Arnaldo Pomodoro

Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction

1968

Anne Youkeles Gemini, ca. 1969 Three-dimensional silkscreen on folded sheets of thin card Hand-signed by artist in pencil, titled and annotated Artist's Proof I from the edition of 1...

Sanford Biggers Untitled, for the Cue Art Foundation, 2011 Silkscreen on paper Frame included Edition 10/35 Signed and numbered on the front Framed Mea...

Shusaku Arakawa A Man Walking, 1968 Silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) 29 4/5 × 21 4/5 inches Edition of 100 Hand signed and numbered from the edition of 100 on the recto Another rarely seen, richly colored mid century silkscreen by Arakawa, whose estate is represented by Gagosian Gallery. This work has only appeared a handful of times at public auction over the past half century. Shusaku Arakawa (荒川 修作 Arakawa Shūsaku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) who spoke of himself as an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of the distant future,” first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa’s early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport and over time formed a close friendship. He started using diagrams within his paintings as philosophical propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and Hans-Georg Gadamer has described it as transforming “the usual constancies of orientation into a strange, enticing game—a game of continually thinking out.” Quoting Paul Celan, Gadamer also wrote of the work: "There are songs to sing beyond the human." Arthur Danto has found Arakawa to be “the most philosophical of contemporary artists." For his part, Arakawa has declared: “Painting is only an exercise, never more than that.” Arakawa and Madeline Gins...

Burton Wasserman Geometric Abstraction, 1977-1978 Silkscreen on wove paper Hand signed, dated and annotated on the front 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches Unique ...

Doug Ohlson Untitled geometric abstraction, 1968 Color silkscreen on wove paper Hand signed, dated and numbered 15/50 on the front This dazzling 1960s Op Art/Geometric Abstraction si...

Tony Jannetti Second Emergence, Perfect Pattern Of Life, 1971 Silkscreen on wove paper with deckled edges Pencil signed, titled, dated and numbered 22/35 on...

Cooperative Kinetics #3, 2016. Custom float framed in a white shadow box frame. Hand pulled embossed serigraph monoprint on Arches Platine 310 gram paper. Blue, yellow, orange, black...

Cooperative Kinetics #14, 2016. Hand pulled embossed serigraph monoprint on Arches Platine 310 gram paper. Orange, blue, black and white. Non Objective, abstract, unique. Print size ...

Cooperative Kinetics #12, 2016, embossed serigraph monoprint on Rives 280 gram paper. Orange, green, black, gray and white. Non Objective, abstract, unique. Print size is 29.5" x 41.5"

Cooperative Kinetics #4, 2016. Custom float framed in a white shadow box frame. Hand pulled embossed serigraph monoprint on Arches Platine 310 gram paper. Blue, yellow, orange, black...

Cooperative Kinetics #9, 2016. Hand pulled embossed serigraph monoprint on Arches Platine 310 gram paper. Orange, green, black and white. Non Objective, abstract, unique. Print size ...

Cooperative Kinetics #17, 2016. Hand pulled embossed serigraph monoprint on Rives 270 gram paper. Orange, blue, black and white. Non Objective, abstract, unique. Print size is 16" x 16"