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Period: Late 20th Century
The Rabbit on Volcano - Original Lithograph - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit on Volcano is an original lithography realized by an unknown artist of the late 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, numbered" H.C."
The state of pres...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Symposium - Original Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 43.5 x 54 cm.
Hand signed. Artist's proof.
Very good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"El Espejo" Teal, Brown and Blue Toned Modernist Figurative Print
Located in Houston, TX
Teal, brown and blue tone abstract figurative original print by Amado Maurilio Pena. The piece depicts five women figures that either appear back-to-back or fa...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nude Burden - Original Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Burden is an original zincography artwork realized by Mino Maccari.
Included a white Passepartout: 49 x 34
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents a ma...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Rider - Etching by Gaetano Pompa - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Rider is an original etching realized by Gaetano Pompa.
Very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 59 x 49 cm
The artwork represents a nude fat figure in ...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Cathedral - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cathedral is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Picasso, Femme Songeuse et Inquiète dans L
atelier de Sculpture (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Femme Songeuse et Inquiète dans L'atelier de Sculpture (after Bloch 188)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using ...
Category
Cubist Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Legende (Marilyn Monroe), Yvaral
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yvaral, Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934-2002)
Title: Le Legende (Marilyn Monroe)
Year: 1990
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Edition: 12/100, plus proofs
Size: 31 x 23.5 inches
C...
Category
Op Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
"My Bed", Uniquely signed by Tracey Emin, Framed
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
My Bed (Hand signed by Tracey Emin), 2017
Photographic print (hand signed and dated in black marker)
Boldly signed in black marker on the front
This work is elegantly framed under UV plexiglass
A very scarce collectible when hand signed
My Bed is of the artist's personal favorites which she never ceases to publicly praise including at a talk at the Yale Center for British Art and at Cooper Union. In January 2026, The actual bed that this card depicts is back at the Tate Gallery with much fanfare.
Measurements:
Framed
12 inches vertical by 14.25 inches horizontal by 1.25 inches
Photograph
5 inches vertical x 7 inches horizontal
Original, unique hand signed photograph of the most important and iconic work created by beloved British artist Tracey Emin - who catapulted to international superstardom in 1999 with the installation at the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, of her 1998 "My Bed" - which had been on loan to the Tate for a decade by Charles Saatchi. Consisting of Emin’s bed, dirty underwear, cigarette butts, empty vodka bottles, and boxes of contraceptive pills, crumpled tissues, period-stained clothing, a pregnancy test, lubricant, and condoms surrounded her bed. The artwork was created after the artist spent four days in her bed on a bender recovering from a breakup. If there's one iconic piece that most represents Tracey Emin's oeuvre - this is it.
“Back in the 90s, it was all about cool Britannia and the shock factor and now I hope, years later, people will finally see it as a portrait of a younger woman and how time affects all of us. I am still very proud of it and I am grateful that the right person bought it.” – Tracey Emin
My Bed was first displayed at the Tate in 1999 when it was nominated for the Turner prize. The polarizing work caused such a media frenzy that it pushed the gallery’s visitor numbers up to a record high. It was bought the following year for £150,000 by Charles Saatchi, an avid collector of YBA art. The piece then went on display at the Saatchi Gallery, then at County Hall London, and Saatchi is also said to have displayed the bed in his own dining room.
My Bed has now been installed as part of the newly rehung displays of the Tate’s permanent collection. Emin herself was very involved in how the work was to be presented, and it sits in a gallery alongside two Francis Bacon paintings...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Louisiana Serenade from the Jazz Series
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Louisiana Serenade (From the Jazz Series)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175
Paper Size: 24.5 x 33.75 inches
Fram...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Memory of Venice - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Memory of Venice is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
LE COUPLE FROM SONGES (CRAMER 112)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Color etching with aquatint on Rives paper. From Songes portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Cramer 112. Published by Éditions Gérald Cramer, Geneva. Printed by Lacou...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$19,600 Sale Price
20% Off
L
Angelo - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
L'Angelo is an original etching realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1995.
The artwork is hand signed and dated by the artist.
Numbered on the lower lef...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vampire Traffic Jam (hand signed lithograph)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and dated lower right by Edward Plunkett; hand titled lower middle. From the edition of 300. Hand numbered lower left. Sheet size: 19 ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$200 Sale Price
50% Off
Art card: HOLLYWOOD TANTRUM, 1979, (Hand signed by Ed Ruscha), Framed - SCARCE!
