The artist, who has a property in Bridlington, exhibited the 40ft by 15ft painting called Bigger Trees Near Warter as part of a Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and it hung on the end wall of the academy's biggest gallery.

In a recent newspaper article, he said he had an affinity with the Tate and had decided to donate the work, rather than selling it.

The painting is made up of a grid of 50 small canvasses and like many of his works is of the East Yorkshire countryside.

A spokesperson for the Tate said: "East Yorkshire first engaged Hockney's imagination as a teenager when he worked on the land during summer holidays, stooking corn.

"As an adult, Hockney has intermittently returned to this part of England when visiting his mother and sister at their home in the coastal town of Bridlington.

"However, he only became fully absorbed by the landscape over the past four years, making it the primary source of inspiration for his art."

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