Offset Abstract Prints

Glenn Ligon Lincoln Center Festival (Hand signed, inscribed and dated), 2004 Offset lithograph on wove paper LARGE: 41 1/2 inches (vertical) × 32 inches (horizontal) (Ships in a tube...

HANS HAACKE Wir (Alle) Sind Das Volk—We (all) Are The People Color offset Lithograph on thin board LARGE: 36 × 24 inches Unframed This striking poster was created by Hans Haacke for...

Gilbert & George Gilbert and George Major Exhibition, Tate Modern (Hand Signed), 2007 Offset Lithograph Poster Hand signed by Gilbert & George on the front 30 x 20 inches Unframed E...

Ed Ruscha On the Road (10 sandwiches with bread and salami) (Hand signed and dated by Ed Ruscha), 2010 Letterpress on paper with die-cut photograph tipped in by hand to a blind debos...

Robert Petersen The Clocktower Exhibition (Hand signed and inscribed), 1979 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and warmly inscribed) Warmly signed and inscribed "For Marilyn Love ...

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns at Ileana Sonnabend, 1962 Offset Lithograph exhibition poster/invitation Plate signed on the front 31 3/4 × 21 inches Unframed This rare, collectible vintage poster...

Arte Povera Exhibition - Galerie Di Meo, Paris is an offset realized for the exhibition in 2005. Good condition, no signature. The exhibition is in Galerie Di Meo in Paris from Ma...

Christopher Wool Martin Kippenberger Self-Portraits Poster, 2005 Offset lithographic poster in colours on smooth wove paper. 36 × 24 inches Published by Luhring Augustine Unframed T...

Christo The MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Wrapped, Chicago, 1969, 2019 Limited Edition Four-color offset lithograph on 110 lb. Crane Lettra Cover stock, with an elegant gold foil...

Andy Warhol Mao, 1977 Offset lithograph exhibition poster on rag paper Published by the Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 37 × 24 inches Unframed This uncommon lithographic poster dep...

Kamol Tassananchalee Retrospective exhibition poster The National Gallery, Thailand (Hand signed), 1990 Offset lithograph poster Hand signed and dated by Kamol Tassananchalee in blu...

H.C. Westermann, Thomas Kapsalis Rare artist designed early poster: Westermann and Kapsalis Sculpture at Four Fourteen Art Center and Gallery Chicago, 1957 Historic offset lithograph poster designed by both artists Not signed 17 × 22 inches Unframed This extremely rare poster on handmade paper was published for the Tom Kapsalis/H.C. Westermann sculpture exhibition at 414 Art Workshop and Gallery, Chicago Momentum, 1020 Art Center, Chicago in December 1957. The poster was hand designed by both artists, with each one designing his respective half for a cohesive whole, for an exhibition at a small, now defunct regional art center in the late fifties -- so it's not unreasonable to believe that there just aren't too many of these out there anymore. A must have for anyone seriously involved in the careers and legacies of each or both of these sculptors. About H.C. Westermann: American artist Horace Clifford Westermann (Los Angeles, 1922 – Danbury, 1981) assembled a distinctive and singular body of sculptures. His works were predominantly made from wood through his masterly command of carpentry and cabinetmaking, yet he also used other techniques and materials such as metal, glass and enamelling with incredible precision. Without adhering to one particular style, Westermann was a maker of objects, of separate pieces: his sculptures, laden with meaning, often irony, result from the processing of experience, coalescing to yield specific fragments of reality. It is the course of these fragments that the retrospective presented by the Museo Reina Sofía follows. A concern with going back to shelter would soon emerge, be it in the home or the body —and blighted by the threat of confinement and death. Also, stubborn or helpless figures would recur through Westermann’s oeuvre. The motif of the “death ship” runs right through the breadth of his production as well, pointing, on one side, to continued wandering and latent abandonment and, on the other, to a determined pursue of refuge which seems to hold firm across his work. At the turning point of the 1960s, Westermann’s sculptures drew from mass culture, and made part of several exhibitions of the new realisms, when the “cold” tag of Pop art had not yet fully taken shape. The exhibition presents this output and the “specificity” of Westermann’s objects, which interested Donald Judd in 1963. In later pieces his work increasingly deals with the absurd, either through playfulness with language, in the confusion between work and instrument, or with references to the impermanent Besides the sculptures, the show displays Westermann’s paintings, letter-drawings —in his correspondence with other artists, critics and friends— and series of prints, in which he applied vibrant colours to address themes such as an escapist, while critical depiction of the American scene; catastrophe, and fragility. A graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954, Horace Clifford Westermann produced most of his work from a small town in Connecticut, where he settled in 1961. He regularly exhibited his work in New York, and occasionally in Chicago and on the West Coast. Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan About Tom Kapsalis: One of Chicago’s great abstractionists, painter Thomas H. Kapsalis (born 1922) has been an important artist and educator since the late ’40s, when he graduated from the School of the Art Institute. A prisoner of war in Germany, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Kapsalis returned to continue his pursuit of art-making, eventually returning to Germany in the early ’50s on a Fullbright-Hays Fellowship to study with Willi Baumeister. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute since 1954, and his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. Among the honors bestowed upon Kapsalis are Huntington Harford Foundation Grants (1956, 1959); Robert Rice Jenkins Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago (1956); Pauline Palmer Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1960); Mr. & Mrs. Julie F. Brower Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1969). Courtesy of Corbett vs...

