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Pristine vintage Burt Reynolds silkscreen — an original from rock poster artist K. Chillis, whose collectible prints are rare finds, rarer still in mint deadstock condition.
Dated 1978, printed between 1978 and 1984. Acquired at sale from a private collection and uncirculated since. Not a reprint, not a reissue, not a reproduction. 100% authentic, guaranteed.
Chillis crops in tight here — just the head and a sliver of shoulder, collar open, tie loosened — and lets the crosshatching do all the work of that famous smirk. The mustache is rendered in thick, confident strokes, the eyes carry that half-lidded, in-on-the-joke look Reynolds built a career on, and the gold ground pushes through the linework to give his skin real warmth. It's a portrait built entirely from shadow and shading, no color beyond the stock itself, and it still reads as instantly recognizable.
Dated 1978, this lands right at the peak of Reynolds' run as the biggest box-office draw in America, with *Smokey and the Bandit* fresh behind him and *Hooper* in theaters that fall. He was less an actor at this point than a persona — the mustache, the grin, the good-ol'-boy charm — and Chillis captures that public image rather than any single role. A tightly cropped, confidently inked piece of peak-Burt iconography from the year he could do no wrong.
Paper measures 20 1/4" x 22 1/2" on heavy weight silkscreen stock. Happy to answer questions and suggest some easy framing options.
Condition: Pristine. Never hung, never rolled, never displayed. Any framed wall photos are Photoshop mockups. Sale is for the print only.
Shipping: Posters ship free via USPS Ground Advantage in a heavy-duty rigid poster tube. USPS Priority Mail upgrade available at buyer's expense. Interested in more than one title? Contact us for a discount code and combined shipping.
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