B, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Christopher Wool beginning as light looping practice

beginning as light looping practice strokes and descending into a bottom row of fat

' 'Paranoiac

29 7/8 x 22 1/8 in

This print exemplifies Baldessari's influential approach to conceptual art that spanned several decades

B, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Christopher Wool beginning as light looping practiceDavid Hockney's letter B comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. Hockney treats the B as a small still life of letterforms: several B's in different guises a stippled charcoal capital, a clean outline, a solid black slab and an italic flourish tumble across folded planes scattered with green dots and fine pen crosshatch, one letter seen from many angles at