ABOUT GALERIE MICHAEL
GALERIE MICHAEL now on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, was in Century City, CA in 1982. I was one of the gallery directors in those days and we sold out the Nagel show almost before it even opened.
This was the poster Pat created to commemorate that show. The same image was used on the large limited edition image of "Michelle". (Be advised, this same image was later released posthumously as a low-end offset litho)
Make no mistake, this is real Nagel serigraph, printed by hand. Not a cheap offset litho. This is one of only 34 posters designs released by Mirage and that Nagel created while living. Only about 1500 of these were ever printed (see tirage at right). (Bear in mind, this poster was taken from the same original artwork as the large "Michelle" serigraph from the same year).
About the GM serigraphiic poster
Galerie Michael's full tirage was: 1200 s.i.s.; 250 s/n; 40 a/ps; 3 p/ps. It measures 18"x25" Serigraph printed by Samper Silkscreen Co. in 14 colors ca. 1982.
About this Print:
This print is from the s/n edition, signed and numbered by Nagel himself, #125/250;
"...I was working at Galerie Michael during this exhibition...when Nagel did a personal appearance at at the gallery the day before the show for a poster signing, there was already a line at the door..."
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.
