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David Hockney

Hockney's Alphabet

$1,500–2,500
$3,528
1991
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors, on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, with full text and title page, the sheets bound (as issued) in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards, housed in the original grey slipcase.
13 1/2 x 10 x 1 1/4 in. (34.3 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm)
Signed by the artist and most contributors in ink and numbered '119' in black ink on the justification page, from the edition of 250 (there was also an edition of 26 lettered A-Z and an edition of 24 in Roman numerals), published by Faber & Faber, London.
Including written contributions by David Hockney, Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis, Erica Jong, Ian McEwan, Nigel Nicolson, Margaret Drabble, Craig Raine, William Boyd, V.S. Pritchett, Doris Lessing, William Golding, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Each contribution is paired with an illustration by David Hockney.

David Hockney

British | B. 1937 D. 2026

David Hockney is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. With a career spanning over seven decades, Hockney’s practise embraced many mediums including painting, edition-making, and collage, with his more recent digital iPad drawings defining the later part of his career. From semi-abstract representations of domestic life and vibrant still-lifes, to detailed portraits of his closest friends, Hockney’s artworks are nothing short of electric, reflecting the eccentric personality of one of Britain’s greatest artists. 

Hockney’s works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among many other institutions. On the secondary market, his work has sold for more than $90 million.

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