Sonia Delaunay Hommage a Sonia Delaunay pour son 90eme Anniversaire, 1975 Offset lithograph poster/flyer Plate signed Very rare; published in a limited edition of unknown quantity 1...

Peter Halley Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany (Hand Signed by Peter Halley), 1998 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Peter Halley) 33 × 24 inches Unframed Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer this historic offset lithograph of legendary American artist Peter Halley's 1998- exhibition at the Museum of Folkwang, Essen, Germany,which the artist hand signed in black marker. Shown here is a photograph of our director Nadine Witkin with the artist. Below is Peter Halley's official biography. What it doesn't mention is that Andy Warhol famously painted his portrait in 1986! Peter Halley is that legendary. According to Halley, he didn't realize until after Warhol's death that the polaroids Warhol took of him with his famous "big shot" camera were made into an original painting. Warhol's painting of Peter Halley was included in the recent Andy Warhol retrospective...

Philip Guston Monograph: Philip Guston (Hand signed and inscribed to major collector by Philip Guston), 1980 Softback monograph (hand signed, inscribed and dated by Philip Guston to Mary Keesling) Warmly signed and inscribed by Philip Guston to Mary Keesling on the title page 10 1/4 × 9 × 3/4 inches If you're reading this description, then we hardly need to tell you, dear collector and Guston enthusiast, that autographed books...

Brice Marden Elevation print (Hand Signed by Brice Marden), 2019 Offset lithograph. Hand Signed by Brice Marden Boldly signed in black marker by Brice Marden on the front 24 × 34 3/4 inches Provenance: Acquired from Gagosian gallery Publisher: Gagosian Gallery, NY Unframed Produced in 2019 on the occasion of the exhibition "Brice Marden: It reminds me of something, and I don’t know what it is." at Gagosian. This signed example was acquired directly from Gagosian gallery before they sold out. About Brice Marden: Ultimately I’m using the painting as a sounding board for the spirit. . . . You can be painting and go into a place where thought stops—where you can just be and it just comes out. . . . I present it as an open situation rather than a closed situation. —Brice Marden Brice Marden (1938–2023) continuously refined and extended the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from his extensive travels, Marden brought together the diagrammatic formulations of Minimalism, the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism, and the intuitive gesture of calligraphy in his exploration of gesture, line, and color. Born in Bronxville, New York, Marden received an MFA from Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture, where his teachers included the painters Alex Katz and Jon Schueler. After graduation he worked as a guard at the Jewish Museum in New York. There, during a 1964 Jasper Johns retrospective, Marden studied Johns’s early works extensively and considered them in relation to the Baroque masters he has long admired, such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco Goya, and Diego Velázquez. Marden’s paintings from the 1960s include subtle, shimmering monochromes in gray tones, sometimes assembled into multipanel works, in a manner similar to the black paintings and White Paintings of Robert Rauschenberg, who hired Marden as a studio assistant in 1966. A trip to Greece in the early 1970s led Marden to create the Hydra paintings (1972), which capture the turquoise hues of the Mediterranean, and Thira (1979–80), a painting composed of eighteen interconnected panels inspired by the shadows and geometry of ancient temples. To heighten the effect of each color, plane, and brushstroke, Marden developed the unique process of adding beeswax and turpentine to oil paint and applying the mixture in many thin layers. Marden employed this technique for the Grove Group paintings (1972–76)—exhibited at Gagosian’s Madison Avenue gallery in New York in 1991, along with related works—and the Red Yellow Blue paintings...

