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Period: 1970s
Imaginations
Objects of The Future Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
PUBLISHER: Merrill Chas...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Imaginations
Objects of The Future Liquid Tornado Bath Tub
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Liquid Tornado Bath Tub
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chicago/Al...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Blue Rectangles, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Cris Cristofaro 1978
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Cris Cristofaro, American
Title: Blue Rectangles
Year: 1978
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Color Balloons and Waves (Les Travestis du Reel) - Lithograph poster - 1979
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER
Les Travestis du Reel, 1979
Original vintage lithograph poster
Printed in Atelier Arts-Litho
Printed signature in the plate
82 x 57 cm (c. 32.2 x 22.4 in)
Excelle...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life - Oil Painting by Franco Marzilli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden table realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
$379 Sale Price
20% Off
"BLOWIN
IN" WESTERN G. HARVEY PAINTING 28 X 38 FRAME SIZE DATED 1974
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 20 x 30
Frame Size: 28 x 38
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dated 1974
"Blowin' In" Sign...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
“Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian street scene done in post impressionist style by the Portuguese artist, Hilario Roberto. Street scene complete with iconic Parisian flo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$850 Sale Price
46% Off
Ernst Trova, Falling Man, 1972, Screenprint
By Ernest Trova
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.25 x 25.75 inches ( 79.375 x 65.405 cm )
Image Size: 24.5 x 24.5 inches ( 62.23 x 62.23 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: This poster by Ernest T...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
$60 Sale Price
20% Off
Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Circa 1970 original advertising poster for Aeroflot - Soviet airline
Located in PARIS, FR
This vibrant mid-century travel poster advertising Aeroflot, the official Soviet airline, offers a cheerful invitation to visit Moscow, the beating heart of the USSR. Created around 1970, the composition reflects the optimism and modernism of Soviet graphic design during the Cold War era, when air travel was increasingly used as a symbol of national pride and progress.
At the center of the poster is a stylized female figure in traditional Russian dress...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Large Geometric Abstract.
Traces No.9 Pour une Archéologie du Présent.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large 1970s abstract geometric acrylic and oil on plywood panel signed Rivel and dated 1977 to the bottom left. The painting is titled to the rear of the panel.
Numbers of colour fields in muted shades jostle against one another. It is the shapes and the space between them which give energy to the painting whilst the colour palette restrains.
The painting is highly textured as the artist has applied the paint thickly and energetically with both palette knife and large brushstrokes. At times layers of paint reveal underlying colours.
This painting fits perfectly into the abstract genre with its focus on its formal qualities over and above its subject matter. Furthermore the artist experiments with reconstructing shapes and rejecting three dimensional perspective. A fine example of non objective art...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$1,328 Sale Price
30% Off
Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a vintage photo, realized b Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cy Twombly - Allusions Bay of Naples, ex-collection of Donald Baechler Signed/N
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler), 1975
Color offset lithograph and photo lithograph on wove paper
Signed and numbered 56/80 in ink on the ...
Category
Conceptual 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Double Decoy II, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Double Decoy II
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP
Image Size: 19.5 x 23 inches
Size: ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Grace Jones
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free express shipping and a 14-day return policy.
Four 4.5 x 3.25 inch unique vintage Kodak prints. Prints are on active consignment from the estate of Antonio Lopez. Purchase includes certificates of authenticity from the estate of Antonio Lopez. These Kodak prints are not signed by Antonio Lopez.
Artist Biography -
The foremost fashion illustrator of the 1970s and 80s, Antonio (as he signed his work) was and remains one of the most highly regarded and influential figures in the fashion world. While not initially known as a photographer, Antonio was rarely without his favorite Instamatic camera, and as his career progressed he turned increasingly to photography to create fashion stories, portraits, and elaborate mise-en-scènes.
A serial Svengali, as the writer Karin Nelson noted: “Lopez brilliantly transformed the women in his world. Under his tutelage, Jerry Hall, a long tall Texan he met at Paris’s Club Sept, evolved into a golden goddess. He put Jessica Lange in gold lamé evening dresses after discovering her in Paris studying mime, and gave aspiring model Tina Lutz her start (and an introduction to future husband Michael Chow...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid
The Yellow Mandolin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green.
Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more realist imagery, transitioning through his intense fascination with the cubist avant-garde movement, into specific cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life.
This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993.
“The Yellow Mandolin”, is an exceptional early work, an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1974, with an image dimension of 40 x 30 inches; a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist...
Category
Cubist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Alberto Magnelli, Homage to San Lazzaro, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, 1975 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Alberto Magnelli (1888–1971), titled Hommage a San Lazzaro (Homage to San Lazzaro), from the album San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Alexander Calder: From Mobiles to Critters - Lithograph by Alexander Calder-1976
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in occasion of Calder's Exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome, 1976.
Not signed and not numbered, as issued.
Edition of 500.
Excellent condition
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Led Zeppelin Photo #B4 - Never seen shot of Zeppelin in Concert
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Led Zeppelin sitting downstage at the Forum in 1972
Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a satin baryta finish. It is from a limited edition series Published by FATHOM ...
