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Period: 1970s
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
40% Off
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
Don
t Hurt Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Nude portrait study of young model Michael Findlay
Located in Senoia, GA
Model Michael Findlay, nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,080 Sale Price
40% Off
Max Bill, Prism, from San Lazzaro et ses Amis, 1975
By Max Bill
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Max Bill (1908–1994), titled Prisma (Prism), from the album San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la revue XXe siecle (San Lazzaro and His Fri...
Category
Constructivist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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 conditions.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
European Village in Winter Snow with Figures
Frozen Pond by German Artist
Located in Preston, GB
European Village in Winter Snow with Figures & Frozen Pond by 20th Century German Artist, Gunter Seekatz. This is a large painting measuring almost 4 fe...
Category
Bauhaus 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,793 Sale Price
20% Off
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 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
The Market - Oil Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on Board realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1966.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a coeval wooden frame created by the Artist 86x65 cm.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud - Original handsigned lithograph (Field #72-3)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud, 1972
Original coloured lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered 984/ 1000
On Arches Vellum 35 x 26" (87 x 64 cm)
Ref...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Playing with Socks
, San Francisco Women
s College, San Francisco Art Institute
By Inez Storer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1978.
Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$22,800 Sale Price
20% Off
In the Water - P1, F2, I1, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976)
Title: In the Water - P1, F2, I1
Year: 1972
Edition size: 1000
Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper
Image Size: 13 x 15 in...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Composition Orphique - Lithograph by Sonia Delaunay - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Color Lithograph on Arches paper realized by Sonia Delaunay in 1972.
Hand signed in pencil, dated 72 and numbered 43/90.
Prov. Private Collection, Milan.
Very good condition.
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"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
Sculptures I (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic, ~34% OFF)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Sculptures I
Color Lithograph
Year: 1973
Size: 10.875 x 22.125 inches (27.62 x 56.19 cm)
Catalogue Raisonné: Weber, Genf 949, p.86
Signed in stone, lower center/right mar...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$488 Sale Price
34% 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
"Cavaliers sur la plage" André Brasilier, French Modernist, Horses on the Beach
Located in New York, NY
André Brasilier
Cavaliers sur la plage, 1977
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
13 x 21 5/8 inches
French artist André Brasilier was born in 1929 in Saumur, a town in western Franc. ...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures and Shadows - Original lithograph (Catalog raisonne Cramer #36)
By Henry Moore
Located in Paris, IDF
Henry MOORE
Figures and Shadows, 1951
Original lithograph (Printed in Desjobert Workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On wove paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in)
REFERENCES : Henry...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
Andre Lanskoy Dada Lithograph Mourlot Calligraphic French Poetry Brut Abstract
Located in Surfside, FL
ANDRE LANSKOY (French / Russian 1902-1976)
1966
Original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper
The title sheet was hand signed in pencil on the justification page by the arti...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
St. George
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - St. George
Lithograph from 1972.
The edition of 187/250.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm.
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue.
Refer...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$4,926 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Black
White Minimal Neo-Expressionist Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive black and white abstract, with scribbled linear patterns in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat, by by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). circa 1977. Oil on canvas. Titled "Baldwin" and dated "Summer 77" on verso. Here he revisits a piece he did early in his carrier of the same title "Baldwin" in 1967. Unframed. Image size: 16"H x 12"W.
“I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY
2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002 Dolby...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SPANISH STILL LIFE WITH GARLIC Signed Lithograph Abstract Vegetables, Black Wash
Located in Union City, NJ
SPANISH STILL LIFE WITH GARLIC by the Spanish artist Carlos Pradal, is an original hand drawn, stone lithograph printed by hand in Paris France using traditional hand lithography techniques on buff color archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. SPANISH STILL LIFE WITH GARLIC presents a modern still life portrait depicting abstract vegetables - three round onions with a head of garlic positioned toward the center. A broad sweeping charcoal black wash dominates the background creating a dramatic staging for the red and orange vegetable shapes; the off white color of the paper forms the garlic bulb creating contrast for this expressive, energetic Spanish still life composition.
Print size - 17 x 20.25 inches, unframed, very good condition, pencil signed by Pradal, inscribed E.A.(Epreuve Artiste) with personal dedication to the master printer
Image size - 13 x 16.25 inches
Year - c. 1974
About the artist:
Carlos Pradal(1923-1988) Spanish ceramist, painter and illustrator was the son of Republican deputy Gabriel Pradal from Almeria, Andalusia. In 1939, his family was forced into exile and settled in France, in Toulouse. In 1956 he obtained a Spanish license and became an auxiliary teacher. He practiced drawing and painting at the same time, following the lessons of Raoul Bergougnan.
In 1972, he moved to Paris, where he became a friend of the painters Peinado and Orlando Pelayo. When Franco died...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman - Lithograph by Claude Garache - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a vintage Lithograph realized by Claude Garache in the 1975.
Cover for Derrière Le Miroir.
