Russell Young Mick Jagger Diptych For Sale

About this work

MICK JAGGER (DREAMLAND) (2023) is an acrylic and hand-pulled oil-based ink screenprint with diamond dust on linen by Russell Young, produced as a unique impression in Devil Pink—one of the artist’s most recent explorations of the rock icon who has represented a particular strain of charismatic, transgressive celebrity for more than six decades. Measuring 62 by 48 inches (157.5 x 121.9 cm), the work presents Jagger through the layered, visually charged technique that has made Young one of the most distinctive practitioners of celebrity portraiture working today: hand-pulled inks applied in multiple passes, building a surface of depth and luminosity, then transformed by the application of diamond dust into something spectacular and irreplaceable. The palette of Devil Pink—bold, provocative, and perfectly calibrated to the subject’s legendary persona—saturates the composition with a colour that is simultaneously glamorous and confrontational. Young’s source imagery, drawn from the vast archive of rock photography that documents Jagger across half a century of performing life, is transformed through his screenprinting process into something that transcends documentation and enters the realm of cultural mythology. The hand-pulled quality of the printing, the richness of the linen ground, and the shimmering surface of the diamond dust all contribute to an object of remarkable physical presence and visual authority. Russell Young and Mick Jagger are, in a sense, natural subjects for each other: both figures whose careers have been defined by the intelligent exploitation of image, by the understanding that rock and roll and visual culture are inseparable, and by the endurance and relevance that come from continual reinvention. MICK JAGGER (DREAMLAND) is among Young’s most commanding recent works—a portrait of a living legend by an artist who understands the mythology of celebrity with uncommon depth and sophistication.