Artist Statement
“MAO COLLAGE Screen Print 36 x 48 inches Edition of 70” — Shepard Fairey
About This Print
Mao Collage is a 2003 screen print published by Obey Giant in a first edition of 70, measuring 36 x 48 inches. The large-format work renders Mao Zedong in Fairey's layered collage-and-propaganda style, extending a recurring motif he had used since the late 1990s. Its scale and small edition place it among his more ambitious political portraits of the period, part of a suite of revolutionary-figure collages alongside Marcos and Castro. The piece reworks authoritarian portraiture through Fairey's street-art lens. Source facts confirm the year, medium, dimensions, and edition size of 70.
Market Context
No recorded public sales >= $100 - pieces like this are typically held long-term by investors/collectors, were destroyed or consumed, or do not surface on the open market.