Harland Miller (British 1964)
International Lonely Guy, 2010
inkjet and screenprint on paper
signed (lower right) and numbered "A.P./7" (lower left), aside from the edition of 20, published by Reflex, Amsterdam.
1250 x 1000 mm.

Condition: Faint handling creases in places, otherwise in very good condition.

Notes: Harland Miller's famous works of Penguin covers with made-up titles are highly sought after. The recipe for success has quite a few ingredients: Miller's love for books and his sharp sense of humour, a bit of Pop art and Ed Ruscha, some abstraction and figurative art. The artist on coming up with the idea: "I suppose it was a bit like Warhol's Campbell's soup cans being about what he ate for dinner every day - these Penguins were what I ended up reading every day, because I was living in Paris and I'd bought a bunch of them second-hand - it was all I could get my hands on. [...] I guess I wanted the cover to be art, and I became slightly obsessed with what a good book cover was, and frustrated by these unwritten rules you have in publishing [...] And I was looking to flout convention a bit because of my art background
it's easier to do that in the art world, it's almost expected. There were titles you definitely couldn't use in the literary world, but which were quite acceptable in the art world" (quoted in an interview with Gordon Burn 'Working titles', The Guardian, 2007. Available at: www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/05/art.art).


Est: € 10000-15000