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Saville Theatre poster for NEMS Enterprises concerts

Poster
1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (artist)
Osiris (publishers)
English, Michael (artist)
Weymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Psychedelic poster. Red through orange to yellow, brown and blue.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Psychedelia
Object type
Poster
TitleSaville Theatre poster for NEMS Enterprises concerts (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen
Paper
Printing
Screen Printing
Brief description
Psychedelic poster for the Saville Theatre by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth). London, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster. Red through orange to yellow, brown and blue.
Gallery label
"Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
Saville Theatre. Series of posters (4) for NEMS Enterprises concerts from August - October
1967
Published by Osiris Agency Ltd.
Offset lithographs
E.1733-1736 - 1991

Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles, acquired the Saville Theatre in London and held a very successful series of concerts by such groups as Jimi Hendrix, Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention."

Text by Julia Bigham
Object history
Poster for a theatre, fortnight of Aug 27, 1967
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Concerts
Sixties
Psychedelia
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
OAS 1
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1733-1991

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Record createdNovember 17, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129273/saville-theatre-poster-for-nems-poster-english-michael/
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