About This Print
Castro Ruby is a 1998 Shepard Fairey screen print published by Obey Giant in a first edition of 100, measuring 18 x 24 inches. The title indicates a treatment of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, likely in a red-toned variant given the Ruby designation, rendered in Fairey's high-contrast propaganda-poster style consistent with his late-1990s editions. The source record contains no description, so specific imagery and color details are interpreted cautiously here. The print sits within Fairey's 1998 cohort of editioned screen prints that appropriate ideological leaders and charged political figures through the visual language of mass-produced propaganda.
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.