Bernard Buffet

Women's Games : Ode en son Honneur - Original lithograph - 1970

1970

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Blue Eyes Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /199 copies On vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) Excellent condition

Bernard BUFFET (1928-1999) Women's Games : Spring, 1970 Original lithograph Unsigned On vellum 75 x 55 cm (c. 30 x 22") References : Bernard Buffet - Lithographe / Mourlot, ref. #...

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Blue Eyes Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /199 copies On vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) Excellent condition

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Woman with tall hat Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /199copies On vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 28 x 22 in) Excellent condition

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA La jeunesse, les trois graces Stone lithograph printed by MOURLOT Printed signature in the plate On paper 20 x 30...

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Reclining nude Original etching and aquatint Handsigned in pencil Limited /199 copies On vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in) Excellent condition

This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...

Lips in Perspective Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949) Date: 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250 Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)

Lithograph print signed by artist-- possibly Etienne--however, illegible. The print measures is 22 x 29; it is in fair/good condition, with slight discoloration around the edges.

Young Girl Posing Beneath Chandelier is an original hand drawn stone lithograph attributed to the American Pop artist Mel Ramos, printed by hand at Bank Street Atelier NYC (the New York branch of the renowned lithographic printshop Atelier Mourlot Paris, France) circa 1970 using opaque slate blue ink on Buff color ARCHES paper 100% acid free. Young Girl Posing Beneath Chandelier portrays a topless young girl, eyes closed, wearing a floppy hat, striking a pose on the lower portion of the composition with a silhouetted image of a chandelier positioned at the very top. Print size - 16.5 x 12 inches, Image size - 10 x 9.5 in., unframed, excellent condition, rare unsigned Printers Proof/trial proof from an unknown early edition, fine hand printed impression Historic Note on Bank Street Atelier - Bank Street Atelier was founded in 1969 by George J. Goodstadt (Fine Arts Publisher) along with Jacques Mourlot, third generation of the famous Mourlot print shop in Paris, France. Bank Street Atelier became one of the premier lithography print studios in NYC at that time and became a major graphic center, which attracted many of the Modern American Masters of the 1970’s, including Alexander Calder, Willem deKooning, Red Grooms, Al Hirschfeld, Ellsworth Kelly, Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Alex Katz and many more. The resulting prints were produced with the highest quality and earned a reputation in the art world for professionalism and excellence in lithographic printmaking. About the artist - Mel Ramos(1935 - 2018, California) Mel Ramos is an American Pop artist best known for his female nudes painted alongside brand logos. The artist’s coupling of women with familiar products like martini glasses and bananas serves as a commentary on the ways in which capitalism has employed the female body. “I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor,” he said of his work. “I make sure they are ‘in good taste.’ Either you understand it or not.” Born on July 24, 1935 in Sacramento, CA, Ramos like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, found inspiration through the comic books Wonder Woman and Superman growing up and later pinup posters...

A colorful erotic daydream drawing of a nude blonde fantasizing, with a redhead woman, and man. Green and purple patterns on hair and pillows, and art deco motifs, adorn this sensual...

PHILIP PEARLSTEIN Nude in New Mexico, 1984 Lithograph on art paper 31 3/5 × 40 3/4 inches Signed, titled, dated and numbered in graphite pencil from the limited edition of only 65. (48/65) Unframed Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1924. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine's 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg...