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Period: 1970s
Fantastic Horse (After the Storm) - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Franz PRIKING
Fantastic Horse (After the Storm), 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 120
On Arches vellum 76 x 54 cm (c. 31 x 21 in...
Category
Modern 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
Vibrant Landscape With Mountains View
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Vibrant Landscape With Mountains View
Size: 24x30 framed 30x36 x1
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After Word War II, she attended the Acade...
Category
Fauvist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1978, signed and dated "Roth 78" to edge, "Jack Roth Estate" stamp verso and marked "JR 3908", unframed.
32.5" H x 32.5...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carly Simon 1972
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
Carly Simon
Carly Simon, London 1972she kissed my cheek, I did not wash for a week!
Carly Simon is an acclaimed American singer-songwriter known for her introspe...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mitchell Epstein Signed Vintage Color Photograph C Print Photo Florence Italy
Located in Surfside, FL
Mitch Epstein
Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy
1977
Hand signed and titled verso
11 X 16.25 image. Sheet: 13 x 19 3/16 in. frame is 19.5 X 24.75
Italian landscape with statue
Mitchel...
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Intimate Lighting I, Pastel Abstract Screenprint by Robert Natkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Natkin, American (1930 - 2010)
Title: Intimate Lighting I
Year: 1972
Medium: Screenprint on Cream Arches Paper, signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Edition: 42/150
Si...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Villerville, Calvados - Large Mid 20th Century French Beach Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large French oil on canvas depicting a cloudy beach landscape at Villerville, Calvados, by André Houllier.
Excellent quality work and condition work. Signed lower right ...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Picos, " 1970s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
"Picos" is an abstract painting created in 1971 by Modernist artist, Stanley Bate. The piece features an earthy, muted palette, giving it a serene feeling with deep grey, muted brown...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bengt Lindstrom - Original Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bengt Lindström - Original Handsigned Engraving
The Seven Deadly Sins.
76 x 56 cm
Signed in pencil by Bengt Lindström
Paris, ABCD, 1976.
Original etching in color
Limited edition 90 ex.
This is the unique copy offered to Claude Manesse,
The story of B. Lindström was collected by Frederick Towarnicki, assisted by Agathe Malet-Buisson. The engravings were drawn on the presses of Claude Manesse.
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008)
Bengt Lindström was born on September 3rd, 1925 in Storsjökapell, a small isolated village in the Swedish province of Norrland. The young child thus grew up in that vast, mythical and harsh expanse of mounts, glistening lakes and endless forests known as Lapland. His father was a primary school teacher who was fond of Lapps and who showed great interest in their ethnic group and culture. The child was only three days old when Lapp King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is conveyed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods. Lapps as well as local lumberjacks would occasionally abandon their silent ways to tell him and reveal the tales, legends and mysteries of the Great White North.
1935-1945 : He left Storsjökapell and headed to Härnösand, where he wrote short science-fiction novellas, became a renowned athlete and began to paint.
1944-1946 : Isaac Grünewald Art School in Stockholm, Sweden. Study drawing with Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark. He realized his first two lithographs, Meditation and Le Modèle Etendu (The Stretched Model).
1947-1952 : He arrived in Paris. He travelled to Italy, where he visited Florence and Assisi, developing a deep fascination for Giotto and Cimabue. He was granted a scholarship by Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. He began working on mosaics.
1953-1967 : He returned to Paris, once again taking up lithography and engraving, which holds a vital position in his work. He moved into a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison. This was the start of his collaboration with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris. London Tooth
Sons Gallery Director M. Cochrane purchased a large number of his works. He left the workshop in Rueil-Malmaison to settle in Savigny-sur-Orge, France. He began taking to figurative art with Masks, Gods and Monsters. He exhibited with the Nouvelle Figuration Group at the Mathias Feld Gallery. He also began working with the Ariel Gallery in Paris.
1968-1978 : Lindström completed a series of 10 lithographs about Scandinavian mythology. He also completed a series of drypoint works. An association with the Protée Gallery in Toulouse, France, led to exhibitions at the Protée Gallery II in Paris starting in 1984. He executed a large mural painting the Grand Hotel in Härnösand, Sweden. He also made two large frescoes for the Nacksta-Sundsvall covered market in Sweden. He took to sharing his working time between the workshop in Savigny-sur-Orge and the one in Sundsvall. He began collaboration that was to last several years with the ABCD Gallery in Paris, which provided exclusive publication for his engravings and strong ink work. Les Hommes du Nord (Men of the North) was the first of the major tapestries. He published a boxed set album, Eddan, Eddan, Eddan, illustrating Scandinavian mythology. Together with Jacques Putman, he completed two editions of bronze sculptures, Les Enfants Sauvages (The Wild Children).
1979-1982 : He worked on glass, making thirty dishes and goblets for renowned Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. He painted a car for Volvo, Sweden’s leading car manufacturer. Then, close to his birthplace, he painted gigantic tarpaulins over forty metres high, covering the slopes of the neighbouring Våladalen Mountain, as a protest against the building of a dam. This action caused a sensation and provoked fierce reactions. He also created small painted papier mâché sculptures, Têtes (Heads), as well as some gold and silver jewellery.
1983 : He exhibited seven monumental 3x2.5m works at the Art and History Museum in Stockholm: Les Grands Dieux Ase (The Great Aesir Gods), depicting the gods from Scandinavian mythology: Thor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loki and Unknown God, as well as acrylic paintings about the Valkyries. Les Grands Dieux was ultimately exhibited in a purpose-built chapel adjoining the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in 1996. He completed Thor’s Hammer, a monumental sculpture.
1985-1990 : He lived also in the Alicante region, where Spanish friends found him a new workshop. While there he completed Novelda, an album of lithographs featuring poems by Spanish poet Paco Pastor. He completed a new mural, 5mx5m, for the Västeras Science Institute in Sweden. He then started working with the San Carlo Gallery in Milan, Italy, which coordinated all of the Italian events. Major exhibitions and retrospectives were held in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. He created two boxed set albums, containing series of 10 aquatints, Monde Autre et Chamanes (Otherworld and Shamans), featuring poems by Michel Perrin.
1991-1994 : He went back to working in black and white, completing some very-large-format works. In Murano, in association with the San Carlo Gallery, he created Grands Verres (Large Glasses), a series of large vases and sculptures made of crystal. He painted Kåtan Mimi, an 8x9m Lapp tent, for the town of Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland. He completed a couple of 2m-high painted polyester sculptures, Lui et Elle (Him and Her). He then made a new series of crystal glasses and sculptures in Murano, Italy. He completed Présence (Presence), a new 3.5x2.7m tapestry for the municipality of Timrå, Sweden. He started on the Grands Initiés (Great Insiders) series, all large format and mixed black and white techniques. He finished the strong series about Norse gods.
1995-1996 : He moved into a new workshop in Paris. A retrospective was held at the Sundsvall Museum in Sweden, and on that occasion he painted a monumental 700-m² canvass, Le Géant sur la montagne (The Giant on the Mountain), which was hung all summer long on the mountain slope facing the town. He went on to complete a suite of six silkscreen prints on the same theme. Then he inaugurated the Y, a monumental sculpture. Lindström then completed Temps Zéro (Zero Time), a watch made for Swatch. One of his works, L’hiver (Winter), made the cover of the first 1996 issue of Telerama, the leading French weekly. In association with Sydkraft Sweden, he painted a fresco for the municipality of Örebro on a 17m-high tank with a surface area of 3,000 m², located at the crossroads of major Swedish motorways, by the entrance to the Åbyverket industrial estate. He also created a 6.5m-high Tången sculpture made of painted concrete in Ånge, which was inaugurated on September 3rd in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.
1997-1999 : He began working on ceramics in Albisolla, Italy. He also completed a new 30m-high fresco for the town of Örebro, located close to the tank he had painted in 1996 near Åbyverket. The year saw the inauguration of the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in Sweden, which harbours the collection of the Bengt and Michèle Lindström Foundation, featuring the entire engravings collection (about 800 works), as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures. He completed a 4x10m mural in the lobby of the University of Eskilstuna, Sweden, and also completed two monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland.
2000-2003 : He painted all of the sides of a semi-articulated lorry for Scania, Sweden’s main truck manufacturer. In Italy, he completed a new series of crystal sculptures with Adriano Bérengo. He finished the Great Prophets, a series of 2x2m oil on canvass works. Swiss publisher Ides et Calendes published a small but luxurious monograph, with text by Françoise Monnin. A notebook was also published, Le Visage dans l’Art de Bengt Lindström (Faces in the Art of Bengt Lindström). He completed a substantial series of large blue acrylic paintings, Femmes (Women).
2003 : Bengt fell ill and was unable to paint, but the exhibitions went on.
2004 : Saw the release of the film by Dag Jonzon and Hans Östbom, produced by Dell’arte AB and Östbom Filmbild, about the life of Bengt Lindström. Entitled Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme (Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil), the film was produced thanks to support from Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and Sveriges Television. It was broadcast on Swedish television channels. That same year, the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre was closed as a result of municipal policy.
2005-2007 : The 6m-high sculpture Le Loup (The Wolf), made for PEAB, was inaugurated in Botkyrka-Stockholm. Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil was screened at the Paris Swedish Cultural Centre and released on DVD. The Michèle and Bengt Lindström Foundation was donated and transferred to the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden, where a special room was prepared to host Les Grands Dieux Ase. Edition of the 1998 Ceramics, created in association with Francis Dellile’s ”La Tuilerie” workshop. The Bengt Lindström Collection was inaugurated at, Murberget, the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden. He illustrated Sinfonietta för Juliana, a collection of poems by Italian poet and art critic Sebastiano Grasso. On January 29th, 2008, Bengt Lindström passed away at his home in Sweden.
2008-2012 : The Fondation Krimaro presents the first volume of the works of Bengt Lindström in his collection. Numerous exhibitions-tribute to the work are presented in major cities in Europe.
2012 : Retrospective - Black and White in the engravings - Museum of Härnösand, Murberget, Sweden.
Main exhibitions
1952 Fair Réalités Nouvelles – New realities, Paris, France.
1953 Craven Gallery, Paris, France.
1954 Gummeson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Fair Salon d’Octobre, Paris, France.
1958 Breteau Gallery, Paris, France.
1959 Autour du Spontanéisme – Around the sontaneity, Stockholm, Sweden. L’Europe Nouvelle – The new Europe, LaUnited Statesnne, Switzerland.
1960 Rive Gauche Gallery, Paris, France.
1961 Tooth Gallery, London, England. Le Zodiaque Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Fair Salon de Mai, Paris, France.
1962 Nouvelle Figuration – New Figuration , Mathias Fels Gallery, Paris, France,
1964 Nord-Sud – North-South, in several cities in Sweden. Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, 15 artists of my generation. Museum of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium, Figuration-Défiguration – Figuration – Disfigurement.
1965 Rive Gauche Gallery. Paris, France. Nord Gallery, Lille, France. Birch Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 Museum of Modern Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1967 Veranneman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, United States. Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 23 peintres in Paris.
1968 Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, followed by six exhibitions until 1976.
1969 La Pochade Gallery, Paris, France. Protée Gallery, Toulouse, France, who exhibited him in Paris, Gallery Protée II, from 1984.
1973 Galliera Museum, Paris, France.
1974 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal.
1982 Gallery Protée-Arco, Madrid, Spain and Fair Foire de Cologne, Germany.
1983 Historia Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, The Ase gods and the Valkyries.
1984 Gallery Arcano XXI, Lisbon, Portugal. Gallery Christian Cheneau, Paris, France. Museum Château comtal, Carcassonne, France.
1985 Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain.
1986 Gallery Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain. Gallery Juan Mordo-Arco, Madrid, Spain. Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain. Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Gallery Three Continents, New-York, United States. Gallery Protée, Toulouse France, Autour du Roi Lear – Around King Lear.
1987 Gallery Kostel, Paris, France. Gallery Zwirner, Cologne, Germany. Gallery Leu, Rottach-Egern, Germany.
1988 Maison du Lot, Figeac, France. Gallery Protée, Paris, France. Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France
1989 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France, La terre des ancêtres - The Land pf the ancestors. Gallery Protée, Paris, France, Nomads. Gallery Raab, London, England.
1990 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France. Centre Culturel de Brest, France.
1991 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France.
1992 Archotèque, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France. Museum of Vesoul, Vesoul, France. Gallery San Carlo, Milan, Italy.
1993 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal. Tonnellerie du Cognac Monnet...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Engraving
Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche XX
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche XX
Lithograph from 1973.
Edition 6/250 on Japon paper.
Dimensions of work: 76 x 56 cm
Publisher: Carpent...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Bride - Original Liithograph, Hand Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Fréderic MENGUY -
The Bride, 1975
Original Lithograph
Signed in pencil
Numbered / 119 copies in Roman numbers
On Japan paper 56 x 42 cm (c. 22 x 16.5 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, adventure, live ...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Color
Derrière le Miroir Lithograph by Joan Miró, Modern, 1970, Unframed
By Joan Miró
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This double-page lithograph by Joan Miró is featured on pages 16-17 of Derrière le Miroir No. 186, published by Maeght Editeur in Paris in 1970. The lithograph, which includes a fold...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$232 Sale Price
33% Off
“Blue Macaw, 1975” by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese Tropical Bird Gouache Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
This striking gouache captures Williams’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, filtered through his expressive modernist sensibility. The bird emerges from a hazy gray field,...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Boats Along the Wharf Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor landscape of boats along the wharf by Henry Hank Volle (American, 20th Century). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Signed "Henry Volle" lower left. Artists bio...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled Composition (Surrealism)
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Kansas City, MO
Raoul Ubac
Title: Untitled Composition
Medium: Color Lithograph
Year: 1972
Size: 14.9 x 21.8 inches
Notes: Centerfold and verso printed as published
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Unsigned...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$149 Sale Price
62% Off
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Alexander Calder, The Three Faces, from Derriere le miroir, 1976
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Alexander Calder (1898–1976), titled Les Trois Visages (The Three Faces), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 221, originates from the 1976 edition pu...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude - Etching on Paper by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1970s.
Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered, VI/XL prints, on the lower left.
In good conditions.
Sergio Barletta (...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Noche Crist Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful and one of a kind nude sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Sculpture is made from polyester resin. Catalogue of a postumous retrospective in 2008 at the American Universi...
Category
Outsider Art 1970s Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Mirò - Sculptures - Vintage Lithographic Poster Galerie Maeght - 1970s
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò - Sculptures is a vintage lithographic poster realized after Joan Mirò in occasion of one of his exhibitions at Galerie Maeght.
Off...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Wall and Trowel - Original Lithograph by Ivo Pannaggi - 1975 ca.
By Ivo Pannaggi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 46 x 24 cm.
Wall and Trowel is a peculiar and rare lithograph realized by the artist Ivo Pannaggi in a circulation of 100 copies around...
Category
Futurist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
By Joan Miró
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró II
Date of creation: 1975
Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper
Edition: 1500
Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm
Condition: In v...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
June Evening - Oil Paint by Martin Bradley - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Martin Bradley in 1972.
Hand signed and titled on canvas.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,272 Sale Price
25% Off
Untitled 9, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Carmen Louis Cicero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Carmen Louis Cicero, American (1926 - ) - Untitled 9, Year: circa 1971, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 18 x 20 inches, Size: 23 x 24 i...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses No.1 rare poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses no.1 poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974. This image is from the The Currier and Ives Suite of six litho...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Original Etching by Leonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Paonia, CO
An etching by Leonor Fini depicting a gnarly old man with two youthful angels one sitting at his feet and the other standing close to his right side. This is a signed limited edition etching numbering 62 out of 100. There is also a signature by the artist embossed in the paper just below the pencil signature. The paper is very fibrous and has a couple of inherent creases that are part of the makeup of the fibrous paper. These are to the right of the figures. The edges of the paper are deckled. The paper size is 25.75 x 20 Image size 15.50 x 12.50. This original etching is in very good condition.
Argentinian-born artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) is considered one of the great female artists of the twentieth century. She moved to Paris in the early 1930’s where she spent most of her life and almost immediately formed friendships with Salvador Dali, Cartier- Bresson, Max Ernst and other intellectuals of the time. At twenty five she had her first one person show in Paris and was included in the 1936 pivotal exhibition at MOMA…Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism…..and that same year had an exhibition at a famous avant garde gallery in New York. Although Fini never considered herself a Surrealist she maintained close personal relationships with several members of the group. One can see how their ideology influenced her work but she remained firmly rooted in the tradition of Symbolism, Metaphysics and Italian and German Romanticism Her works can be found in most important collections of modern art around the world.
Fini was renowned as a portraitist and as a painter of erotic sexual tensions with a mysterious atmosphere. She was adamant about being independent and not belonging to any one group. She lived life on her own terms and is sometimes referred to as …..the female Dali. She was also involved with designing for fashion and creating elaborate sets for opera and theatre. As a feminist she was definitely ahead of the times. She produced the first erotic male nude...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Historic invitation poster for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition Minimalist light art
By Dan Flavin
Located in New York, NY
Dan Flavin
Rare invitation poster for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition, 1970
Letterpress and stencil on colored paper
Not signed
Frame included
Floated in the original ACE gallery vintage wood frame.
Measurements:
Framed:
17.75" x 17.75" x 1.6 inches
Poster:
16 inches x 16 inches
Extremely uncommon letterpress and stencil poster designed by Dan Flavin on the occasion of his 1970 exhibition “Two Cornered Installations in Colored Fluorescent Light from Dan Flavin” at the legendary Ace Gallery in Los Angeles. The poster, like most exhibition invitations of that era (including those from the Leo Castelli gallery in New York) was undated, as these works were so much of the moment. This work was acquired directly from the collection of the ACE Gallery.
Other than the present work, we've never seen another example of this collectors item anywhere in the world, on or off the market (If anyone is aware of others, we'd love to see!)
More about the legendary ACE gallery, and the sale of some of its art collection from the bankruptcy estate, from where the present work was acquired:
ACE Gallery founder Douglas Chrismas opened his own frame shop and gallery in Vancouver at the age of 17. His gallery became known as a venue where Vancouver artists could show alongside major New Yorkers, and get the feeling of belonging to a bigger scene. In the 60s and early 70s he brought artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Donald Judd to Vancouver, Canada.
The gallery expanded to Los Angeles in 1967 at the former Virginia Dwan Gallery space in Westwood, and then further expanded to New York in 1994. The galleries were noted for doing museum-level exhibitions by up and coming and internationally renowned artists. While in New York the gallery’s presence was amplified by doing exhibitions in conjunction with cultural institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Cartier Foundation (Paris). Under Chrismas' directorship, ACE Gallery has had either offices or galleries in art centers outside of the United States, such as Mexico City, Paris, Berlin. and Beijing.
In 1972, Chrismas mounted Robert Irwin’s installation Room Angle Light Volume at the first ACE/Venice, which opened at 72 Market Street in 1971. In 1977, ACE mounted exhibitions of work by Frank Stella and Robert Motherwell, along with Michael Heizer’s Displaced/Replaced Mass. Installed at ACE/Venice, the Heizer piece required that huge chunks be gouged out of the gallery floor to create recessed areas able to accommodate boulders.
In April 2016, ACE Gallery emerged from a three-year bankruptcy proceeding under the leadership of Sam S. Leslie. In May 2016, founder Douglas Chrismas was terminated from all roles at the gallery.
In July 2021, Douglas Chrismas was arrested by the FBI and charged with embezzlement.
In May 2022, Douglas Chrismas was ordered to repay 14.2 million in ACE art sale profits, which were diverted to personal accounts.
Chrismas is awaiting criminal trial in January, 2023. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Controversies
In a 1983 lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court, Rauschenberg sought $500,000 from Chrismas' Flow ACE Gallery; the artist won a $140,000 judgment in the suit in 1984. Eventually the two reconciled their differences and in 1997 Robert Rauschenberg insisted that ACE Gallery New York (in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum) host his Retrospective.
In 1986, Chrismas pleaded no contest after Canadian real estate developer C. Frederick Stimpson alleged that he had improperly sold work belonging to the collector, among them pieces by Andy Warhol and Rauschenberg. Under the terms of the settlement, Chrismas agreed to pay Stimpson $650,000 over a period of five years. He continues to work with the Stimpson family in handling their art interests.
In 1989, ACE Gallery wanted to borrow a work by Judd along with Carl Andre's 1968 Fall, both owned by Count Giuseppe Panza, for an exhibition devoted to minimal art called The Innovators Entering into the Sculpture. Rather than shipping the two large scale works from Italy, Panza authorized ACE Gallery to refabricate the pieces in Los Angeles. In Panza's collection archives, there is a series of signed certificates signed by Judd that granted Panza broad authority over the works by Judd in his collection. These certificates "authorized Panza and followers to reconstruct work for a variety of reasons," as long as instructions and documentation provided by Judd were followed and either he or his estate was notified. This even included the right to make "temporary exhibition copies, as long as the temporary copy was destroyed after the exhibition; and the right to recreate the work to save expense and difficulty in transportation as long as the original was then destroyed." Miwon Kwon, in her account of site specificity: "One Place After Another," presents the account of ACE Gallery recreating artworks by Donald Judd and Carl Andre without the artist's permission. Andre and Judd both publicly denounced these recreations as "a gross falsification" and a "forgery," in letters to Art in America, however, the fabrication of the pieces were permitted by Panza Collection in Italy, the owner of the works. Despite the confusion surrounding the Panza refabrications, both Carl Andre and Donald Judd maintained a professional relationship with Douglas Chrismas and ACE Gallery. Andre showcased works at ACE Gallery in 1997, 2002, 2007, 2011 and present day. In 2007, Carl Andre's show entitled "Zinc" was exhibited at ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills. Donald Judd paid a visit to The Innovators Entering into the Sculpture exhibition at ACE Gallery and agreed to keep his sculpture in the exhibition. After the exhibition was over, Chrismas planned to sell the metal used for the re-fabrication of Judd's work for scrap metal but Judd wanted to own the re-fabrication for himself. ACE Gallery then sold the re-fabrication of Donald Judd's work to Donald Judd.
After having consigned more than $4 million worth of art to ACE Gallery to sell in 1997 and 1998, the sculptor Jannis Kounellis filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2006, accusing Chrismas of keeping most of the profits of artworks and refusing to return the pieces that did not sell. According to the lawsuit, the primary agreement between Kounellis and Chrismas was oral. Chrismas returned all of Kouenllis' artwork, and did a full accounting of the proceeds from Kounellis' work—minus the expense of exhibiting it. The matter was resolved between the two of them and ACE Gallery still sells and exhibits Kounellis' work today.
By 2006, Chrismas had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at least six times since 1982, barring most of his creditors from collecting the money immediately owed to them. Chrismas filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect the gallery's extensive real estate holdings from the problematic landlord. The landlord of the Wilshire Boulevard space, Wilshire Dunsmuir Company, claimed that ACE owed back rent and penalties however, the claim was disputed by Douglas Chrismas. In court papers, Chrismas Fine Art claimed that it would cure "the pre-petition" debt by Feb. 1, 2000, and was asking the court to protect its right to remain in the property. A declaration filed by Douglas Chrismas characterized this leasehold as the business' primary asset.
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About Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) was a pioneer of Minimal Art. He rose to fame in the 1960s with his work with industrially manufactured fluorescent tubes, inventing a new art form and securing his place in art history. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel focuses on his works that are dedicated to other artists or make reference to certain events.
Back in 1963 Dan Flavin mounted a single, industrial fluorescent light tube at a 45-degree angle to the wall of his studio declaring it art; the act was radical, and it still is. Indeed, it was owing to this action that standard commercial products would be introduced into art: The nascent Minimal Art of the era emphasised seriality, reduction and matter-of-factness. Somewhat ironically, while the autodidact Flavin never himself sought membership to this movement in art, he would, and quite literally, go on to become one of its most illustrious exponents.
Flavin began work with fluorescent light tubes from the early 1960s on; arranged in so-called ‘situations’, he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. The colours and dimensions of the materials he used were prescribed by industrial production. Flooded in light, viewers themselves become part of the works: The space, along with the objects within it, are set in relation to each other and thus become immersive experiences of art triggering sensual, almost spiritual experiences.
Flavin liberated color from the two-dimensionality of painting. The prevalent perception of his light works has, to date, largely centred on their minimalist, industrial aspect, and thus on the inherent simplicity of their beauty. The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel, by contrast, places emphasis on looking at Flavin’s oeuvre in a less familiar setting: His pieces, although initially without clearly recognisable signature, frequently make reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police violence, or are dedicated to other artists—as in the work untitled (in memory of Urs Graf...
Category
Minimalist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching, Stencil
Flashback VII, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Title: Flashback VII
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 119/175, plus proofs
Size: 28 x 20 inches
Inscription: Signed...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
One of The Thieves Was Saved
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
"One of The Thieves Was Saved" from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition ...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Signed Minimalist Abstract Etching by Gilou Brillant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gilou Brillant
Title: Untitled 21
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 99
Size: 35.5 x 25.5 in. (90.17 x 64.77 cm)
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
James the Lesser (Vicar of Britian)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: James the Lesser (Vicar of Britain)
Portfolio: 1972 The Twelve Apostles (Knights of the Round Table)
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1972
Edition: 41/350
Frame ...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
White flowers" " Oil cm. 40 x 73 1970
By Enzo FARAONI
Located in Torino, IT
minimal, flowers, interior, vase with flowers, white
Enzo FARAONI (S. Stefano Magra, La Spezia, 1920)
Enzo Faraoni is a great painter and engraver from Florence; he expresses the po...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
$4,272 Sale Price
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The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a seductive pose.
Lighty damaged.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
This is an estate...
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Lambda
Partner - Embossing and Screen Print by Shu Takahashi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print and embossing by Shu Takahashi, realized in 1973.
Not signed.
Very good condition.
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Ice Forms, Oregon
By Brett Weston
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount beneath the image. Acquired by the prior owner in 1972.
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Couple of man and woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Couple - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 50x61 cm.
Frameless.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987) was a painter...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$712 Sale Price
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Charles White "Blues" 1971 African American Artist - Color Lithograph Framed
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A wonderful print by African American artist, Charles White (1918 - 1979)
"Blues"
Color lithograph on Rives paper, 1971.
11.5 x 26.75 inches (28.55 x 68.7 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower right.
Number 63/100 from the numbered edition of 100.
Framed
Printed by William Law III and the Tamstone Group, Los Angeles, with their blindstamps lower right.
Charles Wilbert White...
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Brittany Beach, Pop Art Screenprint by Marion McClanahan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marion McClanahan, American (1921 - 1993) - Brittany Beach, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 50 AP, Image Size: 21.5 x 30 inches, Size: 2...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Marx Brothers "Animal Crackers" Movie Comedy Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo
Located in New York, NY
Marx Brothers "Animal Crackers" Movie Comedy Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo Caricature
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
Marx Brothers in "Animal Crackers"
Sight: 12 x 15 1/2 inches
Paper Si...
Category
Performance 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Musizierender Faun, Modern Nude Lithograph by Oskar Kokoschka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (1886 - 1980) - Musizierender Faun, Year: 1976, Medium: Lithograph on laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 100, Image Size: 10.25 x 8 inche...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
KARL FRED DAHMEN Untitled, 1971 - Signed Mid Century
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This untitled work by Fred Karl Dahmen, printed on a large sheet of heavy textured paper typical of etching, showcases his mastery in creating depth and contrast through abstract for...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
"Red Doc" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Title: Red Doc from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300
Size: 34 x 24.5 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
Category
Street Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Original exhibition poster for Alexander Calder sculptor
Located in PARIS, FR
This original exhibition poster was created for a showcase of works by Alexander Calder, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. Known for his kinetic sculptures, ...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Marino Marini, "Selezione II, " original etching
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original etching with color on wove paper done by Marino Marini in 1973. It is hand signed and numbered 53/90 from the edition of 90. This piece is from a portfolio...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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The Three Graces
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1972
Edition : 46/75
75.50 cm. x 55.50 cm. 29.72 in. x 21.85 in. (paper)
57.00 cm. x 39.00 cm. 22.44 in. x 15.35 in. (image)
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Certific...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Revolutions Sceniques Du XXe Siecle - II
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Les Revolutions Sceniques Du XXe Siecle - II
Color lithograph
Year: 1975
Size: 12.2×9.4in on 14.7×10.4in
Unsigned as issued
From an edition with unknown size (pres. <1,500...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$244 Sale Price
35% Off
Vue du Temple de la Concorde - Offset after G. Engelmann - 1970s
By G. Engelmann
Located in Roma, IT
Vue du Temple de la Concorde is a vintage offset print artwork on paper, realized after G. Engelmann (1788-1839), in the 1970s.
The artwork is signed on the plate. In very good cond...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Offset
Sonia Delaunay
s 1972 lithograph - XXè siècle art publication Mourlot
Located in PARIS, FR
Sonia Delaunay's 1972 lithograph, a product of collaboration with the renowned Mourlot atelier, stands as a vibrant testament to the artist's mastery of color and form. This striking...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Metropolis, Modern Cityscape Print by Richard Florsheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Metropolis by Richard Florsheim, American (1916–1979)
Date: circa 1975
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300
Size: 34.5 in. x 44.5 in. (87.63 cm x 113.03 cm)
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Lithograph Hand Signed Old Women Riding First Airplane Flight Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) First Airplane Ride/ Old Women Riding Airplane, 1938 Originally created as cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post.
Media print lithography on paper, this twelve-color lithograph was hand proofed and printed at Atelier Ettinger in December 1976. A/P Artist Proof impression on papier d'Arches. Hand signed in pencil by Norman Rockwell. hand editioned and with publishers blindstamp.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 – 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in a modern folk art style over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Song of Europe
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 stu...
Category
Cubist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Molvout, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
In Molvout, François Houtin merges organic vitality with the crumbling geometry of architecture. The composition presents a fantastical form that seems part tree, part tower, entwine...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
1978 After Bruce Nauman
Installation at Leo Castelli
s
Photography
By Bruce Nauman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 18.5 x 36 inches ( 46.99 x 91.44 cm )
Image Size: 18.5 x 36 inches ( 46.99 x 91.44 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additional Details: First edition exhibition poster by Bruce Nauman introducing his new installations at Leo Castelli’s Febriary 4th-25th, 1978. Photographed by Frank Thomas...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$60 Sale Price
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Private Parties
By Jean Sariano
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean Sariano Algerian-American (1943-)
Title: Private Parties
Date: 1979
Medium: Etching
Image Size 10 x 23 inches
Sheet size: 17 x 31 inches
Signature: signed lower right
Edition: 300 This one: 136/300
This wonderful, playful etching and aquatint is immediately identifiable as the work of Jean Sariano (1943-). It is numbered, titled and signed 136/300, “Private Parties”, Jean Sariano in the lower margin, all in pencil. The print measures 17” x 31” the sheet and 10” x 23” the plate. It is in excellent, pristine, never-framed condition.
Born in 1943 in Oran, Algeria, Frenchman Jean Sariano studies art at L’Ecole Régionale et Municipale Des Beaux Arts d’Oran. He is forced to escape the Algerian Revolution to Vichy, France in 1956 with his mother and five siblings. From there, Sariano moves to Paris to pursue his art studies at the world famous L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux Arts de Paris.
To fund his studies, he becomes janitor at Giraudon in Paris - a photo agency specialized in art. There he meets all the Masters, and very quickly he is in charge of classifying thousands of painting reproductions “A dream job for the eyes”. This job allows him to make his first trip to New York where he immediately falls in love with the city. It is at this time that he starts painting bicycles...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
"FLOWERS" 46 X 65 FRAMED. MASTER OF THE PALETTE KNIFE. BIG AND BEAUTIFUL!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jose Vives-Atsara
(1919-2004)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 36 x 55
Frame Size: 46 x 65
Medium: Oil Applied by Palette Knife
"Flowers"
Biography
Jose Vives-Atsara (1919-2004) San An...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Knight and Bull, Modern Oil on Board Painting by Charles Burdick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Burdick, American (1924 - ) - Knight and Bull, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Board, signed l.r., Size: 12 in. x 24 in. (30.48 cm x 60.96 cm), Frame Size: 15.5 x 28 inches
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Oil