Category
Other Art Style 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lips in Perspective, Nude Lithograph by Roberto Carbone
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lips in Perspective
Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still life with mask oil on canvas painting cubism
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Bernat Sanjuan Tarre (1915-1979) - Still life with mask - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 50x65 cm.
Frame measurements 71x86 cm.
Category
Cubist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,139 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (SF-348) (Fresh Air School) /// Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis Art
By Sam Francis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994)
Title: "Untitled (SF-348) (Fresh Air School)"
Portfolio: Fresh Air School
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1972
Medium: Original Lithograph on white ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mid-Century Painting Drawing Framed Colorful Texture New York Orange Grey Green
Located in Buffalo, NY
A wonderful minimalist mixed media work Circa 1970. Though the artist is unknown this work was acquired along with pieces by well know artists Karel Appel and Robert Motherwell from...
Category
Minimalist 1970s Art
Materials
Coating, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Vintage Rural Landscape Snow Scene "Winter Cold, Farm Idyll" by German Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Rural Landscape Snow Scene entitled "Winter Cold, Farm Idyll" by German Artist, Karl Heinz Stienen (1918-2002). Graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. A serene winter ...
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Praise, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Agnes Martin
By Agnes Martin
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin Dalton natural bond paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. P...
Category
Minimalist 1970s Art
Materials
Printer s Ink
$5,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Andrew Wyeth
Karl
s Room
1970- Poster
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster features Andrew Wyeth's *Karl's Room*, an intimate and evocative work that captures the quiet, poignant atmosphere of a personal space. Presented in collaboration with th...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$72 Sale Price
20% Off
Friendship, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Title: Friendship, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Size: 20 x 26 inc...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan)
After Dark
Nude, Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine nude study, photographed in 1972. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,210 Sale Price
44% Off
Sri Lankan Modern Female Artist Nalini Jayasupriya Girl with Flowers 1970
s
Located in Norfolk, GB
Nalini Jayasuriya (1927-2014)
Untitled - Girl with Flowers
c 1970
Watercolour and mixed media on Paper
Image Size: 35.5 x 24.5 cm
Frame Size: 51.5 x 41 cm
A compelling and gentle w...
Category
Other Art Style 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Thomas (Lancelot Healing Sir Urre)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Thomas (Lancelot Healing Sir Urre)
Portfolio: 1972 The Twelve Apostles (Knights of the Round Table)
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1972
Edition: 38/350
Frame S...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Knights of King Arthur - Original etching Handsigned (Field #70-10M)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
Les chevaliers du roi Arthur ("The cavaliers of King Arthut"), 1970
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil with his monogram
Limited to 125 copies
On Lana vellum 45 x ...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Lovers, San Francisco.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fisher Ross. Untitled, ca. 1975-80. Gelatin Silver print, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches; 17 x 21 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on verso. Excellent cond...
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, 1975
Polaroid dye-diffusion print
Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, bears the Foundation stamp verso
Frame included: Framed in white wood frame with UV plexiglass; with die-cut window in the back to show official Warhol Foundation authentication stamp and text
Measurements:
9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame)
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window)
4.16 x 3.15 inches (Artwork)
Authenticated and stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol/Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
An impressive piece of Pop Art history! A must-have for fans and collectors of both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: This is a unique, authenticated color Polaroid taken by one Pop Art legend, Andy Warhol, of his most formidable contemporary and, in many respects, rival, Roy Lichtenstein. One of only a few portraits Andy Warhol took of Roy Lichtenstein, during one tense photo shoot. Both iconic artists, colleagues and, perhaps lesser known to the public, rivals, would be represented at the time by the renowned Leo Castelli Gallery. The truth is - they were really more rivals than friends. (the rivalry intensified when Warhol, who was working with Walt Disney, discovered that Lichtenstein painted Mickey Mouse before he did!!) Leo Castelli was committed to Roy Lichtenstein, and, it's easy to forget today, wasn't that interested in Warhol as he considered Lichtenstein the greater talent and he could relate better with Roy on a personal level. However, Ivan Karp, who worked at Castelli, was very interested in Warhol, as were some powerful European dealers, as well as many wealthy and influential American and European collectors. That was the start of Warhol's bypassing the traditional gallery model - so that dealers like Castelli could re-discover him after everybody else had.
Warhol is known to have taken hundreds of self-portrait polaroid photographs - shoe boxes full - and he took many dozens of images of celebrities like Blondie and Farrah Fawcett. But only a small number of photographic portraits of fellow Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein -- each unique,- are known to have appeared on the market over the past half a century - all from the same photo session. This is one of them. There is another Polaroid - from this same (and only) sitting, in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California.
There really weren't any other collaborations between these two titans, making the resulting portrait from this photo session extraordinary. It is fascinating to study Roy Lichtenstein's face and demeanor in this photograph, in the context of the great sense of competition, but perhaps even greater, albeit uneasy respect, these two larger than life Pop art titans had for each other: Like Leo Castelli, Roy Lichtenstein was Jewish of European descent; whereas Warhol was Catholic and quintessentially American, though also of European (Polish) descent. They were never going to be good friends, but this portrait, perhaps even arranged by Leo Castelli, represents an uneasy acknowledgement there would be room at the top for both of them.
