David Hockney
Featured below is David Hockney’s alphabet, a celebrated 1991 collaborative artist’s book created by David Hockney to raise funds for the AIDS Crisis Trust. The book pairs Hockney’s vibrant lithographic interpretations of each letter of the alphabet with texts by leading twentieth-century writers and poets, curated by Stephen Spender.
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In 1991, on behalf of the Aids Crisis Trust in London, Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts, prose or poetry, to accompany an alphabet of initial letters specially drawn for the Trust by David Hockney.
The writers who have responded, in order of appearance, are Joyce Carol Oates, Irish 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, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor. An unpublished letter by T.S.Eliot has been given by Mrs Valerie Eliot and Lord Norwich donated a 19th century alphabet poem.
Link to product The Letter A
David Hockney
The Letter A
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem ‘The Alphabet Tree’ by Stephen Spender.
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter B
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘B’ by Joyce Carol Oates
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter C
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘C’ by Iris Murdoch
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter D
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘D is for Death’ by Paul Theroux
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter E
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘E’ by Gore Vidal
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter F
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the letter ‘F: a letter’ by Norman Mailer
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter G
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem ‘G as in Gaelic’ by Seamus Heaney
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter H
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose H is for Homosexual by Martin Amis
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter I
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem Alphabet Poem to the Letter I by Erica Jong
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter J
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose Joy by Ian McEwan
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter K
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose K by Nigel Nicolson
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter L
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose L for Laughter by Margaret Drabble
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter M
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem Muybridge by Craig Raine
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter N
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose N is for… by William Boyd
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter O
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose O by V. S. Pritchett
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter P
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose P by Doris Lessing
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter q
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose Q by William Golding
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter Q
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by A Letter to Miss Alice Quinn (Aged 16) by T.S. Eliot
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter R
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘R’ by Arthur Miller
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter S
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem ‘S’ by Ted Hughes
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter T
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘T’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter U
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘U’ by Julian Barnes
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter V
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘V’ by John Updike
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter W
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘W’ by Susan Sontag
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter X
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem ‘An Elegy for X’ by Anthony Burgess
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter Y
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the prose ‘Y’ by Douglas Adams
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
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David Hockney
The Letter Z
£850.00
Lithograph on cartridge paper
Accompanied by the poem Fête Champêtre by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm