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"Thanks to Nagel’s partnership with Mirage Editions and the fine art printer Jeff Wasserman, screenprints of the Nagel woman adorned the walls of many of the era’s bachelor pads, her manicured blankness chiming with the black-and-chrome minimalism of the day....

But, like much things from the ’80s, the Nagel woman soon descended into kitsch. By the end of the decade, every low-rent nail bar and beauty salon featured Nagel-style illustrations on their walls and in their windows, and the look became visual shorthand for tacky mall art."

"Nagel prints flooded the market in the 1980s. Nagel's manager, Karl Bornstein, president of Mirage Editions Inc., continued publication of Nagel's works after his death, including open edition prints and mass-market posters. In addition, in 1991, the FBI discovered and dismantled a counterfeiting ring which flooded the market with forged serigraphs. While this contributed to Nagel's cultural ubiquity—Nagel artwork was in a reported two million homes worldwide—it also served to exploit the brand and ultimately, dramatically lowered its value."