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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Paris Ville du Front
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Paris Ville du Front
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Low Tide
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Low Tide" 1943 is an original lithograph by New York artist Julian Edwin Levi, 1900-1982. It is hand signed in pencil by the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moro con clavel (Moor with Carnation) (A/P)
By Rafael Coronel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. Edition of 100. Certificate of authenticity included.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Personages with Lambs
By Sylvain Sauvage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Personages with Lambs" 1924 is an original colors aquatint by noted French artist Felix Roy A.K.A Sylvain Sauvage, 1888-1948. It is hand signed and numbered 88/350 in pencil by the artist.
The image size is 13 x 9.5 inches, framed is 20 16 inches. Published and printed by La Societe Des Graveurs Modernes, Paris. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame.
It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of this artwork
About the artist.
Félix Roy, said Sylvain Sauvage (born in Baume-les-Messieurs ( Jura ) on May 8 , 1888 and died in Paris in January 1948 ) is an illustrator and technician of the French book.
He was an exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and Director of École Estienne . He illustrated many books of the French classic literature. The work of Sylvain Sauvage is held in numerous private collections in France and Europe.
Selected books illustrated by the artist.
L'Ingénue de Voltaire, Kieffer, 1922
La fille aux yeux d'or de Balzac, G. Crès, 1923
Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain dévoilé. Mémoires intimes de Restif de la Bretonne, illustrés par Sylvain Sauvage de Restif de la Bretonne, Henri Jonquières, 1924
Les Belles Dames de Paris, historiettes de Tallemant de Réaux, coll. « Le livre du lettré », 1924 (avec une préface de Gérard Bauër)
Anatole France, Les sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux, A.&G. Mornay, Paris, 1925
Marquis de Sade, Ernestine, Cabinet du Livre / Jean Fort Éditeur, Paris, 1926 : 10 eaux-fortes
Casanova (J. de, Seigneur de Seingalt.), Une aventure de Casanova, Histoire complète de ses amours avec la belle C. C. et la religieuse de Muran. Compositions de Sylvain Sauvage gravées avec la collaboration de E. Feltesse. Paris, [chez l'artiste], 1926.
Candide de Voltaire, chez l'Artiste (imprimé chez Frazier-Soye et Haasen), 1928
Les Dieux ont soif de Anatole France, Éditions du Nord, 1928
Le Bon Plaisir d’Henri de Régnier, La Roseraie, 1929 : 20 eaux-fortes en couleurs et vingt bois gravés
La Troisième Jeunesse de madame Prune de Pierre Loti, Calmann-Levy, 1936
Les Romanesques ; Les Deux Pierrots ; La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan d’Edmond Rostand, éditions Pierre Laffitte, 1939 ; illustrations de Auguste Leroux...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Le Pays Reconquis
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Le Pays Reconquis
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size p...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ils Parlent de nNotre Emprunt
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Ils Parlent de Notre Emprunt
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Johns Hopkins Hospital
By Samuel Donovan Swann
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is an etching on wove paper by Samuel Donovan aka Don Swann (American, 1889-1954) created circa 1940. It is hand signed, titled, and numbered B....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sausages (The Last Supper), 1999
By Damien Hirst
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sausages is one of 13 screen prints included in Damien Hirst's 'The Last Supper' series from 1999. Signed 'Damien Hirst' lower right, framed in a contemporary, wood frame.
“I think ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
By Jules Pascin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
Plate dimensions 9" wide x 12" high
Frame dimensions 19.5" wide x 26.5" high
Plate signed
The etchi...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Soledad Acostada
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pencil signed lithograph by Costa Rican Master Francisco Zuniga (1921-1998)
Works by Zuniga are instantly recognizable. He is mostly known for his paintings of rural indigenous wome...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Patrick Nagel
Park South Gallery at Carnegie Hall
Serigraph, 1978
By Patrick Nagel
Located in San Rafael, CA
Park South Gallery at Carnegie Hall, 1978
Serigraph on 100% cotton archival grade heavyweight rag paper
Published by Mirage Editions, Santa Monica, signed in plate
Printed by Wasserm...
