Event Poster
Edwardian Ball Multiple Cities 18 Sperry
About this poster
It’s Edwardian Ball time again, and as always, it’s a great pleasure to work with Justin Katz, the Edwardian Ball impresario, and once again I had a lot of fun making this poster!
My Edwardian Ball posters always have an edge of social critique in them. They are done with a wink and a nod, in keeping with the enjoyment of attending such an elaborate period pageant.
Most of the attendees also realize that the Edwardian era was one of unabashed and ostentatious oligarchy, unrivaled economic imperialism and a presumed European superiority complex. It’s all of these things that makes the period so bizarre to us today. I’ve always endeavored to reveal this outrageous and bizarre sense of imperial entitlement in my Edwardian Ball posters, and keep them wild and fun.
My poster this year is a fanciful portrait of famed New York titan and oligarch, John Jacob Astor IV, with his pregnant, 18 year old, newlywed wife Madeleine — during their deliciously scandalous honeymoon to France and Egypt — on an evening walk outside the Paris Opera sometime before returning to America aboard the Titanic.
The wealthiest man aboard the doomed ship, and with $25,000 cash discovered frozen in his pocket, Astor went down with the ship. A cautionary tale for the Trump Era.
- Chuck Sperry
Edition Details
- Year: 2018
- Designer: Chuck Sperry
- Status: Official
- Class: Event Poster
- Print Type: Limited Edition (LE)
- Release Date: 01/26/2018
- Technique: Screen Print
- Colors: 3
- Size: 15" x 35" (38.10 x 88.90 cm)
- Quantity: 125
- Paper: Archival Cream Paper
- Markings: Numbered
Event Details
- Event: Edwardian Ball
- Date: 01/26/2018, 01/27/2018
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Francisco
- Venue: The Regency Ballroom
- Date: 02/09/2018, 02/10/2018
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Los Angeles
- Venue: Globe Theatre
Awards
Statistics
- Sold: 4
- 6 Month Average: $0
- Average Price: $118
- Lowest Price: $80
- Highest Price: $150
- Original Price: $0
Price History
08/16/2021 | $350.00 | Private Sale |
08/16/2021 | $800.00 | Private Sale |
07/29/2021 | $75.00 | Private Sale |
07/27/2021 | $50.00 | Private Sale |
07/06/2021 | $70.00 | Private Sale |
08/16/2021 | $350.00 | Private Sale |
08/16/2021 | $800.00 | Private Sale |
07/29/2021 | $75.00 | Private Sale |
07/27/2021 | $50.00 | Private Sale |
07/06/2021 | $70.00 | Private Sale |
08/16/2021 | $350.00 | Private Sale |
08/16/2021 | $800.00 | Private Sale |
07/29/2021 | $75.00 | Private Sale |
07/27/2021 | $50.00 | Private Sale |
07/06/2021 | $70.00 | Private Sale |
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