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Poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (artist)
English, Michael (artist)
Weymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Psychedelic poster in blue, pink and red on metallic gold background. Image of Jimi Hendrix on right.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Poster
TitlePoster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen screenprint
Paper
Screenprint
Brief description
Psychedelic screenprint poster by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth promoting a concert for the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Fillmore Auditorium, published by the Osiris Agency. British, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster in blue, pink and red on metallic gold background. Image of Jimi Hendrix on right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.7cm
  • Width: 50.2cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Gallery label
"Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Fillmore Auditorium, June 20-25
1967
Published by Osiris Agency, Ltd.
Screenprint
E.1703-1991

Jimi Hendrix specially requested that Hapshash designed his poster rather than one of the many talented artists associated with the Fillmore Auditorium in America. Hendrix was from Seattle and had Native American blood in him and so was depicted as a magic medicine man. His birth sign was incorporated in the floral spiral held by the dragon, which was in fact a direct copy from Alphonse Mucha's poster for 'Lorenzaccio' 1896 (on display in the main building, Room 8).
Other members of the group, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, are depicted in the background. Hendrix, although American, established his reputation after he had arrived in Britain, in 1967."

Text by Julia Bigham.

Object history
Poster promoting a concert at the Fillmore Auditorium. Published by the Osiris Agency.
Subjects depicted
Posters
Psychedelic
Concerts
Hendrix, Jimi
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Other number
OA103
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1703-1991

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Record createdNovember 10, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129157/poster-for-the-jimi-hendrix-poster-english-michael/
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