Category
1970s 85 New Wave Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Marshall - original photograph in classic archival artwork portfolio gift binder
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Marshall by Frank Schott
large scale photograph of iconic American vintage car with crimson red sheetmetal paint and custom logo tag
delivered in classic archival gift artwork portfo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Charles Banks Wilson "Old Injun" Pencil Signed Lithograph c.1948
By Charles Banks Wilson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charles Banks Wilson (American, 1918-2013) was an American artist. Born in Springdale, AK in 1918, he moved to Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood. He was a painter, printmaker, t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
RBG - Contemporary Print of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Orange+Black)
Located in Gilroy, CA
Edition 8 of 20 "RBG," is one of DC-based artist, Samantha Viotty's most recent illustrations. This piece is a tribute to the late supreme court powerh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
Together- Digital Illustration of Four Women Multicultural Green+Yellow+Pink
Located in Gilroy, CA
“Together” by Washington DC based emerging artist Samantha Viotty, pulls together ideals of identity, society, memory and culture. Viotty’s work has aged into being indicative of the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
Girl Puff- Portrait of Black Brown Woman / Queen (Blue+Black+Brown)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Girl Puff," is a digital illustration by DC based artist Samantha Viotty. This piece, created from a found image, creates a portrait of a figure without facial features to allow for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
Untitled (Bride of Frankenstein)
By Kerry James Marshall
Located in Berkeley, CA
Hardground Etching
Category
2010s Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Real - Digital Illustration Black/Brown Figure w/ Dreadlocks Teal + Orange Frame
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Real," is a digital illustration by DC-based artist Samantha Viotty. This piece, created from a found image, creates a portrait of a figure without facial features to allow for the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
George Cronias "Track Pals" Original Color Lithograph C.1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
George Cronias (1925-2004) "Track Pals" Original Color Lithograph C.1960
Track pals hanging out on a nice day at Santa Anita
Lithograph dimensions 17.75"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ture Bengtz "Family Scene" Original Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1940
By Ture Bengtz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ture Bengtz "Family Scene" Original Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1940
Lithograph dimensions 15.25" wide x 10.5" high
Frame dimensions 21.5" wide x 17" high
Pencil signed in the lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
RBG- Framed Contemporary Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsberg Supreme Court Judge
Located in Gilroy, CA
Edition 2 of 15 "RBG," is one of DC-based artist, Samantha Viotty's most recent illustrations. This piece is a tribute to the late supreme court powerhouse Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Viott...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital, Archival Paper
Carlo Lasinio "Ermina and the Wounded Tancredi" Original Etching C.1820
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carlo Lasinio "Ermina and the Wounded Tancredi" Original Etching C.1820
Remarkable early 19th century etching
Plate dimensions 14.75" wide 11.25" high
The frame measures 24.75" wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes Hand Colored Lithograph C.1837
Located in San Francisco, CA
War Dance Of The Sauks And Foxes Hand Colored Lithograph c.1837
Published by E.C. Biddle, Philadelphia.
Beautiful hand colored lithograph from the "History of the Indian Tribes of ...
Category
1830s Naturalistic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Love - Unframed Colorful Print of Women / Lesbian / Sisterhood / Women of Color
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Love" is one of DC-based artist Samantha Viotty's most recent illustrations. This work is part of a more extensive series that display the beauty, str...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
John Winkler "The Constitutional Convention" Original Signed Etching c.1932
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Winkler "The Constitutional Convention" Original Signed Etching c.1932
Plate dimensions 13.75" wide x 9.5" high
Paper dimensions 19.75" wide x 14....
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) "Fabian" Pencil Signed Etching c.1921
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) Pencil Signed Etching "Fabian" c.1921
Fine etching by noted artist Gerald Brockhurst.
Titled "Fabian" from an edition of 76.
This etching is in excel...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Congregate - Colorful Print of Womanhood / Sisterhood / Women of Color (Yellow)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Congregate," is one of DC-based artist, Samantha Viotty's most recent illustrations. This work is part of a larger series that display the beauty, str...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
From the Lips and Hoops Collection- Women Multicultural + Black + Purple + Brown
Located in Gilroy, CA
"From the Lips and Hoops Collection," is a digital illustration by DC based artist Samantha Viotty. This piece Viotty creates a conglomerate of females with red lips and gold hoops. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
Billie Coyne "Boulangerie Kiss" Original Signed Lithograph C.1995
By Billie Coyne 20th c
Located in San Francisco, CA
Billie Coyne "Boulangerie Kiss" Original Signed Lithograph C.1995
32" wide x 22" high
The frame measures 43.25" wide x 33.5" high
Numbered in the lower...
