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Period: Late 20th Century
John Travolta Interview Magazine cover (Hand Signed by Andy Warhol) + Provenance
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Historic signed Andy Warhol Interview cover - hand signed by Warhol with unique provenance. Elegantly framed and ready to hang!
Andy Warhol
Interview Magazine (hand signed by Andy W...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Original Michael Jackson, Time Magazine, Andy Warhol authentic poster linen
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Andy Warhol vintage poster with Michael Jackson for Time Magazine March 1984. This vintage poster created by Andy Warhol was the image used for the cover of Time Magazine ...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
NEW GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Black Father Holding Son, Family Portrait
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW GENERATION is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 10% acid free, by the renowned African American woman a...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cup 2 Picasso, 1973 Pop Art Lithograph by Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jasper Johns, American (1930 - )
Title: Cup 2 Picasso
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm)
Frame: 19.5 x 17.25 inches
Pri...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse is a 1988 vintage offset lithograph postcard, published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood fram...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Formidable! - Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris vintage cabaret poster
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Moulin Rouge - Striking small-format vintage poster by Rene Gruau. Archival linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to frame. Bright, vibrant colors. Grade A.
Celebrate the electric allure of Parisian nightlife with this authentic René Gruau poster made for the Moulin Rouge. In flowing ribbons of red and a bold splash of inky black, Gruau captures the can-can's motion in a memorable silhouette. Elegant, striking, and unmistakably Paris, this piece makes a perfect addition to any collection of fashion, advertising, or mid-century graphic art.
The legendary Moulin Rouge poster...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Femme Accoudée au Drapeau Bleu et Rouge, Framed Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso Cubist painting "Femme Accoudée au Drapeau Bleu et Rouge". The original painting was completed in 1932....
Category
Cubist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Faith Ringgold Groovin
High Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This piece, titled "Groovin' High", is a printer's proof created by the renowned artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. The print is signed an...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The 156, Painter Drawing is Model - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1876)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Series 156, Painter Drawing is Model (plate 16), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 63 x 76 cm (c. ...
Category
Cubist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
ELLA FITZGERALD Lithograph, Celebrity Caricature Portrait, Female Jazz Vocalist
Located in Union City, NJ
ELLA FITZGERALD is a limited edition lithograph by the renowned artist/caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) printed using traditional lithography techniques on archival printmaking...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso Abstract Etching, Unsigned, 1971, Series 156
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Femme au Fauteuil et Homme Accoude
Medium: Etching
Portfolio: Series 156
Date: 1971
Edition: 1/50
Frame Size: 19 1/8" x 16 7/8"
Sheet Size: 12 7/8" x 9 7...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Tomano Monote (Cupcake Boy)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Alejandro Colunga is a renowned Mexican artist born in 1948 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He is part of the Nueva Mexicanidad movement and is celebrated for his surrealist and fantastical...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Gouache
Thomas (Lancelot Healing Sir Urre)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Thomas (Lancelot Healing Sir Urre)
Portfolio: 1972 The Twelve Apostles (Knights of the Round Table)
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1972
Edition: 38/350
Frame S...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BESSIE MAE Signed Lithograph Linocut, Plus Size Female Singer on Stage Red Dress
Located in Union City, NJ
BESSIE MAE is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph/linocut by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed in 10 colors using hand lithography techniques and linoleum cut o...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Linocut
Red Nude and Bird 1981 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Red Nude and Bird 1981
Nu Rouge Á L'Oiseau
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25.5 x 20 " inches
Signed in pencil and dated and marked AP 25/25 ( Artist Proo...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Emerald Lady
Located in Palm Springs, CA
In "Emerald Woman" by Chinese artist Jiang Tie-Feng, a sensuous, jade-green female figure is depicted astride a vividly rendered horse, fusing human form with the spiritual energy of...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
David Hockney- Stanley and Boodge -Pop Art, Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster features David Hockney’s affectionate portrait of his dachshunds, Stanley and Boodge, drawn in 1993 and rendered in his fluid, expressive style. The image highlights Hock...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Portrait with Dove - Screen Print by Salvatore Fiume - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Screen Print Artwork realized by Salvatore Fiume in 1970s.
Very good condition on a cream colored cardboard.
