Adam Scott Rote
Priscilla Presley Hollywood
Limited Edition Framed Giclee on Canvas
Dual Signed by Adam Scott Rote and Priscilla Presley
Star is from metal of the original 1923 Hollywood Sign
Edition 33 of 99
Dimensions 20 x 16 inches
Frame Dimensions 21.5 x 17.5 inches
Please note that very few pieces are dual signed as this piece was signed during Art Basel Miami in 2021


1923 – AN ICONIC LANDMARK STAR IS BORNOriginally constructed to help generate sales for a real estate development called HOLLYWOODLAND, the original Hollywood sign was born in 1923. The workers erecting the large sheets of metal on the slopes of Mount Lee could not possibly have known how important their project would become. The “HOLLYWOODLAND” real estate development would sell out. The prominent advertisement would go on to become one of the world’s most important and iconic symbols; a symbol of hope, glamor, success and the American dream.


1978 – THE ORIGINAL HOLLYWOOD SIGN IS REPLACEDThe original sign - the sign that presided over the golden age of silent films and black and whites that would have been touched and gazed upon by the likes of Fred Astaire, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra - was replaced in 1978. The sign stood for almost sixty years before time, weather and the elements took their toll. Unable to bear the thought of this global icon disappearing forever, an effort was launched in the late seventies to replace the Hollywood sign with an identical, but more sturdily built design. Hollywood notables such as Warner Bros. Studios, Alice Cooper, Hugh Hefner and others raised the funds necessary to save the sign. When the new sign was erected in 1978, the original grand old lady – having surveyed the birth and growth of global film, television and musical domination – was to be scrapped. Through certain twists of fate, she escaped this undistinguished end. Her white-painted metal, imbued with the magic and the mystique of sixty years of Hollywood, was quietly tucked away in storage… until now.

Excellent

21.5 x 17.5 in