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Limited edition color 25.5 x 33 silkscreen of the front cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, Animals, numbered 238/295 and signed in the lower border in pencil by Storm Thorgerson, a co-founder of Hipgnosis, which produced the cover from a concept by Roger Waters. Rolled and in fine condition, with a few light bends in the upper left border.
Animals was Pink Floyd's tenth studio album, which Roger Waters conceived as a scathing critique of capitalist society. Working from a concept Waters suggested, Hipgnosis staged a three-day shoot at Battersea Power Station on December 2–4, 1976, photographing a 40-foot helium-filled pig floating above the building. On the second day the pig slipped its moorings and drifted off, finally landing in Kent. The team got its shot on the third day, but the finished cover combined that day's pig with the first day's view of the power station. The image remains one of the most celebrated in rock history and helped bring Battersea Power Station worldwide recognition.
Thorgerson, who co-founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell, created much of Pink Floyd's album art, from A Saucerful of Secrets through The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Division Bell. His work with Hipgnosis included covers for Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, Presence, and In Through the Out Door, as well as albums by Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Wings, and Black Sabbath. His later work included designs for Muse and the Mars Volta. In 2000, he proposed revisiting the band's covers as limited edition prints, and he and Powell worked toward producing prints from twelve Pink Floyd covers.
