Billy Al Bengston Prints and Multiples
American, b. 1934
Based in Venice, California, Billy Al Bengston burst onto the scene in the 1950s with his passion for motorcycle racing and art. Bengston was discharged from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1955 for depleting the clay supply. Following this exit, he enrolled at the Otis Art Institute to study under Peter Voulkos whom he later named as a significant influence, along with Richard Diebenkorn. Bengston found immediate success in the Los Angeles art scene, enjoying multiple solo shows at Ferus Gallery and a 1968 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His artistic output, mainly sculpture and painting, is informed by a variety of influences that range from his love of motorcycles and car-detailing techniques to recurring geometric shapes similar to those of Jasper Johns. Art historian Andrew Perchuck included Bengston among the "West Coast artists, including Robert Irwin and Ken Price, who were instrumental in redefining the terms of artistic identity in the early 60s by insisting that sub-cultural affinities and leisure-time activities (surfing, car customizing) were at the foundation of their artistic personas."(Biography provided by Antonio's Bella Casa)
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Artist: Billy Al Bengston
Cockatoo AAA Dracula, Mixed media & lithograph, hand signed, 20/20, artist label
By Billy Al Bengston
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston
Cockatoo AAA Dracula, 1968
Lithograph , Zinc and Aluminum, in Silver-Violet, Yellow, Two Grays and Orange on uncalendered Rives paper
Frame included
signed faintly ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Billy Al Bengston Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Pencil, Lithograph
Untitled
By Billy Al Bengston
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Billy Al Bengston – American (1934-2022)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1990
Medium: Lithograph, silkscreen on Arches paper
Sight size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches.
Sheet size: 24 x 30 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right
Publisher: Cirrus Editions, Ltd., Los Angeles, CA
Edition: 250 This one: 120/250
Condition: Excellent
This print is by Billy Al Bengston. It depicts what looks like a coyote staring out at the horizon on a full moon night. This print was created at the same time Bengston was creating his Moon paintings. The print has dark colors. As a result, my photographs are imperfect; they have a bit of glare. The print is in excellent condition. It is attached by two hinges to a matboard measuring 26 x 32 inches and has a Plexiglas frame. The frame is in fair condition with some light scratches.
Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's "Kustom" car and motorcycle culture. He pioneered the use of sprayed layers of automobile lacquer in fine art and often used colors that were psychedelic and shapes that were mandala-like. ARTnews referred to Bengston as a "giant of Los Angeles's postwar art scene."
Early life and education
Bengston was born in Dodge City, Kansas, on June 7, 1934. His family relocated to Los Angeles in 1948. He attended Los Angeles City College in 1952. Subsequently, he studied painting under Richard Diebenkorn and Saburo Hasegawa at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, California, in 1955 and returned to Los Angeles to study at Otis Art Institute in 1956.
Career
Bengston began showing with the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (founded and run by Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz, and later Irving Blum), having five shows between 1958 and 1963. As a fixture at the gallery, he was among a cohort of artists that included Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell, Kenneth Price, Ed Moses, and Robert Irwin. (The gallery closed in 1966.) In a 2018 article in Vanity Fair, Bengston recalled that he and Irwin hung the 32 pieces in Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup-can paintings show at Ferus in 1962. He notably described the atmosphere of Ferus as a "macho intellectual gang bang".
After seeing the work of Jasper Johns at the 1958 Venice Biennale he adopted the motif of a set of sergeant's stripes. This recurring chevron image was painted with industrial materials and techniques associated with the decoration of motorcycle fuel tanks and surfboards. According to Grace Glueck of The New York Times, Bengston "was among the first to ditch traditional oil paint on canvas, opting instead for sprayed layers of automobile lacquer on aluminum in soft colors, achieving a highly reflective, translucent surface."
Bengston encouraged viewers in the early 1960s to associate his art with motorcycle subculture; on the cover of a 1961 catalogue for a Ferus show, he was seen straddling a motorcycle. (He also competed in motocross competitions.) "When I painted these motorcycle paintings...
Category
1990s Pop Art Billy Al Bengston Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Paper
Turkey Dracula mixed media lithograph and watercolor by California Pop legend
By Billy Al Bengston
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston
Turkey Dracula, 1973
Color lithograph with hand coloring and watercolor (unique variant) on Lanaquaralle paper with deckled edges
Hand signed and numbered A.P. #6, aside from the regular edition of 24 on the front, with the printer's blind stamp
Frame Included: held in original vintage frame
Mixed media Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor (unique variant)
Hand signed and numbered A.P. #6 (of 10), aside from the regular edition of 24 on the front, with the printer's blind stamp
(Flower)
Publisher: Published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. (New York)
Printer: Printed by Ed Hamilton (American, born 1941) at Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles (with blind stamp)
Measurements:
Frame:
25.25 x 25.25 inches
Print:
23 x 23 inches
About Billy Al Bengston:
Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934, Dodge City, Kansas, d. 2022, Venice Beach) moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. He studied painting under Richard Diebenkorn at California College of Arts, Oakland, California. In 1957, Bengston began showing with the legendary Ferus Gallery (founded and run by Walter Hopps...
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1970s Pop Art Billy Al Bengston Prints and Multiples
Materials
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"Exposition Especial Seragraphique, Lithographique, Tapestray"
By Billy Al Bengston
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston
"Exposition Especial Seragraphique, Lithographique, Tapestray, Peintore en Suite, Uno-Types"
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1971
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Etching and aquatint with dog and airplane, signed/n by California Pop Art star
By Billy Al Bengston
Located in New York, NY
BILLY AL BENGSTON
Untitled, from the In Barcelona Portfolio, 1988
Etching with aquatint on Rives BFK paper
22 × 30 inches
Signed, dated and numbered 29/75 in graphite pencil on the front
Published by: Poligrafia Obra Grafica SL, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract etching with aquatint containing the silhouette of a dog and an airplane contrasted with a highly textured background, by renowned West Coast based American artist Billy Al Bengston. Published by Poligrafia Obra Grafica, SL in Barcelona, Spain
Billy Al Bengston was memorialized in the New York Times as the artist who epitomized California Cool. Billy Al Bengston was born in 1934 in Dodge City, Kansas and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. He studied painting under Richard Diebenkorn at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. In 1957, Bengston began showing with the Ferus Gallery (founded and run by Walter Hopps...
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1980s Pop Art Billy Al Bengston Prints and Multiples
Materials
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