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Legs and Redball, From the Series "Why This Restlessness?"
Located in Miami Beach, FL
By removing parts of the image, he explores the tension between what is present and what is omitted, focusing on the reasons behind these choices and their implications. The cutouts ...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Color
Revised Endpapers for "The Homosexual Neurosis" (Pink)
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
XII Festival int. de Musica de Cadaques by Joan Ponc 1983
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This impressive color lithograph by Joan Ponc was created in the context of the XII International Festival of Music in Cadaques in 1983. The renowned artist, born in Barcelona in 192...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hamlet
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Poster of Sarah Bernhart Playing Hamlet. Paris. Mint condition. Linen-backed.
Sarah Bernhardt's groundbreaking portrayal of Hamlet, performed in French, is masterfully captured in Alphonse Mucha's poster. Mucha emphasizes the play's themes of vengeance and mortality, depicting the ghost of Hamlet's murdered father haunting the ramparts of Elsinore in the background, while the tragic drowned Ophelia, adorned with flowers, rests in a coffin-like panel at Hamlet’s feet. This powerful image marks Mucha's final poster commission that depicts the celebrated French actress. The vintage poster is linen-backed and is in excellent condition.
Bernhardt famously played Hamlet in 1899, becoming the first woman to embody the role on stage and later in a film adaptation. Her bold interpretation challenged conventional gender roles and pushed the boundaries of performance, establishing her as a pioneer in both theater and early cinema...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
$45,000
ÀSÁLĘ (Nightfall) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Hut, Linocut
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Unmounted artwork
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Linocut
Maria (1) (C. 158)
By Julian Opie
Located in Bristol, GB
Inkjet print in colours, on Epson Premium Semigloss Photo paper dry-mounted to aluminium
Edition of 40
117.7 x 80.6 cm (46.3 x 31.7 in)
128.1 x 90.7 cm (50.4 x 35.7 in)
Signed and nu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Inkjet
Sergio Hernández,
Alacranes rojos
, 2016, Woodcut, 46.9x82.7 in
Located in Miami, FL
Sergio Hernández (Mexico, 1957)
'Alacranes Rojos', 2016
woodcut on paper Hahnemuhle 350 g.
46.9 x 82.7 in. (119 x 210 cm.)
Edition of 30
ID: HER-201
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Oudegracht
Contemporary Color Etching of Street in the Netherlands, Utrecht
Located in Utrecht, NL
Marcel Schellekens' works are characterised by the special incidence of light and the atmosphere that the works radiate. Marcel finds inspiration cl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Be still
Located in New York City, NY
Eduardo Recife
Be still, 2018
Archival Pigment Print
Framed
44 x 30 inches
Edition of 5
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Things Are Looking Up
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
A man in a business suit juggling balls.
Edition of 10
Category
2010s Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
THE CLASP
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the Roman Numeral edition of 150. Framed size approx 50 x 34 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity inc...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$3,150 Sale Price
30% Off
Original THE DAY OF THE LOCUST 1975 vintage art deco movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1975 "The Day of the Locust" Vintage Movie Poster - Linen Backed - Art by David Edward Byrd. Very fine condition with original theater issued fold marks laid down.
The Da...
Category
1970s Art Deco Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Garden of Dreams
By Eyvind Earle
Located in Greenwich, CT
Eyvind Earle's Garden of Dreams from 1990 is a traditional screen print on paper, 37 x 28" with framed dimensions of 48 x 38.5". Signed 'Eyvind Earle' lower right and numbered 164/2...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
"Personaje en un Cueva" (Personage in a Cave) Surrealist Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Personaje en un Cueva" (Personage in a Cave) Surrealist Lithograph by Rufino Tamayo (b. 1899 d. 1991.)
Abstract figurative lithograph featuring a textured background and bold figur...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$4,560 Sale Price
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Vacance
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vacance" 1980 is an original color serigraph on paper by renown artist Hiro Yamagata (Japanese, b. 1948) It is signed and numbered 204/300 in pencil by the artis...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Indeterminate Line - Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, Limited Edition
By Bernar Venet
Located in Zug, CH
Bernar Venet, Indeterminate Line
Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, Limited Edition
Etching (Portfolio of 3)
Edition of 60
94 x 102.9 cm (37 x 40.5 in)
94 x 110.5 cm (37 x 4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$30,883 Sale Price
20% Off
A. Calderoni Gioielliere
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A. Calderoni Gioielliere by Adolfo Hohenstein is a stunning reproduction of one of the most iconic luxury advertisements of the early 20th century. Featuring an elegantly dressed wom...
