Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$420.00
Starting bid: $1.00
This poster is signed by the artist, David Singer!
Although this poster is a commemorative poster, as it was printed after the concerts, it is agreed upon by lovers of this material as the original FINAL Fillmore West poster and is a MUST-HAVE for collectors. Nearly 2/3 of page 144 in THE ART OF ROCK book by Paul Grushkin was devoted to a full-color image of this landmark concert poster artwork.
David Singer remembers the task of wrapping up all the Fillmore Years: "I saw the dark cat as the expression of the unconscious and the white cat as symbolic of the conscious. The two images were very different; one was light and playful while the other was mysterious and somewhat sinister. This interplay, I felt, was exactly right for what the mood and music of the time were all about. Then, to bring the dark and the light together, I chose the image of Saturn, with its halo of rings. Saturn is a heavy planet, associated with the metal lead. The presence of Saturn implies confrontation, especially in the material world. Saturn relates to that actual and made real, and to the seedtime and the harvest. The Saturn photo came out of a January 1953 National Geographic."
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: BG-287 Poster
--GRADE: 9.0
--PERFORMERS: Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Hot Tuna, Boz Scaggs, and Santana
--VENUE: Fillmore West
--CITY: San Francisco
--DATE: 06/30/71
--PRINTING: OP-1; Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster
--SIZE: 21.8 x 27.8
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