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[The Beatles] [Bernstein, Richard. (1939 - 2002)]. The Nude Beatles. An irreverent and vivid color offset poster designed by Richard Bernstein and printed by Permild & Rosengreen, Denmark, 1968, showing the Fab Four naked in rainbow hues. Unsigned, printer identified within the matrix. Solvent based fluorescent ink screen print blacklight poster. Not examined out of frame but in apparently fine condition. Measures 23.5 x 28.25 inches (59.5 x 71.5 cm), framed.
In 1968, Richard Bernstein created his controversial The Nude Beatles where he superimposed the Beatles’ heads on nude male bodies in neon colors. A French judge ordered the prints to be confiscated and Apple Records (the Beatles’ label) sued the artist, but ultimately he prevailed. Bernstein, who later met John Lennon and discussed the painting, apparently told him that the work would have made a great album cover. The work was exhibited at MoMA in 2015 for the Making Music Modern exhibition. Very few of these prints exist today, as they were mostly removed from circulation during the lawsuit.
Richard Bernstein is most widely known as the creator of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine distinctive covers for seventeen years. A fixture at Studio 54 and with the fashion and art insiders, he captured the allure of The Disco Era through his iconic hyper-colored graphic portraits of superstars for their covers; his bold and graphic artwork was so complimentary to Warhol's that it was often thought that Warhol created the covers himself. Yet it was Bernstein, an American artist and art director, whose distinctive craft of embellishing photographs with pastels, stencils, and airbrushing, monumentalized his subjects into dazzling larger than life Pop Art incarnations of themselves.
[The Beatles] [Bernstein, Richard. (1939 - 2002)]. The Nude Beatles. An irreverent and vivid color offset poster designed by Richard Bernstein and printed by Permild & Rosengreen, Denmark, 1968, showing the Fab Four naked in rainbow hues. Unsigned, printer identified within the matrix. Solvent based fluorescent ink screen print blacklight poster. Not examined out of frame but in apparently fine condition. Measures 23.5 x 28.25 inches (59.5 x 71.5 cm), framed.
In 1968, Richard Bernstein created his controversial The Nude Beatles where he superimposed the Beatles’ heads on nude male bodies in neon colors. A French judge ordered the prints to be confiscated and Apple Records (the Beatles’ label) sued the artist, but ultimately he prevailed. Bernstein, who later met John Lennon and discussed the painting, apparently told him that the work would have made a great album cover. The work was exhibited at MoMA in 2015 for the Making Music Modern exhibition. Very few of these prints exist today, as they were mostly removed from circulation during the lawsuit.
Richard Bernstein is most widely known as the creator of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine distinctive covers for seventeen years. A fixture at Studio 54 and with the fashion and art insiders, he captured the allure of The Disco Era through his iconic hyper-colored graphic portraits of superstars for their covers; his bold and graphic artwork was so complimentary to Warhol's that it was often thought that Warhol created the covers himself. Yet it was Bernstein, an American artist and art director, whose distinctive craft of embellishing photographs with pastels, stencils, and airbrushing, monumentalized his subjects into dazzling larger than life Pop Art incarnations of themselves.