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
This is iconic, witty, and so LA Ruscha - a true collectible. Don't think we'll get another after this.
Ed Ruscha
Hollywood Tantrum, 1979 (hand signed by Ed Ruscha), 2008
Offset li...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Postcard
The Cathedral - Offset by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cathedral is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is exce...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - II, Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - II (Cramer 207)
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983)
Date: 1975
Lithograph
Image Size: 12 x 9.5 inches
Size: 14.5 in. x 10 in. (36.83 cm x 25.4 cm...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sight and Sound - 1990s - Balthus - Xilograph - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Sight and Sound is an original portfolio by Balthus including three coloured xilograph.
Hand signed lower right. Edition of 51 numbered copies plus 5 a...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
David, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - David, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8 x 6 inches, Size: 12.5 x 10 in. (31.75 x 2...
Category
Folk Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Lithograph Native American Figure Portrait Male Tribe Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Kill Spotted Horse" is an original lithograph created by Leonard Baskin. It was published by Fox Graphics. This is a proof purchased directly from the artist. Baskin signed the work in the lower right margin and labelled the work as a proof in the lower left margin, written with graphite. It depicts Kill Spotted Horse, an Assinniboine Native American, in a feather headdress against a light blue background.
Artwork Size: 15" x 13 1/2"
Frame Size: 27 1/2" x 26 3/8"
Artist Bio:
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an american artist born in New Jersey and taught art classes in Massachusetts. He has received many public commissions (including a bas relief for the FDR Memorial), honors, and his work is owned by many major museums around the world. Additionally, Baskin was a teacher at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a champion for human rights, Baskin created many pieces celebrating those who were seldom recognized.
Baskin’s interest in nineteenth century Native Americans was roused into acute attendance from ignorant indifference, when the National Park Service asked him to provide illustrations for the handbook that described the then called “Custer National Park”, now called “Little Big...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
Colosseo - Original Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Colosseo is an original etching realized in 1970s by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Numbered, edition: 124/19...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Corde Sensible, Surrealist Lithograph after Magritte
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rene Magritte (after)
Title: La Corde Sensible
Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil by Georgette Magritte
Image Size: 16.5 x 21 inches
Sheet Size: 21 ...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Angel, Heart on Red, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Angel, Heart on Red
Year: 1996
Edition: 229/300
Medium: Silkscreen on Essex paper
Size: 39.25 x 27 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Sailboat with Pyramid, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Sailboat with Pyramid
Year: 1998
Edition: 300/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper
Size: 7 x 8 inches
Condition: Excellent
Ins...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$955 Sale Price
20% Off
Bartolomeo Pinelli Vintage Exhibition Poster - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Bartolomeo Pinelli vintage exhibition poster is an original poster of the exhibition held in 1983 at Rondanini Gallery in Rome, Italy.
Very good conditions.
Bartolomeo Pinelli (Rom...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Woman from the Back - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman from Shoulders is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered edition, 2/20.
In good condition ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
1981 American Post Minimalist Abstract Art Lithograph Neon Series Keith Sonnier
Located in Surfside, FL
Keith Sonnier, American (1941-2020)
lithograph
From Neon series
circa 1980-1981
Bears the Waterstreet Press watermarks and Arches paper blind stamp to lower right corner. Pub. Edizioni Lucio Amelio
Hand signed with initials in pencil
Dimensions: 30 x 21 3/4 inches
Post minimalist Abstract by Keith Sonnier
Keith Sonnier (1941 – 2020) was a post minimalist sculptor, performance artist, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s. With his use of neon in combination with ephemeral materials he achieved international recognition. Sonnier was part of the Process Art movement.
James Keith Sonnier was born July 31, 1941, in Mamou, Louisiana. His family was Cajun and Roman Catholic. His father was a hardware store owner, Joseph Sonnier, and his mother was a florist and singer, Mae Ledoux. He graduated in 1963 from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). In 1966, he graduated with his MFA degree from Rutgers University, where he studied under Allan Kaprow, Robert Watts, and Robert Morris. After graduation from Rutgers, he moved to New York City with Jackie Winsor and some of his former classmates.
Sonnier died in Southampton, NY on July 18, 2020.
Sonnier began experimenting with neon in 1968. Neon lights became a signature material used in his sculptural works. The common materials Sonnier employed included neon and fluorescent lights; reflective materials; aluminum and copper; and glass and wires. Of the generation of James Turrell and Dan Flavin, He was also associated with the Light and Space movement, a loosely affiliated art movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the 1960s and influenced by John McLaughlin. It is characterized by a focus on perceptual phenomena, such as light, volume and scale, and the use of materials such as glass, neon, fluorescent lights, resin and cast acrylic, often forming installations conditioned by the work's surroundings. Artists included Ron Cooper...
Category
Post-Minimalist Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
UNTITLED (FROM FERTILITY SUITE)
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors on wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Sheet size 42 x 50 inches. Image size 40 x 47 inches. Frame size approx 52 x 60 inches. From th...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Marilyn Monroe as Theda Bara, Poster signed by Richard Avedon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer who's work often showed the vulnerability and humanity in celebrities. This poster is signed in marker. Published by ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Saul Steinberg Lithograph c.1970 (from Derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Saul Steinberg Lithograph from Derrière le Miroir:
Lithograph in colors c.1970.
11 x 15 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition with vivid colors.
Unsigned from an edition of u...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Fifth Day, Caricature Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Caricature etching by American artist Charles Bragg. Bragg depicts god creating new creatures
The Fifth Day
Charles Bragg, American (1931–2017)
Date: circa 1970
Etching, signed, num...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Erik, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Erik, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 9.5 inches, Size: 11.25 x 1...
Category
Folk Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Arabian Man - Original Etching on Paper by Giacomo Porzano - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Arabian Face is an authentic original colored etching artwork, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and dated, number...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Don Quixote 2, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Don Quixote 2, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 10 inches, Size: 1...
Category
Folk Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Raymond Pettibon 1986-2014 (a collection of 5 posters/announcements)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon 1986-2001 poster/announcement cards:
A curated set of 4 vintage Raymond Pettibon illustrated announcement cards plus a copy of Picturebook, a 1993 art publication (with a Raymond Pettibon original poster inside).
Medium: 4 offset printed announcement cards, 1 fold-out poster.
Dimensions ranging from: 4.25x6 inches to 11x17 inches.
Condition: Each in good to very good overall vintage condition with some minor signs of handling.
Each unsigned from an edition of unknown.
Included in the collection:
- Raymond Pettibon, Feature gallery, New York, NY, February 18-March 18, 1989.
- Raymond Pettibon, A&P Gallery Closing Announcement, New York, NY, October 3, 1986.
- Raymond Pettibon Poster...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled (from Ten Painters on War and Peace), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Ygael Tumarkin. Edition 115/190.
From the "Ten Painters on War and Peace" portfolio. Printed on May 10, 1978 to...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Portrait - Original Charcoal Drawing by Hélène Vogt - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original xilography print realized by Hélène Vogt. with the stamp” Atelier Hélène Vogt" On the lower rear.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pink Iris, Photorealist Flower Print by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 1981
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 40
Image Size: 34.5 x 23 inches
Size: 38 x 26 in. (96.52 x 66.04 cm)
Category
Photorealist Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Landscape - Original Lithograph by B. Kelly - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original print realized by Bernadette Kelly (1933-) in the 20th century.
Color lithograph representing a urban landscape.
Dimensions: cm 32 x 24. Very good conditions.
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hand Colored Etching Vintage Hollywood Legends Etching with Watercolor Painting
By Ann Chernow
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: Birds of a Feather
Ann Chernow (Connecticut b. 1936) etching. hand signed 'Ann Chernow' in pencil lower right. Numbered '5/15' in pencil lower left. Titled in pencil lower ce...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
(7302) Ils tendent leurs muscles greles jetes veroles 1973
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
(7301) Aizan ils ont les jambes de secretaires, 1973
Lithograph
EC
25 x 19 in
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Heart Series IV, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Heart Series IV
Year: 1998
Edition: 300/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper
Size: 5 x 4 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscripti...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$763 Sale Price
20% Off
Keith Haring Larry Levan announcement 1992
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Larry Levan 1992:
Rare sought-after memorial invitation for the legendary DJ Larry Levan featuring offset artwork by Keith Haring. The event was held at London’s seminal & much historic dance club, Ministry of Sound - shortly after the passing of Levan in 1992. Artwork presented frontside originates from the 1986 artwork Haring produced to promote Levan’s birthday party at Paradise Garage. Not to be passed upon.
Offset printed folding announcement card. 1992.
Dimensions: 8x5 inches; folding out to 8x10 inches (open).
Minor signs of handling; good to very good overall vintage condition.
Further Background:
Larry Levan was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the legendary New York City nightclub Paradise Garage, the prototype of the modern dance club. Levan developed a cult following who referred to his sets as "Saturday Mass". Influential post-disco DJ François Kevorkian credits Levan with introducing the dub aesthetic into dance music. Levan experimented with drum machines...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint
El Station, Interior
NYC Subway, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
screenprint printed in color ink on wove paper. New York City subway station interior.
Anthony Velonis (1911 – 1997) was an American painter and designer born in New York City who helped introduce the public to silkscreen printing in the early 20th century.
While employed under the federal Works Progress Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art form, referred to as the "serigraph," into the mainstream. By his own request, he was not publicly credited for coining the term.
He experimented and mastered techniques to print on a wide variety of materials, such as glass, plastics, and metal, thereby expanding the field. In the mid to late 20th century, the silkscreen technique became popular among other artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
Velonis was born into a relatively poor background of a Greek immigrant family and grew up in the tenements of New York City. Early on, he took creative inspiration from figures in his life such as his grandfather, an immigrant from the mountains in Greece, who was "an ecclesiastical painter, on Byzantine style." Velonis attended James Monroe High School in The Bronx, where he took on minor artistic roles such as the illustration of his high school yearbook. He eventually received a scholarship to the NYU College of Fine Arts, into which he was both surprised and ecstatic to have been admitted. Around this time he took to painting, watercolor, and sculpture, as well as various other art forms, hoping to find a niche that fit. He attended NYU until 1929, when the Great Depression started in the United States after the stock market crash.
Around the year 1932, Velonis became interested in silk screen, together with fellow artist Fritz Brosius, and decided to investigate the practice. Working in his brother's sign shop, Velonis was able to master the silkscreen process. He reminisced in an interview three decades later that doing so was "plenty of fun," and that a lot of technology can be discovered through hard work, more so if it is worked on "little by little."
Velonis was hired by Mayor LaGuardia in 1934 to promote the work of New York's city government via posters publicizing city projects. One such project required him to go on a commercial fishing trip to locations including New Bedford and Nantucket for a fortnight, where he primarily took photographs and notes, and made sketches. Afterward, for a period of roughly six months, he was occupied with creating paintings from these records. During this trip, Velonis developed true respect and affinity for the fishermen with whom he traveled, "the relatively uneducated person," in his words.
Following this, Velonis began work with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), an offshoot of the Civil Works Administration (CWA), where he was assigned to serve the different city departments of New York. After the formation of the federal Works Progress Administration, which hired artists and sponsored projects in the arts, he also worked in theater.
Velonis began working for the federal WPA in 1935. He kept this position until 1936 or 1938, at which point he began working in the graphic art division of the Federal Art Project, which he ultimately led. Under various elements of the WPA program, many young artists, writers and actors gained employment that helped them survive during the Depression, as well as contributing works that created an artistic legacy for the country.
When interviewed in December 1994 by the Library of Congress about his time in the WPA, Velonis reflected that he had greatly enjoyed that period, saying that he liked the "excitement" and "meeting all the other artists with different points of view." He also said in a later interview that "the contact and the dialogue with all those artists and the work that took place was just invaluable." Among the young artists he hired was Edmond Casarella, who later developed an innovative technique using layered cardboard for woodcuts.
Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965 interview: "I suggested that the Poster division would be a lot more productive and useful if they had an auxiliary screen printing project that worked along with them. And apparently this was very favorably received..."
As a member of the Federal Art Project, a subdivision of the WPA, Velonis later approached the Public Use of Arts Committee (PUAC) for help in "propagandizing for art in the parks, in the subways, et cetera." Since the Federal Art Project could not be "self-promoting," an outside organization was required to advertise their art more extensively. During his employment with the Federal Art Project, Velonis created nine silkscreen posters for the federal government.
Around 1937-1939 Velonis wrote a pamphlet titled "Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process," which was distributed to art centers run by the WPA around the country. It was considered very influential in encouraging artists to try this relatively inexpensive technique and stimulated printmaking across the country.
In 1939, Velonis founded the Creative Printmakers Group, along with three others, including Hyman Warsager. They printed both their own works and those of other artists in their facility. This was considered the most important silkscreen shop of the period.
The next year, Velonis founded the National Serigraph Society. It started out with relatively small commercial projects, such as "rather fancy" Christmas cards that were sold to many of the upscale Fifth Avenue shops...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
1970s Pop Art "Dancing Lessons #2" Silver Silkscreen Mod Ballet Girl Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Printed on a slightly reflective metallic silver finished paper. there is a companion piece on a money green paper. A depiction of a ballet dancer, superimposed upon canceled dance c...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Sailboat Series II, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Sailboat Series II
Year: 1998
Edition: 201/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper
Size: 4.75 x 5.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$816 Sale Price
20% Off
Garden of Eden, Modern Lithograph by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Garden of Eden, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 29.5 x 21 in. (74.93 x 53.34 cm)...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Carte de Voeux #731, " Lithograph by Marc Chagall in Chagall Catalog Raisonne
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte de Voeux #731" is an original lithograph greeting card by Marc Chagall. It is in the Chagall Catalogue Raisonne and is from a rare edition of only 200. It depicts a face and a bird in Chagall's signature whimsical modernist style.
5 1/2" x 4 1/4" art
21" x 18 1/4" frame
Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lucite, Lithograph
Descanso (Break)
By Jorge Dumas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250 (5/250)
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Published by Circle Gallery Ltd.
Printer: Atelier Dumas, New York
Condition: Very good
Atelier Dumas opened in New York printing own work as well as
those of Peter Max, Agam, Romare Bearden, Dali, Erté, Peter Hurd,
Ting, Karl Appel...
Category
Folk Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mexican Travelers, Modern Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mexican Travelers by Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907–1989)
Date: Circa 1977
Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition o...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
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STREET SCENE WITH MOSES SOYER
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer, Raphael. STREET SCENE WITH MOSES SOYER. Gettings 113 (not in
Cole). Lithograph, 1970. 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches; 488 x 362 mm. Edition
of 150, printed by Burr Miller. Signed in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ohio Artist Modern Americana Patriotic Uncle Sam Lithograph American Flag
By Sid Chafetz
Located in Surfside, FL
a magnificent contemporary American art piece. On deckle edged art paper. This is from a large collection of his pieces.
Sid Chafetz (1922-) Born in Providence Rhode Island, Sid C...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
"Sambaso after Hirosada" original lithograph signed pop art bold Japanese figure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sambaso After Hirosada" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin from his Osaka series. This lithograph features a portrait of a traditional Japanese man in front of the Ne...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
McGovern for McGovernment, Hand Signed by BOTH Calder and George McGovern Framed
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
McGovern for McGovernment (Signed by BOTH Alexander Calder and George McGovern), 1972
Lithograph on wove paper with deckled edges. Hand signed and Numbered by Calder...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Lithograph
Basquiat Boxing Poster 1997
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat boxing poster 1997:
This rare double-sided 1997 Basquiat boxing poster was published on occasion of the 1990s exhibition, “Jean-Michel Basquiat Works and Portraits” at Parco...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
The Visit - Screen print by Antonio Saliola - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized in 1990s.
Hand signed in pencil.
Artist proof.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), Robert Mangold
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Mangold (1937)
Title: Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), from Multiple Panel Paintings suite
Year: 1992
Edition: 300, plus proofs
...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$3,676 Sale Price
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STRONG MAN
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 30
circus
ballerina
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Kenny Scharf illustrated announcements 1995
By Kenny Scharf
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Kenny Scharf Cosmic Tavern:
A set of 2 rare 1990s announcement cards designed by Scharf on the occasion(s) of the grand-opening of the Kenny Scharf Cosmic Tavern - a VIP room designe...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$405 Sale Price
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Raymond Pettibon 1993-2006 (a collection of 6 announcements)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon 1993-2006:
A curated set of 6 vintage Raymond Pettibon illustrated announcement cards.
Medium: 6 offset printed announcement cards. 1993-2006.
Dimensions ranging from: 4.125 x 5.375 inches to 8.75 x 5.5 inches.
Condition: Each in good to very good overall vintage condition.
Each unsigned from an edition of unknown.
Published on the occasion of the following Pettibon exhibitions:
- Ikon LTD./Kay Richards, 1999
- Feature 1993
- Macba 2002
- Regen Projects 2006
- Santa Monica: Museum of Modern Art 2001
- David Zwirner 1997
Further background on announcement cards:
"The only way you could let people know a show was happening was through an announcement or a poster. The art world was also much smaller at the time, so if you mailed out 200 invites, you were reaching a good core of the art world." (Rosen).
Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, and the Foo Fighters. In 2017, the artist was the subject of the major retrospective “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,” held at the New Museum in New York, where he currently lives and works. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
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