Great Dame 

Patrick Nagel's "Great Dame" is a screenprint, a medium that inherently speaks of reproduction and accessibility. The flat, graphic quality of screen printing perfectly captures Nagel's signature style. The stark lines and bold areas of color emphasize the sleek, almost airbrushed quality of the image. This aesthetic, so redolent of the 1980s, wasn't just about surface appeal; it reflected a wider shift toward mass production and consumer culture. Nagel's prints, with their cool detachment and stylized figures, tapped into a desire for accessible luxury. The screen printing process allowed Nagel to create multiples of his work efficiently, making it available to a wider audience. In that respect, "Great Dame" embodies the spirit of its time, blurring the lines between art and design, and embracing the possibilities of mechanical reproduction.