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CIA UFO

Poster
1967 (published)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Design Studio)
Osiris Visions Ltd (publisher)
English, Michael (artist)
Waymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Colour screenprint poster advertising Pink Floyd at the UFO Club, London, 28th June. Psychedelic design featuring a floating castle being pulled along by a nude female angel, set against a yellow-orange sky.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleCIA UFO
Materials and techniques
Colour screenprint
Screen Printing
Brief description
Colour screenprint poster advertising Pink Floyd at the UFO Club, London, 28th June. Psychedelic design featuring a floating castle being pulled along by a nude female angel. Design by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Published by Osiris Visions Ltd. London. 1967.
Physical description
Colour screenprint poster advertising Pink Floyd at the UFO Club, London, 28th June. Psychedelic design featuring a floating castle being pulled along by a nude female angel, set against a yellow-orange sky.
Dimensions
  • Height: 73.3cm
  • Width: 55cm
  • Height: 756mm
  • Width: 508mm
Dimensions taken from: Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. NB: See slight variations of dimensions, given in other bibliographic references.
Style
Psychedelic
Historical context
The element of the designer's name 'Hapshash' is a corruption of Hatchepset, an Egyptian queen of the 18th Dynasty. 'Hapshash and the Coloured Coat' and 'Jacob and the Coloured Coat' were studio names adopted by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth who cooperated to design posters.

The UFO posters were printed in limited numbers and fly-posted at select sites.
Subjects depicted
Angel
Castle
Birds
Pink Floyd
Place depicted
UFO Club
Bibliographic references
  • Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other numbers
  • 114 - Poster number
  • 16/G11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.22-1968

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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