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Jamie Reid | God Save the Queen, machine print trial proof

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Jamie Reid

God Save the Queen, machine print trial proof

black print on white paper (425 x 300mm.), framed

This uses the iconic official Silver Jubilee portrait of the Queen by photographer Peter Grugeon defaced with a safety pin in her mouth. Larger versions of this, without the safety pin, were used as advertising for the single on London buses. Reid's source image of the Queen has often been misidentified as by Cecil Beaton.

Purchased from Christie’s South Kensington, 10 Dec 1998, lot 290

Exhibited: Hospital, London 2004; Urbis, Manchester 2005; Kunsthalle Vienna 2008; DA2 Center of Contemporary Art, Salamanca 2008; French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici 2011; MAMCO, Geneva 2011; B.P.S.22, Espace de Création Contemporain, Charleroi 2011; Musée de la Musique, Paris 2013

England’s Dreaming p.351, No Future p.82; Satellite p.95

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