Category
Late 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Floch Mother and Child
By Joseph Floch
Located in San Francisco, CA
Joseph Floch: 1894-1977. Very well listed Austrian/New York artist. He has auction records over $280,000 for paintings, and over $2500 for a lithograph. This sweet lithograph measur...
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Saul Kovner "Bronx Park" Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Saul Kovner: 1904-1981. Well listed American artist. He was born in Russia, but studied and lived in NYC and California. This is a rare etching, as I can n...
Category
1930s American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Howard Willard "The Accordionist" Original Lithograph c.1931
Located in San Francisco, CA
Howard Willard "The Accordionist" Original Lithograph c.1931
Dimensions 9.25" wide x 13.5" high
The frame measures 14.25" wide x 18.25" high
Good ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano "Tete d
Infant" Lithograph c.1970
By Beniamino Bufano
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano (1898-1970) "Tete d' Infant" Lithograph c.1970
Fine signed lithograph by noted American artist Beniamino Bufano.
From a limited edition of 145.
Dimensio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mark Kostabi "Close Call" Original Serigraph c.1986
By Mark Kostabi
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mark Kostabi (American, b. 1960) "Close Call" Original Serigraph c.1986
Fine serigraph in three colors by listed artist.
The images here show the serigraph in a protective sheet.
...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Renaissance Man
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching, drypoint and spitbite aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le nid vert (The Green Nest), 1950
By Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
The bird is Georges Braque's calling card. When the 70-year-old artist was commissioned to create monumental decorations for the Louvre, he chose the bird as his subject. This winged animal appears again and again in his oeuvre, but its representation is noteworthy in this print. To those who would say that Braque is not a draftsman, Dora Vallier writes, "for [him], drawing is not a means of giving outward appearance to forms but of showing what lies within." Along the same lines, Braque himself says, "Forget things, only remember their relationship." These two statements encourage thoughtful viewing.
Coming back to its nest and hatched egg, a great black bird is hardly visible against the dark green of its home and the brown leaves behind. Rather than spend time on the details, Braque emphasizes the spatial arrangement of the scene. Everything is compressed down to one level; the curtain of heart-shaped leaves blends together as it falls toward the nest. Braque sees how the tree, nest and bird interrelate, and this entwined relationship is what he chooses to show.
Created circa 1950, this original color etching is hand-signed by Georges Braque (Argentueil, Val-d'Oise, 1882 - Paris, 1963) in pencil in the lower right margin and numbered 281/300 in pencil in the lower left margin. The edition was printed by Atelier Krommelinck, Paris on Rives paper, and published by Maeght, Paris.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Georges Braque The Green Nest (Le nid...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$6,500 Sale Price
23% Off
Patrick Nagel
Papillon Gallery
Serigraph, 1981
By Patrick Nagel
Located in San Rafael, CA
Papillon Gallery, 1981
Serigraph on 100% cotton archival grade heavyweight rag paper
Published by Mirage Editions, Santa Monica, signed in plate
Total tirage 1275 plus proofs (there ...
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
France World Cup Lithograph by Aldo Luongo c.1998
By Aldo Luongo
Located in San Francisco, CA
FRANCE World Cup Lithograph by Aldo Luongo c.1998
Limited edition France 98' World Cup - Official License
From a very limited edition of 300.
Pencil signed lower right. Edition 24/300 lower left.
This is a rare, very small edition lithograph for the 1998 Soccer World Cup...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Comus In a Drunken Stupor
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground and flatbite etching, spitbite and soapground aquatints, and unique inking.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Etude de femme (Study of a Woman), 1893
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Etude de Femme (Study of a Woman), 1893 is a lovely depiction of a nude subject delicately undressing at her bedside. She ap...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Diable en Enfer, 1972 (Le Decameron, Plate C)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Greenwich, CT
Le Diable en Enfer from Dalí's Le Décameron portfolio is a drypoint etching with color on paper, signed Dalí lower right and numbered 17/150 lower left. From the Swedish edition of 1...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Circus Series C
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Circus Series C" c.1990, is an original woodcut monoprint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 1/1...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint
Circus Series C
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Circus Series C" c.1990, is an original monoprint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 1/1 in penc...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint
Odyssetron I (From the suite of 5 lithographs)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Odyssetron I" 1982 is an original color lithograph by American PopArt artist Bryan Rogers, 1941-2013. It is hand signed and numbered 1/50 in pencil by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toothbrush Variant II
By Robert Bechtle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Bechtle was born in 1932 in San Francisco and raised in Alameda. He studied graphic design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, earning his BF...
Category
1960s Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Salt Bark
By Gordon Hope Grant
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Salt Bark" 1947, is an original lithograph on paper by noted naval American artist Gordon Hope Grant, 1875-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chess Game (15/100)
By Gustavo Montoya
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Mahatma Gandhi-like person is seating over a chess game and the reflection is seen on the individual’s reading glasses. This color lithograph by Mexican artist Gustavo Montoya was ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Constance Fletcher
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Constance Fletcher"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Susan B.
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "ISusan B."
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jenny Reefer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jenny Reefer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gertrude S.
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Gertrude S."
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jo the Loiterer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jo the Loiterer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Angel More
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: Angel More
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Poster for the film
Umbracle
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Joan Miró Poster for the film 'Umbracle,' 1973 is a lively work that was originally created as a movie poster for the film Umbracle, an experi...
Category
1970s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$9,000 Sale Price
25% Off
J.L. Stripes
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An iconic female Frohsin figure with red and white stripes and heavy hand coloring. Monotype EV Ed 4/4. Signed front in pencil by Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay Are...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pencil, Pigment
Beach Wall and Sun
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 5/7 with hand coloring. the plate (image) size is 8 x 15 inches the overall paper dimension is 17 x 23 inches. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working on monotype ev's...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype
Daytona
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
monotype ev ed 6/6 from 1996. The artist spend 12 years focused on monotype ev prints in very limited edition. Works from this series are all over the world and included in important...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype
$1,600
The Lord of Earthly Delights
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Lord of Earthly Delights" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Couple in the Fields, with a Cherub Crowned with Flowers (347 Series, B.1697)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Couple in the Fields, with a Cherub Crowned with Flowers" is an etching from Picasso's 347 Series, with an image size of 12.75 x 12.25 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and frame...
Category
20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Sub Culture
By Caroline Durieux
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sub Culture" c1972 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by noted New Orleans artist Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux, 1896-1989. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/10 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 17.75 x 13 inches, sheet size is 19.85 x 15 inches. It is in excellent condition, some hanging tape from previous framing remaining on the back.
About the artist:
As a Southern female satirist, Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux was a rare phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Today, she is highly regarded for her stinging lithographs that touch on human foibles as well as some of the important issues of her day. Born to a family of Creole descent in New Orleans, young Caroline was precocious; she began drawing at age four and completed a portfolio of watercolors depicting her city by the time she was twelve. She took lessons from Mary Butler, a member of the art faculty at Sophie Newcomb College, and, beginning in 1912, matriculated at the school full-time, where her instructors included Ellsworth Woodward, chair of the art department. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in design in 1916 and one in education in 1917. Awarded a scholarship by the New Orleans Art Association, Durieux pursued further coursework at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1918 to 1920. Years later, she was encouraged to try lithography by Carl Zigrosser, an expert curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who became her mentor.
With her husband Pierre Durieux—an importer of Latin American goods and later the chief representative of General Motors for South America—Caroline Durieux spent time in Cuba during the early 1920s. The couple moved in 1926 to Mexico City, where she met the great muralist Diego Rivera and became involved in the local art community. Following a short interval in New York City, Durieux went back to Mexico in 1931 and enrolled at the Academy of San Carlos (now the National University of Mexico) to study lithography.
She returned to New Orleans seven years later and was hired to teach at her alma mater, Newcomb College, from 1938 to 1943. Starting in 1939, Durieux served as the director of Louisiana’s Works Progress Administration program, and her division was the only one in the state not to practice racial discrimination. This was a matter she felt strongly about, stating: “I had a feeling that an artist is an artist and it doesn’t make any difference what color he or she is.” From 1943 until her retirement in 1964, Durieux was a member of the faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Durieux’s forte was lithography, a technique popular in the mid-nineteenth century and long associated with social commentary, and her prints proved no exception. Her work in the 1930s and 1940s coincided with a rise in art that dealt with poverty, racism, and totalitarianism. She often presented stereotyped social climbers...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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