Date: 2026
Size: 26 x 40 inches
Artist : Sébastien Lepine
About the Poster :
This Contemporary piece is part of Canadian artist Sébastien Lepine's "Ode de Montreal" series. It highlights the baseball player Jackie Robinson, who played for the Montreal Royals in 1946, wearing the number 9 jersey. The next year, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, subsequently becoming the first black man to enter a Major League Baseball team, and ending 6 decades of racial segregation within the sport.
In 1946, post-WW2, both Robinson and The city were blooming towards new horizons. In this piece,Sébastien Lepine pays a double homage to the player and to the city at a critical moment in both their histories.
About the Artist:
Sébastien Lépine is a multi-media artist, designer, and artistic director based in Montreal. His creative pursuits span different mediums including poster art, album artwork, movie posters, video projections for live shows, and music video clips.
He has been working as an independent artist since graduating from the graphic design program at Université du Quebec à Montreal in 2000.
Lépine’s poster art is characterized by the use of a technique evocative of photomontage: he overlays images and text, creating a striking interplay of transparencies and negative space.
This silkscreen poster was hand-printed by the artist himself. It is signed, numbered, and in excellent condition.