HIRO YAMAGATA Elizabeth, 1999

Striking original exhibition poster created for Hiro Yamagata’s 1999 show at Marlborough Gallery, New York, featuring the artist’s iconic close-up portrait titled Elizabeth. Known for his bold use of color, layered surfaces, and high-gloss visual intensity, Yamagata transforms a single, open mouth into a powerful pop-infused image—both sensual and hyper-stylized. The palette of saturated pinks, reds, and metallic tones reveals the artist’s signature fusion of painting, graphic design, and digital experimentation at the end of the 20th century.

Printed in the pre-digital poster era, this large-format piece showcases exceptional offset lithographic quality, capturing every nuanced highlight and reflective texture of the subject’s lips. The scale and visual impact make it an especially compelling example of Yamagata’s late-1990s work, when he was pushing the boundaries between fine art, commercial imagery, and contemporary culture.

Highly collectible and rarely seen on the market, this poster is ideal for admirers of Pop Art, contemporary Japanese artists, and late-century Marlborough Gallery exhibitions.