Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Flag (Moratorium), ULAE S5 hand signed limited edition 1969

1969

David Hockney Tribute to violinist Jascha Heifetz, 1988 Offset Lithograph Poster 15 × 34 inches Limited Edition of 100 Unframed (unsigned) Another example of this work was featured i...

Ed Ruscha Paintings (Hand signed by Ed Ruscha), 2014 Offset lithograph print (Hand signed on the front) Published by Gagosian Gallery, Rome 26 × 27 inches Unframed Highly collectible when hand signed by Ed Ruscha Provenance: Donated by the artist to a major arts charity Acquired by the present owner from the above Accompanied by original documentation sheet from the charity as provenance This poster featuring Gal Chews Same Gum Since 1963 (2014) was produced in 2014, in conjunction with Ed Ruscha: Paintings at Gagosian, Rome. The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices, perspectival techniques, and refined atmospheres of old master paintings to depict the romantic road trip of youth reduced to roadside dystopia. Provenance: donated by Ed Ruscha to a major charitable arts organization. About Ed Ruscha: There are things that I’m constantly looking at that I feel should be elevated to greater status, almost to philosophical status or to a religious status. That’s why taking things out of context is a useful tool to an artist. It’s the concept of taking something that’s not subject matter and making it subject matter. —Ed Ruscha At the start of his artistic career, Ed Ruscha called himself an “abstract artist ... who deals with subject matter.” Abandoning academic connotations that came to be associated with Abstract Expressionism, he looked instead to tropes of advertising and brought words—as form, symbol, and material—to the forefront of painting. Working in diverse media with humor and wit, he oscillates between sign and substance, locating the sublime in landscapes both natural and artificial. In 1956, Ruscha moved from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute. During his time in art school, he had been painting in the manner of Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, and came across a reproduction of Jasper Johns’s Target...

Red Grooms Ruckus Manhattan (Hand signed), 1981 Historic Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Red Grooms) 11 × 28 inches Hand signed by Red Grooms on the front Unframed The artis...

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Chinese Moonlight (signed, dated and inscribed by Walasse Ting), 1967 Illustrated Softback monograph with four original double-page litho...