Lot Essay
Michael Horovitz (b. 1935) is a jazz poet, literary editor and artist who founded the literary magazine New Departures in 1959. Hockney contributed illustrations to several issues of New Departures, and among other artists including Peter Blake, he illustrated Horovitz's 1971 publication The Wolverhampton Wanderer, an epic of Britannia, in twelve books. In December 2004, Hockney and Horovitz collaborated on the design of a greeting card intended to publicize and challenge the closure of a West London post office.