Floated, framed with die cut back revealing authentication details, and ready to hang.
Measurements:
9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame)
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window)
4.16 x 3.15 inches (sheet)
Authenticated by the Estate of Andy Warhol/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Estate Stamped: Stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate, Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp, numbered "B 512536P", with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp and inscribed UP on the reverse. Bears the Warhol Foundation unique inventory number.
Roy Lichtenstein Biography
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it.
Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own.
In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy.
As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii
Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957.
To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960.
At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing.
Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School.
With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes.
Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true.
The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer.
Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore.
Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Polaroid
"Arizovert" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed for XXe Siecle (No. 39) in 1972 and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (310 x 240 mm). Not signed.
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life - Oil Painting by Franco Marzilli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first artist...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
$531 Sale Price
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"The sea in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Emily Mason, ex-Lehman Brothers Art Collection, unique, signed painting, Framed
By Emily Mason
Located in New York, NY
Emily Mason
So Slight a Film (from the Lehman Brothers art collection), 1978
Oil on paper Abstract Expressionist painting
Signed and dated 'Emily Mason '78' bottom right in pencil
Fr...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Shiny Nude (Stealingworth, 33) silkscreen on kromekote paper + envelope AP/1000
Located in New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann
Shiny Nude (Stealingworth, 33), 1977
Silkscreen on glossy cast-coated Kromekote paper
8 × 8 inches
Edition of 1000 (AP/1000)
Pencil numbered ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen, Paper
THE LANTERN Hand Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LANTERN is an original, handmade limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors from hand drawn lithography plates using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerse...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lady Godiva
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Lady Godiva
Lithograph from 1970.
Edition of 187/256.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm
Publisher: Simeon Wajntraub.
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in t...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Black Dancer (male nude)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (1930-2024). Portrait of Black Dancer, ca. 1972.
Mr. Dennis was immortalized in 1975 as the original Richie "Gimme The Ball" Walters in A Chorus Line, after making his B...
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Girl in the Garden (Gelburd/Rosenberg 62), Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Girl in the Garden (Gelburd/Rosenberg 62)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 33/150, plus proofs
Size: 28.75 x 2...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,000 Sale Price
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Large 1970
s French Impressionist Pastel The Lake of Castillon Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
La Lac de Castillon (Provence)
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Wax Crayon, Pastel
Alexander Calder
Spirales
1974- Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This first-release lithograph, Spirales, was published by XXe Siècle in an edition above the official release that accompanied a special volume dedicated to Calder’s work. While plat...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alex Katz - American Dance Festival - 1976 original poster
By Alex Katz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: CB1505
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: American Dance Festival
Year: 1976
Signed: No
Medium: Offset Lithograph
Paper Size: 39 x 30.5 inches ( 99.06 x 77.47 cm )
Image Size: 39 x 30.5 i...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$140 Sale Price
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Sculptures (M. 950), Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Sculptures (M. 950), Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives, signed in the plate, Image Size: 16.25 x 24 inches, Size: 20.5 x 29 in. (52.0...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro, Untitled, Marvels with Acrostic Variations in Miro’s Garden, 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Maravillas con variaciones acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro (Marvels with Acrostic Var...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Male Nude, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Titles: Male Nude 2
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175
Paper Size: 44 x 30 in. (111.76 ...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Joe Dallesandro Andy Warhol Trash promo photo
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013).
Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973.
11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...
Category
Photorealist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
George Washington from the Kent Portfolio, Pop Art Portrait by Alex Katz
By Alex Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original print from the Kent Bicentennial poster portfolio published by Lorillard. This side-profile of the president is from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio. Alex Katz is a leadi...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$480 Sale Price
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Landscape - Oil Painting by Franco Marzilli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first artis...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Woman - Lithograph by Claude Garache - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a vintage Lithograph realized by Claude Garache in the 1975.
Maeght Editor, France on the rear.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE CONVERSATION Signed Lithograph, Black Women, Train, African American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
THE CONVERSATION is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. THE CONVERSATION...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Andy Warhol, Baroness de Waldner unique acetate of Brazilian actress provenance
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Baroness de Waldner, ca. 1975
Unique Acetate positive
This piece comes with a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Warhol's printer.
Frame i...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Mixed Media
Nude portrait study of unidentified male model
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, photographed nude, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,080 Sale Price
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Sculptures (M. 950), Modern Lithograph by Joan Miro 1974
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983)
Title: Sculptures (M. 950)
Year: 1974
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Image Size: 19 x 27 inches
Size: 20.5 x 29 in. (52.07 x 73.66 ...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Songs of Songs, Hand-Signed Lithograph Poster after Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - The Songs of Songs, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in color pencil lower right, Edition: 8500, Size: 30 x 20.25 in. (7...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph

