Serigraph on cardboard
Germany, 2002
Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957) - US-American painter, printmaker and draftsman
lower right signed in pencil ‘Raymond Pettibon’
Lower left numbered in pencil ‘115/120’
Edition Texte zur Kunst, Berlin
Sheet size: 91.5 x 61 cm
Very good condition

The silkscreen on cardboard displays an Easter basket, decorated with Christmas holly leaves. The caption reads ‘YOU HAVE STILL SOMETHING TO DESTROY - TO LEVEL; AS WE USED TO SAY IN THE STATES - AND AS LONG AS THAT LASTS, YOU CAN HAVE TWO PARTIES: CHRISTMAS AND EASTER‘. The edition was published with the December issue of the journal Texte zur Kunst.

The serigraph is signed lower right in pencil ‘Raymond Pettibon’ and lower left numbered in pencil ‘115/120’. The sheet is rolled. The condition is very good. It measures 91.5 x 61 cm.

Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957)

Raymond Pettibon studied at the University of California in Los Angeles. The artist became famous for his designs for the record covers of the groups Black Flag, Firehose and Sonic Youth. In 2002, he took part in the documenta 11 in Kassel. The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona organized an exhibition of his drawings, called ‘Plots Laid Thick‘, which also travelled to the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and the Haags Gemeentemuseum in the Netherlands. Retrospectives of his works have been held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2004, he was awarded the Bucksbaum Award of the Whitney Biennial and in 2010 the Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize of the Austrian Federal Government. Today, the artist lives and works in Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles. (fea)

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