Artimage’s top 5 licensed products of 2015

As we welcome in the New Year, Artimage looks back at 2015 and highlights some of the fantastic products we licensed, ranging from TV documentaries to membership cards.


Artimage’s top 5 licensed products of 2015

We worked with national arts organisation the Art Fund to license a classic Andy Warhol image for posters advertising their National Art Pass in the London Underground. The pass provides the holder exclusive offers and discounts on entry to major galleries and museums across the UK.  The funds raised through the pass help museums and galleries buy important works of art for their public collections.

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Everybody Razzle Dazzle, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 NOW and Tate Liverpool

Everybody Razzle Dazzle 

Unveiled in Liverpool in 2015 was Sir Peter Blake’s ‘Razzle Dazzle’ ferry – a working Mersey Ferry which has been painted in a geometric Pop Art design. The moving artwork was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial14-18 NOW and Tate Liverpool to mark the centenary of World War I, and is inspired by the distinctive ‘dazzle’ camouflage applied to battleships during the war. Artimage had the pleasure of licensing high-res images for prints featured in an on-board display, as well as for Liverpool Biennial’s website.

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The Chronic

The Sahara Is Not A Boundary The Chronic 550Px

We were delighted to work with South Africa-based cultural journal, The Chronic, to license images by Ibrahim El-Salahi for their July issue. Entitled ‘The Sahara is Not a Boundary’, this edition of the quarterly gazette featured sketches from El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook series, depicting his experiences of Sudan’s Kober (Cooper) Prison in the 1970s.

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BBC Four’s ‘What Do Artist’s Do All Day?’

Self-Portrait (after Warhol) 

We worked with the production team behind the successful BBC Four ‘What Do Artists Do All Day?’  documentary series to license images by artists including Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare MBE. The series takes an intimate look behind-the-scenes of the day-to-day work of some today’s most exciting contemporary artists.

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Gagosian Gallery’s Francis Bacon: Late Paintings catalogue

Gagosian Gallery Francis Bacon Late Paintings 550Px

In September, we licensed over 20 images by Francis Bacon to the Gagosian Gallery in New York. These images appeared in the accompanying catalogue to their Francis Bacon: Late Paintings exhibition in November and December, encompassing paintings made by Bacon in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life. The images were licensed through ARS, DACS’ sister society in New York.

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Francis Bacon - Triptych-In Memory of George Dyer, 1971 (centre panel):

Triptych In Memory Of George Dyer 1971 Centre Panel Francis Bacon 550Px

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Sir Peter Blake - Roxy Roxy, 1965-83:

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Ibrahim El-Salahi - Prison Notebook 7, 1976:

Prison Notebook 7, 1976

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Tracey Emin - Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995:

veryone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995

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Images from top: Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, 1985, Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / DACS; Sir Peter Blake, Everybody Razzle Dazzle, 2015, Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 NOW: First World War Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool in partnership with Merseytravel and National Museums Liverpool, Photo: Mark McNulty; Muzmin (Arabic edition of The Chronic, July 2015), Image courtesy Chimurenga; Self-Portrait (after Warhol) 1, 2013, Yinka Shonibare MBE © Yinka Shonibare MBE, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015, Image courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Francis Bacon: Late Paintings catalogue, Gagosian Gallery New York, Photograph by DACS © DACS, featuring Study of the Human Body-from a Drawing by Ingres, 1982, 1982-84, Francis Bacon © The Estate of Francis Bacon, All rights reserved, DACS 2015, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd; Triptych-In Memory of George Dyer, 1971 (centre panel), Francis Bacon © The Estate of Francis Bacon, All rights reserved, DACS 2015, Photo: Hugo Maertens; Roxy Roxy, 1965-83, Peter Blake © Peter Blake, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015, Image: © Waddington Custot Galleries, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd; Prison Notebook 7, Ibrahim El-Salahi © Ibrahim El-Salahi, All rights reserved, DACS 2015; Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, 1995, Tracey Emin © Tracey Emin, All rights reserved, DACS 2015, Image courtesy White Cube.