Shepard Fairey AK-47 Lotus Letterpress AP Signed 2021 10x13 Obey Giant Print

𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗬 — 𝗔𝗞-𝟰𝟳 𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗨𝗦 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭)

𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘧 Letterpress • Pencil Signed • Obey Giant

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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚

An Artist Proof of Shepard Fairey's AK-47 Lotus letterpress — a red lotus blooming from the barrel of an AK-47. Pencil signed and dated '21 lower right, annotated AP lower left, with the embossed OBEY publishing chop. The AP designation sits outside the numbered edition of 450, making this scarcer than the standard release.

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𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦

• Artist: Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant)

• Title: AK-47 Lotus

• Year: 2021

• Medium: Letterpress on cream cotton paper, hand-deckled edges

• Size: 10 x 13 inches

• Edition: Artist Proof (AP) — aside from the numbered edition of 450

• Markings: Pencil signed & dated '21, AP notation, embossed OBEY chop

• Condition: Excellent — see photos

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𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞

Released June 2021 as a companion to AR-15 Lily, this image draws on Vietnam War-era protesters placing flowers in the gun barrels of National Guardsmen. Fairey described the pair as a pacifist statement, with a portion of original proceeds donated to Brady United, a gun violence prevention organization. The letterpress process gives the ink a tactile, debossed quality no offset print can match.

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𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧

Shepard Fairey is one of the most influential street artists of his generation — creator of the OBEY campaign and the 2008 Obama HOPE poster, with work in the collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian.

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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗗

• AK-47 Lotus AP letterpress print, pencil signed & dated

• Careful flat-pack or rigid tube packaging, fully insured

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𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚

Ships via UPS with tracking, professionally packed between acid-free materials and rigid boards.

𝗚𝗮𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘁.𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 — Authenticated Street Art & Collectibles, San Francisco. Est. 2012.