Death NYC — "Creation of Adam × Louis Vuitton × The Beatles"
Michelangelo × Abbey Road × LV Monogram · Hand-Signed & Numbered /100 · 2022 · 16" × 20"
Premium Large Format · Custom Red Translucent Plexi Frame · Triple-Culture Mashup
What You Are Getting
An authentic Death NYC limited-edition original print — arguably the most conceptually ambitious piece in Death NYC's luxury-mashup catalog. This single image collides three cultural touchstones: Michelangelo's 1511–1512 Sistine Chapel fresco The Creation of Adam, The Beatles' 1969 Abbey Road album cover, and the Louis Vuitton monogram, all crowned with Death NYC's signature red satin bows. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil by the artist, dated 2022, with Death & Co. blind stamp.
The composition takes Michelangelo's iconic "near-touching fingers" moment between God and Adam, and inserts the four Beatles crossing Abbey Road between them — each dressed in a distinct Louis Vuitton monogram suit (blue, black, black with red cuffs, and Paul McCartney's signature cream/white). Every figure in the fresco — Adam, the Beatles, God, the cherubs — wears Death NYC's signature red bow, the artist's career-defining tag first introduced in the mid-2010s.
Presented in a custom-fabricated red translucent floating acrylic frame with polished steel magnetic post-mount hardware. The red plexi frame is tonally matched to the red bows throughout the composition — a deliberate curatorial choice that turns the frame into part of the artwork. Excellent condition throughout; paper crisp, deckle edges intact, colors vivid, signature and number sharp.
Piece Details
| Artist |
Death NYC (American contemporary street artist, b. 1979) |
| Title |
Creation of Adam × Louis Vuitton × The Beatles (Abbey Road) |
| Year |
2022 (hand-dated by artist) |
| Edition |
Limited edition of 100, hand-numbered in pencil lower-right |
| Signature |
Hand-signed in pencil lower-left, dated 2022 |
| Medium |
Offset lithograph / giclée on fine art 300gsm textured paper with deckle edges |
| Sheet Size |
16" × 20" (40.6 × 50.8 cm) — premium large format (standard Death NYC is 18"×13"/45×32cm) |
| Publisher |
Death & Co., New York (blind stamp present) |
| Framing |
Custom red translucent floating acrylic (plexiglass) frame with polished steel magnetic post-mount hardware — tonally matched to the red bows in the composition |
| Source References |
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam (c. 1511–1512, Sistine Chapel); Iain Macmillan's Abbey Road album cover photograph (8 August 1969); Louis Vuitton monogram canvas |
| Condition |
Excellent — colors vivid, paper crisp, deckle edges intact, signature/numbering sharp, frame clean |
About the Work
This piece is one of Death NYC's most sophisticated conceptual works — a triple-layered cultural remix that stacks Renaissance art, 20th-century popular music, and 21st-century luxury branding into a single image. Artsper Magazine specifically calls out Death NYC's Creation-of-Adam × Louis-Vuitton series as one of the artist's signature Renaissance appropriations alongside the Mona Lisa × LV and Van Gogh × Rolex editions.
Layer 1 — The Creation of Adam (c. 1511–1512): Painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti as part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City, The Creation of Adam depicts the biblical moment when God reaches out to give life to Adam, their fingers nearly touching. It is one of the most reproduced and referenced images in Western art history, instantly recognizable across every culture and demographic.
Layer 2 — The Beatles at Abbey Road (1969): On August 8, 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan captured The Beatles crossing the zebra stripes outside EMI Studios on Abbey Road in London. The resulting album cover — their 11th and penultimate studio release — has become perhaps the most imitated photograph in popular music. Death NYC inserts John, Paul, George, and Ringo directly into Michelangelo's fresco, transforming them into the bridge between God's outstretched hand and Adam's.
Layer 3 — Louis Vuitton monogram: Every figure wears LV. Each Beatle is dressed in a distinct Louis Vuitton monogram colorway — blue, black, black-with-red-cuffs, and Paul's iconic white suit (here rendered in cream LV). The result reads simultaneously as high-fashion editorial, sacred fresco, and album cover — Death NYC's commentary on brand-as-religion and fame-as-divinity.
The red bows that cap every head are Death NYC's signature tag — a motif the artist has used consistently since the mid-2010s to "claim" reappropriated source material and signal the work as Death NYC–authored. Catalogued in Artsper Magazine's feature essay on the artist as a defining visual device across the catalog.
About the Artist
Death NYC (American, b. 1979) is an anonymous New York–based contemporary street artist whose work has been catalogued by Artsper, Artsy, 1stDibs, Plazzart, Samhart Gallery, EBTH, Ross's Auctioneers, and LiveAuctioneers. The artist combines appropriated imagery from art history, advertising, entertainment, and fashion — Warhol, Murakami, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Disney, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Supreme, Banksy — into critical-yet-playful mashups that sit squarely within the post-pop / post-appropriation tradition. Limited editions are published in runs of 100 plus artist's proofs, with most pieces dated and hand-signed under the Death & Co. imprint. The artist's work has been featured in the Google Glass commercial and exhibited in galleries across New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
✓ Authenticity Guaranteed
Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil by Death NYC, dated 2022, with Death & Co. publisher blind stamp. Paper weight, 300gsm deckle-edge texture, edition size of 100, 16×20" premium large format, and composition consistent with documented Death NYC Creation-of-Adam / Louis Vuitton / Beatles mashup editions catalogued by Artsper, EBTH Auctions, and Ross's Auctioneers UK.
Gauntlet Gallery has specialized in authenticated Death NYC editions since 2015, with direct provenance documentation on every piece we sell.
What Is Included
- Original Death NYC "Creation of Adam × LV × Beatles" hand-signed limited edition /100 print (2022)
- Custom red translucent floating acrylic frame with polished steel magnetic post hardware
- Death NYC Certificate of Authenticity (where provided at time of release)
- Gauntlet Gallery provenance & authenticity documentation
Shipping & Handling
Ships via UPS with full insurance and signature confirmation required. The acrylic frame is wrapped in archival foam, edge-protected with corner blocks, and suspended inside a double-wall corrugated carton to prevent impact transfer to the plexi panels. Tracking provided upon label generation.
International buyers welcome — please message for quote and customs documentation.
Collect the Death NYC Louis Vuitton Series
Gauntlet Gallery regularly stocks the most-collected Death NYC editions — Beatles Abbey Road LV, Mona Lisa LV, Van Gogh Rolex, Lennon Drip LV, Mao × Murakami, and more. Browse our full eBay store for companion pieces, plus authenticated works by Shepard Fairey, Banksy, KAWS, and signed music and space memorabilia.
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