Avenge-Tini by Michael Godard: Collector's Guide

Avenge-Tini is a limited edition giclee by Las Vegas pop artist Michael Godard, offered in three sizes (17.5" x 22", 28" x 35", and 32" x 40") across five documented editions priced from $595 to $6,000, including a hand highlighted, signed Super Hero Edition that comes with an original pencil sketch, all with a certificate of authenticity and free, insured US delivery.

• Artist: Michael Godard, the Las Vegas pop artist known as the "Rockstar of the Art World"
• Medium: limited edition canvas giclee, archival pigment inks; the Super Hero Edition adds hand highlighting and an original pencil sketch on paper
• Subject: Godard's signature olive characters in costume as an assembled team of superheroes, a martini parody built for comic and pop culture fans
• Editions: five documented editions: G Edition, Signed and Numbered, Artist Proof, Gallery Proof, and the Super Hero Edition
• Sizes & price: 17.5" x 22", 28" x 35", and 32" x 40"; $595 to $6,000
• Collecting: numbered, documented with a certificate of authenticity, and shipped free and insured within the US; the Super Hero Edition includes an original sketch

About Avenge-Tini

Avenge-Tini gives Godard's olives the costumes and attitude of an assembled team of heroes, staged around the martini glass that launched his career. It is a crossover that depends on the viewer recognizing the reference instantly, and it is painted in the high-contrast, character-driven style that has made him one of the best-known pop artists working today.

It is a favorite with collectors of comic and pop culture art, man cave art, and Las Vegas pop art. If you are ready to start or grow a collection, browse the full range of Michael Godard art for sale.

Editions, sizes & prices of this limited edition giclee

This title is released in five documented editions across three sizes. The 28" x 35" Signed and Numbered Edition of 300 carries the artist's signature along with its individual number. The G Edition of 250, Artist Proof Edition of 50, and Gallery Proof Edition of 25 are individually numbered; the Artist's Proof features a one-color paint embellishment and the Gallery Proof a five-color paint embellishment. At the top of the run, the 32" x 40" Super Hero Edition of 50 is hand highlighted and signed by Godard and includes an original SuperHero pencil sketch on 11" x 14" Bristol smooth paper. Prices below are the current live listing prices.

These are the documented runs for this title, with no open-ended or undocumented printing. Each print is a giclee, a fine-art process using archival pigment inks.

Godard's superhero martinis

This title belongs to a run of superhero-themed martini parodies in Godard's catalog, alongside pieces like Super-Tini and X-Tini, where the olive characters step into the roles of comic book heroes. Collectors often hang two or three of them together, and the Super Hero Edition, with its original pencil sketch, gives this title a one-of-a-kind companion piece that no other edition of the run includes.

About Michael Godard

From draftsman and drummer to "Rockstar of the Art World"

Born in 1963 and later based in Las Vegas, Godard studied at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena and at UNLV, and spent years working as a draftsman and commercial illustrator, and drumming in Las Vegas bands, before painting full time. The turning point was a friend's request for a birthday painting about dirty martinis: he answered with personified, animated olive characters full of attitude, and that became the visual language behind the nickname collectors know him by, the "Rockstar of the Art World."

The signature style

His pop art is instantly recognizable, personified olives, grapes, and other characters set against high-contrast backgrounds, rendered with theatrical exaggeration and a satirist's sense of timing. This piece pushes that humor into comic book territory without losing the martini glass at its center.

Beyond the canvas, and giving back

His book Don't Drink and Draw, with a foreword by friend and collector Ozzy Osbourne, was named an Art Book of the Year in 2006. Since 2006, following the loss of his daughter Paige to brain cancer at 16, the artist has maintained an ongoing charitable relationship with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and related causes. For the complete story, read the full artist biography.

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