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Item Ships From: Manhattan
#1283 (Abstract Painting)
By Arvid Boecker
Located in London, GB
#1283 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed. Boecker begins each new work by penciling in his composition. But the work ultimately is about the colors and layers that will e...
Category

2010s Abstract Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Illustrated Set" by Terry Winters (Red, Blue, Expressionist, Abstract, Print)
By Terry Winters
Located in New York, NY
From his body of "Illustrated Set" work, this print by Terry Winters takes the printmaking process itself as subject. Winters became inspired by how his prints appeared before press,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Screen

Mumbo #10 - Black identity in contemporary art, Edouard Duval-Carrié
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’s Mumbo Jumbo series comes alive in this dynamic and visually arresting painting. The composition features swirling ribbons of orange and cream, fragmented fire hose m...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

New in Town, Intersections Series, Abstract Geometric Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Painting description: This is a new example of my ongoing series, "Intersections". My attempt to capture urban abstraction. Shapes and colors intersect and overlap. With the use of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Water in Love
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled, 20th century Oil on wood panel 23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Framed: 29 x 25 x 1 1/4 in. Signed lower left: A Smith Arthur Smith is a listed Ameri...
Category

20th Century Modern Manhattan - Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Rare Albright Knox museum poster (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator)
By Dan Flavin
Located in New York, NY
Dan Flavin Dan Flavin at Albright Knox Gallery (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator) Offset Lithograph. Hand signed and inscribed by Dan Flavin 18 × 22 inches Provenance: Estate of artist and collector Rick Collar Unframed Uniquely inscribed and hand signed 1972 Dan Flavin exhibition poster from his Albright Knox exhibition. Dan Flavin hand signs and inscribes it to Paulus Hendrik Hefting, the curator of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The inscription reads: "Best regards and best wishes to you especially in "diagrams and drawings". What Flavin is referring to is the important exhibition also in 1972, "Diagrams & Drawings" curated by Hefting, at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller (Netherlands), which featured Carl Andre, Christo, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Don Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson. An extremely rare signed poster with a unique inscription to a major European curator referencing an historic Minimalist exhibition in the early 1970s. We may not see the likes of something like this anytime soon! Dan Flavin Biography From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on the wall, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or “situations,” as he preferred to call them) of light and color. Through these light constructions, Flavin was able to establish and redefine space. Flavin’s first solo exhibitions were held at the Judson Gallery in 1961 and the Green Gallery in 1964, both in New York. His first European exhibition was in 1966 at Galerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne, Germany; and in 1969, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, organized his first major museum retrospective. His work was included in a number of key early exhibitions of Minimal art in the 1960s, among them Black, White, and Gray (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 1964); Primary Structures (The Jewish Museum, New York, 1966); and Minimal Art (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1968). Flavin’s work would continue to be presented internationally over the course of the pursuant decades at venues including the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri (1973); Kunsthalle Basel (1975); Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1975); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1986); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992), among others. A major museum retrospective devoted to Flavin’s work was organized, in cooperation with the Estate of Dan Flavin, by the Dia Art Foundation in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where it was first on view in 2004. The exhibition traveled from 2005 to 2007 to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Art

Materials

Pencil, Lithograph, Offset

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Suspenders Amidst the Cattails
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed in red, u.l. $6500.00 + $300.00 framing This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art mo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"My Hearts of the Ocean" Oil Painting on Board with White Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Thank You Tulips
By Natasha Martin
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Natasha Martin is an LA-based photographer who loves color and infusing dreamy-nostalgia into her work. She has created work for Prada, Miu Miu, and 24 Sèvres, and...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Lake 3 (kayak), post-impressionistic landscape drawing
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield finds the consummate marriage of medium and subject in her latest enchanted landscapes. She narrows her focus to lake scenes, creating an almost palindrome-like comp...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Synthetic Paper, Color Pencil

