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The Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols, 1977
Jamie Reid
Pretty Vacant
UK Promotional Poster
28½ x 39⅝ in. (72.5 x 100.5 cm.)
Unfolded, backed on linen
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A scarce promotional poster issued by Virgin Records in support of the Sex Pistols third single Pretty Vacant, released in July 1977 from their only studio album Never Mind The...
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A scarce promotional poster issued by Virgin Records in support of the Sex Pistols third single Pretty Vacant, released in July 1977 from their only studio album Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols. British artist Jamie Reid has become synonymous with the Sex Pistols and pretty much defined the image of Punk in the UK. His cut-and-paste aesthetic, featuring letters seemingly cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, developed from his interest in radical politics.  Reflecting the disenchanted fatalism and cultural boredom that the Sex Pistols had come to represent, the Boredom/Nowhere buses design was first used by  Reid in his Suburban Press magazine in 1973, reportedly reappropriated from a 1973 pamphlet by the San Francisco Situationist group Point-Blank. A similar design, with white buses on a black ground, featured on the back cover of the single sleeve. 

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Good (B)

Unfolded, backed on linen in the European style with no restoration whatsoever. Backing has smoothed and diminished nicks and tears to corners and edges, the largest a 2½ in. diagonal tear to upper edge and a 6 in. diagonal tear to right edge, not affecting the artwork. Small ½ x ½ in. loss to lower left corner. Some minor scuffs and creases to black ink. Some discolouration to white ground. Image otherwise excellent.

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