YOKO ONO / JOHN LENNON, War Is Over! If you want it, n.d. [1969]
75,5 x 50,5 cm
block print letterpress
edition unknown
extremely rare in this vintage condition
condition: aged with various pinholes, two small tears in lower part
hand written text in pencil at lower left: ‘Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969’
Collection Thora Johansen, Amsterdam
inv.YOno 000-pr

“War Is Over, if you want it” is a 1969 poster and billboard action that inspired enough political action that the president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson sought to have British Yoko Ono and John Lennon deported for fear that they would undermine his foreign policy and political fortunes.

At the lower left corner the following text is written in pencil: Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969.

Additional information:

This version of the poster with sub-text ‘Love and Piece from John & Yoko’ is in the collection of MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. In 1969 Yoko Ono and John Lennon showed the poster with the sub-text ‘Happy Christmas from John & Yoko’.