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Jimi Hendrix

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Larry Smart (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Colour screen-print poster depicting Jimi Hendrix.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleJimi Hendrix (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour screen print
Paper
Screen Printing
Brief description
Colour screen print poster by Larry Smart depicting Jimi Hendrix. Great Britain, 1967.
Physical description
Colour screen-print poster depicting Jimi Hendrix.
Dimensions
  • Height: 127cm
  • Width: 96.5cm
  • Object is currently framed. this is the framed dimmension height: 1355mm
  • Object is currently framed. this is the framed dimmension width: 1068mm
  • Object is currently framed. this is the framed dimmension depth: 50mm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
Content description
Portrait of Jimi Hendrix. Against a mottled green background, his body, hair and features are depicted in purple, and his face in bright green. A flame shaped pattern runs along the bottom of the portrait, outlined in red, with yellow and green lines inside.
Gallery label
Larry Smart (born 1945) Poster of Jimi Hendrix 1967 Colour screen print E.6-1968 The artist admired Hendrix as a musician and in this posters makes a reference to his track 'Fire' (1967) by framing Hendrix with flames. It also alludes to when Hendrix set his guitar on fire during a performance. This striking image of Hendrix was one of a series of large posters made by this artist : the others include Frank Zappa, Mick Jagger and John Lennon. The artist had originally made a painting of Hendrix and this led Michael Phillips, of the company ForPosters, to commission a limited number of silkscreen posters. Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Posters
Psychedelic
Jimi Hendrix
Association
Jimi Hendrix
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.6-1968

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1029855/jimi-hendrix-poster-larry-smart/
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