Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$5,400.00
Starting bid: $10.00
This poster is signed in pencil by the artist, Wes Wilson!
This poster has been restored for maximum eye appeal. Restoration includes: edge repair.
FD-2 is one of the earliest and scarcest San Francisco dance Hall posters. It’s from the brief period when Chet Helms, who managed the Family Dog, shared the Fillmore Auditorium with Bill Graham. It was a short-lived arrangement.
For this poster, Chet served as the art director and Wes Wilson was the illustrator. Helms’ influence on the early dog posters is evident. This quirky “King Kong” is the second in the Family Dog Poster Series. Early Family Dog posters are scarce and valuable; print runs were tiny, and very few people saved them except a few freaks and the artists.
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: FD-2 Original Poster
--GRADE: Near Mint 85 RESTORED
--PERFORMERS: Big Brother, Great Society, Grass Roots, Quicksilver
--VENUE: Fillmore Auditorium
--CITY: San Francisco
--DATE: 02/26/66
--PRINTING: OP-1; Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster
--SIZE: 13.72 x 19.93
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