June 2023. St. Louis. Dead & Company on stage — and this poster on the wall.
An artist proof is the handful of prints an artist keeps back from their own edition, signed by hand before the rest goes out the door. Same run, same press, with the artist's own mark on it.
Hand-signed by illustrator Daniel Sulzberg, whose work you have probably already seen for Marvel, Nike, Google, The New York Times and the NHL — just not usually on the wall of a Dead show.
Artist proofs do not get reprinted. When this run is finished, it is finished. That is the entire point of one.