Hockney’s Alphabet
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper
The sheets bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards
Year: 1991
Size: 34 x 25.4 x 2.9 cm (13 3/8 x 10 x 1 1/8 inches)
Edition: 250
Other Editions: 26 lettered A-Z, 24 in Roman numerals
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Signed by the artist and most contributors in ink and numbered in black ink on the justification page
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.
Auction Results
Phillips London: 23 January 2025
Estimated: GBP 1,500 – 2,000
GBP 9,525 / USD 11,810
Hockney’s Alphabet, 1991
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper
With full text and title page
The sheets bound (as issued) in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards
Contained in the original grey slip case
Signed by the artist in green ink and the editor in black ink on the justification page
From the special edition aside from the numbered deluxe edition of 250
(there was also an edition of 26 lettered A-Z and an edition of 24 in Roman numerals)
Bonhams New-York: 9 May 2023
Estimated: USD 5,000 – 7,000
USD 9,562
The complete portfolio comprising of 26 lithographs in colors on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper
Signed by the artist and most contributors in ink
Numbered 184 in black ink on the justification page, from the edition of 250
With full text and title page
Sotheby’s London: 23 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 1,500 – 2,000
GBP 2,772
DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937)
Hockney’s Alphabet, 1991
The book, comprising 26 lithographs printed in colors
A special edition aside from the numbered edition of 250
With the preliminary leaf signed by the Artist and editor Stephen Spender in green ink
Phillips London: 13 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 1,500 – 2,000
GBP 5,040
DAVID HOCKNEY
Hockney’s Alphabet, 1991
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper
With full text and title page, the sheets bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards, housed in the original grey slip case
Signed by the artist in green ink and the editor in black ink on the justification page
From the special edition aside from the numbered deluxe edition of 250