Fright Face

Artwork details

Artist

Ralph Steadman

Title

Fright Face

Description

Famed co-conspirator of Hunter S. Thompson, Steadman’s work shares several key personality traits: a troubled relationship with sanity, an anarchic sense of humor, and at its core an unquestionable integrity. Steadman’s wry illustrations are both entirely surreal and endearingly honest.

The latest print in the ‘Picasso 347 Suite Homage’, a series of prints that tribute the Spanish artist by referring to some of his most well-known works. A skilled and prolific printmaker, Picasso worked on the ‘347 Suite’ at the age of 86, completing its 347 prints in six months.

Steadman was inspired to copy his hero and was determined to go one better by creating 547 images in 5 months. We have produced several from the series, but this is by far the largest and most ambitious with its dramatic colours and attention to the subtleties of the ink intensity.

Date

2023

Medium

Screenprint

Edition

20

Signature

Signed

Sheet

112 x 77 cm

Status

Available

Price

£1,950.00