"Surfers Only", San Diego, CA, 2009
By Lynda Churilla
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 1. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Feng Li Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Sunset Memories"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Sunset Memories Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dina Brodsky, Tiny Yellow Bird, realist oil on mylar animal miniature, 2018
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist oil on mylar animal miniature, "Tiny Yellow," 2018, depicts a petit, black and yellow bird perched on a small branch. The bird's delicately textured black and ...
Category

2010s Realist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Mylar, Oil

I Feel You
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Shuang Liu Still Life Original Oil Painting "Have Some Fruits I"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Have Some Fruits I Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Hero, 2001 (Hand Signed by Marina Abramovic with Royal Academy label) Framed
By Marina Abramovic
Located in New York, NY
Marina Abramovic Offset lithograph poster The Hero, 2001 2023 Boldly signed in black marker on the image of the flag Bears Royal Academy authentication label on the back of the fram...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

4 x 4 x 4 portfolio by Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Mel Bochner, and Barry Le Va
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
Set of four screenprints by Mel Bochner, Barry LeVa, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Mangold. Sol Lewitt's tight crosshatching over teal, Mel Bochner's tessellated blue houses, Barry Le Va's...
Category

1990s Minimalist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Screen

"Winter Along the Creek" Post-Impressionist Countryside Scene Oil Painting Frame
Located in New York, NY
A joyous colorful countryside painting depicting a serene landscape, capturing a winter scene with trees, foliage, and a creek with vibrant and muted tones. The piece is done in a hi...
Category

Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Door
By Lucio Pozzi
Located in New York, NY
Door is a watercolor painting on Fabriano paper by Italian-born multidisciplinary artist Lucio Pozzi. It is currently housed at Hal Bromm Gallery.
Category

1980s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Blue Velvet
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Blue Sphere #429
By Bill Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

C Print

"The Rose Garden" Mid Century Oil Painting on Canvas Abstract Landscape Figure
By Robert Freiman
Located in New York, NY
An abstract Mid-Century piece with lighter color tones accentuated with the use of basic colors, blue, red and yellow. In this abstract composition we see a figure, tending to their ...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Helen Frankenthaler, Painter New York City, Photograph of Woman Artist in 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A documentary portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York in the 1950s. Frankenthaler has remained a major American woman artist and female force of nature ...
Category

1950s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Pop art contemporary friends sculptural figurative interior Painting
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand cut and hand painted artwork by Italian artist Riffblast. It’s signed on the back as an original work of art ready to hang with frame.
Category

2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Jim Dine Self Portrait in a Flat Cap (weeds) fourth state with plants flowers
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Self Portrait in a Flat Cap (weeds) fourth state 1974 Etching in black on Apta 501 paper plate 25.4 x 31.4 cm / 10 x 12⅜ in. paper 66.0 x 50.8 cm / 26 × 20 in. Edition 38 with 14 Artist's Proofs this copy an artist’s proof Published by Petersburg Press, New York; printed by Alan Uglow and Winston Roeth Signed, dated and annotated A/P below impression The fourth state of a series of modifications of Jim Dine’s self portrait...
Category

1970s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Etching

Passage Abstrait, Warm colorful Horse oil painting, abstract realism and texture
By Eric Robitaille
Located in Dallas, TX
"Passage Abstrait" is a contemporary large scale oil painting by Canadian artist Eric Robitaille depicting a racy, colorful and powerful horse. Created using a bold color palette, la...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Squares and Strokes (Ultra_16)" 2025, gouache on handmade paper, 28 x 20 in.
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Joanne Freeman Squares and Strokes (Ultra_16), 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in. image: 16 x 16 in. (freem241) My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in archi...
Category

2010s Abstract Manhattan - Art

Materials

Gouache, Handmade Paper

Exit Strategy - Abstract Landscape Oil Painting with Blue Colors
By Andrei Petrov
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's "Exit Strategy" is a 36 x 48-inch abstract landscape painting on canvas. The main colors are blue. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there. Petrov works...
Category

