Death NYC — John Lennon × Louis Vuitton "Drip"

Hand-Signed 2025 · Numbered Edition · Custom Orange Floating Acrylic Frame

Music Icon · Luxury Monogram Series · Gallery-Grade Presentation

What You Are Getting

An authentic Death NYC signed and hand-numbered pop art print (2025) featuring an iconic black-and-white portrait of John Lennon — round glasses, shoulder-length hair, NYC-era Lennon — overlaid with Death NYC's signature orange Louis Vuitton monogram pattern (LV initials and four-petal quatrefoils) and finished with her trademark "drip" effect cascading down from the portrait. The orange monogram reads simultaneously as luxury branding and as a pop-culture infection spreading across the cultural icon — the drip makes the consumption visible.

The print is hand-signed in graphite by Death NYC in the lower-left margin and dated 2025, hand-numbered in pencil in the lower-right margin from a limited edition of 100, and carries the raised "DEATH & CO" embossed blind stamp — the artist's authentication mark used across her limited editions.

Presented in a stunning custom orange translucent floating acrylic frame with magnetic mount — a bespoke gallery-grade presentation where the print appears to float inside a tinted orange field, with the frame color tonally matching the LV monogram overlay. Ready to hang or display, no additional framing required.

Piece Details

About the Work

The LV Monogram Series. Death NYC's Louis Vuitton overlay series is among her most actively collected compositional formats — a running commentary on the intersection of celebrity, luxury branding, and cultural commodification. By stamping the LV monogram over cultural icons (Marilyn Monroe, Snoopy, Pikachu, the Beatles, Garfield, and here John Lennon), the artist asks whether fame itself has become a branded product — whether the icon exists independent of its consumability. The orange "drip" extending down from the portrait makes that question visceral: the branding isn't stable, it's leaking out of the image.

John Lennon as Subject. John Lennon (1940–1980) is among the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century — founding member of The Beatles, solo artist of Imagine and Plastic Ono Band, peace activist, and icon of counterculture New York. His 1980 murder outside The Dakota in NYC cemented his status as a martyr of artistic authenticity. Death NYC's choice to overlay the most-associated-with-authenticity rock icon with high-luxury Louis Vuitton branding is a pointed inversion — the drip treatment reads as both celebration and critique.

Format & Market. This is the standard Death NYC 45×32 cm large-format print — the size used for her most collected editions. Comparable Lennon LV, Beatles LV, and celebrity-LV pieces in this format are currently listed and traded through eBay, Artsy, 1stDibs, Heritage, DEWIT, and Louiza Auktion, with 2024-2025 editions in excellent condition commanding the upper range of her print market.

About Death NYC

Death NYC is an anonymous New York–based street artist (b. 1979) whose pseudonym stands for "Don't Easily Abandon The Hope." Active in SoHo and Chelsea since the early 2010s, her body of work appropriates luxury fashion, pop culture, fine art, and political imagery across street posters, limited-edition prints, and real U.S. currency. She sits firmly within the contemporary street-art canon alongside Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash, and Plasticgod, with signed pieces trading through Heritage Auctions, DEWIT, Louiza Auktion, Invaluable, and specialty galleries including Samhart and Plazzart.

✓ Authenticity Guaranteed

Hand-signed in graphite, dated 2025, and hand-numbered in pencil by Death NYC. Carries the raised "DEATH & CO" embossed blind stamp used across her limited-edition prints. Print specifications — 45×32cm standard format, fine-art 300gsm paper, edition of 100, blind-stamp authentication — are consistent with verified Death NYC editions traded through Heritage, DEWIT, Louiza Auktion, Samhart Gallery, Artsy, and eBay. Gauntlet Gallery has operated as an authenticated street-art specialist in San Francisco since 2012 — sold with our provenance and authenticity documentation.

What Is Included

• Original Death NYC hand-signed, dated (2025), & hand-numbered John Lennon × Louis Vuitton print
• Raised "DEATH & CO" embossed blind stamp authentication mark
• Custom orange translucent floating acrylic frame with magnetic mount
• Gauntlet Gallery provenance & authenticity documentation

Shipping & Handling

Ships via UPS with full insurance and signature confirmation required. Acrylic display protected with acid-free tissue, corner protectors, foam-board sandwich, and rigid double-wall corrugated carton with fragile labeling. Tracking provided upon label generation.

International buyers welcome — please message for quote and customs documentation.

Collect Death NYC Celebrity & LV Series

Gauntlet Gallery regularly stocks Death NYC celebrity-portrait pieces, LV monogram editions, currency-series works, and signed prints across her full catalog. Browse our full eBay store for additional pieces from her Beatles LV, Snoopy LV, and celebrity series, plus works by Banksy, Shepard Fairey, KAWS, and Mr. Brainwash.

Authenticated · Archival · Gallery-Grade

GAUNTLET GALLERY

Authenticated Street Art & Collectibles · San Francisco · Est. 2012

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Questions about the signature, edition number, blind stamp, or shipping? Message us through eBay — same-business-day response. High-resolution close-ups of all authentication markers available on request.