Thomas Lawson's "The Party's Over" (1987) is a photographic print that arrives at a pivotal moment in the artist's sustained interrogation of image culture and painting's fraught relationship with mass media. Compact in scale at 43.9 by 39 centimetres, the work embodies Lawson's characteristic precision, channelling the loaded visual rhetoric of appropriated imagery into a format that rewards close, sustained looking. Signed by the artist, it carries the direct mark of authorship within a practice that has long questioned what authorship and originality mean in an era saturated by reproduced pictures. Lawson rose to prominence as both a practitioner and a critical voice in the Pictures Generation milieu of the late 1970s and 1980s, contributing theoretical frameworks through his influential writing while simultaneously producing works that tested those frameworks in material form. This print, made in 1987, sits at a culturally charged juncture, its title suggesting a knowing, elegiac commentary on the excesses and eventual deflation of that decade's art world confidence. There is a wry intelligence embedded in the choice of phrase, pointing toward endings and the residue left behind when spectacle exhausts itself. Offered through Anthony Reynolds Gallery, this is a well-suited acquisition for collectors who value the intersection of criticality and visual economy. Works by Lawson from this period are relatively rare on the market, and this signed example in its original medium offers a tangible point of entry into a body of thought that remains deeply relevant to contemporary conversations about image, representation, and cultural memory.