Artist Statement
“GRENADE Screen Print 18 x 24 inches Edition of 100” — Shepard Fairey
About This Print
Grenade is a 1998 Shepard Fairey screen print published by Obey Giant in a first edition of 100, measuring 18 x 24 inches. The image centers on a grenade, an unambiguous symbol of force and militarized violence, rendered in Fairey's flat, high-contrast propaganda-poster style. Reduced to bold graphic shapes and a limited palette, the weapon becomes a confrontational icon rather than a literal object. The print belongs to Fairey's late-1990s sequence of editioned screen prints that recast charged symbols and figures of power through the visual vocabulary of mass-produced propaganda, sitting alongside companion images of authority and ideology.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 1264.43. Observed range 280.0–2716.0. Latest recorded sale: 2024-11-18. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.