Category
1990s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Art Deco Rayon Des Soieries Opera Bouffe Lithograph by Maurice Dufrène
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Art Deco lithograph titled "Rayon Des Soieries Opera Bouffe" was crafted by the talented French designer Maurice Dufrène around 1930. Celebrated for his pioneering cont...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Music (2 Trees)
By Peter Doig
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Peter Doig
Title: Music (2 Trees)
Year: 2023
Medium: Giclée Print on Cotton Smooth Rag, Oak frame with Optium Tru Vue Acrylic Glass
Edition: 250; signed and numbered
Dimensi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
Bridges. From the series “My Riga”. 1967. Paper, linocut, 69x103 cm.
Located in Riga, LV
Bridges. From the series “My Riga”. 1967.
Paper, linocut, 69x103 cm.
Category
1960s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Original Historic Carlisle - Gateway to Scotland vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original British vintage poster: Historic Carlisle - Gateway to Scotland. Artist: Maurice Greiffenhagen. Horizontal size 39" x 48.75". Archival linen-backed original stone lithograph; ready to frame. In very good to excellent condition.
Original, 1925 horizontal travel by train stone lithograph. Historic Carlisle ~ 800 years of Civic Independence. See Britain by train. British Railways. Published by British Railways (London Midland Region) LM 16657.
Probably the most famous British railway poster of the 1920s. The LMS commissioned designs from 16 leading Royal Academicians in 1924, of which this was by far the most popular.
A British Royal seal...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, Study for Man with Sheep, from The Double Flute, 1967 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Etude pour l’homme au mouton (Study for Man with Sheep), from the folio Picasso, La flute double, 16 Des...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,636 Sale Price
20% Off
"Napoli" Serigraph 29" x 45.5" Edition 46/150 by Thomas Pradzynski
Located in Culver City, CA
"Napoli" Serigraph 29" x 45.5" Edition 46/150 by Thomas Pradzynski
Serigraph on paper
Provenance: Private collection
Comes in a frame (as shown on ...
Category
20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Original National Florida
s Westcoast vintage airline poster, linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
National Florida's West Coast Original Vintage Poster, linen-backed and ready to frame. Grade A condition. No restoration, no damage, no tears. Generally, posters for National Airlin...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Something American, Woodcut Print by David Preston
By David Preston
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Preston
Title: Something American
Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Image Size: 40 x 30 inches
Paper Size: 47 x 32 in. (119.38 x 81.28 cm)
Category
1990s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Army Of Caine Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Army Of Caine
by B A T I K
Pop art work featuring multiples of Michael Caine in Get Carter mode - possibly his most iconic movie role.
Archival pigment pop art print signed & limi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
1977 After John Clem Clarke
Flesh Things Out
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Billboard size poster created in 1977 to promote TIME Magazine.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$296 Sale Price
40% Off
Original "Saxoleine Petrole Surete" vintage stone lithograph 1900
By Jules Chéret
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Saxoleine Petrole de Surete, artist Jules Cheret.
Linen-backed turn-of-the-century original stone lithograph poster advertising Saxoleine, a lamp oil. The glow from this l...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,519 Sale Price
20% Off
Original "This Time For Keeps" , 1947 US 1- sheet vintage movie poster. 47/486
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1947 “This Time For Keeps” vintage American movie poster. NSS: 47/486. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The original theater issued fold ...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
"Montreal Olympics 1976" Colorful Abstract Expressionist Figurative Lithograph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract expressionist lithograph celebrating the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Canada by American artist LeRoy Neiman. The work f...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cruise-O-matic
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Cruise-O-matic
1972
Line Etching on zinc, Edition of 60
Paper size: 70.5 x 104.5 cms (27 3/4 x 41 ins)
Image size: 50.5 x 75 cms (19 7/8 x 29 1/2 ins)
This classic ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Almost
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
A woman climbing over a wall, almost there.
Edition of 10
American, b. 1958
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten tryi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
$9,500
Original Spartacus Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin vintage theater poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Spartacus, Beutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Germany) vintage theater poster.
Printed in 1973 to promote a performance of Spartacus ...
Category
1970s Jugendstil Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shall We Dance
By Robert Hoppe
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Shall We Dance" 1988 is an original color lithograph by American artist Robert Hoppe, 1943-1989. It is hand signed and numbered 149/3...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Liberty
Freedom I (Limited Edition Of Only 30 Prints on Canvas)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**FALL SUPER SALE UNTIL OCTOBER 13TH**
>>IMPORTANT>> **This is limited edition of only 30 prints on CANVAS. You will receive it rolled inside a Tube**
***The print will look like the Primary picture***
"Liberty&Freedom I" is a highly labored wing piece made with real feathers covered with several layers of clear varnish on the original piece. Now you can have a print of this awesome design.
Bring this stunning and peaceful art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas
$1,200 Sale Price
82% Off
Melting Pot Flag, Pop Art Silkscreen by Massimo Vignelli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Melting Pot Flag by Massimo Vignelli, Italian (1931–2014)
Date: 1989
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 215/300
Size: 35 x 50 in. (88.9 x 127 cm)
This 1989 silkscre...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"La race blanche (The White Race), " Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La race blanche (The White Race)" is a color lithograph after the original 1937 painting by Rene Magritte. A female figure is made out of a mix of body parts. An eye sits on top of an ear, which is on top of a mouth, then two noses. Two breasts lying on a stomach; two arms come from the breasts. Legs are tucked under the stomach. This figure is on a sand dune next to the ocean.
Art: 26.5 x 19.63 in
Frame: 40.88 x 33.88 in
René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts.
René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother.
Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers.
In 1926, René Magritte signed...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mantel-Melissa Mobil Masterpiece Theater
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The large advertisement poster created by Mobil for the promotion of Francis Durbridge's Melissa likely dates to 1982, corresponding with its U.S. broadcast on PBS's Mystery! series....
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Study for a Bullfight, Triptych 1987
Located in London, GB
Original lithograph in colours on Arches watermarked paper, with full margins, framed
Central panel from the triptych of the same title
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of the Mall From a Castle Tower Seven-Color Lithograph on rag Signed HC VII
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
View of the Mall From a Castle Tower, 1983
Seven-Color Lithograph: Hand Drawn on English Somerset Satin 100% rag paper
14 1/4 × 43 3/4 inches
Edition of 7 (Hors Commerce...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Canción para un Útero Difunto-Contemporary, Japanese, Fantasy, Natural Materials
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Glue, Sumi Ink, Wood Panel, Washi Paper, Pigment
Zaida de Río, ¨Untitled 3¨, 2020, Woodcut, 42.9x29.1 in
Located in Miami, FL
Zaida del Rio (Cuba, 1954)
'Untitled 3', 2020
woodcut on paper Intaglio 300 g.
43 x 29.2 in. (109 x 74 cm.)
Edition of 40
ID: DER-105
Unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
1970
s New York original lithograph by Richard Lindner
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A funky urban image from 1971 depicting some of the nuances of New York seedy underbelly. This original lithograph is number 73 of and edition of 75 from the 1971 'Fun City' suite. Originally there were 12 different artworks in this series by Richard Lindner of which this is the title piece.
Signed in pencil 'R Lindner...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Haller Fine Chocolate
Schokolade
vintage poster Germany
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage 1950s Haller Chocolate Bars German Advertising Poster – A Retro Collectible Masterpiece. Professionally archival linen-backed in excellent condition and ready to fr...
Category
1950s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Mead of Poetry #1 (huge framed hand signed woodcut)
By Jim Dine
Located in Aventura, FL
Chine colle woodcut in black on cold pressed Saunders Waterford paper. Hand signed and dated lower left by Jim Dine. Hand numbered 6/34 lower left. Sheet size: 59 x 40 inches. Im...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
$4,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Debbie Harry - NYC - 1977
By Bob Gruen
Located in North Adams, MA
Silkscreen in 10 colors
40 x 54 inches
2-Ply Museum Board
Edition of 50
2014
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon t...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle.
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle. 1897. Drypoint. 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 (sheet 16 3/4 x 11 5/8). A carefully wiped impression with plate tone, from the cancelled plate (there were onl...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Origiinal Biere Mosellane (Everyone drinks Mosellane Beer) vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Celebrate the Charm of Moselle: Original Vintage Biere Mosellane Poster by Edouard Bollaert. Archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Grade A- Extremely cl...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Philippe Noyer Le Singe 1980 A Signed Limited Edition
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Philippe Noyer
Title: Le Singe:
Medium Type: Lithograph
Size-Width Size-Height: 35" x 25"
Signed Edition Size: signed in pencil and marked EA XVII/XXX
Unframed in...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Crystal Chandelier - Contemporary, 21st Century, Print, Limited Edition, Black
By Robert Longo
Located in Zug, CH
Robert Longo, Crystal Chandelier
Contemporary, 21st Century, Print, Limited Edition
Edition of 15
127 x 151,5 cm (50 x 59.6 in.)
