PRINTS YOU CAN (BUT SHOULDN’T) smoke
FIND OUT THE SMOKING LORE BEHIND THESE FAMOUS NICOTINE-LOVERS: snoop, hockey, bowie & Gainsbourg
Richard Pendry has just released four new framed screenprints - For David Bowie, For Snoop Dogg, For Serge Gainsbourg andFor David Hockey - as part of his new series ,“Famous Smokers.” We’ll admit, we were a bit worried about the stack of kingsize papers on Rich’s desk. Turns out he’s been experimenting with new printing materials. We thought it would be fun to showcase these works, and also the smoking-lore behind these smoking icons.
For Bowie, For Serge Gainsbourg, For Hockney & For Snoop, by Richard Pendry all for £150, sold with Black Box frames with 2mm float glass
¼ david hockney
The legend David Hockney died a month ago, at the ripe old age of 88. Quite surprising given that he lit his first cigarette at just 16 as a student at Bradford School of Art and never stopped. Just two years ago he wrote in The Times "I have smoked for 70 years... and I'm reasonably fine, thank you."
He once turned up to the 2005 Labour Party Conference to protest the smoking ban with a sign reading "DEATH awaits you all even if you do smoke."
A single colour silkscreen print of artist and celebrity smoker David Hockney, printed carefully by hand onto Rizla+ brand kingsize rolling papers. One of an ongoing series of prints. Sold framed and ready to hang in a black box frame with 2mm float glass.
Artist Richard Pendry
Artwork Size Kingsize Rizla+ cigarette papers
Framed Size 16 × 20cm
Frame Black box frame with 2mm float glass
Medium Silkscreen print
Edition Limited edition, hand-printed and signed by the artist
Edition Size 100
Year 2026
2/4 DAVID BOWIE
Bowie's Thin White Duke ran on black coffee, peppers and Gitanes, the blue packet in his pocket was often the only flash of colour in the stark white stage lighting of the Station to Station tour. He smoked the French brand throughout the seventies, and packets of his Gitanes from the 1976 Isolar tour now sit in museum collections. His last brand was Marlboro Lights; he finally quit in 2002. Maybe that’ll be Rich’s next series “Famous Quitters”
A single colour silkscreen print of musician and celebrity smoker David Bowie, printed carefully by hand onto Rizla+ brand kingsize rolling papers. One of an ongoing series of prints. Sold framed and ready to hang in a black box frame with 2mm float glass.
Artist Richard Pendry
Artwork Size Kingsize Rizla+ cigarette papers
Framed Size 16 × 20cm
Frame Black box frame with 2mm float glass
Medium Silkscreen print
Edition Limited edition, hand-printed and signed by the artist
Edition Size 100
Year 2026
3/4 SERGE GAINSBOURG
No one was more inseparable from their cigarette than Serge Gainsbourg. By the end of his life he was smoking five packs of unfiltered Gitanes a day … roughly one every ten minutes. He described his life as "an equilateral triangle of Gitanes, alcoholism and girls." The blue box in his palm was as much a part of his look as the stubble and the suit, so much so that his biography is titled A Fistful of Gitanes.
A single colour silkscreen print of French legend and celebrity smoker Serge Gainsbourg, printed carefully by hand onto OCB brand kingsize rolling papers. One of an ongoing series of prints. Sold framed and ready to hang in a black box frame with 2mm float glass.
Artist Richard Pendry
Artwork Size Kingsize OCB cigarette papers
Framed Size 16 × 20cm
Frame Black box frame with 2mm float glass
Medium Silkscreen print
Edition Limited edition, hand-printed and signed by the artist
Edition Size 100
Year 2026
4/4 SNOOP DOGG
Snoop has said he first got high in the late seventies as a young boy, sipping his uncle's Schlitz Malt Liquor before being offered a half-smoked roach from the table. By his teens in Long Beach it was a way of life, and it became the foundation of an entire persona, arguably the most famous smoker of his generation. In 2023 he announced to the world he was "giving up smoke"... which turned out to be an ad for a smokeless fire pit.
A single colour silkscreen print of LA rapper and celebrity smoker Snoop Dogg, printed carefully by hand onto natural RAW brand kingsize rolling papers. One of an ongoing series of prints. Sold framed and ready to hang in a black box frame with 2mm float glass.
Artist Richard Pendry
Artwork Size Kingsize RAW cigarette papers
Framed Size 16 × 20cm
Frame Black box frame with 2mm float glass
Medium Silkscreen print
Edition Limited edition, hand-printed and signed by the artist
Edition Size 100
Year 2026