Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$900.00
Starting bid: $1.00
This poster is signed in pencil by the artist Victor Moscoso!
Here we have only the second CGC graded example and certainly the FINEST QUALITY specimen to ever appear in our auction of this issue! It's also the first SIGNED CGC original first printing of this Matrix issue we've ever auctioned! This poster is the 5th produced for Victor Moscoso’s retinal burning Neon Rose series and was printed for a Sopwith Camel show at the Matrix in San Francisco.
The band Sopwith Camel named by founding member Peter Kraemer formed in late 1965 and included Terry MacNeil William "Truckaway" Sievers Martin Beard and drummer Norman Mayell. The group performed regularly at the Matrix as well as the Marigold Ballroom and several other popular west coast venues. This could be one of their most celebrated posters of all.
Victor Moscoso had an arrangement with the management of the Matrix to produce a series of posters for shows at this small club in the Marina. Of the approximately 2000 posters printed the club would use a few hundred for publicity. The bulk of the remaining posters were retained by the artist to sell as merchandise. This pristine example is in Superb Museum Quality Condition and best of all it's SIGNED by the artist!
Poster – Sopwith Camel The Matrix
Catalog # – NR-5
Grade – CGC 9.8
Bands/Bill – Sopwith Camel
Venue – The Matrix
City – San Francisco California
Date – 2/6-11/67
Dimensions – 13 31/32” x 20”
Printing – Original Pre-Concert First Printing OP-1
Artist – Victor Moscoso
Series/Promoter - Neon Rose
Paper Type - Uncoated Index
Condition Details – Superb Museum Quality that is unimprovable in every way. Of course there are no nicks cuts tears or pinholes! 100% Original with no restoration.
*****This Poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****
*A 20% Buyers Premium will be added to the final hammer price of this lot.*
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