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Period: 1980s
Two Pembroke Studio Chairs
Located in London, GB
A striking original lithograph from Hockney's popular The Moving Focus series with Cubist influences. Hockney depicts his studio interior with varying perspectives, shadows, views an...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Trova-Falling Man Watch Vintage limited edition print
By Ernest Trova
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This first edition poster titled “Falling Man Watch” is a striking piece from Ernest Trova’s renowned Falling Man series, featuring the iconic Falling Man figure cleverly depicted as...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Bouquet Rose, Large Signed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
This simple still life is a lithograph by Russian Modern artist Marc Chagall. It employs several of Chagall's recurring motifs, such as a bird (in this case a rooster), a bouquet of ...
Category
Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
CHINESE RHODODENDRONS Hand Drawn Lithograph, Watercolor Floral, Pastel Colors
By Glenny Brazy
Located in Union City, NJ
CHINESE RHODODENDRONS is an original hand drawn lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. Lovely watercolor floral...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spell III, Framed Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bright and vibrant still life by pop artist Hunt Slonem. The silkscreen print is hand-signed and numbered in pencil, nicely framed.
Spell III by Hunt Slonem, American (1951)
Date:...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flowers, Pop Art Screenprint by Knox Martin
By Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist:Knox Martin, American (1923 - )
Title: Flowers 8
Year: 1981
Medium: Silkscreen on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil
Paper Size: 42 x 30 inches
Printed by American Atelier...
Category
American Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Vase of Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers - Screen Print by Franco Bocchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Franco Bocchi in 1980s.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition of 200 prints.
Excellent condition.
Franco Bocchi was born in Cologne (BS) o...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Bouquet, Modern Lithograph by Lloyd Lozes Goff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lloyd Lozes Goff, American (1918 - 1982) - Bouquet, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 24 x 18 inches, Size: 2...
Category
Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Galerie Dina Vierny after Henri Matisse, 1982
Located in New York, NY
This photo-lithographic poster was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1982 with the permission of the Matisse estate to promote the works by Henri Matisse at the Galerie Dina...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life (Rosenthal Porcelain Object), 1988
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Tom Wesselmann
Still Life, 1988
Rosenthal Porcelain Object
Measures 13 x 14 3/4 x 1/2 inches.
Signed in lower right corner
From the edition of 299, within the accompanying certificat...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Porcelain
Tàpies, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 253, 1982. Published by Aim...
Category
Post-War 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
57% Off
$ (1) FS II.274-279
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
The portfolio consists of six screen prints on Lenox museum board. Each hand-signed and numbered. Each print is unique. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Published by Andy War...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
Untitled Flowers 17, Impressionist Hand-Painted Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Untitled Flowers 17, Year: 1980, Medium: Hand-Painted Lithograph, signed lower right, Edition: I/I, Size: 35 in. x 26 in. (88.9 cm x 66.04 cm)
Category
Impressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
White Iris on Blue II, Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Iris on Blue II
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, HC
Size: 32 in. x 26 in. (...
Category
American Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Lemon Squash (Kusama 33)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 26 of 100
61 x 53.5 cm (24 x 21 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the age ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Passion Fruit, Pop Art Silkscreen by James Rizzi
By James Rizzi
Located in Long Island City, NY
James Rizzi, American (1950 - 2011) - Passion Fruit, Year: 1989, Medium: Screenprint on BFK Rives, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: PP, Image Size: 28 x 20 inches, ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Magritte at Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan, Italy, Offset lithograph poster
Located in New York, NY
René Magritte
Magritte at Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan, Italy, ca. 1980
Offset lithograph lettering and silkscreen poster on thin wove paper
...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Screen
Vase of Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers - Screen Print by Franco Bocchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Franco Bocchi in 1980s.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition of 200 prints.
Excellent condition.
