Artimage’s top 10 licensed products 2016

We licensed our artists’ images for a high quality and eclectic range of products and uses in 2016. Here are some of our favourites.

Artimage’s top 10 licensed products 2016


Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art - Phaidon

Frieze A Z Contemporary Art

From Pop art to Brit art, we licensed images by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst for Frieze’s comprehensive illustrated guide to 25 years of contemporary art.


Emotional learning cards - Iniva Creative Learning

What Do Relationships Mean To You Sonia Boyce

These cards use visual art to support emotional learning at school, home and in therapy and counselling sessions. We licensed images by Sonia Boyce and Faisal Abdu’Allah. Read more.


Artist portrait postcards – Tate

Peter Blake Studio London 2011 Johnnie Shand Kydd

This set of postcards, available from the Tate Shop for a limited period, included black and white photographs of Lucian Freud by John Deakin, Sir Peter Blake by Johnnie Shand Kydd, and Paula Rego by Nicholas Sinclair.


Event presentations - Speaking Volumes

Guyana Myths IV Ning Nang 1971 Aubrey Williams

Aubrey Williams’ paintings were licensed by Speaking Volumes - a leading literature events company - for their presentations at events celebrating Caribbean artist movements and 50 years of Guyanese independence.


Theatre programmes - Royal Shakespeare Company

The Phoenix 2012 Jason Decaires Taylor

The RSC chose to include Francis Bacon’s unsettling Study of a Head, 1952 and Jason deCaires Taylor’s life-affirming The Phoenix, 2012 in their programmes for King Lear and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Read more.


Exhibition marketing and public engagement tools - Guggenheim Bilbao

Francis Bacon Guggenheim Bilbao

We worked on a major project to license materials supporting Guggenheim Bilbao’s blockbuster 2016 autumn/winter exhibition, Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez. These included uses of Francis Bacon images in a promotional film, wall panels, an online resource and press images.


Muhammad Ali supplement – The Sunday Times

Muhammad Ali 1978 Andy Warhol The Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts Inc DACS 2017

The Sunday Times licensed an image of Muhammad Ali by Andy Warhol for their 16-page souvenir supplement commemorating the iconic boxer's death in June 2016.


In-store magazine – Graff Diamonds

Graffiti Magazine Winter 2016 Page 44 Graff Diamonds

We licensed Peter Doig’s paintings for the winter 2016 issue of Graff Diamonds’ Graffiti Magazine. We worked with creative agency, Show Media, who publish the magazine. Read more.


Artrage! – Thames & Hudson

Artrage Book Jacket Design Thames And Hudson

Images by artists including Tracey EminJake and Dinos Chapman and Sam Taylor-Johnson were licensed for this major hardback book chronicling the Young British Artists movement. Read more.


Fine art prints – The Bookroom Art Press

Locmariaquer Brittany C1989 John Piper

We licensed prints by the Bookroom Art Press featuring images by celebrated Neo-Romantic painter John Piper. The prints are available to purchase online or from Brighton-based Kemptown Bookshop.

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Images from top: Image montage featuring from top 'Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art' by Frieze Magazine, 'What do relationships mean to you?' emotional learning cards by Iniva Creative Learning and 'Strokes of Genius', page 42, Graffiti Magazine Winter 2016, Photos by DACS; Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art' by Frieze Magazine, published by Phaidon, Photo: DACS; 'What do relationships mean to you?' emotional learning cards by Iniva Creative Learning, featuring 'Big Womens' Talk, 1984', by Sonia Boyce, Photo: DACS; Peter Blake, Studio, London, 2011, Johnnie Shand Kydd © Johnnie Shand Kydd, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2017, Photo: Johnnie Shand Kydd; Guyana Myths IV: Ning-Nang, 1971, Aubrey Williams © Estate of Aubrey Williams, All rights reserved, DACS 2017, Photo: Jonathan Orenstein; The Phoenix, 2012, Jason deCaires Taylor © Jason deCaires Taylor, All rights reserved, DACS 2017, Photo: Jason deCaires Taylor; Screenshot of homepage of website for 'Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez' at Guggenheim Bilbao, Photo: DACS; Muhammad Ali, 1978, Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / DACS 2017, 'Strokes of Genius', page 44, Graffiti Magazine Winter 2016, Photo by DACS; Artrage! jacket cover, courtesy Thames & HudsonLocmariaquer, Brittany, c.1989, John Piper © The Piper Estate / DACS 2017. Photo: Luke Piper.