About the Playboy 30th
When this image was released, it was an official alignment between Nagel, his publisher, Mirage Editions and Playboy to commemorate the magazine's 30th Anniversiary in 1983. Approximately 1000 of the 2500 unsigned prints were made available through Playboy Magazine. They made it known that they would be selling the thousand pieces for $50. each. We heard there were several hundred thousand requests for them creating a firestorm in the gallery system, who were only given the balance of the 1500 UNSIGNED POSTERS.
The Playboy brought big money almost immediately on the secondary market. A great image, only Nagel would have the nerve to allow the model's head to protrude out of the border of the design (something he was famous for).
We met the model -- a blond, curiously -- some months later, when she came into Galerlie Michael, the gallery where I was working in Century City.
About this serigraph
This is a genuine, one-color-at-a-time fine, serigraph. By the time this print was created, serigraphs (or as they are also known; "silk screens") were done using printing devices which were semi-automated; Still one color was printed at a time for each print. Printed 7/83 by Samper Silkscreen Co., a larger sheet than most of the lifetime Nagel posters, it measures 24x35" | this print is from the S.I.S. state.
(The complete tirage was: Edition of 2500 sis; 250 signed & numbered in the arabic numeraled edition; 3 signed A/Ps; 3 signed P/Ps. )
Condition rated 'good to fine'. No conservation concerns, metallic colors still fresh and clean, no scuffing no foxing, no deteriorations.