Signed and numbered
In excellent condition
Longo is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Pigment
$30,883 Sale Price
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Money Map of Africa with Archival Inkjet Print by Justine Smith
Located in Deddington, GB
Justine Smith.
Money Map of Africa- archival inkjet print on 330gsm Somerset satin enhanced paper.
Edition of 95 signed and numbered by the artist.
This work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Ink
Sergio Hernández,
Untitled
, 2011, Woodcut, 29.5x41.3 in
Located in Miami, FL
Sergio Hernández (Mexico, 1957)
'Untitled', 2011
woodcut on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
29.6 x 41.4 in. (75 x 105 cm.)
Edition of 30
Unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
TIE Fighter Beatles
by B A T I K
Pop art work featuring the Fab Four Paul McCartney , George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon running away from Star Wars TIE fighters chasing...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Polumnia, from The Nine Muses - Colourful Print with Figure, White, Red + Yellow
By Joe Tilson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Joe Tilson 1928-2023
Polumnia, from The Nine Muses, 2005
aquatint
50 x 35.5 cm
19 3/4 x 14 in
signed, inscribed and dated in pencil
After serving in the Royal Air Force (1946–49), T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Estoy Dentro de Alegría-Contemporary, Japanese, Fantasy, Natural Materials
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Complete title: El Origen del Deseo - Estoy Dentro de Alegría
(The Origin of Desire - I am Inside of Happiness)
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Glue, Sumi Ink, Wood Panel, Washi Paper, Pigment
Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back.
About the artist:
Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes.
Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions.
When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union.
In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars.
Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out."
His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995.
LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather.
He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess.
As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid."
After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war.
On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s.
When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint.
While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine.
In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician.
Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation.
In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter.
Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world.
"Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962.
Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him.
A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters.
Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS.
Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 Arhats
Located in Greenwich, CT
'Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 Arthats' is a large-format offset lithograph by Takashi Murakami, image size 28 x 46.5 inches and framed size 37.5 x 56 inches. From the edition of 300, signed lower right and numbered 191/300. Framed in a contemporary, white frame.
In the 2017 monograph, ‘The Octopus Eats its Own Legs’, Michael Dylan Foster writes, “Akiko Miki has noted that in his more recent work Murakami has made a ‘shift not only to being concerned with the notion of religion – a main component, along with capitalism, behind the creation of art – but also towards a more serious engagement with the traditions of Japanese art.’ These concerns, manifested in his explicit invocations of folkloric imagery and creatures from both religion and art, are particularly apparent in ‘The 500 Arhats,’ his monumental twenty-four-paneled, 100-meter-long painting. The work portrays five hundred wizened and grotesque arhats, Buddhist religious figures who, as art historian Nobuo Tsuji puts it, ‘normally… stay in the mountains practicing religious austerities, only appearing after a fire, tsunami, earthquake, or some other disaster has occurred, as a kind of rescue team.’
The gargantuan painting represents Murakami’s interest in creating – in the wake of Japan’s tragedy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011 – ‘a work of art that would be deemed indispensable to our times.’ The inspiration came directly from a series of exchanges between Murakami and Tsuji, whose critical work the artist had long admired.”
Regarding the red and blue demons in the present artwork, these are allusions to Japan’s folkloric tradition of ‘oni’ – ogre or devil-like creatures who in ancient times were associated with bad fortunes and events, but in modern times are more ambiguous.
“…Murakami’s invocation of the oni suggests that – unlike his arhats, or his baku and hakutaku – these beings have not come as part of the post-disaster ‘rescue team’ but may represent the very inhuman forces that cause disaster. A closer examination of the figures, however, reveals that Murakami has incorporated other cultural allusions that complicate a one-sided interpretation. …these poses are reminiscent of the so-called Niō guardian...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset
Pop Art Woman Female Artist India Set 7 Etching Installation Ed 4/7 Storytelling
Located in Norfolk, GB
Compelling set of 7 etchings from an exciting new talent, Indian Artist Sonal Varshneya Ojha. The 7 works come from a series of 25 works, Edition 4/7. The full Edition is available o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Superwoman (dual density)
Located in Nottingham, GB
Limited edition photo mosaic
Edition of 8
Joel creates these contemporary pieces by adding lots of tiny images of the female form to make up the larger image.
The "dual density" i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Color





