Baird Jones, 43rd Birthday Party Invitation, Palladium, 1998

$150

“The 43rd Birthday of Baird Jones,” 1998. Ink on card stock, 2 3/4″ x 5 3/8″.

Baird’s 43rd birthday party must have been one of the last at the Palladium before the storied nightclub’s purchase by New York University and subsequent conversion into student dorms. The unattributed caricature of a preppy Baird is joined by the tagline “Over one million persons have gone free to Baird Jones parties.”

$100

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