to hospital from the world-renowned artist's home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

The inquest in Hull heard he had taken cocaine, ecstasy and temazepam before he drank the liquid and was rushed to hospital.

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