Kenneth Noland Ojai Festival print (Deluxe signed limited edition), 1986 Lithograph with offset lettering Hand signed and numbered 6/100 by Kenneth Noland on lower front Frame inclu...

Artist: after Robert Indiana Title: Liberty from Kent-Bicentennial Portfolio Spirit of Independence Year: 1975 Medium: Offset Lithograph (unsigned) Paper Size: 17 x 14 inches Frame: ...

This limited edition color lithograph poster was created for the 1981 production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by David Mamet, a close associate of Donald Sultan. Printed ...

Terence La Noue New Monuments of Quetzalcoatl, 1976 Lithograph and offset lithograph on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered 1/500 by the artist on the lower right front (although t...

Sam Francis McGovern '72 Poster (Hand signed by Sam Francis), 1972 Photo offset poster (hand signed by Sam Francis) Signed in blue ink on the front by Sam Francis with Sam Francis co...

Jasper Johns Painting with Two Balls, Kunsthalle, Berlin, hand signed poster (Field 132), 1971 Offset lithograph (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns) Signed and inscribed in m...

Ossip Zadkine Tate Gallery Exhibition poster (hand signed by Ossip Zadkine), 1961 Off-set Lithograph Poster (Hand Signed by Ossip Zadkine) Signed lower right front 30 × 20 inches Unf...

Offset, 1975 Edition : 83/100 Publisher : Galerie Alexandre Iolas (Paris) Printer : Grafic Olimpia Milano (Mailand) Catalog : [Ulm-Chenivesse 19, p. 39] 83.50 cm. x 57.60 cm. 32.87 ...

Richard Lindner Adults-Only, 1979 Offset lithograph poster Plate signature with date, right front Limite Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Frame Included: held in vintage 1970s metal perio...

Original Olympische Spiele Munchen 1972 vintage Olympic poster. Printed in 1969 for the 1972 Munich Olympics, this antique poster is archival...

Mary Heilmann To Be Someone (hand signed and inscribed "Love from Mary Heilmann"), 2007 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed by Mary Heilmann) Warmly signed...

Richard Deacon Kind of Blue (Hand Signed and Dated card), 2005 Offset lithograph postcard Boldly signed and dated 9-01-05 by the artist above the image of the sculpture 5 4/5 × 4 1/4 inches Unframed Offset lithograph postcard depicting Richard Deacon's 1995 ceramic sculpture "Kind of Blue", in the collection of the Arts Council of Great Britain. This work is hand signed and dated on the front of the image. Very good vintage condition; minor handling and discoloration around far corners (edges) to the card which will easily frame out. Richard Deacon’s voluptuous abstract forms have placed him at the forefront of British sculpture since the 1980s and, hugely influential, his works are visible in major public commissions around the world. His voracious appetite for material has seen him move between laminated wood, stainless steel, corrugated iron, polycarbonate, marble, clay, vinyl, foam and leather. As he explains: “Changing materials from one work to the next is a way of beginning again each time (and thus of finishing what had gone before)”. Deacon describes himself as a ‘fabricator’, emphasising the construction behind the finished object – although many of the works are indeed cast, modelled or carved by hand – and accordingly the logic of the fabrication is often exposed: sinuous curved forms might be bound by glue oozing between layers of wood or have screws and rivets protruding from sheets of steel, wearing their hearts on their sleeves. Such transparency highlights the reactive nature of the process: it is part of a two-way conversation between artist and material that transforms the workaday into something metaphorical. The idea of ‘fabrication’ also denotes making something up, of fiction rather than truth, and this knack for wordplay surfaces in Deacon’s titles, which might establish juxtapositions or wreak new meaning from familiar sayings or clichés – see Let’s not be Stupid (1991), No Stone Unturned (1999), Water Under the Bridge (2008) or Shiver My Timbers (2016). Richard Deacon Biography Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, UK in 1949 and lives and works in London, UK. He has a BA from St Martin’s School of Art, London, UK (1972) and an MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art, London, UK (1977). Solo exhibitions include Kula Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (2021); Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (2017); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA (2017); Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2017); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2016), Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2015); Tate Britain, London, UK (2014); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2011); Musée de la Ville de Strasbourg, France (2010); Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA (2008); PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (2001); MACCSI, Caracas, Venezuela (1996); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (1989) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (1988). He represented Wales at the Venice Biennale, Italy (2007) and has participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (2012), Glasgow International, UK (2006) and documenta 9, Kassel, Germany (1992). He won the Turner Prize in 1987 and the Robert Jakobsen...

