David Hockney painting auctioned for more than £3m

Hockney's piece, Arranged Felled Trees, depicts freshly cut branches in the Yorkshire Wolds

A painting of the East Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney has sold at auction for more than £3m.

The Bradford-born artist's Arranged Felled Trees, painted in 2008, depicts freshly cut branches in the Yorkshire Wolds.

It went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London and sold for £3,397,000 - more than its estimated price of £2m.

The auction house said it was a "rare example" from Hockney's legendary series of Yorkshire paintings.

The oil on canvas was featured as a highlight in an exhibition of landscapes by the artist at the Royal Academy in 2012, and attracted an average of 7,500 visitors a day.

David Hockney spent summers in the Yorkshire Wolds

A spokesperson for Sotheby's said: "Arranged Felled Trees is an extraordinary, joyful example of David Hockney's legendary depictions of the bucolic landscape of East Yorkshire.

"[It is] a triumphant eulogy to an area the artist became enamoured with as a young teenager."

Hockney spent the summers of 1952 and 1953 in the Yorkshire Wolds and previously said it "instilled in me a love of the landscape which I never forgot".

As well as visiting the area since, he also has a home in Bridlington.