DEATH NYC

Mona Lisa in a BAPE Shark Hoodie × Louis Vuitton Multicolore

Hand-Signed, Hand-Numbered Limited Edition Pop Art Print — 2025

What You Are Getting

An authentic, hand-signed Death NYC limited edition print colliding three of the most recognizable visual icons of the last 500 years — Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, A Bathing Ape's Shark Hoodie, and the Louis Vuitton Multicolore Monogram designed by Takashi Murakami. The Mona Lisa appears wearing the iconic BAPE shark zip-hoodie, half-hooded with the unmistakable red-mouth shark face peeking from the side, all over a saturated multicolore LV pattern that bleeds into da Vinci's original Sfumato landscape. Pencil-signed by the artist in the lower right and hand-numbered in the lower left on heavyweight textured fine art paper.

Print Details

About the Work

This piece compresses 500+ years of visual culture into a single image. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1519) is arguably the most-reproduced and most-photographed painting on Earth — and Death NYC dresses her in BAPE's Shark Full Zip Hoodie, the streetwear holy grail launched by Japanese designer Nigo in 2005 and still considered the single most recognizable hoodie silhouette in fashion history. The background fuses da Vinci's original sfumato landscape with the Louis Vuitton Multicolore Monogram designed by Takashi Murakami in 2003 for Marc Jacobs — the LV × Murakami collaboration that reset how the luxury industry approached contemporary art partnerships.

The result is a triple high-low collision: Renaissance fine art, Tokyo streetwear, and Parisian luxury, treated as equal-weight visual languages. The piece reads as commentary on celebrity, branding, and the way every iconic image eventually becomes merchandise — a theme Death NYC has been pressing on since the early 2010s.

About the Artist

Death NYC is an anonymous New York-based street and pop artist who has been releasing limited edition signed prints since the early 2010s. The work is defined by aggressive appropriation — fine art masters, streetwear icons, anime, and luxury houses including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, BAPE, and Supreme — recombined into single high-density compositions.

Death NYC editions are pencil-signed and hand-numbered, typically in editions of 20, 45, or 100, with smaller editions commanding the strongest secondary market. Death NYC works have been collected and resold across major secondary markets including Heritage Auctions, Artsy, and 1stDibs. The anonymous-artist mythology, combined with the relentless mashup output, has made Death NYC one of the most recognizable street/pop crossover names of the past decade.

What Is Included

• One (1) authentic hand-signed Death NYC limited edition print
• Pencil signature lower right, edition number lower left
• Shipped flat in archival sleeve between two rigid backing boards
• Frame shown in photos is for display only and is not included

Shipping

Ships via UPS within 1–2 business days of cleared payment. Print is sandwiched between rigid backing boards inside a custom-fit, water-resistant flat mailer. Fully insured and tracked. International buyers welcome — please message before purchase for a quote.

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