Hand-signed and numbered with pencil by the artist on th...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
St. George — African American artist
By John Tarrell Scott
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Tarrell Scott, 'St. George', woodcut, edition 20, 1992. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '18/20' in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white, laid Japan paper, with ful...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
GOING TO CHURCH Signed Lithograph, Southern Landscape, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
GOING TO CHURCH is an original hand drawn lithograph (not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival printmaking paper 100% acid free, using hand lithography techniqu...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude With Blue Hair
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Title: Nude With Blue Hair
Medium: Relief print on Rives BFK mold-made paper
Date: 1994
Edition: 28/40
Sheet Size: 57 7/8" x 37 5/8"
Image Size: 51 5/16" x 3...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
THE LANTERN Hand Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LANTERN is an original, handmade limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors from hand drawn lithography plates using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerse...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La balance romaine, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
La balance romaine, 1986
Lithographie sur papier Japon
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée Hors Commerce
50 x 65 cm / 54 x 76 cm
Très rare exemplaire
D'un...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,144 Sale Price
20% Off
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud - Original handsigned lithograph (Field #72-3)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud, 1972
Original coloured lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered 984/ 1000
On Arches Vellum 35 x 26" (87 x 64 cm)
Ref...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cy Twombly - Allusions Bay of Naples, ex-collection of Donald Baechler Signed/N
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler), 1975
Color offset lithograph and photo lithograph on wove paper
Signed and numbered 56/80 in ink on the ...
Category
Conceptual Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991, original lithograph by Jean Jansem
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à droite
66 x 47 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Imprime...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,001 Sale Price
20% Off
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987 extremely rare poster numbered 138/190 rarely seen!
Located in New York, NY
Debi Szarkowski-Effron
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987
Limited Edition offset lithograph poster
Bears the photographer's copyright stamp and pencil numbered 138/190 on the lower left fron...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
BACKYARD Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, African American Heritage, Quilts
Located in Union City, NJ
BACKYARD by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free using traditional hand lithography techniques. BACKYARD is one of Denmark's colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a soulful Southern country folk scene featuring a standing woman wearing a red orange skirt, multicolored floral print top, and dark indigo print head wrap; her male companion dressed in blue denim jeans, dark indigo print shirt and denim hat sitting in the backyard as the patchwork quilts flutter on the clothesline. Vivid coloration and textures captivate the eye with variety - deep violet, reds, fiery orange, touches of yellow, dark black and shades of blue - a very strong impression and fine example of hand lithography!
Print size - 36.25 x 25.5 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed and numbered by James Denmark, Certificate of Authenticity provided.
Image size - 27.75 x 16.5 in.
Edition size - 250, plus proofs
Year published - 1996
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co., NJ
Publisher - Mojo...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Mao - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1974
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Mao is a contemporary artwork realized by Andy Warhol in 1974.
Colour screenprint on wallpaper.
Includes frame: 113 x 86 x 3 cm
Hand signed by lower left.
Prov. Galerie Vayhinger...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Andy Warhol Double Self Portrait - Louisiana (Denmark) vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Andy Warhol (after), Double Self-Portrait — Louisiana Museum, 1978
Original Danish exhibition poster; linen-backed; Very Fine (Grade A)
Striking vintage exhibition poster created b...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Le coffre et la lanterne, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Le coffre et la lanterne, 1986
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
67 x 51 cm / 76 x 54 cm
D'une édition à 30...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, 1975
Polaroid dye-diffusion print
Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, bears the Foundation stamp verso
Frame included: Framed in white wood frame with UV plexiglass; with die-cut window in the back to show official Warhol Foundation authentication stamp and text
Measurements:
9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame)
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window)
4.16 x 3.15 inches (Artwork)
Authenticated and stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol/Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
An impressive piece of Pop Art history! A must-have for fans and collectors of both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: This is a unique, authenticated color Polaroid taken by one Pop Art legend, Andy Warhol, of his most formidable contemporary and, in many respects, rival, Roy Lichtenstein. One of only a few portraits Andy Warhol took of Roy Lichtenstein, during one tense photo shoot. Both iconic artists, colleagues and, perhaps lesser known to the public, rivals, would be represented at the time by the renowned Leo Castelli Gallery. The truth is - they were really more rivals than friends. (the rivalry intensified when Warhol, who was working with Walt Disney, discovered that Lichtenstein painted Mickey Mouse before he did!!) Leo Castelli was committed to Roy Lichtenstein, and, it's easy to forget today, wasn't that interested in Warhol as he considered Lichtenstein the greater talent and he could relate better with Roy on a personal level. However, Ivan Karp, who worked at Castelli, was very interested in Warhol, as were some powerful European dealers, as well as many wealthy and influential American and European collectors. That was the start of Warhol's bypassing the traditional gallery model - so that dealers like Castelli could re-discover him after everybody else had.
Warhol is known to have taken hundreds of self-portrait polaroid photographs - shoe boxes full - and he took many dozens of images of celebrities like Blondie and Farrah Fawcett. But only a small number of photographic portraits of fellow Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein -- each unique,- are known to have appeared on the market over the past half a century - all from the same photo session. This is one of them. There is another Polaroid - from this same (and only) sitting, in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California.
