Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$240.00
Starting bid: $1.00
This poster is from the legendary Ultrasounds Collection the most extensive and finest quality collection of concert posters from this era. This lot is amongst the very FIRST posters from the Ultrasounds Collection to be CGC authenticated and graded. As such it’s unique and historically important provenance has been specially designated on the CGC label.
The net proceeds of this lot will be donated to the artist of this poster Mike King. King is widely regarded to be the most prolific concert poster artist of all time and the most important artist of this era.
PAE is pleased to announce that the winning bidder of this poster will receive a hardbound copy of the classic highly sought after reference on Pacific Northwest concert posters — Maximum Plunder The Poster Art of Mike King a $100 Value -- Yours FREE!
This is an Original poster promoting the Sugar Cubes at Pine Street Theatre in Portland during early 1990. Lead singer & keyboardist Björk would later become an internationally successful solo artist and the best selling Icelandic musician of all time. This poster is from very early in her career when she was fronting the Sugar Cubes! These posters were produced in tiny quantities for small venues on very short notice. There were no official Reprints of these posters! We definitively know from printing records and first hand accounts by artist Mike King that these posters were issued in quantities of 25 – 750 with the most common print runs being just 175 250 or 350!
Poster – The Sugarcubes Pine Street Theatre
Grade – CGC 9.4
Bands - The Sugarcubes The Primitives
Venue - Pine Street Theatre
City – Portland OR
Date – Feb. 21 1990
Dimensions – 11” x 17”
Printing - Original Printing
Promoter - Monqui
Artist - Mike King
Condition Details - Museum Quality with no visible flaws of any kind. No nicks cuts tears or pinholes! 100% Original with no restoration. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed.
***This poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. ***
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