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November 10

Poster on the cover of "You're a Lady"

The front cover of You're a Lady (album) shows Peter Skellern sitting in front of a poster.

File:YoureaLady1972Album.jpg

You can get a better view of it on the back cover. It's starkly geometric, like a cube draped in green.

Does anyone know what poster this might have been? Marnanel (talk) 23:52, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Better images of the cover: front, back.  --Lambiam 12:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Cover photo by Marc Dimac". That might be relevant. Also, (c) 1972, so it's possible the photographer is still alive. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the name Marc Dimac too, did some image searching, found nothing useful. On the table (along with the Whole Earth Catalog probably) is a book of naive art by Oto Bihalji-Merin, featuring artists such as Miguel García Vivancos. This also seems irrelevant to the bed, or whatever it is. It's kind of huge for a poster, isn't it?

Perhaps a painting of a table with a long green tablecloth. There's some other thing at the bottom, extreme left. Perhaps this is not a poster but a mural, unique and since forgotten.  Card Zero  (talk) 20:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You've got "front" and "back" the wrong way round. --Viennese Waltz 12:34, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, fixed.  --Lambiam 23:06, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks kind of like a bed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:22, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

or a castle —Tamfang (talk) 03:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It could easily be a drawing of an idealized castle, rather than a real one. Or for that matter it could be an idealized piece of furniture. It reminds me of the Château d'Angers, but it isn't similar enough for that to be helpful. Why not contact Decca Records and ask them? --142.112.149.206 (talk) 05:25, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The two photos appear to be of Skellern in a domestic setting, presumably his own living room at the time. As such, it's unlikely that either the photographer or Decca Records would have any idea then, or record now, of what this poster, doubtless belonging to Skellern, depicted.

Skellern unfortunately died in 2017 aged 69, "survived by his wife, Diana, his children, Timothy and Katherine, and four grandchildren" according to the Guardian obituary linked from his article. It's possible one of them (if contactable) might know or even still possess the item, but would one want to ask them?

I wonder if isolating the visible part of the poster and searching online, via TinEye for example, would yield a result? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.7.95.48 (talk) 02:19, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, but it didn't work for me. --142.112.149.206 (talk) 08:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]