There really weren't any other collaborations between these two titans, making the resulting portrait from this photo session extraordinary. It is fascinating to study Roy Lichtenstein's face and demeanor in this photograph, in the context of the great sense of competition, but perhaps even greater, albeit uneasy respect, these two larger than life Pop art titans had for each other: Like Leo Castelli, Roy Lichtenstein was Jewish of European descent; whereas Warhol was Catholic and quintessentially American, though also of European (Polish) descent. They were never going to be good friends, but this portrait, perhaps even arranged by Leo Castelli, represents an uneasy acknowledgement there would be room at the top for both of them.
Floated, framed with die cut back revealing authentication details, and ready to hang.
Measurements:
9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame)
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window)
4.16 x 3.15 inches (sheet)
Authenticated by the Estate of Andy Warhol/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Estate Stamped: Stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate, Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp, numbered "B 512536P", with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp and inscribed UP on the reverse. Bears the Warhol Foundation unique inventory number.
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 Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Polaroid
Boy in Red Shirt original lithograph by Margaret Keane c 1980
Located in Paonia, CO
Boy in Red Shirt is an original lithograph by Margaret Keane c. 1980. A young boy in a red shirt is seen in front of a three story building in a city on a blue sky day. An ori...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$950 Sale Price
36% Off
GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, Collage Portrait Lovers, Flowers
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using traditional hand lithography techniques. GARDEN ROMANCE is one of Denmark's expressive, colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a lovely flower garden scene featuring a romantic black couple, the woman seated amid the blossoming plants wearing a green and yellow paisley print dress and head wrap; her standing male companion with flower in hand, dressed in blue denim jeans, and pastel color patchwork print shirt. Vivid coloration, watercolor patterns, and collage effect textures captivate the eye with visual variety in a striking palette of blues, greens, white, red, orange, magenta, touches of yellow, lavender and dark black - a fine example of the intricacies of hand lithography!
Print size - 32 x 21.25 in., archival framing, double mat, excellent condition, pencil signed and numbered 1 / 15 H.C. by James Denmark, publisher's chop embossed lower left corner, Certificate of Authenticity provided
Edition size - 250, plus proofs
Year published - 1996
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co. NJ
Publisher - Mojo Portfolio...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Homage to the Panthers, signed/n lithograph shown at Art Students League, Framed
Located in New York, NY
This exact work was exhibited at the Art Students League in an important show. (details below)
Elizabeth Catlett
Homage to the Panthers, 1993
Color Lithograph on wove paper with deck...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Night Dreams - Lithograph by Alessandro Kokocinski - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper realized by Alessandro Kokocinski.
Edition of 125 inarab numbers plus 50 in roman numbers.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. FALLING STAR presents a visual memory from Bearden's childhood in Mecklenburg County North Carolina expressed as a modern collage portrait depicting a black woman set in a nostalgic Southern domestic interior. FALLING STAR's main focus is a black woman standing on the right drinking from a blue and white teacup...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Phil, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Chuck Close
By Chuck Close
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin Strathmore 3-ply paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Publ...
Category
Minimalist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink
$5,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Original pre-release
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster, Linen-backed original Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pre-release. "Coming May 23rd, 1984.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 Steven Spielberg treasure-hunting action-adventure fantasy sequel ("If adventure has a name... It must be Indiana Jones."; "Trust him."
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Afghan Girl iconic poster: Sharbat Gula, Pakistan (Hand Signed by Steve McCurry)
Located in New York, NY
Steve McCurry
Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, Pakistan (Hand Signed), 1984
Offset Lithograph poster
Hand signed by the photographer in black felt pen on the front
24 × 20 inches
Unframed...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Felt Pen, Lithograph, Offset
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 Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Counselor at Crime
original 1973 movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Shock and awe! Original Counselor at Crime vintage movie poster.
'Good with the Law, Better with a Gun! Paper, original theater fold.
Very good condition without any paper loss or tears. 1973
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the melee and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson (Tomas Milian) becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime. This Italian movie was filmed in English in San Francisco, California, and Palermo, Sicily.
This is a man-cave vintage poster, one that you very seldom see or have the chance to purchase. Printed in black and white with red to grab your attention. Italian movie in English.
The poster was originally folded, like all early movie posters, so that it could be sent to the movie theater. Original fold marks. Some small scuff marks at the fold marks. No tears. The original fold marks are not classified as flaws in old movie posters...
