T, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991

David Hockney's letter T comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty-six letters as full-page colour lithographs. A bold serif double-T is knocked out in raw white from a saturated red field, the rough, broken edges of the reserved letter giving the flat poster-red sheet a worn, printed immediacy. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise funds for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Hockney drew each of the twenty-six letters, and Spender invited a celebrated writer to respond to one apiece — among them Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan — pairing image and text in a singular dialogue between art and literature. This is the individual T plate: a colour lithograph on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, measuring 12 3/5 × 9 2/5 in (32 × 24 cm), from the edition of 250, signed on the justification page by the artist and editor (a copy accompanies the work). Offered unframed; framing is available for an additional $295.