Description
This print was published by ED912 Edizioni di Cultura Contemporanea, Milan as part of their Manifesti series entitled ‘Situazione’. Hamilton’s print is number six in the ‘Situazione’ series.
Limited edition of 2000: 1000 printed on Opaline (machine-made wove stock), 1,000 printed Fabriano paper (hand made cotton pulp).
While the Tate Gallery website states that a deluxe signed edition 50 was produced on the Fabriano edition and another 50 artist’s proofs (on either stock were also signed), the signed copies I have encountered are all from the Opaline edition. The difference is easy to spot : Opaline = white paper stock, Fabrino = off-white.
When Hamilton gallerist Robert Fraser was busted alongside Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Marianne Faithful in the Summer of ’67…. Hamilton made this collage from the gallery’s press cuttings. While the original artwork was purchased by the TATE gallery in London, it was only ever reproduced at the time as the above limited edition.
Following Peter Blake’s work on Sgt Pepper, The Beatles used Hamilton for their next album The Beatles, more commonly known after Hamilton’s strikingly stark conceptual cover, as The White Album, . His concept was that what you didn’t get on the outside of the package , you did on the inside : namely a set of 4 portraits photos and a photomontage by him as a poster. This was the era of Pop Art & the accessible multiple. Peter Blake issued one of his wrestler paintings Babe Rainbow, as a multiple printed on tin by Dodo designs in January 1968 which sold for one pound.
Condition : VG++ No pin holes, or significant creases or tears. Light handling, the poster has clearly been stored rolled at some point evident by edge creasing along the left hand side. This poster is from the collection of Hilary , (Ringo Starr’s business manager). This print is from the Opaline edition and is signed by Hamilton in blue biro along the bottom edge.
Whether it’s simply a rare poster or an limited edition artwork we’ll let you decide… Price? We’re open to sensible offers based upon other signed (Opaline) copies being offered (elsewhere) for between £10,000-15,000. The etching of the same subject fetches £35-60,000 while the silkscreen goes for even more.
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