David Hockney, Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
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Folio. With 26 full-page colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by Hockney.
Original yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt on a dark blue ground, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, cream endpapers. Housed in the original grey cloth slipcase.
24 x 32 cm (9.44 x 12.6 in)
Unknown edition size
Special edition of Hockney's Alphabet signed by the artist and editor
In 1991, as a fundraising initiative in support of the Aids Crisis Trust in London, David Hockney created a series of illustrations representing the Alphabet. Each letter has an accompanying text commissioned or curated by the poet, Sir Stephen Spender and comprising work from a glittering collection of distinguished writers and poets