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$157.20
Starting bid: $1.00
Rick Griffin's Masterpiece Aoxomoxoa is one of the most requested Grateful Dead designs of all time. The image was created for a 1969 Avalon Ballroom performance by the Dead and was soon thereafter appropriated by the band as cover art for their third LP. This popular poster has been reprinted twice this edition being the first reprint produced in 1976.
During the summer of 1976, a retrospective of Rick Griffin's artwork was held in London at The Roundhouse. Griffin took the original printing plates with him to England and oversaw printer James Haworth to produce a numbered limited edition Aoxomoxoa run of 3,000. They were humorously presented as "Alcock & Dicks Trading Co" in the lower left corner (as an obvious nod to the imagery) and labeled 1976 European Limited Edition. This example here is numbered "2191".
Condition Details: Handling, corner creases
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: AOR-2.24 Grateful Dead Avalon RP-2
--GRADE: EXCELLENT 79
--PERFORMERS: Grateful Dead, Sons Of Champlin, Initial Shock, The Grateful Dead
--VENUE: Avalon Ballroom
--CITY: San Francisco
--DATE: 01/24/69
--DIMENSIONS: 26.9375 in. x 21.875 in.
--PRINTING: RP-2; Post-Concert Second Printing Poster
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