Courtenay Pollock EPIC Grateful Dead Tie-Dye Stage Backdrop textile art phish

Description

Courtenay Pollock
Serpent
Totem
Matrix (
Grateful Dead Stage Backdrop)
c. 1991
Natural dyes on cotton
12 x 18 foot
Presented for auction, an incredible and exceeding rare Tie-Dye stage backdrop originally designed and produced for the Grateful Dead by world-renowned tie-dye artist Courtenay Pollock. The piece, entitled 'Serpent Totem Matrix', measures 12 ft tall x 18 ft wide (144 x 216 inches), and was made with natural dyes on cotton fabric, c. 1991, intended to be used as a true stage backdrop for the Dead. Sold item will be delivered to the buyer with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by Courtenay Pollock, along with additional materials further authenticating the piece.
This is the very best of the best of Courtenay Pollock's work. Of EPIC proportions, with rich, complex, psychedelic colors and design, and significant historical import.
About the artist: At
the height of the late 60’s counterculture movement, following a profound psychedelic experience, Courtenay Pollock created his first tie-dyed mandala tapestries. Moving West with little more than his new tie-dyed creations, he searched for housing and was led to a home built around two giant redwood trees in Marin County. There, he befriended a 22 year old Bob Weir (guitarist for the then-burgeoning Grateful Dead) and was promptly commissioned to create speaker covers. By late 1971,
Courtenay
Pollock's work was being used
regularly
by the Dead on tour.
For the past 5 decades, Courtenay Pollock has been at the forefront of tie-dye art, pushing the boundaries of the medium and elevating the now ubiquitous art & craft to a highly complex visual language. A combination of intense color and kaleidoscopic geometry results in the dynamic, hallucinatory style for which Pollock has become internationally acclaimed.
Courtenay Pollock’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design, The New York Historical Society, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, and Bonhams New York. The Grateful Dead and their countless “spinoff” bands have used his legendary tie-dyed stage backdrops for more than 50 years.
Far smaller, sun-faded GD speaker covers by Courtenay Pollock sold at auction at Sotheby's last October for nearly ,000.
The photograph of the work hanging outside is an actual photo of the work on view during an exhibition on Long Island in 2020.
I have attached images of a couple of other works by Courtenay Pollock on stage with the Grateful Dead in the 80s at the Greek Theatre.
Buyer pays for 1-2 day shipping in the US via FedEx. 0 flat International shipping via FedEx.  This piece will ship folded and wrapped in plastic. Any wrinkles will iron or steam out quite nicely.
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