Chris Pig British, b. 1965
Who Killed Sugar Baby?, 2006
linocut
image: 36 x 24 ¾ in.
paper: 43 x 31 in.
paper: 43 x 31 in.
Edition of 15
CP031
Copyright The Artist
$ 1,800.00
Salvador Segui, (nicknamed Sugarbaby either because he was a sweet talker or because he had a sweet tooth); general secretary of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT, was assassinated by...
Salvador Segui, (nicknamed Sugarbaby either because he was a sweet talker or because he had a sweet tooth); general secretary of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT, was assassinated by the police on March 10 th 1923. Some union members tracked down the alleged perpetrator of this crime, General Languia, and assassinated him as he played cards with his bodyguards in the back room of a bar. What you see in the print is Languia the moment before he was despatched.
The gun in this is an authentic artefact; a nickel-plated Orbea revolver from the 1920's, a real pimp's gun.
90x63cm Edition of 10
£500