Vintage David Lance Goines, Rare Early "Antique Guild Los Angeles " Poster

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#(56) ANTIQUE GUILD:

Two identical printings, the first of 2418 copies and the second of … Read more Click on image for detail
#(56) ANTIQUE GUILD:

Two identical printings, the first of 2418 copies and the second of 2435, all signed copies being from the first. 200 copies are signed 1-200, 10 copies are signed with Roman numerals i-x, 26 copies are signed A-Z as artist's proofs, and four sets are signed as progressives.

February 5, 1976 Four colors 15" x 24"

Client: Karl Bornstein, representing The Antique Guild, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90034. Telephone (213) 838-3131 i-x: Karl Bornstein A-Z: Artist's own use

WILL BE SHIPPED FLAT BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF MASONITE

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

The artist wrote the following about this poster:
Pain makes us so self-absorbed. It's as though there were nothing else in the universe. It's all you want to talk about. It's all you think about. You become a bit of a bore. People don't want to be around old Johnny-One-Note. So you drive it down and paint it over so that nobody can see, and should the subject come up you dodge it. Hard disfiguring knot grown around, your skin puckers over the place where you hide it inside. A bit crippled, you get on with your life as well as you can, and if you're lucky, you may remember the good parts and realize that they outweigh the bad.

Other people are just like you, and they hurt just as much and for the same reasons. We don't mean to hurt other people, but we do. Sometimes we realize how much we hurt them, and would like to ask their pardon, but usually it's too late.

Pain-your own or someone else's-is utterly compelling. That's why it's such a good subject for art, literature and music. See less