1970s Chez Panisse Restaurant Garlic a Limited Edition Poster by David Lance Goines for Berkeley for Chez Panisse Restaurant Alice Waters

Details

Description

Never CIrculated or left his LA Gallery Inventory until we bought it in 1990 and ben stored in archival acid … Read more Never CIrculated or left his LA Gallery Inventory until we bought it in 1990 and ben stored in archival acid free print drawers ever since. IT HAS TO BE SHIPPED FLAT BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF MASONITE AND FOAM COR.

The New York Times in his recent obit stated, David Lance Goines, Who Shaped the Counterculture Aesthetic.

IT HAS TO BE SHIPPED FLAT BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF MASONITE AND FOAM COR.

(#70) BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE:

Edition of 3023 of which 300 copies are signed 1-300, 26 copies are signed A-Z as artist's proofs, one copy is signed as a dedication copy, and five sets are signed as progressives.

November 11, 1977 Six colors 18" x 24"

Client: Elizabeth Ratcliff, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2980 College Avenue, Berkeley CA 94705. Telephone (510) 845-4700 Sponsor: Harry Dov Weininger A-Z & dedication copy: Artist's own use

From the publication Berkeleyside:
David Lance Goines, a printmaker who came of age during the Free Speech Movement and whose fine arts posters became emblematic of numerous Berkeley institutions, including Chez Panisse. After making his first poster for Chez Panisse in 1972 — a now seminal design of a red-haired friend of Alice Waters holding a wine glass — the restaurant skyrocketed to fame. Goines’ posters became inseparable from the restaurant’s visual brand.

Over more than four decades, his illustrations have become both iconic and seemingly ubiquitous in the city, his trademark posters defining the many Berkeley institutions for which he designed: Acme Bread Company, Velo Bicycle, UC Berkeley, the city’s public library. His impact extended far beyond Berkeley: His half-century long career has left a distinctive mark in the history of graphic arts. Drawing inspiration from the German counterpart of the Art Noveau movement and the American Arts and Crafts movement, Goines blended these styles with the spirit of 1960s Berkeley to create his unique designs.

David Lance Goines wrote about this poster:
At one point it was briefly fashionable to be a hooker. Or maybe it was fashionable to pretend to be a hooker and dress like one but not actually be one. My recollection is a bit murky. Being a hooker, especially a street-corner hooker, is hard and dangerous work, and I can't imagine anyone actually doing it for fun. But, tastes differ, I guess. The dance thrown by coyote (Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics) was originally to be called "The Hooker's Ball," and so I thought this concept of a playing card to be just oblique enough to pique the viewer. But when the coyote people saw the design, they decided to change the name of the dance to "The Queen of Hearts Ball," and that took a bit of the obliqueness out of it. The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-glay.* Really, they do.

SECOND PHOTO CREDIT Photo: Melati Citrawireja for the Berkeleyside See less