John Baldessari Abstract Prints
American, 1931-2020
Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.
Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.
In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”
From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.
The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.
Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.
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Artist: John Baldessari
The Sprinters, for 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with official COA Lt Ed Hand Signed
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari
The Sprinters, 1982
Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper
Signed in graphite pencil on the front. Accompanied by letter of authenticity from the publisher
36 x 24 inches
Unframed
Provenance:
Acquired as part of the complete SIGNED 1984 Olympic Lithographic Print Portfolio
Exhibition History:
Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017 (different edition)
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher on Olympic Committee letterhead. This is one of 750 hand signed lithographic posters, published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics...
Category
1980s Contemporary John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
John Baldessari, Two Assemblages (with R, O, Y, G, B, V Opaque) - Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Two Assemblages (with R, O, Y, G, B, V Opaque), 2003
Medium: Lithograph and screen print on vellum
Dimensions: 61.6 x 91.5 cm
Edition of 50: Han...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
John Baldessari - Man With Snake, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Man with Snake (Blue and Yellow), 1990
Medium: Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
Dimensions: 45.7 x 35.5 cm (18 x 14 in)
Edition of 170: Hand-...
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20th Century Contemporary John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
John Baldessari, Two Bags and Envelope Holder - Conceptual Art, Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, born 1931)
Two Bags and Envelope Holder, 2011
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Dimensions: 61 x 45.8 cm
Edition of 40: Hand-signed and numbered
Condition: Exc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Inkjet
John Baldessari, Give me a B, give me an A… - Signed Print, 10-Part Leporello
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Give me a B, give me an A …, 2009
Medium: 10-part leporello, digital pigment print, on photo rag paper
Dimensions: 32 × 250 cm (12½ x 98½ in)
Ed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital Pigment
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Crooked Made Straight
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
9-color silkscreen print on plexiglass,
5 x 12” (12,5 x 31cm)
Printed by Atelier für Siebdruck,
Lorenz Boegli, Zurich
Ed. 45/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Category
Early 2000s John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Two Screenprinted pillow cases (one hand signed by Baldessari) in bespoke box
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari Pillow Cases in Bespoke Presentation Box (one pillowcase hand signed by John Baldessari) for The Thing Quarterly Issue 22, 2014
Silkscreen on 100% cotton 320 thread count sateen pillowcases (Hand signed by John Baldessari)
Boldly signed in ink by John Baldessari on one of the pillowcases (see photo)
Unframed
One of the pillowcases is hand signed in ink by John Baldessari:
John Baldessari was one of the artists who were invited to contribute an object (or "thing") with text for a special project for "The Thing" publication (read on for more on "The Thing") ; the conceptual object therefore had to incorporate text. Baldessari's contribution in 2014 was a silkscreened pillowcase with text. A limited (unknown) number of these pillowcases were marketed and sold as a set of two in a bespoke box. However, exceptionally, Baldessari hand signed a very few of pillowcases in ink. This is one of the very special sets bearing one hand signed pillow case - purchased directly from "The Thing". (a copy of the 2014 receipt is shown here.) The rest of these boxed sets were not hand signed.
The pillowcase is brand new, and will look gorgeous once pressed and framed by a professional framer.
More about this boxed set:
Issue 22 of THE THING Quarterly is by LA-based conceptual artist John Baldessari. It consists of two 100% cotton sateen pillowcases featuring an image of a woman clutching a pillow. The black and white image is taken from a Hollywood film still in Baldessari's collection and has been silkscreened on each pillowcase with environmentally-friendly, water-based ink. The pillowcases are standard-sized and envelope-style. For those who like their thread count high, the issue clocks in at a solid 320 thread count.
Measurements:
Box
10.5 inches by 13 inches by 2 inches
Pillow
20 inches vertical by 26 inches
What was The Thing Quarterly?
THE THING was an experimental publication created in collaboration with Will Rogan as part of an artist residency. We saw it as a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers were invited to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. The object is reproduced and hand wrapped at wrapping parties and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.
It began as part of an artist residency in San Francisco’s Southern Exposure. Will and I had met in grad school at UC Berkeley and discovered our mutual affinity for quarterlies. He was a librarian at SFAI for five years and I had been a high school teacher for five years. WE were both interested pushing the boundaries of publication. Our plan was to create a 1 year publication with four artists, but from the very start the project generated so much interest and international excitement that we found ourselves running a publication complete with a brick and mortar storefront and a staff of four individuals. After 10 years, 34 issues, 59 projects and countless live events, we decided to end the publication in order to pursue our individual projects. We are still working together on a less ambitious new project, and hope to launch it at some point in 2021.
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JBCRIAL1VY-98, famed print for ACRIA series, Hand signed, Unique variant, Framed
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari
JBCRIAL1VY-98 (Unique Variant, Hand Signed), 1998
Ink jet print on paper. - Unique Variant
Hand signed by John Baldessari on the front
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1990s Conceptual John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
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Rarely seen limited edition Spanish/English protest poster, Signed by Baldessari
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari
Flowers of Life for Central America/Flores de Vida por Centro America (Hand Signed), 1984
Rare Offset Lithograph (Hand signed by Baldessari)
24 3/5 × 18 inches
Boldly signed in white sharpie by Baldessari lower front
The separate regular, unsigned edition was only approx. 100, though the present work was, exceptionally, uniquely hand signed by the artist
Extremely rare vintage political poster...
Category
1980s Conceptual John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph
John Baldessari, Zorro (Two Gestures and One Mark) - Hand-Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Zorro (Two Gestures and One Mark), 1998
Medium: Offset lithograph and screenprint on Arches paper, and flip book
Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset, Screen
John Baldessari, Hand and Chin (with Entwined Hands) - Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Hand and Chin (With Entwined Hands), 1991
Medium: Photogravure with color spit bite aquatint on Somerset
Dimensions: 83,5 x 56,5cm (33 x 22 in)
...
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19th Century Contemporary John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint, Photogravure
John Baldessari: Two Assemblages (with R, O, Y, G, B, V Transparent), Signed
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Two Assemblages (with R, O, Y, G, B, V Transparent), 2003
Medium: Lithograph and screen print on vellum
Dimensions: 61.6 x 91.5 cm
Edition of 50...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
John Baldessari, Belch (from Engraving with Sounds), 2015, Signed Print
By John Baldessari
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)
Belch (from the Engraving with Sounds series), 2015
Medium: Archival inkjet print on paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 25: Monogrammed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary John Baldessari Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink
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