Franco Bocchi was born in Cologne (BS) o...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Shell Ginger, Pop Art Serigraph by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Shell Ginger
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175, AP 30
Ima...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Nature Morte a la Porte et a la Clef, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Nature Morte a la Porte et a la Clef". The original painting was completed in 1920. In the 19...
Category
Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vase of Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers - Screen Print by Franco Bocchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Franco Bocchi in 1980s.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition of 200 prints.
Excellent condition.
Franco Bocchi was born in Cologne (BS) o...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
White Irises on Blue, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Irises on Blue
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Image Size: 41 x 23...
Category
Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Kaleidoscope III, Pop Art Screenprint by John Grillo
By John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Grillo, American (1917 - 2014)
Title: Kaleidoscope III
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 22 x 30 inches
Size: ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
"The Roses are Coming, " Intaglio Artist Proof VIII by Fred Reichman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Roses are Coming" is an intaglio print AP. VIII from an edition of 100. It is signed lower right by the artist Fred Reichman. It depicts sticks and ...
Category
1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Intaglio
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 Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$10,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Jar from Samarkland, Alice Neel
By Alice Neel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Title: Jar from Samarkland
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: A.P. 24/25; 175, plus proofs
Size: 38 x 28 inches
Condition: Good
Ins...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Banana (original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original colored crayons and pastel drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by David Hockney. Artwork size 16.75 x 14inches. Frame size approx 27 x 24 inches. Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Richard Gray Gallery.
Artwork in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In November 2018, his 1972 painting...
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Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Multicolor Iris, Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Multicolor Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Size: 36 x 25 in. (91.44 x 63.5...
Category
American Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Pink Iris, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A series of ghostly Morning Glory blooms set against a rich black background. These moon-toned flowers are rendered as a screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt. This print is signed and...
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Photorealist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
PRAYER Signed Lithograph, Holy Books, Turquoise, Gold Yellow, Black, Jewish Art
By Moshe Castel
Located in Union City, NJ
PRAYER by the Israeli artist Moshe Castel (1909-1991) is a limited edition lithograph printed in 14 colors using traditional lithographic techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% a...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ellsworth Kelly, Lotus, from Derriere le Miroir, 1982
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), titled Lotus, originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght (Trib...
Category
Hard-Edge 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Flower (1982), Lithograph, Limited Edition of 100 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 10)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama
Flower, Edition 100/100.
Lithograph [3 plates, 3 colors, 3 runs], Collage.
Image: 22.3 x 15.5 cm.
Sheet: 35.5 x 27.5 cm.
Published in 1982 on on Velin d' Arches paper by...
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Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Bouquet, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Blue Bouquet
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300, AP 45
Image Size: 27 x 22 inches
Size: 30 in. x 22 in....
Category
Impressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Iris on Blue III, Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Iris on Blue III
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint , signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 24 inches diamete...
Category
American Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
"Coffee" the Perfect Meal - Menu - Beverages - Intaglio by Raymond Perez
Located in Soquel, CA
"Coffee" the Perfect Meal - Menu - Beverages - Intaglio by Raymond Perez
The artwork "Second Course Fish" by Raymond Perez, created one of a group show at San Francisco State Univer...
Category
American Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
A Year with Children 1989- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster for Learning Through Art/ The Guggenheim Museum Children's Program. This map was created by children enrolled in Paloma Picasso's Learning Through Art Workshop.
The Learning T...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Hillside Place, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who’s work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and...
Category
American Impressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Night (spooky Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Ave off Flatbush Ave)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
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American Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Claude Et Paloma (from Picasso Estate Collection)
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of the...
Category
Cubist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$1,975 Sale Price
50% Off
White Iris on Purple, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Iris on Purple
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 35 x 24 inches...
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American Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage French Travel Poster, Air france
Roger Bezombes
(1913-1994) French
Bezombes was a painter, sculptor, medalist, and designer. He studied in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts...
Category
Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Flowers, Medium: Screenprint, Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: PA 29/50, Image Size: 19.5 x 13.5 inches, Size: 24 x 20...
