U, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cy Twombly What makes this portfolio particularly

What makes this portfolio particularly special is its exclusivity—while five of the prints were released individually in editions of 300

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U, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cy Twombly What makes this portfolio particularlyDavid Hockney's letter U comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. On a yellow legal pad Hockney runs rows of U's, beginning as light looping practice strokes and descending into a bottom row of fat, three dimensional shaded U's that lift off the page like a ribbon casting shadows. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and