Gauntlet Gallery — Shepard Fairey Print Index
Tokion Suit Poster
Year1999
MediumOffset Lithograph
Dimensions18 x 24 inches
PublisherObey Giant
EraEarly OBEY Era
About This Print
This image came from a photograph I took in San Francisco. There was a paste-up of a guy in a suit holding a sign, and I pasted one of my 11 x 17″ Obey posters over the sign. Someone had already scratched the head of the businessman, which was interesting because I noticed a lot of the Obey images I put up would be scratched immediately. I guess people don’t like to be told to obey, so they react by scratching out the image. In the case of this businessman, someone apparently didn’t like whatever he represented so they scratched him out. I thought it was cool to have the two images combined, since there’s clearly a face associated with Obey but no one sees the face that propagates it.
Market Context
Liquidity1Extremely Rare
Sales volume1N/A
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