ABOUT THE NAGEL LIMITED EDITION POSTERS
The limited edition POSTERS, only 34 titles in all, were created in extremely small editions sizes. The amounts varied with each image but on average 1500 sheets were 'pulled'. plus proofs. There were two 'versions' -- or what is termed 'states' in the art community -- to each serigraphic poster: one state signed by Nagel in pencil; one state 'signed in screen' (s.i.s.) or to be precise, unsigned. Usually 250 were signed, 1250 unsigned.
In the world of rare posters, these would be considered posters, even still. The term nominally refers to work of art on paper which has some kind of typography on it, i.e., some promotional intent -- what in antique poster terminology is called 'letters'. . physically they were all identical. Confusing? You bet...for more, visit our Nagel site by clicking here...
About Dyansen 57
Dyansen Galleries, a large multiple-location commercial art gallery company, had a toney gallery on 57th Street in NYC in the early '80's. The gallery sold a lot of Nagels. It was rewarded by this poster..
Dyansen 57, published 3/83, measures 25x17", serigraph in 9 colors printed by Samper Silkscreen Co., full tirage was: 1250 s.i.s., 250 s/n; 40 a/ps
About this poster:
This is one of the 'unsigned' posters, i.e., signed in screen (s.i.s.) only. Condition is rated 'good to fine' -- poster has been framed and bears some slight evidence of mats and linen tape on the back. Offered unframed.
ABOUT PATRICK NAGEL (1945 - 1984):
For every decade since the development of color, planographic art (the mid-19th Century) there has been an artist whose work was instrumental in reflecting and, in some cases defining, the era in which they lived. For the1980's, it was 
Patrick
Nagel. Nagel was a phenomenon, much like those great painter/illustrators to precede him -- Jules Cheret,
A.M. Cassandre, Leyendecker, Holwein, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rockwell, to name only a few. • At the end of
his short life, Playboy magazine was accepting illustrations from Nagel sight-unseen to run in the magazine
and his fame and fortune had reached staggering heights in the fine art world.
Because of his untimely demise, Patrick's "lifetime" body of work is (comparatively) very small. But
it was important work. The Nagel 'renaissance' has already begun—the work is being revisited by scholars
and collectors alike.
