Eric (from Men in the Cities) is a signed limited edition print by Robert Longo, revisiting one of the most iconic and widely imitated series in contemporary art. The sharply dressed figure — caught mid-contortion, suspended between abandon and collapse — belongs to the body of work that defined Longo's career and cemented his place within the Pictures Generation alongside Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, and Sherrie Levine.

The original Men in the Cities series (1979–1983) began with a freeze-frame from a Fassbinder film and evolved into a defining statement on the psychological tensions of urban life. Longo photographed friends by throwing objects at them on the rooftop of his Manhattan apartment, provoking involuntary contortions he then translated into monumental charcoal drawings. As Longo put it: "Their movements are a cross between punk rock dancing and the way characters die in movies." So embedded in visual culture did the series become that it appeared in American Psycho, the opening credits of Mad Men, and Apple's iPod campaigns. Longo once described wanting the images to be "like a guitar chord in a Sex Pistols song — an abstract symbol."

The 2025 screenprint edition translates Longo's layered graphite process into silkscreen through multiple grayscale separations, producing the hyperreal grain texture and floating presence that define his print practice. Artworks from the series are held at MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hand-signed and numbered, printed on Somerset paper.