Artist Statement
“Screen Print 18 x 24 inches Edition of 100” — Shepard Fairey
About This Print
Cop is a 1998 Shepard Fairey screen print published by Obey Giant in a first edition of 100, measuring 18 x 24 inches. The image renders a police figure as a symbol of state authority in Fairey's flat, high-contrast propaganda-poster style. Stripped to bold graphic shapes and a limited palette, the print transforms an everyday emblem of law enforcement into a confrontational icon of control. It belongs to Fairey's late-1990s sequence of editioned screen prints that recast figures and symbols of power through the visual language of mass-produced propaganda, and it serves as the source image for the companion Cop 2.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 455.39. Observed range 364.31–546.47. Latest recorded sale: 2018-12-01. Limited recorded sales. Estimate is a hypothetical projection at ~15% flat annual growth, shown as an 80-120% band; treat as indicative.