David Hockney - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    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.

  • Artist Biography

    David Hockney

    David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most well-known and celebrated artists of the
    20th and 21st centuries. He works across many mediums, including painting, collage,
    and more recently digitally, by creating print series on iPads. His works show semi-
    abstract representations of domestic life, human relationships, floral, fauna, and the
    changing of seasons.

    Hockney has 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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Hockney's Alphabet

1991
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colours, on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, with full text and title page, the sheets bound (as issued) in library yellow buckram, housed in the original grey slip case.
34.3 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm (13 1/2 x 10 x 1 1/4 in.)
Signed by the artist and editor in black ink on the justification page (there was also an edition of 250 signed by the artist and most contributors, an edition of 26 lettered A-Z and an edition of 24 in Roman numerals), published by Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust, London.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 ‡♠

Sold for £5,670

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19-20 January 2022