Death NYC — Van Gogh "Starry Night" × Peanuts Dollar Diptych
Two Real U.S. $1 Banknotes · Signed & Dated 2024 · Sequential Serials
Van Gogh × Charlie Brown & Snoopy · Fine Art × Pop Culture
What You Are Getting
An authentic Death NYC signed pop art piece printed across two real, sequential U.S. one-dollar banknotes — one of her most lyrical compositions, merging Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) with the Peanuts universe. The top banknote bears the iconic swirling cypress, rolling hills, and star-filled night sky; the bottom banknote extends the Van Gogh landscape outward, placing Charlie Brown and Snoopy as tiny silhouettes inside the Starry Night's horizon.
The piece uses Series 2021 U.S. Federal Reserve Notes signed by Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, with sequential serial numbers D40285793A and D40285794A — consecutive notes from the same currency run. The artwork is hand-signed by Death NYC on the reverse in purple marker and dated 2024.
Housed in a premium magnetic clear-acrylic display frame, ready to hang or display. The fine-art-meets-pop-culture mashup hits two collector segments simultaneously: Van Gogh / MoMA / art history collectors and Peanuts / Snoopy / nostalgia collectors — a rare two-audience piece that's shown strong sell-through in the Death NYC market.
Piece Details
| Artist |
Death NYC (b. 1979, New York) |
| Title |
Starry Night × Peanuts — 2x $1 Dollar Bill Diptych |
| Year |
2024 (hand-dated on reverse) |
| Source Images |
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889, MoMA) + Peanuts (Charles Schulz) |
| Substrate |
Two authentic U.S. $1 Federal Reserve Notes (Series 2021) |
| Serial Numbers |
D40285793A & D40285794A (sequential) |
| Currency Signer |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
| Medium |
Offset lithograph print over real U.S. currency; full-color Starry Night overlay |
| Signature |
Hand-signed and dated 2024 in purple marker on reverse |
| Display |
Premium magnetic clear-acrylic display frame |
| Framed Dimensions |
12" × 12" (~30.5 × 30.5 cm) |
| Condition |
Excellent — banknotes crisp, print vivid, signature strong |
About the Work
The Source Imagery. Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889 while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York since 1941 and is the most-reproduced painting of the 19th century. Charles Schulz's Peanuts — featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, and the rest — ran for 17,897 daily strips over 50 years (1950–2000) and remains one of the most widely-licensed character franchises in American pop culture.
The Death NYC Treatment. Death NYC's mashup places Charlie Brown and Snoopy inside the Starry Night's lower horizon — the cypress tree and swirling sky reshaped to extend across both banknotes as a unified landscape. The composition uses the full-color Van Gogh palette (cobalt, ochre, cerulean) rather than her typical magenta wash, making this a tonally distinctive piece within her currency series.
Two-Market Appeal. Van Gogh-referencing Death NYC pieces trade strongly in the art-history-collector segment, while Peanuts / Snoopy pieces have emerged as one of her most consistent commercial franchises. Comparable diptych pieces with sequential serials and art-history source imagery typically fetch the upper range of her currency-series 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. 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
Signed by Death NYC in purple marker on reverse and dated 2024. U.S. currency substrate is authentic Series 2021 Federal Reserve Notes with valid sequential serial numbers (D40285793A / D40285794A) verifiable under UV/magnification. 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 signed pop-art piece on two sequential U.S. $1 Series 2021 banknotes
- Hand-signature and 2024 date on reverse in purple marker
- Premium magnetic clear-acrylic display frame
- 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, and rigid double-wall corrugated carton with fragile labeling. Tracking provided upon label generation.
International buyers welcome — please message for quote.
Collect Death NYC Currency Works
Gauntlet Gallery regularly stocks Death NYC currency-series works and signed prints. Browse our full eBay store for additional Peanuts / Snoopy pieces, dollar-bill diptychs, and signed editions from Banksy, Shepard Fairey, KAWS, and Mr. Brainwash.
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