George Condo at Cycladic (hand signed by George Condo), 2018 Limited Edition monograph with slipcase (hand signed by George Condo) 11 × 8 1/2 inches Published in a stated limited edi...

Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann at Andre Emmerich Gallery Poster, 1973 Offset lithograph poster Plate signed on the bottom right front Frame Included (held in original vintage metal frame)...

Jambs is a vintage offset print after Antoni Tàpies, printed on hand made paper. The artwork is one of the deluxe edition of 1982 limited to 2.000 dedicated to Tapies' works. Signe...

Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture (one plate) - Artist Authorized, 2002 Limited Edition Artist Authorized Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper Not signed, edition...

Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys, een konfrontatie, 137 Tekeningen 1945-1979, (Hand Signed), 1979 Silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) Catalogue raisonne reference: Weiss-Britsch 75 Boldl...

Jeff Koons Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (Hand signed and inscribed by BOTH Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal), 2014 Hardback monograph (hand signed, dated and inscribed) Hand si...

Lyman Kipp Kipp, at Betty Parsons Gallery, 1968 Rare Minimalist silkscreen announcement poster 24 × 13 1/4 inches Unframed Extremely rare. If you're reading this listing, you know wh...

Sarah Lucas Winter Song, 2020 Offset lithograph poster Limited Edition of 50 27 3/5 × 19 7/10 inches Unframed and unsigned Published by the Consortium Museum, Dijon France Limited E...

Alexander Calder - Poster Exhibition is a vintage poster realized in 1971 Mixed colored offset print This print was realized on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the arti...

Alexander CALDER Abstract Composition, 1971 Original vintage lithograph poster (Arte / Maeght workshop) Printed signature in the plate On thick paper 89 x 59 cm (c. 35 x 23,2 in) I...

Richard Prince It's a Free Concert (Hand Signed by Richard Prince), 2014 Offset Lithograph (hand signed by Richard Prince) Hand signed by the artist on the front Unnumbered 33 × 23 3...

Rare, historic collectors item: Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain New Work, Leo Castelli poster, 1967 Offset lithograph poster invit...

Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin Do Not Abandon Me (Hand signed in green marker on the half title page by Tracey Emin), 2010 Cloth hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (Han...

Richard Serra Silence, For John Cage (Hand Signed), 2016 Offset lithograph (hand signed by Richard Serra) 29 inches vertical × 39 inches horizontal Boldly signed in black marker on t...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Peter Max (American, b. 1937) Marking(s); notes: signed, blind stamp; ed. 76/165; 1980 Materials: serigraph Dimensions (H, W, D): 21.5"h, 26.75"w (work...

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Galerie Louis Leiris (Gravures), Year: 1968, Medium: Lithograph Poster, Image Size: 25 x 18 inches, Size: 26 x 19 in. (66.04 x 48.26 cm), P...

John Chamberlain Hand Signed Letter re: Leo Castelli Exhibition, 1982 Typewriter on paper (hand signed) 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches Hand-signed by artist, Signed in purple felt tip marker Hand signed telegraph/letter refers to Chamberlain's exhibition at the legendary Leo Castell Gallery. A piece of history! John Chamberlain Biography John Chamberlain (1927 – 2011) was a quintessentially American artist, channeling the innovative power of the postwar years into a relentlessly inventive practice spanning six decades. He first achieved renown for sculptures made in the late 1950s through 1960s from automobile parts—these were path-breaking works that effectively transformed the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionist painting into three dimensions. Ranging in scale from miniature to monumental, Chamberlain’s compositions of twisted, crushed, and forged metal also bridged the divide between Process Art and Minimalism, drawing tenets of both into a new kinship. These singular works established him as one of the first American artists to determine color as a natural component of abstract sculpture. From the late 1960s until the end of his life, Chamberlain harnessed the expressive potential of an astonishing array of materials, which varied from Plexiglas, resin, and paint, to foam, aluminum foil, and paper bags. After spending three years in the United States Navy during World War II, Chamberlain enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago and Black Mountain College, where he developed the critical underpinnings of his work. Chamberlain lived and worked in many parts of the United States, moving between New York City, Long Island, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Connecticut, and Sarasota, before finally settling on Shelter Island. In many ways, each location provoked a distinct material sensibility, often defined by the availability of that material or the limitations of physical space. In New York City, Chamberlain pulled scrap metal and twelve-inch acoustic tiles from the ceiling of his studio apartment. He chose urethane in Los Angeles in 1965 (a material he had been considering for many years), and film in Mexico in 1968. He eventually returned to metal in 1972, and, in Sarasota, he expanded the scale of his works to make his iconic Gondolas (1981 – 1982). The movement of the artist and the subsequent evolution of the work is indicative not only of a kind of American restlessness but also of Chamberlain’s own personal evolution: he sometimes described his use of automobile materials as sculptural self-portraits, infused with balance and rhythm characteristic of the artist himself. Chamberlain refused to separate color from his practice, saying, ‘I never thought of sculpture without color. Do you see anything around that has no color? Do you live in a world with no color?’. He both honored and assigned value to color in his practice—in his early sculptures color was not added, but composed from the preexisting palette of his chosen automobile parts. Chamberlain later began adding color to metal in 1974, dripping and spraying—and sometimes sandblasting—paint and lacquer onto his metal components prior to their integration. With his polyurethane foam works, color was a variable of light: ultraviolet rays or sunlight turned the material from white to amber. It was this profound visual effect that brought the artist’s personal Abstract Expressionist hand into industrial three-dimensional sculpture. Chamberlain moved seamlessly through scale and volume, creating material explorations in monumental, heavy-gauge painted aluminum foil in the 1970s, and later in the 1980s and 1990s, miniatures in colorful aluminum foil and chromium painted steel. Central to Chamberlain’s works is the notion that sculpture denotes a great deal of weight and physicality, disrupting whatever space it occupies. In the Barges series (1971 – 1983) he made immense foam couches, inviting spectators to lounge upon the cushioned landscape. At the end of his career, Chamberlain shifted his practice outdoors, and through a series of determined experiments, finally created brilliant, candy-colored sculptures in twisted aluminum foil. In 2012, four of these sculptures were shown outside the Seagram Building in New York, accompanied by playful titles such as ‘PINEAPPLESURPRISE’ (2010) and ‘MERMAIDSMISCHIEF’ (2009). These final works exemplify Chamberlain’s lifelong dedication to change—of his materials, of his practice, and, consequently, of American Art. Chamberlain has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including two major Retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York NY in 2012 and 1971; ‘John Chamberlain, Squeezed and Tied. Foam and Paper Sculptures 1969-70,’ Dan Flavin Art Institute, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton NY (2007); ‘John Chamberlain. Foam Sculptures 1966–1981, Photographs 1989–2004,’ Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX (2005); ‘John Chamberlain. Current Work and Fond Memories, Sculptures and Photographs 1967–1995,’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Traveling Exhibition) (1996); and ‘John Chamberlain. Sculpture, 1954–1985,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA (1986). Chamberlain’s sculptures are part of permanent exhibitions at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa TX and at Dia:Beacon in upstate New York. In 1964, Chamberlain represented the United States in the American Pavilion at the 32nd International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. He received many awards during his life, including a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2010); the Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center, New York (1999); the Gold Medal from The National Arts Club Award, New York (1997); the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (1993); and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, New York NY (1993). -Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Leo Castelli Leo Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste, a city on the Adriatic sea, which, at the time, was the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Leo’s father, Ernest Kraus, was the regional director for Austria-Hungary’s largest bank, the Kreditandstalt; his mother, Bianca Castelli, was the daughter of a Triesten coffee merchant. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the Kraus family relocated to Vienna where Leo continued his education. A particularly memorable moment for Leo during this period of his life was the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph which he witnessed in November of 1916. Leo and his family returned to Trieste when the war ended in 1918. With the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Trieste embraced its new Italian identity. Motivated by this shift Ernest decided to adopt his wife's more Italian-sounding maiden name, Castelli, which his children also assumed. In many ways the Castelli’s return Trieste after the war marked an optimistic new beginning for the family. Ernest was made director of the Banca Commerciale Italiana, which had replaced the Kreditandstalt as the top bank in Trieste. This elevated position allowed Ernest and Bianca to cultivate a cosmopolitan life-style. Together they hosted frequent parties which brought them in contact with a spectrum of political, financial, and cultural luminaries. Growing up in such an environment fostered in Leo and his two siblings, Silvia and Giorgio, a strong appreciation of high culture. During this time Leo developed a passion for Modern literature and perfected his fluency in German, French, Italian, and English. After earning his law degree at the University of Milan in 1932, Leo began his adult life as an insurance agent in Bucharest. Although Leo found the job unfulfilling and tedious, the people he met in Bucharest made up for this deficiency. Among the most significant of Leo’s acquaintances during this time was the eminent businessman, Mihail Shapira. Leo eventually became friendly with the rest of the Shapira family and in 1933 he married Mihail's youngest daughter, Ileana. In 1934 Leo and Ileana moved to Paris where, thanks to his step-father’s influence, Leo was able to get a job in the Paris branch of the Banca d'Italia. In the same year, Leo met the interior designer René Drouin, who became his close friend. In the spring of 1938, while walking through the Place Vendôme, Leo and René came across a storefront for rent between the Ritz hotel and a Schiaparelli boutique. The space immediately impressed them as an ideal location for an art gallery, a plan which became reality the following spring in 1939. The Drouin Gallery opened with an exhibition featuring painting and furniture by Surrealist artists including Léonor Fini, Augene Berman, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. Despite the success of this initial exhibition, the gallery proved short-lived. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 marking the start of World War II and consequently the temporary end of the Drouin gallery. René was called to serve in the French army, while Leo, Ileana, and their three-year-old daughter Nina moved to the relative safety of Cannes, where Ileana’s family owned a summer house. As the war escalated, it became evident that Europe was no longer safe for the Castelli family—Leo and Ileana were both Jewish. In March of 1941, Leo, Ileana and Nina fled to New York bringing with them Nina’s nurse Frances and their dog, Noodle. After a year of moving around the city, the family took up permanent residence at 4 East 77 Street in a townhouse Mihail had bought. Nine months after his arrival in New York, in December of 1943, Leo volunteered for the US army, expediting his naturalization as a US citizen. Owing to his facility with languages, Leo was assigned to serve in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corp, a position which he held for two years, until February 1946. While on military leave in 1945 Leo visited Paris and stopped by Place Vendôme gallery where René had once more set up business selling work by European avant-garde artists such as Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier. The meeting not only rekindled René and Leo’s friendship but also the latter’s interest in art dealing, a pursuit which Leo began to view as more than a mere hobby but as a potential career. After reconnecting, the two friends decided to go back into partnership with Leo acting as the New York representative for the Drouin Gallery. Working in this capacity, Leo began to form relationships with some of the New York art world’s most influential figures, including Peggy Guggenhiem, Sydney Janis, Willem De Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. By the late 40s Leo’s ties with René Drouin had begun to slacken, while his alliance with the dealer Sydney Janis became closer. Janis opened his New York gallery in 1948 and in 1950 invited Leo to curate an exhibition of contemporary French and American artists. The show drew a significant connection between the venerable tradition of European Modernism and the emerging artists of the New York School. Not long after this, in 1951, Leo was asked by these same New York School artists to organize the groundbreaking Ninth Street Show. This exhibition was instrumental in establishing Abstract Expressionism as the preeminent art movement of the post-war era. Leo founded his own gallery in 1957, transforming the living room on the fourth floor of the 77th Street townhouse into an exhibition space. Perhaps the most critical moment of Leo’s career occurred later that year, when he first visited the studios of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1958 Leo gave Johns and Rauschenberg solo shows, in January and March respectively. For Johns, this was the first solo show of his career. These exhibitions received wide critical acclaim, solidifying Leo’s reputation not only as a dealer but as the arbiter of a new and important art movement. Over the course of the 1960s Leo played a formative role in launching the careers of many of the most significant artists of the twentieth century including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, Cy Twombly, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner. Through his support of these artists Leo likewise helped cultivate and define the movements of Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Post-Minimalism. As business expanded over the course of the 60s and artistic trends shifted in favor of larger artworks, Leo realized that his townhouse gallery was not sufficient to meet these new demands. Indicative of the trend toward maximal art...

Richard Serra Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres, 2001 Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by Richard Serra) Boldly signed in black marker on the front 28 × 20 inches Unframed This poster was published on the occasion of Serra's October 2001 exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery - one month after 9/11; The posters were sold for the benefit of the Twin Towers Fund and a certain quantity were hand signed by the artist. Richard Serra Biography Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco and lives and works in New York and the North Fork of Long Island. His first significant solo exhibition was held at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition took place at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970. Serra has since participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) in Kassel, Germany; the Venice Biennales of 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013; and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006. Solo exhibitions of Serra’s sculptural work have been held at numerous public institutions worldwide, including, among others, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1980; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1984; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1985; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986; Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 1987; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1987; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1988; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1990; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1990; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1992; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1992; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1997; Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1997–1998; Trajan’s Market, Rome, 2000; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2003; and Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 2004. In 2005, The Matter of Time, a series of eight large-scale works by Serra from 1994 to 2005, was installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and in 2007, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented the retrospective Richard Serra Sculpture...

Untitled is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1984. Signed in the plate on the lower. The print suite was realized ...

Jack Bush Jack Bush at Andre Emmerich, 1966 Offset lithograph exhibition poster. Postmarked to McNay Art institute director 22 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches Unframed This special mid century modern exhibition...

Mark di Suvero Dreambook (hand signed by Mark di Suvero), 2008 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (hand signed by Mark di Suvero) Boldly signed by Mark di Suvero on the...

This is a true collectible! The regular edition of only 100 is hand signed and numbered by Larry Rivers; but the present work is ALSO hand signed and inscribed by George McGovern- a ...

Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...

Pierre ALECHINSKY The Wheel (Mois de l'Estampe), 2001 Original Lithograph (Clot, Bramsen & Georges workshop) Printed signature in the plate On paper 86 x 59 cm (c. 34 x 24 inch) Cre...

Sam Francis, American (1923 - 1994) - The Greenberg Gallery, Year: 1979, Medium: Poster, Size: 38 x 25 in. (96.52 x 63.5 cm)

Louise Bourgeois Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I and II (Literary books with 10 original etchings) Hand signed by both artist Louise Bourgeois and Pulitzer winning playwright Arthur M...

Richard Serra Synagoge Stommeln (German Synagogue) The Drowned and the Saved (Hand signed twice by Richard Serra), 1992 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed twice by Richard Serra) ...

Mark Grotjahn Backcountry, Gagosian Gallery London poster (hand signed by Mark Grotjahn), 2022 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed) Boldly signed in black marker on the front Unnum...

Nicholas Krushenick New York State Council on the Arts Award poster, 1970 Silkscreen on wove paper - original 1970 poster, not a reprint Unsigned, unnumbered, unframed 35 × 25 inches...

Sonia Delaunay Hommage a Sonia Delaunay (from the Estate of art dealer Andre Zarre), 1975 Original vintage offset lithograph poster 26 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches Unframed (unsigned and unnu...

Jeff Koons Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean (Hand Signed by Jeff Koons), 2019 Softcover monograph with glossy wraps and French folded flaps Hand signed with full date by Koons in silver m...

XIV Winter Olympics games is a vintage poster realized by the artist Yozo Hamaguchi, in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984. Very good condition. Yozo Ha...