2010s Abstract Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"View from Meredith s" 2025 oil on canvas
By Sara MacCulloch
Located in New York, NY
Sara MacCulloch View from Meredith's, 2025 oil on canvas 40 x 40 in. (macc114)
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Riviera 3
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Beauty, elegance and fierce attitude defines Elena’s eye-catching work. She is known for her high impact colorful portraits. Her style is permeated with the passion f...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Shikai Guan Waterscape Original Oil On Canvas "Waves"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Waves Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23 x 31 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is u...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 37.25 x 71.5 inches (94.6 x 181.6 cm) $8,500 + $800 framing This work is off...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

0 (Zero), from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55) Limited Ed. FRAMED
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana 0, from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55), 1968 Color Silkscreen on Wove Paper Limited Edition of 2500 (unsigned) Frame included: Elegantly matted and fra...
Category

1960s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Screen

Sunset Desert Dance
By Otto Pilny
Located in New York, NY
Otto Pilny was a Swiss Orientalist painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Specializing in exoticized oil paintings of the Middle East, his work often features desert scenes...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract mixed media lithograph and relief by Spanish artist, Picasso friend S/N
By Antoni Clavé
Located in New York, NY
Antoni Clavé Untitled, from the Album International 2 Portfolio, 1977 Mixed media: Lithograph in relief 29 1/4 × 19 3/4 inches Edition 1/50 Signed and number on front Unframed This ...
Category

1970s Abstract Manhattan - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

Detour, A 12 x 12 Inch Painting Figurative Surreal Man Over Water with Life Buoy
Located in New York, NY
Dana DeKalb’s Detour (2025) is a 12 x 12 in. acrylic on canvas that highlights the artist’s unique approach to contemporary figurative painting. Known for her narrative art infused w...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Transcendental" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Oil Painting on Gallery Canvas
By Tara Bergey
Located in New York, NY
Tara's work draws upon the simplicity that is shared within a moment. Her brushwork is soft and raw leaving the viewer with implements of her imagination dashing across the canvas wi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper Signed and dated, recto This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category

2010s Realist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper

Pengfei Wu Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Breakfast Morning"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Breakfast Morning Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15.5 x 15.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Carlos Almaraz, Los Angeles Olympics lithograph Deluxe hand signed Edition w/COA
By Carlos Almaraz
Located in New York, NY
Carlos Almaraz Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee), 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper, accompanied by COA from Olympic Committee. Signed i...
Category

1980s Surrealist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Surfing Sunrise
By Ludwig Favre
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre recently road tripped to California. ...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

George Drittler, (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
British-born, New Jersey-based, George Drittler was primarily know for landscapes. In this still life that expansive approach serves him well. Richly drawn, with pottery, books and a...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Viola" Outline Bunny on Gradient Red Purple Background Oil Painting Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a bunny on an ombre red and purple resin and diamond dust background...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Glass, Resin, Oil, Wood Panel

New York City, Central Park, Night Photography, Twin Greek Temples (Dusk)
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg is a nod to photo secessionist Edward Steichen. The subject for the artist's night photography is a Central Park West building (th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Krustyland
By Ludwig Favre
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre recently road tripped to California. His pictures of California's iconic architecture and beaches carry the same romantic feel of a...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Massimo Listri: Venaria Reale XIV Torino
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIV Torino, 2018 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how hi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

C Print

ShiLian Liu Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Small Pond Under The Mountain"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Small Pond Under The Mountain Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Dreaming of Jackson Pollock" Abstract Oil Painting on Wood Panel Framed
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils, whisking brush strokes, and thrown paint, Shaoul captures a love story through her paint pallet and abstract expression. The artist explores something new...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel

Hakuin, Unique signed brass sculpture on plinth, ex GE corporate art collection
By William Crovello
Located in New York, NY
William Crovello Hakuin, 1984 Mirrored, reflective brass sculpture on plinth De-accessioned from the GE Corporate Art Collection Signed and dated Crovello '84 Measurements: 13 x 13-3...
Category

