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Los Angeles | Private Collection
implying an internal respiratory system
33⅝ h × 27⅞ w in (85 × 71 cm)
The text becomes both message and image
wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs
C, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Retna Los Angeles | Private CollectionDavid Hockney's letter C comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A single luminous lime green C, modelled in dense ballpoint hatching so it reads almost like a length of rope or peel, curls upright in a bare room whose floor is laid with a red grid Hockney turning the open curve of the letter into a three dimensional object that casts its own shadow.