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Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Konrad Klapheck, Untitled, from Derriere le Miroir, 1982
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Konrad Klapheck (1935–2023), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguer...
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Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Richard Ziemann
Wetland Grasses
Limited Edition Signed Etching Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Richard Claude Ziemann (American, b 1932)
'Weland Grasses' 1980
Etching on wove paper
Edition 138/175
Titled in pencil lower left
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Image (plate)...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Cyclamen II
Located in New York, NY
Mr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident ...
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Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Pot with Flowers, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pot with Flowers, Year: 1989, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 2/60, Size: 19 x 13.5 in. (48.26 x 34.29 cm)
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Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$ (1) FS II.274-279 (unique hand signed screen print)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print on Lenox museum board. Hand signed lower front by Andy Warhol. Hand numbered 3/60 lower front (there were also 10 AP's, 3 PP's and 15 TP's). Each print is unique. Pu...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
Crab
Shells, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Crab & Shells, Medium: Screenprint, Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 50/100, Image Size: 20 x 16 inches, Size: 28 x 20...
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Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
SCROLLS Signed Lithograph, Jewish History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Red, Gold, Black
By Moshe Castel
Located in Union City, NJ
SCROLLS by the Israeli artist Moshe Castel (1909-1991) is a limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. SCROLLS is a dramatic abstract collage, its vertical arrangement depicting a grouping of yellow and gold beige papyrus scroll fragments against a textured background of rich vibrant red and black. Ancient alphabet symbols written on the parchment are visible resembling Aramaic letters which create a mystical quality evoking the biblical history of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Aramaic was once the main language of the Jews and appears in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is closely related to Hebrew with the script being very similar.
In SCROLLS, Moshe Castel creates a very aesthetically appealing and captivating contemporary arrangement of ancient Jewish symbolism.
Print size - 29.75 x 21.5 in. unframed, excellent condition, vivid colors, hand signed in pencil by Moshe Castel
Edition size - 150, plus proofs
Year published - 1981
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co., NY
Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Castel attended his father’s school until the age of 13. He went on to study at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem, where he was encouraged by his teacher to study in Paris furthering his art education at the Academie Julian and Ecole de Louvre in Paris. He was greatly influenced by European masters Rembrandt, Velasquez, Delacroix and Courbert after spending his days copying their works hanging in the Louvre. Castel returned to Palestine at the onset of WWII. The subject of Castel’s early paintings were scenes of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land. In 1947, Castel helped to found the "New Horizons" (Ofakim Hadashim) group together with Yosef Zaritsky, Yehezkel Streichman...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still life with Asphodel, Contemporary Lithograph by Michael Eisemann
Located in Long Island City, NY
A hand-signed lithograph of still life images by Israeli artist, Michael Eisemann. The print is hand-signed and numbered in pencil. unframed.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE Signed Lithograph, Magenta, Pink, Red, Green
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somers...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,380 Sale Price
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Shed, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who’s work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and...
Category
American Impressionist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
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Modern 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil.
Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
Category
American Realist 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Shoes
By Andy Warhol
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on paper
101.5 by 151.5 cm. 40 by 59⅝ in.
framed: 112 by 161.6 cm. 44⅛ by 63⅝ in.
Executed in 1980.
Stamped by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warh...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$330,000
Maison Romaine, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 30. This Imaginary building shows the move toward more elaborate landscape images Houtin started doing in the early 1980's.
Fr...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981)
This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet)
Title: Sony Walkman Radio. This one is hand signed and dated verso.
Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum.
Date: 1980-1981
Medium: vintage color photocopy print.
“I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio.
We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light.
The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork.
She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada.
Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.
She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...
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Contemporary 1980s Still-life Prints
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Four Flowers, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Four Flowers
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 137200
Image Size: 25 x 25 inches
Size: 31.5 x 31.25 i...
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Photorealist 1980s Still-life Prints
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