BOOK DESCRIPTION: Interscope, 2022. Double vinyl record album issued with an original, museum-quality giclee print by Kehinde Wiley as the album cover, housed in a custom Gucci box. Size: 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Limited Edition of only 100 prints individually numbered in the lower left-hand corner, and HAND-SIGNED by Kehinde Wylie in the lower right-hand corner.

CONDITION: Fine/As New. SIGNED.

For this reimagined album cover, Kehinde Wiley portrays Dr. Dre as a Medieval or Renaissance knight by employing the artistic trope he is perhaps best known for: painting portraits that feature people of colour in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Most famously, in 2017 Wiley was commissioned to paint Barack Obama, becoming the first Black artist to paint an official portrait of a President of the United States. Here again, with Dr. Dre, his work references European portraiture that positions contemporary black sitters, from a range of ethnic and social backgrounds, in the poses of the original historical, religious or mythological figures on the Old Master paintings, and thereby conferring – in the process – his contemporary black sitters with a similar old-world fame and status. As such, Wiley's images – as part quotation, part intervention – raise questions about power, privilege, identity, and above all highlight the absence or marginalisation of Black figures within European art. Might be 65/100 or 85/100… unsure if 6 or 8