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Lot 383: The Grateful Dead 1966 "Frankenstein" Avalon Concert Poster- RARE
2023-10-28T14:00:00Z
Start price: $50
Estimated price: $150 - $300
Lot 383:
The Grateful Dead 1966 "Frankenstein" Avalon Concert Poster- RARE
Description
A collector’s item for any Deadhead – a vintage 1966 concert poster featuring Grateful Dead with Sop with Camel at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The poster design is titled Frankenstein and the art was created by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly. Third printing, lithograph. Dimensions: 20.5h x 14.25w (unframed). In excellent condition. Frankenstein is a rare early Family Dog Avalon Ballroom poster for the Grateful Dead and this piece features a quirky image of what we think is Glenn Strange as Frankenstein’s monster (Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein). In the image, the monster looks quite stoned and evidently the artists were just as toasted as when they created this poster as they mispelled the name of the band! According to Poster Expert Eric King, the Grateful Dead were without a logo and the SF poster artists had been trying to supply that inspiration to the band when they had a chance to highlight them in a poster. This was the second try, following Wes Wilson’s, “The Quick and The Dead” poster from June of 1966 featuring a Jose Posada image. While Frankenstein did not win, the third time was the charm as the poster Mouse and Kelley designed for the Dead in September 1966 featured the well-known skeleton and roses image and the rest was history.
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