Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$1,920.00
Starting bid: $1.00
Just in time to celebrate the 50 Year Anniversary of the most legendary music festival EVER! This large masterpiece is only the SECOND CGC Graded Yasgur’s Farm Woodstock Poster we've ever auctioned. Best of all it's the FINEST QUALITY CONDITION gem we've had the pleasure of handling. Last year we began receiving larger sized posters certified by CGC and we couldn’t be happier to share this new collectibles market breakthrough with you! New CGC authentication of posters like this is a game-changer!
The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival is legendary. It represented the peak of the 1960's music scene. In many ways it also signified the end of the era. The poster for the event is iconic and deserves a place in EVERY collection! Woodstock was a notorious Grateful Dead performance. They were a band that rarely came through when faced with great expectation and hype. At Woodstock they had to play during the rain and were getting shocked by a poorly grounded set up. As a result Bob Weir was having a bad trip. It did not go well for the band that night. However the performances of many others including Jimi Hendrix CSNY The Band and Janis Joplin have become permanently etched in stone as some of the finest live sets ever!
This poster is super clean and has no tears or pinholes! It's simply amazing this pre-concert printing example has remained in such fine shape all these years as this issue is extremely rare and difficult to find undamaged due to its large size. In June 2018 a lower 8.0. graded example reached $1840 in our auction. This 9.2 piece being the FINEST QUALITY condition example we've auctioned is sure to enjoy spirited bidding! In any other collectibles market a 9.2 specimen would be worth MULTIPLES of an 8.0. It will be interesting to see what value the market attached to this Museum Quality specimen at this moment in time.
Poster – Woodstock Music and Art Fair Yasgur’s Farm
Grade – CGC 9.2
Bands/Bill – Joan Baez Crosby Stills and Nash Jefferson Airplane Hendrix Santana Ten Years After The Who The Band Iron Butterfly Mountain Arlo Guthrie Richie Havens Canned Heat Creedence Clearwater Grateful Dead Janis Joplin
Venue – Yasgur’s Farm
City – White Lake NY
Date – 8/15-17/69
Dimensions – 18 X 24 1/2"
Printing – OP-2 Original Pre-Concert First Printing Version 2
Artist – Arnold Skolnick
Series/Promoter – Michael Lang and others
Condition Details - Super clean with 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. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00pm eastern.
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