David Hockney

David Hockney's letter L comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty-six letters as full-page colour lithographs. A tall L built from parallel grass-green stripes stands firmly on a scribbled ground, joined by a delicate cursive black L and a small red L curling off a drawn card — the same letter offered as monument, handwriting and label.

Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise funds for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Hockney drew each of the twenty-six letters, and Spender invited a celebrated writer to respond to one apiece — among them Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan — pairing image and text in a singular dialogue between art and literature.

This is the individual L plate: a colour lithograph on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, measuring 12 3/5 x 9 2/5 in (32 x 24 cm), from the edition of 250, signed on the justification page by the artist and editor (a copy accompanies the work). Offered unframed; framing is available for an additional $295.

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