Esther Grillo Art

Initialled signed in pencil From R. B. Kitaj, In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part, screenprint 1969 edition of 150 photo screenprint. A cover of the infamous Henry Ford book from the Dearborn Independent "The Jewish Question". Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, published by Marlborough AG, Schellenberg, Florida. The Jewish Museum. a cover related to Russian Soviet cinema and film. Stylistically, these are hybrid works, influenced by Pop art and the modernist tradition of the Readymade, a work of art created when a mundane found object is named as an artwork and set in an art context. This avant-garde concept was originally invented by the Dada master Marcel Duchamp early in the twentieth century. In the 1960s it received renewed attention at a time when artistic norms were again being questioned. Reacting to Andy Warhol’s Pop imagery, Kitaj poignantly called his repurposed book covers “his soup can, his Liz Taylor.” The blatant use of images taken directly from commercial sources situates In Our Time as a precursor of appropriation art. In turning book covers into works of art, Kitaj is offering fragments of a history of knowledge, in which the content of each volume is at once mysterious and absent. Coming from this passionate bibliophile, the series is nothing less than an intellectual self-portrait. R.B. Kitaj, in full Ronald Brooks Kitaj . Ron Kitaj...

Joe Tilson Mnemonic Device, 1975 Silkscreen with hand coloring on Thin Bamboo Wood Sheet 21 1/4 × 19 1/2 inches Edition 96/100 Hand signed and numbered from an edition of 100 on rect...

Artist Name: Lowell Nesbitt Year: 1979 Medium Type: Screen print, on Arches ar incheschival paper   Size-Width | Size-Height:  24'' x 31½" Signed | Edition Size: Signed in pencil, dated and marked | 132/175 Unframed in Very Good Condition. Experience the mastery of Lowell Nesbitt, an eminent figure in American realism, through his exquisite signed limited edition art silkscreen titled "10 Lemons," created in 1979. Hailing from Baltimore, Nesbitt's artistic journey began in Washington during the late 1950s, where he devoted himself to the art of painting. His works, including paintings, prints, and drawings, have found their place in prestigious public and private collections worldwide. Nesbitt's talent has been showcased in renowned institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art...

Paula Scher Summer, ca. 1987 Silkscreen in Colors on Rives BFK Paper. 36 × 29 3/5 inches Edition 81/190 Signed in graphite lower right margin front; numbered in graphite lower left m...

Corita Kent (American, 1918 - 1986)"We Can Create Life without War" Corita Billboard Peace Project Poster 1985 Corita Billboard Event - Part of Peace Week, January 17-24, 1985 San Lu...

Alex Katz Day Lilies (Hand Signed and Inscribed by Alex Katz), 1992 Silkscreen on wove paper Boldly signed, inscribed and dated on the lower, right front in black marker by Alex Katz...

Lowell Nesbitt Rust Iris - 1979 Screen print on Arches archival paper    29'' x 29'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 151/175 Lowell Nesbitt emerged as one of the ...

Artist: Donald Sultan (1951) Title: Red Poppies Year: 2012 Medium: Silkscreen with Tar & Flocking on Museum Board Edition: 1/75, plus proofs Size: 23 x 39 inches Condition: Excellent...

Artist: Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Title: Campbell's Soup II, Cheddar Cheese (F&S II.63) Year: 1969 Edition: 250, plus 26 proofs Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 35 x 23 inches Co...

Based on Rosenquist’s 1961 grisaille oil painting Flower Garden, this work arranges a still life using an advertisement for gloves with part of an athlete’s torso. A number 1 can be ...

Roy Lichtenstein Before the Mirror, from Mirror of the Mind, 1975 poignantly encapsulates the artists ability to engage with referential pop-culture symbols while interweaving art hi...

"She fled along the avenue" is from the series "Some poems by Jules Laforgue". Patrick Caulfied was deeply inspired by these poems and found to his very own depiction of these poems....