1980s Minimalist Manhattan - Art

Materials

Brass

Richard Pettibone The Appropriation Warhol, Stella, Lichtenstein, Unique Signed
By Richard Pettibone
Located in New York, NY
Richard Pettibone The Appropriation Print Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, 1970 Silkscreen in colors on masonite board (unique variant on sculpted board) Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated on the front (see close up image) Bespoke frame Included This example of Pettibone's iconic Appropriation Print is silkscreened on masonite board rather than paper, giving it a different background hue, and enabling it work to be framed so uniquely. The Appropriation print is one of the most coveted prints Pettibone ever created ; the regular edition is on a full sheet with white background; the present example was silkscreened on board, allowing it to be framed in 3-D. While we do not know how many examples of this graphic work Pettibone created, so far the present work is the only one example we have ever seen on the public market since 1970. (Other editions of The Appropriation Print have been printed on vellum, wove paper and pink and yellow paper.) This 1970 homage to Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Roy Lichtenstein exemplifies the type of artistic appropriation he was engaging in early on during the height of the Pop Art movement - long before more contemporary artists like Deborah Kass, Louise Lawler, etc. followed suit. This silkscreen was in its original 1970 vintage period frame; a bespoke custom hand cut black wood outer frame was subsequently created especially to house the work, giving it a distinctive sculptural aesthetic. Measurements: Framed 14.5 inches vertical by 18 inches horizontal by 2 inches Work 13 inches vertical by 16.5 inches horizontal Richard Pettibone biography: Richard Pettibone (American, b.1938) is one of the pioneering artists to use appropriation techniques. Pettibone was born in Los Angeles, and first worked with shadow boxes and assemblages, illustrating his interest in craft, construction, and working in miniature scales. In 1964, he created the first of his appropriated pieces, two tiny painted “replicas” of the iconic Campbell’s soup cans by Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). By 1965, he had created several “replicas” of paintings by American artists, such as Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), Ed Ruscha (b.1937), and others, among them some of the biggest names in Pop Art. Pettibone chose to recreate the work of leading avant-garde artists whose careers were often centered on themes of replication themselves, further lending irony to his work. Pettibone also created both miniature and life-sized sculptural works, including an exact copy of Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968), and in the 1980s, an entire series of sculptures of varying sizes replicating the most famous works of Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876–1957). In more recent years, Pettibone has created paintings based on the covers of poetry books by Ezra Pound, as well as sculptures drawn from the grid compositions of Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944). Pettibone straddles the lines of appropriation, Pop, and Conceptual Art, and has received critical attention for decades for the important questions his work raises about authorship, craftsmanship, and the original in art. His work has been exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Pettibone is currently based in New York. "I wished I had stuck with the idea of just painting the same painting like the soup can and never painting another painting. When someone wanted one, you would just do another one. Does anybody do that now?" Andy Warhol, 1981 Since the mid-1960s, Richard Pettibone has been making hand-painted, small-scale copies of works by other artists — a practice due to which he is best known as a precursor of appropriation art — and for a decade now, he has been revisiting subjects from across his career. In his latest exhibitions at Castelli Gallery, Pettibone has been showing more of the “same” paintings that had already been part of his 2005–6 museum retrospective,1 and also including “new” subject matter drawn from his usual roster of European modernists and American postwar artists. Art critic Kim Levin laid out some phases of the intricate spectrum from copies to repetitions in her review of the Warhol-de Chirico showdown, a joint exhibition at the heyday of appropriation art in the mid-1980s when Warhol’s appropriations of de Chirico’s work effectively revaluated “the grand old auto-appropriator”. Upon having counted well over a dozen Disquieting Muses by de Chirico, Levin speculated: “Maybe he kept doing them because no one got the point. Maybe he needed the money. Maybe he meant it when he said his technique had improved, and traditional skills were what mattered.” On the other side, Warhol, in her eyes, was the “latter-day exemplar of museless creativity”. To Pettibone, traditional skills certainly still matter, as he practices his contemporary version of museless creativity. He paints the same painting again and again, no matter whether anybody shows an interest in it or not. His work, of course, takes place well outside the historical framework of what Levin aptly referred to as the “modern/postmodern wrestling match”, but neither was this exactly his match to begin with. Pettibone is one of appropriation art’s trailblazers, but his diverse selection of sources removes from his work the critique of the modernist myth of originality most commonly associated with appropriation art in a narrow sense, as we see, for example, in Sherrie Levine’s practice of re-photographing the work of Walker Evans and Edward Weston. In particular, during his photorealist phase of the 1970s, Pettibone’s sources ranged widely across several art-historical periods. His appropriations of the 1980s and 1990s spanned from Picasso etchings and Brancusi sculptures to Shaker furniture and even included Ezra Pound’s poetry. Pettibone has professed outright admiration for his source artists, whose work he shrinks and tweaks to comic effect but, nevertheless, always treats with reverence and care. His response to these artists is primarily on an aesthetic level, owing much to the fact that his process relies on photographs. By the same token, the aesthetic that attracts him is a graphic one that lends itself to reproduction. Painstakingly copying other artists’ work by hand has been a way of making it his own, yet each source is acknowledged in his titles and, occasionally, in captions on white margins that he leaves around the image as an indication that the actual source is a photographic image. The enjoyment he receives in copying is part of the motivation behind doing it, as is the pleasure he receives from actually being with the finished painting — a considerable private dimension of his work. His copies are “handmade readymades” that he meticulously paints in great quantities in his studio upstate in New York; the commitment to manual labor and the time spent at material production has become an increasingly important dimension of his recent work. Pettibone operates at some remove from the contemporary art scene, not only by staying put geographically, but also by refusing to recoup the simulated lack of originality through the creation of a public persona. In so doing, Pettibone takes a real risk. He places himself in opposition to conceptualism, and he is apprehensive of an understanding of art as the mere illustration of an idea. His reading of Marcel Duchamp’s works as beautiful is revealing about Pettibone’s priorities in this respect. When Pettibone, for aesthetic pleasure, paints Duchamp’s Poster for the Third French Chess...
Category