Category
American Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
$135 Sale Price
20% Off
John Lennon - Peace
Freedom, Pop Art Portfolio of 5 Screenprints by Bob Gruen
By Bob Gruen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bob Gruen, American (1945 - ) - John Lennon - Peace & Freedom, Medium: Portfolio of 5 Original Screenprints, each signed and numbered in marker, Edition: LXIV/LXX, Size: 39 x 29.7...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Mother and Child - Lithograph by Franco Marzilli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white iithograph realized by Franco Marzilli.
Hand signed in pencil.
Edition of 100.
Not numbered.
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venice Walk 1983 Vintage David Hockney Exhibition Poster in turquoise teal
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. Hockney’s keen eye and uncanny ability to capture his subjects’ individuality is evident in this casual...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tete de Femme, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Tete de Femme". The original painting was completed in 1958. In the 1970's after Picasso's d...
Category
Cubist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Visage, Cubist Portrait Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Grabbing the faces of one another, the two women in this Pablo Picasso print tenderly kiss one another. Seen in profile view from the position of the viewer, the scene is loving albe...
Category
Cubist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Clairon, 1993, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned and numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Le Clairon, 1993
Lithographie sur papier Arches, justifiée EA12/30
Signée en bas à droite
65 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm
Bibliographie:
CR Jansem, 2000, n°85
"Ma...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MAX THE SAX Signed Lithograph, Musician Portrait, Saxophone, Yellow, Blue, Red
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
MAX THE SAX by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. MAX THE SA...
Category
Art Deco Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dream, 1951 - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Françoise GILOT (1921)
The Dream, 1951
Original lithograph
On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches)
REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Francois...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Jeune Couple, Saul Steinberg, 1971, Vintage Original Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster lithograph titled The Young Couple by the renowned artist Saul Steinberg is a first edition exhibition poster, published by the prestigious Galerie Maeght in Par...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES Lithograph Piano Bar Cocktails, Singing, British Humor
By Beryl Cook
Located in Union City, NJ
BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is a hand drawn, pencil signed limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook(1926-2008). Printed in 1986 using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES presents a humorous piano bar scene depicting a lively group of night club patrons enjoying their cocktails as they enthusiastically sing along with the debonair piano player giving the viewer a true feeling of merriment in this quintessential Beryl Cook image. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is a warm, colorful interior scene printed in shades of golden brown, black, red, blue, lavender, purple, green, orange, pink, peach, gray, and beige. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is one of Beryl Cook's most loved images - the edition is SOLD OUT, this is a rare unsigned printers proof aside from the numbered edition from the master printers private collection, stamped legend on verso with provenance information.
Print size - 27 x 27 inches, UNSIGNED Printers Proof, unframed, excellent condition
Edition size - 300 plus proofs
Year published - 1990, printed at JK Fine Art Editions Co. NYC
Beryl Cook's unique artistic humor documented familiar social situations...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Some do not (A) R.B. Kitaj erotic nude drawing of nude blonde with man on bed
Located in New York, NY
An erotic dalliance between a nude blonde woman lying down, and nude man, on a bed with white sheets. Subtle shades of peach, tan, yellow, and grey and black shadow behind the couple...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE LAMP Signed Lithograph Black Mother and Child Reading Brown vs. Board of Ed.
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LAMP is a hand drawn limited edition color lithograph by the renowned American master artist Romare Bearden, proofed and printed using hand lithography in 19 colors plus silver f...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GLOWING HANDS Signed Lithograph, Spiritual Inspiration, Yellow Light, Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
GLOWING HANDS is a hand drawn original lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free. GLOWING HANDS is a highly detailed sp...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PLAY Signed Lithograph, Young Woman In Tree Playing with Cats, Rainbow Sunset
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
PLAY by the American painter and printmaker Will Barnet (born May 25, 1911 - died Nov. 13, 2012) is an original hand drawn lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on arc...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Raphael Soyer Self-Portrait, Signed Lithograph, Man in Hat, Gray Jacket, Realism
Located in Union City, NJ
Raphael Soyer Self-Portrait is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Pai...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boudoir
By Erté
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Erté
Title: Boudoir
Medium: Embossed serigraph
Year: 1991
Edition: 290/300
Sheet Size: 41 3/4" x 29 1/4"
Image Size: 35 1/4" x 23 1/4"
Signature: Stamped signature
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
$1,195
THE BUILDERS 1985 National Urban League, 1st Edition, Men Working Construction
Located in Union City, NJ
JACOB LAWRENCE
THE BUILDERS 1985
Commemorative Poster - National Urban League 75th Anniversary 1910-1985
Vintage original 1985 printing
Poster size - 35.25 x 22 inches, unframed, u...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset





