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Period: 1980s
Marc Chagall, Ares and Aphrodite, from Homer, The Odyssey, 1989 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Ares und Aphrodite (Ares and Aphrodite), from Homer, Die Odyssee (The Odyssey), originates from the 1989 German-langu...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939)
Title: Hallelujah II
Year: 1988
Edition: 50, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Sign...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Incomparable Chant D
été De L
azur, Surrealist Etching with Aquatint by Jean Sol
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Solombre, French (1948 - ) - Incomparable Chant D'été De L'azur, Year: 1981, Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 1...
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Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Marc Chagall, Blue Horse with Couple, from Derriere le Miroir, 1982
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Cheval bleu au couple (Blue Horse with Couple), originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght (Tribute to Aime and Marguerite Maeght). Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, under the direction of Aime Maeght, and printed by Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris, this vibrant composition reflects Chagall’s lyrical fusion of color, dream, and devotion. In Cheval bleu au couple, ethereal figures and a radiant blue horse float within a luminous space of poetic imagination, evoking love, memory, and transcendence. The image captures the artist’s timeless ability to unite fantasy and emotion within the expressive language of modernism.
Executed on velin paper, this lithograph measures 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm). As issued, it is unsigned and unnumbered, consistent with the authorized publication format. The edition exemplifies Chagall’s mastery of color lithography and his lifelong exploration of faith, folklore, and the human spirit.
Artwork Details:
Artist: Marc Chagall (1887–1985)
Title: Cheval bleu au couple (Blue Horse with Couple), from Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght (Tribute to Aime and Marguerite Maeght), 1982
Medium: Lithograph on velin paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Date: 1982
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer: Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris
Catalogue raisonne references: Chagall, Marc, et al. Chagall Lithographe VI, 1980–1985. Andre Sauret, Editeur, 1986, illustration 993. Cramer, Patrick, and Meret Meyer. Marc Chagall: Catalogue Raisonne Des Livres Illustres. P. Cramer ed., 1995, illustration 113.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris
Notes:
Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This special issue of Derriere le Miroir was designed and defined by Aime Maeght in the fall of 1980. He envisioned its publication as a celebration with which artists and writers published since 1946 were to be associated. He also chose Francois Chapon, president of the Reverdy Committee, to write the presentation. This Derriere le Miroir number 250 took the form, after its disappearance on September 5, 1981, of a tribute to Aime Maeght and his wife Marguerite Maeght who died four years earlier. 24 artists agreed to create an original graphic work for this issue which includes the general table of all issues as well as excerpts from texts by 32 writers. Finished printing on June 2, 1982 on the presses of the l'Imprimerie moderne du Lion in Paris. CL examples were printed on velin d'Arches, numbered from I to CL, and some non-commercial examples constituting the original edition.
About the Publication:
Derriere le Miroir (translated as "Behind the Mirror") was an iconic French art periodical published from 1946 to 1982 by Maeght Editeur, one of the most influential art publishers of the 20th century. Founded by Aime Maeght in Paris, the publication was conceived as a visual and literary collaboration between leading modern artists, poets, and critics. Each issue functioned as both an exhibition catalogue and a work of art in itself—featuring original lithographs printed directly from the artists' stones or plates, alongside essays, poems, and critical commentary. Over the course of 36 years, Derriere le Miroir produced more than 250 issues and showcased an extraordinary roster of artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Pierre Bonnard, Alberto Giacometti, Eduardo Chillida, Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Paul Rebeyrolle, Claude Garache, Antoni Tapies, Bram van Velde, Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Shusaku Arakawa, and Gerard Titus-Carmel. Printed in the ateliers of Mourlot, Arte, and Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, the periodical set new standards for quality in color lithography, combining fine art printing with elegant typography and poetic text. Beyond its visual brilliance, Derriere le Miroir also became a cultural chronicle of postwar European modernism. Each issue coincided with exhibitions held at Galerie Maeght, providing a collectible and widely accessible record of groundbreaking shows. Its integration of image, text, and philosophy created a dialogue between art and literature that elevated the modern art book to new aesthetic heights. Today, Derriere le Miroir remains one of the most sought-after and historically significant art publications, prized by collectors and scholars alike for its craftsmanship, influence, and its role in defining the visual language of 20th-century modernism. The Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence continues to honor this legacy through exhibitions and archival preservation of the series, affirming Derriere le Miroir's enduring place in the history of modern art and fine art publishing.
About the Artist:
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Belarus-born French painter, printmaker, and designer whose visionary use of color and poetic symbolism made him one of the most beloved and influential artists of the 20th century. Rooted in the rich imagery of his Jewish heritage and childhood in Vitebsk, Chagall’s dreamlike compositions fused memory, folklore, faith, and romance with the expressive innovations of modern art. His work evolved alongside and in dialogue with the great modern masters—Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray—artists who, like Chagall, redefined artistic language for a new century. Spanning painting, printmaking, stained glass, ceramics, stage design, and illustration, Chagall’s career reflected both his deep spirituality and his boundless imagination. His works are held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. The highest price ever paid for a Marc Chagall artwork is approximately $28.5 million USD, achieved in 2017 at Sotheby’s New York for Les Amoureux (1928).
Marc Chagall Cheval bleu au couple, Marc Chagall lithograph, Chagall Derriere le Miroir, Chagall Maeght...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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La Piscine/The Pool at Le Trayas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 1983, artist David Lingwood created this stunning diptych poster, capturing the serene beauty of Le Trayas, a picturesque locale in the south of France. This two-panel composition...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$192 Sale Price
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Horses : Riders in Autumn - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED
Ltd /600
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-)
Horses : Riders in Autumn, 1983
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 600 (the number you can see can be different)
On Coated paper 56 x 76 cm (c....
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Hockney poster: Barbican Centre for Arts London 1982 colorful palm trees
Located in New York, NY
Colorful dots, lines and squares in bright blue, pink, green, lilac and yellow in wood grain form a totem against a lavender purple background. This jubilant take on Cubism features ...
Category
Cubist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek urns, and snakes, printed in black o...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Manhattan Triptych, Set of Three NYC Conceptual Art Lithographs by Alan Sonfist
By Alan Sonfist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Part of a triptych, this rendering of Manhattan shows the uppermost area of the island of New York City. Along the coasts of the city are large illustrations of plants native to the ...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spring in Brittany (FRAMED + 10% OFF U.S. SHIPPING) (Provence, Landscapes)
By Ella Fort
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort
Spring in Brittany (Champ Fleuri)
Color Lithograph
Signed, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 390 + 250
Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches
Framed: 16.25x20 inches
COA provided
*Framing Options Available - Please Inquire
**edition number might vary from shown in listing image
Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Surrounded Islands 1982
, Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida
By Javacheff Christo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83
Using 6.5 million square feet of floating pink fabric, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled eleven islands in Miami...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Marc Chagall, The Tribe of Levi, from XXe siecle, 1983 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La Tribu de Levi (The Tribe of Levi), from the special issue of the XXe Siecle Review, Chagall in Jerusalem, originat...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78), Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after)
Title: Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78)
Year: 1987
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches cotton rag paper
Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 70/80, a...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$40,000 Sale Price
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Vintage Poster of Albert Decaris
Exhibition in Paris - Lithograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in 1981.
Offset and lithograph.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spanish Elegy (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Original "1984 Olympics Los Angeles" Torch Runner signed and numbered
Located in Spokane, WA
The Los Angeles Olympics Torch /runner. 1984 Los Angeles Olympics original vintage poster.
Original, hand signed and numbered #232/300 "The Olympic Tor...
Category
American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Provence, landscapes, countryside art
By Ella Fort
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort
The Lonesome Road (La course seule)
Color lithograph
Signed, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 390 + 10 E.A.
size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inche...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
IN THE GARDEN Signed Lithograph, Black Woman Pink Gingham Dress Collage Portrait
Located in Union City, NJ
IN THE GARDEN is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 150 by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. Featuring fresh, uplifting shades of lavender, hues of fresh green, pink, warm tomato red, orange yellow, grays, black and white, IN THE GARDEN depicts a charming collage portrait drawing of a young black woman waving as she carries her basket of freshly picked flowers. She is standing in the garden wearing a bright pink gingham...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
hand pulled limited edition lithograph signed and numbered by the a...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SEVENTH TORII Signed Lithograph Japanese Landscape, Mountains Water Gold Sky
By Jim Buckels
Located in Union City, NJ
SEVENTH TORII is an original, hand drawn(not a photo reproduction or digital print), limited edition lithograph with gold silkscreen printed using hand lithography and serigraphy tec...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Vintage MOMA Francesco Clemente Museum of Modern Art 1986 dream myth poster
Located in New York, NY
This three-part work spanning 10 feet was printed from the plates of Francesco Clemente’s mythological landscape Untitled A on the occasion of the 1986 MoMA, New York show of Clement...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Thalasso at St Malo - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED
Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-)
Thalasso at Saint Malo, 1983
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different)
On Vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 ...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney Poster Miami New World Festival of Arts 1982 palm trees
Located in New York, NY
This vintage David Hockney poster features whimsical imagery and rich, bright color. Palm trees, boats in the ocean, a cafe, and a bodega with an elaborate iron-wrought balcony sit a...
Category
Realist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Farmhouse, Signed Lithograph Modern Monet Style
Located in Union City, NJ
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Farmhouse is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the American artist Nell Revel Smith from Leland...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY Signed Lithograph Island Landscape Tropical Plants, Beach
By Eileen Seitz
Located in Union City, NJ
BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American woman artist Eileen Seitz, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY depicts a lush, brightly colored island landscape bursting with colorful tropical plants...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Landscapes of Autumn - Screen Print by Rolandi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by the italian painter Rolandi, in the 1980s.
Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin.
Artist's proof (as reported in the lower left margin)
Dry stam...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$118 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Sisyphus, from Homer, The Odyssey, 1989 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Sisyphos (Sisyphus), from Homer, Die Odyssee (The Odyssey), originates from the 1989 German-language folio published ...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sailboats at Sunset, Surrealist Oil Painting by Ted Lownik
By Ted Lownik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ted Lownik, American - Sailboats at Sunset, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Image Size: 17 x 26 inches, Size: 22 x 31 in. (55.88 x 78.74 cm), Frame Size: 23 x 32 inches
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Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Oil
Landscapes of Autumn - Screen Print by Rolandi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscapes Of Autumn is a modern artwork realized by the painter Rolandi, in the 1980s.
Mixed colored screen print.
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Artist's proof (as reported on the lower left margin)
Dry stamp on the lower margin.
Maurizio Coccia, also known as "Rolandi" painter, engraver, sculptor, artistic decorator. Born in Rome in 1940, he studied painting and turned to the masters of the Via Margutta and was inspired by the works of Cagli and Guttuso. After making his debut in the 70s with two exhibitions in Trieste and Rieti, he also exhibits in the United States and in the major Italian galleries...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Growing Tall, Pop Art Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Growing Tall
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932–2002)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 295
Image Size: 28 x 18.5 inches
Size: 35 in. x 23 in. (88.9 cm x 58.4...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$480 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, The Bed of Odysseus, from Homer, The Odyssey, 1989 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Das Bett des Odysseus (The Bed of Odysseus), from Homer, Die Odyssee (The Odyssey), originates from the 1989 German-l...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
VIP Invitation to "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein" @ MoMA, Hand Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein
VIP Invitation to Museum of Modern Art black tie preview of the exhibition "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein" (Hand Signed), 1987
Offset lithograph on Coronado Opaque SST Cover paper (hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein)
Offset lithograph on Coronado Opaque SST Cover paper
Boldly signed in black marker on the front
The front of the invitation depicts Roy Lichtenstein's print The Sower, from the suite "Landscape Sketches."
This print was published by the Museum of Modern Art as an invitation to an exclusive VIP preview of the exhibition "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein." The artist signed the card in person at the event.
This work has been elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV Plexiglass with a die cut window to reveal the text from inside the MoMA fold-out invitation card.
A true vintage collectors item when hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein, as the present work
Measurements:
Framed
12 inches vertical by 13.25 horizontal by 1.5
Artwork
5 inches by 6.25 inches
Roy Lichtenstein Biography
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it.
Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own.
In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy.
As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii
Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957.
To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960.
At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing.
Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School.
With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes.
Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true.
The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer.
Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore.
Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
French Riviera : Old St Tropez - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED
Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Claude PICOT (1933-)
French Riviera : The old village of St Tropez, 1982
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different)
On Co...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Galactic Man, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Galactic Man
Year: 1982
Medium: Unique, mixed media with lithography and hand coloring on Arches paper
Size: 6.75 x 6.25 inches
Condition: Excellent
I...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Horses : Riders in Summer - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED
Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-)
Horses : Riders in Summer, 1983
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different)
On Vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x ...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Historic rare Ed Ruscha Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition offset lithograph poster
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Edward Ruscha: New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, 1980
Offset lithograph poster
22.5 x 18 inches
Unframed
Published by Leo Castelli Gallery
Good vintage condition with some handli...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Roy Lichtenstein- Sky and Water Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sky and Water by Roy Lichtenstein is a vintage blank greeting card, originally printed for the Guggenheim Museum in 1980. The card is framed in a white wood frame with a front profil...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Editions Lahumiere (Eyeglasses), Surrealist Screenprint by Jean-Michel Folon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean Michel Folon, Belgian (1934 - 2005)
Title: Editions Lahumiere
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper
Paper Size: 29.5 in. x 39.5 in. (74.93 cm x 100.33 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Antoni Tapies, To My, Derriere le Miroir, 1982
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Antoni Tapies (1923–2012), titled A ma (To My), originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght ...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Joan Miro, Tribute to Aime Maeght, from Derriere le Miroir, 1982
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Hommage a Aime Maeght (Tribute to Aime Maeght), originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommag...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sunset, Minimalist Screenprint by Arthur Secunda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sunset Landscape
Arthur Secunda, American (1927)
Date: circa 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 31/300
Size: 25.5 x 34 in. (64.77 x 86.36 cm)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Portofino, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Portofino, Year: 1988, Medium: Screenprint, Signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: 51/150, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
The Ultimate Gumball, Charles Bell
By Charles Bell
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Charles Bell (1935-1995)
Title: The Ultimate Gumball
Year: 1981
Medium: Silkscreen with shellac overglaze on Masonite panel
Size: 46.75 x 53.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned a...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$10,396 Sale Price
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Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Trees, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Monet Style
Located in Union City, NJ
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Trees is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the American artis...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nocturne III (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
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Original "Gone With The Wind" vintage movie poster 1980 excellent conditio
Located in Spokane, WA
Original GONE WITH THE WIND, U. S. 1 sheet Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, de Havilland, all-time movie classic! Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Original issue fold marks professionally touched up. Excellent condition.
Film Description: Gone With the Wind, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming Civil War romantic melodrama epic ("The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made!"; "In the New Screen splendor… The most magnificent picture ever!"; "David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South"; "Screen play by Sidney Howard") starring Clark Gable (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role; "as Rhett Butler"), Vivien Leigh (in her Best Actress Academy Award winning role; "and presenting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara"), Leslie Howard ("as Ashley Wilkes"), Olivia de Havilland (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; "as Melanie"), Hattie McDaniel ("as Mammy"), Thomas Mitchell ("as Gerald O'Hara"), Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford ("as Carreen O'Hara"), George Reeves, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson ("as Belle Watling"), Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport ("as Dr. Meade"), Carroll Nye ("as Frank Kennedy"), Laura Hope Crews ("as Aunt Pittypat"), Alicia...
Category
American Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$600 Sale Price
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TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage Night Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a hand drawn, limited edition color lithograph by the renowned American artist Romare Bearden, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free. TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a multicolored collage landscape portraying a mysterious, jigsaw-shaped starry night sky in shades of deep blue, hues of bright green, golden yellow, and touches of red. In the foreground of TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE two human figures stand face to face exchanging stars beneath a celestial blue sky showered with twinkling lights. Bearden created this image bearing in mind the importance of advancement through education. This very unique Romare Bearden lithograph...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
HEARTLAND Hand Drawn Lithograph, Winter Landscape Stone Farmhouse Bucks County
Located in Union City, NJ
HEARTLAND is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by Peter Sculthorpe (b.1948 Ontario, Canada) printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% ...
Category
Realist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horses : Riders in Winter - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED
Ltd /600
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-)
Horses : Riders in Winter, 1983
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 600 (the number you can see can be different)
On Vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x ...
Category
Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
By Ella Fort
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort
St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
Color lithograph
Signed, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 390 + 10 E.A.
size:...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Willem de Kooning, Untitled, from Poems, 1988
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), titled Untitled, from the folio Poems, originates from the 1988 edition published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Athena Lulls Odysseus to Sleep, Homer, The Odyssey, 1989 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Athene senkt Odysseus in den Schlaf (Athena Lulls Odysseus to Sleep), from Homer, Die Odyssee (The Odyssey), originat...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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“Shadow of Dawn” A Calming Abstract by Gary Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Suggestive of the misty cool colors and contours of the Pacific Northwest, this scenic framed lithograph is numbered #5 of 40. Let it inspire a restful palette for the bedroom.
Sign...
Category
Abstract 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Headland II, American Realist Etching with Aquatint by John McNulty
By John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Headland II, Year: 1982, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm)
Category
American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original California Ferrari Louis Vuitton Parc de Bagatelle hand signed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1989 Louis Vuitton Automobile Classiques Poster –Hand Signed, Archival Linen-Backed. This poster was created for the Concours d’Elegance ...
Category
American Modern 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nocturne I (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
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Landscapes of Autumn - Screen Print by Rolandi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by the italian painter Rolandi, in the 1980s.
Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin.
Artist's proof (as reported in the lower left margin)
Dry stam...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$166 Sale Price
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Vintage Floral Study Etching Titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Floral study etching titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot (American, 20th century), 1983. Titled, signed, and dated lower edge. Artists Proof designation. Unframed. Image: 11.75"H ...
Category
American Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer s Ink
$460 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Frontispiece, from Homer, The Odyssey, 1989 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Frontispiz (Frontispiece), from Homer, Die Odyssee (The Odyssey), originates from the 1989 German-language folio publ...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Jacob Lawrence, Boy with Kite, from Hiroshima, 1983
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite silkscreen by Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), titled Boy with Kite, from the album Hiroshima, originates from the 1983 edition published by The Limited Editions Club, New ...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$2,796 Sale Price
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