The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection
The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection
Malcolm McLaren | Double sided handbill for Anarchy in the UK, Huddersfield, 25 December 1977
Lot Closed
October 21, 01:51 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Malcolm McLaren
Double sided handbill for Anarchy in the UK, or the 'Oliver Twist Manifesto', 25 December 1977
(420 x 320mm.)
Created for their last British concert on Christmas Day, which was to be the band's final UK performance before they split, this powerful statement incorporates Dickensian references of street urchins and is signed 'Oliver Twist', underlining McLaren's aspiration for the Sex Pistols as teenage Situationist anarchists. "...to jump right out of the 20th Century as fast as you possibly can in order to create an environment that you can truthfully run wild in."
Exhibited: Eagle, London 1996; Barbican Art Gallery, London 2000; Hospital, London 2004; Urbis, Manchester 2005; 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