O, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 John Baldessari "For the Love of God

"For the Love of God Front (White)" transforms the three-dimensional sculpture into a two-dimensional print that captures the striking visual impact of the original piece

An orange-outlined Z shows its magenta side-face in shallow three dimensions

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O, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 John Baldessari "For the Love of GodDavid Hockney's letter O comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A vast white O is reserved from a warm tan ground, its inner and outer edges climbed by ladder like rungs of black hatching; at the foot a tiny figure mounts a real ladder against the giant letter, Hockney playing letterform against human scale. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet