A Scarce Original `The New Standard` Headline Billboard Sheet; 'John Lennon Shot Dead' c.1980

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A Scarce Original `The New Standard` Headline Billboard Sheet; 'John Lennon Shot Dead' c.1980Origin: British Period: Late Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: 1980 Height: 28 inches Width: 16. 5 inches Framed: 33. 75 x 22. 25 inches Condition: B Having originally been displayed at a news stand or kiosk from the day after John Lennon`s death on Monday 8th December 1980, the dramatic headline flyer simply reading John Lennon Shot Dead in capital bold text over the mid blue bannered logo of The New Standard news group. The sheet has been

and this mark certainly dates it to after 1860

and Swan joined John Mawson

The label on this rare example has some wear but is still largely in tact

Joe Leiter

The composition has a sense of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1881 picture ‘Bouquet of Chrysanthemums’ about it in terms of the palette used and it may have provided an inspiration to this work

There is some fraying to some edges and some water marks and stains

On each side of the scene is an illustration of a box of the cigarettes

has got to rank among some of the greatest

The learning plate is in good overall order with some creases that would eventually drop out and some light fading to the paper

from drawings by the late John Flaxman

this makes for a truly original piece of fairground art

Hippolyte of Paris in 1832

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