{"product_id":"sid-smoking","title":"Sid Smoking","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHEPARD FAIREY (B. 1970)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSid Smoking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esigned and dated by the artist on the front of the canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e41 x 30 inches (104.1 x 76.2 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecuted in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShepard Fairey's portrait of Sid Vicious — built from Dennis Morris's 1977 photographs of the Sex Pistols, the canonical visual record of the band's London period. Morris, granted complete access to the group across that year, produced a body of work that included the most reproduced photographs of Vicious in existence; Fairey's \u003ci\u003eSid Smoking\u003c\/i\u003e draws directly on that archive, refracting Morris's photograph through Fairey's signature graphic vocabulary of red-and-cream halftone, Art Deco ornament and decorative ground-pattern that ties the work to the wider OBEY visual system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sex Pistols were, by Fairey's own account, the band that changed his life — a friend played him \u003ci\u003eNever Mind the Bollocks\u003c\/i\u003e when he was fourteen, and the moment marked, in Fairey's words, \"a turning point\" in his orientation toward art, music and design. The Sid portrait has returned across multiple editions and HPMs since 2013 and remains among the most personally invested images in Fairey's punk-era output. The present canvas is the original mixed media work — stencilled, silkscreened and collaged by the artist on canvas — distinct from the paper editions of the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePROVENANCE:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the artist's studio\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joopiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48502074114297,"sku":"JP0526332","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/2783\/5385\/files\/JP0526332_1.jpg?v=1784038884","url":"https:\/\/shop.joopiter.com\/products\/sid-smoking","provider":"Joopiter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}