1970s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Masonite, Pencil, Screen

Portraits: Yvonne
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chalk or charcoal on brown paper, th...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Etching

Bobby Lying in Bed
By James Bidgood
Located in New York, NY
Bobby Lying in Bed from “Pink Narcissus” (Bobby Kendall), late 1960s/2022 Estate stamped and numbered on label, verso Digital C-print 15 x 15 inches, image (Edition of 25) $2,000 ...
Category

1960s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

C Print

Guojun Zhang Floral Original Oil On Canvas "Flower Scenery"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Flower Scenery Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 38 x 38 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Ci...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jim Dine New York SIGNED poster "Gilbert and Sullivan" hand painted pink copper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This radiant purple pink poster was designed by Jim Dine for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan at New York City Center in 1968. The stripe down...
Category

1960s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Gouache, Offset

Tianliang Cheng Abstract Original Oil On Canvas "Rhythm"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Rhythm Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 30 x 21 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pop art contemporary alice blue yellow sculptural figurative interior Painting
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand cut and hand painted artwork by Italian artist Riffblast. It’s signed on the back as an original work of art ready to hang with frame.
Category

2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Basquiat Skate Deck 2021 (Basquiat skateboard deck)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Skateboard Deck: Highly decorative & collectible, limited edition Jean-Michel Basquiat Skateboard Deck licensed by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat in conjunc...
Category

2010s Abstract Manhattan - Art

Materials

Wood, Offset

Xiang Niu Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Cloud Scenery"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Cloud Scenery Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 31 x 31 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paint...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Equilibres
By Peter Fischli David Weiss
Located in New York, NY
Peter Fischli / David Weiss Equilibres 1984–85/2006 Limited-edition book with photograph in linen-bound portfolio Photograph: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 31 x 23 cm Book: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 7/8 inches; 24 x 20 x 2 cm Portfolio: 15 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches; 38 x 29 x 4 cm Edition of 60 Photograph signed and numbered in ink (lower verso) Book signed and numbered in graphite on title page For Equilibres, the well-known series of photographs from the mid-1980s, Peter Fischli and David Weiss balanced everyday household items on top of each other in an absurd equilibrium. The Equilibres photographs anticipate Fischli and Weiss...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Art

Materials

Linen, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

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