Untitled
1975
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1975
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a 1975 by Richard Bird, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This poster is mostly red with black splatters. White text names a play called *No Man’s Land* by Harold Pinter. It lists actors like John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, plus the show’s director and designer. The background looks like red paint with messy black drips. The poster was made for a 1975 play at Wyndham’s Theatre in London. The messy paint style stands out—it’s not clean or polished. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more posters like this.
The work is a photographic and typographic piece created by Richard Bird in 1975. It is associated with the production of Harold Pinter's play *No Man's Land*, directed by Peter Hall with design by John Bury, staged at Wyndham's Theatre in London on July 15, 1975.
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Richard Bird made bold, layered posters in the 1970s. His 1979 “Bernard Stern Paintings and Sculptures 1969–1979” stacks images like collages, while the 1975 Untitled poster piles halftone faces and geometric cuts in…
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