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‘C’ from ‘Hockney’s Alphabet’

David Hockney

Dovehouse Contemporary United Arab Emirates

Artwork details

Artist

David Hockney

Title

'C' from 'Hockney's Alphabet'

Description

'C' from 'Hockney's Alphabet' by David Hockney, 1991

A monumental letter C fills Hockney's composition, its curved form built from dark, energetic strokes with touches of yellow-green. Behind it, an outlined room and a red perspective grid give the letter an architectural scale. The contrast between the sweeping curve and the ordered floor pattern turns a familiar typographic shape into an object that appears to occupy its own drawn space.

These lithographs are taken from the special edition of Hockney's Alphabet, which is signed on the justification page by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. A copy of this justification page will accompany each purchase.

Lithograph on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper.
Edition of 250
32 x 24 cm

All works are supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Dovehouse Contemporary.

For further information and additional images, view David Hockney, 'C' from 'Hockney's Alphabet' at Dovehouse Contemporary.

Date

1991

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

Edition of 250

Signature

Signed

Sheet

32 x 24 cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

The Artist

David Hockney

Born in Bradford England on the 9th July 1937 David Hockney was interested in art from a very early age, and was an admirer of Fragonard, Picasso and Matisse. The fifth of six children his parents encouraged his artistic experimentation. He went to the Bradford College of Art 1953-57. To fulfil his national service, he worked in hospitals as he was a conscientious objector to war. Then in 1959 he was accepted into the Royal College of Art, Graduate school in London.