Sex Pistols | A group of promotional stickers

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Sex Pistols

Jamie Reid — A group of promotional stickers

Lot includes: God Save the Queen (with teacup) gummed sticker (140 x 104 mm) — God Save the Queen (with safety pin) gummed sticker (140 x 108 mm) — No Future gummed sticker (133 x 70 mm).

(Sold as a group — not subject to return.)

A trio of promotional stickers, featuring some of Sex Pistols' most iconic images.

Jamie Reid pioneered the use of stickers as informal artwork and ephemeral propaganda in his countercultural work for the Suburban Press earlier in the 1970s. Two of the three stickers in the present lot use the iconic official Silver Jubilee portrait of the Queen by photographer Peter Grugeon. While one depicts the Queen defaced with a safety pin in her mouth, alongside elements of the lyric written out by Reid and the Sex Pistols logo, the other positions her as a tablecloth for a Jubilee cup of tea, framed by Reid's ransom note logos for the band and the song. The third sticker features the slogan "No Future," which derives from the lyrics of God Save the Queen - it was in fact the song's original title and became one of the central phrases of punk ideology.

REFERENCES:

Up They Rise pp. 60-61, 62, and 67; No Future p.88; Satellite p.95, 97

PROVENANCE:

Joe Corre, London, circa 1993