Maeght Editor, France on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
The Coronation of Gala (The Empress), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Coronation of Gala (The Empress) from Visions Surrealiste
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904–1989)
Portfolio: Visions Surrealiste
Date: 1976
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
E...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
40 x...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Original Vintage Poster
Located in London, GB
Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Original Vintage Poster
measures 27×41" inches / 68 x 104 cm
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, who also served as its producer. It is the first installment in the Star Trek film series, and stars the cast of the original television series. In the film, set in the 2270s, a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) assumes command of the recently refitted Starship USS Enterprise...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, C Print
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
The End of the Game Rare 1970s ICP print (Hand Signed, inscribed by Peter Beard)
By Peter Beard
Located in New York, NY
Peter Beard
The End of the Game (Hand Signed by Peter Beard), 1977
Offset Lithograph Poster (hand signed by Peter Beard and inscribed with a heart)
Han...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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
Neutral Abstract, Muted Colours, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Neutral Abstract, Muted Colours, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist 'Jean Briant', 20th Century
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
$1,319 Sale Price
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Bea with a whip at The Other Side
By Nan Goldin
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin
Bea with a whip at The Other Side
1973
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches; 36 x 28 cm
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower right verso)
...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. FALLING STAR presents a visual memory from Bearden's childhood in Mecklenburg County North Carolina expressed as a modern collage portrait depicting a black woman set in a nostalgic Southern domestic interior. FALLING STAR's main focus is a black woman standing on the right drinking from a blue and white teacup...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Manhattan!!, Pop Art Poster by Tony Graham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tony Graham is a graphic artist known for his drawings and prints of New York City. “Manhattan” is the artist’s most iconic and collectible image published in 1978. Nicely framed.
M...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$480 Sale Price
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Friedel Dzubas, Merging Darkness, 1974
Located in New York, NY
1974
Magna acrylic on canvas
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (16.5 x 16.5 cm)
Unique
Signed and titled, verso
Framed, pristine condition
Category
Color-Field 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dancer/Choreographer Lar Lubovitch
Located in Senoia, GA
Dancer/Choreographer Lar Lubovitch, 1971.
This is an 8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph that was published by a newspaper or magazine which they u...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$375 Sale Price
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NUDO OF WOMAN - giclee print on canvas
Located in Napoli, IT
Fine art gicle print on canvas of a painting by Marcello Cassinari Vettor, framed measuring 46x36 cm
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
Homage to the Square - P2, F17, I2 - Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - P2, F17, I2" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original screenprints that...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Mao - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1974
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Mao is a contemporary artwork realized by Andy Warhol in 1974.
Colour screenprint on wallpaper.
Includes frame: 113 x 86 x 3 cm
Hand signed by lower left.
Prov. Galerie Vayhinger...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Florals Lilies of Time
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Florals Lilies of Time
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
PUBLISHER: Editions Graphiques Internationals
EDITION NUMBER: 62/350
ME...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Adamo Marrucci - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a contemporary artwork realied in 1974.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Numbered on the lower left margin.
Edi...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Milton, Lost Paradise : The Cup Offered - Original Hand Signed Etching, 1974
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Cup Offered
Original etching in colour
Hand signed in pencil
Justified EA (Éprouve d’artiste - artist proof)
On Auvergne vellum 58 x 45,5 cm...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Fox I
By Anni Albers
Located in Paris, FR
Offset, 1972
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 123/150
Catalog : Weber & Danilowitz 29
60.50 cm. x 50.50 cm. 23.82 in. x 19.88 in. (paper)
38.00 cm. x 34.00 cm. 14.96...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$4,521
Led Zeppelin #H1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant feeling it at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. in 1977. This would be among the last Led Zeppelin concerts in the US.
About The Print:
Archival pigment pri...
Category
Other Art Style 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Circa 1975 original poster by Samivel - Parc national la Vanoise Alpes de Savoie
Located in PARIS, FR
This charming circa 1975 original poster by Samivel was created to celebrate and promote the Parc National de la Vanoise, one of France’s most iconic alpine preserves located in the ...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Jazz Band III, Modern Ink Painting by Charles Burdick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Burdick, American (1924 - ) - Jazz Band III, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Ink on paper, signed l.l., Size: 7 in. x 5.5 in. (17.78 cm x 13.97 cm), Frame Size: 14 x 13 inches
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Ink
Sandias, Surrealist Mixographia by Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Sandias, Year: 1977, Medium: Mixographia, signed and numbered in crayon, Edition: 31/100, Size: 29 x 20.75 in. (73.66 x 52.71 cm), Publishe...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall, The Artist and the City, from Derriere le miroir, 1981
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled L’Artiste et la Ville (The Artist and the City), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 246, originates from the 1981 ed...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Antique American Modernist Framed Abstract Minimalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 17 by 21 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Lithographie Originale III (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, FRAMED, ~20% OFF)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro
Lithographie Originale V (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic)
Color Lithograph
Year: 1977
Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches
Framed: 18.25 x 15.5 x 1 inches
Catalogue Rais...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Max Ernst, The Wheel of Light, from Natural History, 1972 (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite collotype after Max Ernst (1891–1976), titled La Roue de la lumiere (The Wheel of Light), from the album Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), originates fr...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Le chavelier de la mort
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le chavelier de la mort
Lithograph from 1972.
The edition of 187/250.
Dimensi...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder, Red and Blue on Yellow, from Derriere le Miroir, 1973
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Alexander Calder (1898–1976), titled Rouge et bleu sur jaune (Red and Blue on Yellow), originates from the historic 1973 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 20...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph





