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#202, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece in this size More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket ...
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2010s Abstract Photography

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Pigment

Disco Moon
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: In rich, cinematic reds and browns, vivid yellows, and muted neutral shades, Adrian Samson’s photographs seduce viewers into a radiant, chromatic universe. With a ...
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2010s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Tape Collection 90 Minutes Vintage Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
90 Minutes Vintage Blue, pop art from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, pers...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Jane Birkin
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Jane Birkin 1969 (printed later) Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 English-French actress, singer, songwriter, and model Jane Birkin photographed wearing a ...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Soulmates" 40x60 Black and White Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" Unsigned 40 x 60 Framing availab...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sunday Afternoons (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunday Afternoons (Sidewinder), 2005 Edition of 1/10, 24x20cm, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 3765.01. Not mounted...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sunbeams - underwater black white nude photograph - archival pigment 35x23"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white nude photograph of a young woman wrapped in sunbeams. There were five grandpianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Innuendo
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Innuendo, 2016, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2016-2001. No...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Norman Parkinson Limited Estate Print Anne Gunning for Vogue
Located in London, GB
Anne Gunning for Vogue Estate Print by Norman Parkinson Fashion model Anne Gunning in a pink mohair coat outside the City Palace with an elephant, Jaipur, India, photographed for V...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Mrs. A. Watson Armour III, Illinois, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Mrs. A. Watson Armour III walking with her poodles on her Lake Forest Estate, Illinois, USA. T...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Diptych III, From the series Les Voiles. LImited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Uwe Ommer wanted to try a series that revealed less of the body using different wet veils in bright colors to create this sensual effect.This series of photographs were taken for a E...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Takeout Florals
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for more information. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Natasha Martin is an LA-based photographer who loves color and infusing dre...
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2010s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Von Pantz Pool, 1985 - Nude Swimmer Portrait Laura Hawk Swimming Pool Water
Located in Brighton, GB
Von Pantz Pool, 1985 - Nude Swimmer Portrait Laura Hawk Swimming Pool Water by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Vo...
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20th Century American Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Cowboy TV (framed) - large photograph of iconic movie in Western landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original photograph of vintage television set with iconic western movie in American Wild West landscape Cowboy TV by Frank Schott 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) signed edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Archival...

Jane Mansfield for Bill Kobrin - Photograph by Leo Mirkine - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Bill Kobrin in 1963. Excellent condition.
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Disney Concert Hall I, Photography, Limited Edition, Architecture, Los Angeles
Located in München, BY
Disney Concert Hall I Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, USA. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo a...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Love - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (The Princess and her Lover) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007, Edition of 1/10, 20x24cm. Digital C-Print based on the Polaroid. Not mounted. Signature label and Cer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sea Cliffs - Shoreline - Ocean - Nature - Faroe Islands
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure seascape - landscape photography print. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Always Sometimes - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Always Sometimes, 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory - P...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Randal Ford - Plum-Headed Parakeet, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Digital C-Print on Archival Photographic Paper Available sizes: 32" x 32", Edition of 15 40" x 40", Edition of 10 48" x 48", Edition of 5 Few photographers in the world have photog...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Eduardo Chillida
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an offset lithograph portrait of Eduardo Chillida, published in Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 143. Known for its high-quality reproductions, Derrière le Miroir featured works ...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Offset

Eduardo Chillida
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Flora 09, 2015 - Nude Renaissance Style Portrait Flower Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 09 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in a Limited Edition of 15 in this size by contemporary photographer duo Tortora & Travezan. Photography duo Tortora & Travezan create vib...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Color

Thursday s Child - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Thursday's Child' part of the series 'A Girl called N.' - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate....
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Curved Laurel Tree, minimalist photograph - large format color - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color mystical landscape Photography. A uniquely shaped tree with a curved trunk, standing on a cow meadow, shrouded in fog. Archival pigment ink print as part of...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Nocturnal Nature: Painted Cyanotype Still Life of Hibiscus and Rose on Indigo
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-painted cyanotype still life of pink flowers on indigo with custom frame Nocturnal Nature (Double Hibiscus, Rose) — painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes 2024 watercolor, go...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Waiting II (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Waiting II' (Sidewinder) - 2004 80x80cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory # 303...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Red Jet - iconic vintage private jet plane on desert airport tarmac (26 x 40")
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of iconic cherry red vintage private airplane on airport runway tarmac in the California desert - available in two edition s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Harmony
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
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2010s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Room 102 - Collector Portfolio # 6 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always being more obsessed with aesthetics than with simulacrum. If he worships more than one of these predecessors who poured into more outrage, it is freely that he suggests to the imagination to imagine without capturing the fantasy of the viewer. The choice had been made of very high quality prints: cotton fiber base baryta paper without chlorine and high grammage (310 gr / m²), pigment inks. They carry on the back an authentication label signed by Eric Ceccarini The enhancement of this limited edition of 100 copies is ensured by the use of a unique high-quality box to keep the 12 fine art prints This is edition #1/100 Eric is a Belgian artist born in 1965. He gained a Degree in Photography from INFAC, Brussels in 1987. Since then he has been a fashion photographer working with many of the top houses. Elle, Marie-Claire, L'Oréal, Levi's, Coca Cola, Virgin, Saab, Delvaux, Lowe Lintas and Ogilvy are some of his clients. Among other distinctions, his photography for the Saab cabrio 9-3 campaign was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Eric is set apart from many of his colleagues by his way of shunning technical artifice and working in natural light. This results in soft, velvety, almost painterly images. Nowadays in his artistic works, he captures women's essence and soul, transcending mere physical representation. Eric's "AMNIOS" series of soul portraits- the model appear in suspended animation, as if they were about to born, and full of hidden secrets. This represents a new conceptual departure for Eric, who began as a fashion photographer, moving on to classic artistic nudes...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment, Rag Paper

Fairy Forest - Bent Old Trees - large scale photography print - limited print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist fine art landscape Photography. A foggy landscape with several twisted green bent laurel trees on a grassy field. Archival pigment ink print as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Nude Female, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Kate #1 by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #1, 2002 by Leonard Freed is a 10" x 8" handprinted, signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of print). Model...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Melt with You - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Melt with You' part of the series 'Hands down' - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 7/7 and 2 Artist Proofs available. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certifi...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

H2O lll - large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O lll by Eri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Pink Room 2
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Merve Türkan and Ulaş Kesebir, are a self taught photography duo based in London. They have been working professionally since 2014 and in the end of the 2020 they ...
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2010s Photography

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Photographic Paper

World Class Sailboats on the Open Seas, Classic, Horizontal, Minimalist
Located in US
"In Sync" The iconic super yachts Lionheart, Ranger, Rainbow, and Velsheda appear to work together to create a pattern where there was none in this timeless and classic black and white photograph...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke, 1980
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke 1980 Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Catherine Wilke...
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1980s Modern Photography

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Lambda

Tree in Frozen Field - Panorama - monochrome panorama
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 8. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism TOPIARY II by Fran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Female Nudes, Black and White Photography of Women, Kate #7 by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #7, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed, signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on vers...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Road with Cypress Trees, Indian Summer, Tuscany color photography landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color landscape photography. A winding dirt road lined with tall, green cypress trees on both sides in a dry, open landscape. Archival pigment ink print as part ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Chestnut Trees on the Promenade, Traunsee, b&w fine art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Chestnut Trees on the Promenade, Austria - no. 21144 Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Chesternut trees and bench in fog over Lake Traunsee w...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Fugitives III (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fugitives III (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 9363....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fern Forest III - Forest Woodland Fern Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
'Fern Forest III' is an Archival Inkjet Print by photographer Morgan Silk. It is available in this size of 17" x 24" in a limited edition of 25. 'Fern Forest III' is the second pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Photography

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Color

Lido Life, 1957 - Venice Lido Venice Lagoon Pool Italian Cultural Heritage
Located in Brighton, GB
Lido Life, 1957 - Venice Lido Venice Lagoon Pool Italian Cultural Heritage by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Lid...
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20th Century American Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Rhapsody
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rhapsody - 2016 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL20...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid

Tuscan Courtyard, old House, Tuscany, black and white photography, art landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white cityscape photography. A courtyard with a wooden door, arched doorways, and potted plants on ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

#257, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece in this size More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket ...
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2010s Abstract Photography

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Pigment

Barricade - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Barricade, 2020 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory - PL2020-90...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Jacques Tati and Alain Becourt - Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1958. Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto. Excellent condition.
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1950s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Punk - Figurative photo, Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Sensual
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Punk ‘ Signed by Ian Sanderson lower...
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1980s Modern Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Tuscan Courtyard, Old Town, Tuscany, monochrome landscape photo, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white cityscape photography. Old stone building with wooden shutters, potted plants and outdoor seating in a narrow courtyard. Archival pigment ink pri...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

For the times they are a changin - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
For the times they are a changin' - 2021 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist invent...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bosque de niebla Chicaque. Sublimation on textile
Located in Miami Beach, FL
What began as a pretext to exercise MIguel Wynograd's gaze, little by little became a meditation on different intertwined temporalities. The superposition of very ancient times with ...
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2010s Naturalistic Photography

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Textile, Polyester

Lakeside Winter Panorama Snow, Mountains, Limited Edition Monochrome Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Lakeside, Winter Panorama Study 1, Austria - no. 21052 // Black and white fine art panorama long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Winter panorama with mountains, lake an...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Dolomites - black and white mountain photography, limited edition of 10
Located in London, GB
'Dolomites' 2022 It is a black and white film photograph of Dolomite mountains, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all the processing and printing in the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Giclée

Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
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...
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Half Angels Half Demons #5 and #6. Undrewater Limited edition photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
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Fifth Ave East 39th St, New York City, black and white, cityscape, photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Set of 2 Aventure d une libertine Photographs. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
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