1980s Prints and Multiples

Karl Alexander Gerich (English, 23.4.1956 - 4.1.2016) Pollonaise No. 24, 1988 - Etching - Sheet ca. 27.8 X 42 cm - No plate mark - Varnished ('Glossy Antique French') Finished, coloured, backed and varnished print likely to be a spare sheet (over production), which were never used. Possibly at some later stage, Karl experimented by partially painting the back with divering number of layers of pink. Held up as finished cards the pink would then shine through the varnished card. By holding up the sheet, this effect can be observed in areas with and without the pink backing. Sheets is in good condition and suitable to be framed. Karl was a brilliant playing card maker and certainly one of the most genius artist-craftsmen I had the pleasure to learn about his work and know. He could do it all: Come up with the tale, weave meaning(s) into it, fill it with spirited characters of his liking, draw it, etch it, print it, colour it and handcraft the inks, paper and card into wondersome packs of playing cards, each of them living in their own, most exquisitely crafted boxes. Every pack a magical marvel, filled with the spirit of this genius card maker … All this he did using his Adana printing press, very simple hand tools and great skill. When Karl closed down his studio in St.Peter’s Terrace in Bath, England and moved to Poplar Close, he sold off work for which he felt he no longer wanted to be the custodian. So a number of prints reached the market then. Printed sheets by Karl Gerich...

Screenprint in colors with Diamond Dust Signed in graphite "Andy Warhol"

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Vintage Lobby Card #8 Original Star Wars lobby card of Han Solo and C3P0 Framing options available: Black, brown, white and perspex Condit...

Screen Print in colors on Museum Board, Edition of 100 Signed and Dated Provenance: Artist Studio Private Collection. CA Private Collection, NY

Sam Gilliam Buoy Landscape IV, 1982 Color relief print, etching, screenprint, drypoint, aquatint and roulette all from deeply etched copper plates, on handmade wove paper 31 1/2 × 24 inches Hand signed and numbered 3/25 in graphite pencil Hand-signed by artist, Signed by artist, numbered, and dated in pencil and blind-stamped by printer-publisher on lower right, titled in pencil on lower left, recto Unframed with elegant deckled edges Rare vintage intaglio and relief, all from deeply etched copper plates. Other works from this series are in the permanent collections of major museums & institutions like the Smithsonian, so they are quite scarce on the open market. Steven M. Andersen (Printer) Philip Barber (Printer) Hang Nguyen (Printer) Stephanie Nowack (Printer) Michael Reid (Printer) Daniel Rounds (Printer) Vermillion Editions Limited (Publisher) Sam Gilliam Biography: Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation was the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials. In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, Sam Gilliam was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings opened at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson...

Screen Print in colors on Museum Board, Edition of 100 Signed and Dated Provenance: Artist Studio Private Collection, CA Private Collection, NY

Paper Size: 39 x 27.5 inches ( 99.06 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 26.5 x 26.5 inches ( 67.31 x 67.31 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addition...

Original 1989 Keith Haring, Ignorance = Fear Silence = Death poster: On behalf of the New York-based AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Keith Haring design...

Paper Size: 34 x 24 inches ( 86.36 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 22.5 x 22.5 inches ( 57.15 x 57.15 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Supple...

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Vintage Lobby Card #14 Original Star Wars lobby card of Storm Troopers on the death star Framing options available: Black, brown, white and ...

Keith Haring Rain Dance 1985: RARE original 1980s Keith Haring illustrated poster announcement for a legendary Keith Haring UNICEF benefit party at Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage in 1985. An event organized & curated by Keith Haring; with cohosts including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein & more. A event organized by Haring on behalf of UNICEF’s African Emergency Relief Fund. Beautifully combines Haring’s trademark kinetic figures set amidst a standout blue and black color-way. Rare. Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. 1985. Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches (folded open). Fair overall vintage condition. Minor wear to center fold-line; minor separation to the mid far-left edge; surface loss lower left. Otherwise well-preserved. Printed signature, ‘Keith Haring 1985’ on lower right from a scarce edition of unknown. Looks fantastic framed. More on Keith Haring Rain Dance: Curated and organized by Keith Haring, Rain Dance was a 1985 benefit for UNICEF’s African Emergency Relief Fund. Participating artists famously included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Levan, Fred Brathwaite, Christo, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Crash, Futura 2000, Jenny Holzer, John Lennon, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Robert Morris, Yoko Ono, Lee Quiñones, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Andy Warhol. _ Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990), a Neo-Pop and Graffiti artist, had a short but prolific career centered on a vision to unite “high art,” urban aesthetics, and public spaces using humorous, irreverent, and poignant works. Born in Pennsylvania, Haring attended the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh for two years, planning to become a commercial artist. He found this path unsatisfying, and instead chose to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he met fellow artists Jean Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf. Haring immersed himself in the culture of the city’s streets and clubs, and, in 1980, began covering the blank billboards on subway station walls with his Subway drawings in chalk. Haring’s bold public art attracted the attention of several galleries, and, by the early 1980s, he was painting Neo-Pop works and large murals full time. In an effort to make his art widely accessible, Haring opened the Pop Shop in 1986 in downtown New York, selling commercial items adorned with his signature, cartoonish imagery. Haring combined graffiti, hip-hop, and urban aesthetics, frequently depicting animals, figures, commercial icons, sexual imagery, and childlike motifs in pieces that were both playful and concerned with social issues. His work became increasingly confrontational following his 1987 diagnosis of AIDS. Haring resolved to work harder than ever in his remaining years, creating pieces with a fervent speed and devoting his art to social action in addition to his personal expression. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose goal is to promote art programs and public spaces for children, and to raise awareness about AIDS. Haring died on February 16, 1990 in New York at the age of 31. In addition to hundreds of exhibitions held during his lifetime, Haring has been the subject of numerous retrospectives in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Berlin since his death. Related Categories: Keith Haring posters. Keith Haring activist poster. Keith Haring Dancers. Street art. Graffiti. 1980s. Keith Haring Larry Levan. Keith Haring Paradise Garage...

Medium: original serigraph. Printed in 1982 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 250, dedicated in homage to Aime and Marguerite Maeght) and published in Paris by the M...

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Vintage Lobby Card #10 Original Star Wars lobby card of Darth Vader walking through Hoth base Framing options available: Black, brown, whit...

James Bond The Spy Who Loved me - Original 1977 Lobby Card #7 Vintage 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me lobby card of 007's car crashing into the water with a helicopter in pursuit Framin...

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Original 1980 Lobby Card Features Luke Skywalker on his Tauntaun wihilst on the ice world of Hoth. Vintage 1980s Star Wars Lobby Card: After t...

April Gornik Remember the Sabbath Day (The Fourth Commandment), 1987 2 Color Lithograph on Dieu Donne handmade paper with deckled edges 24 × 18 inches Signed and numbered AP 12/15, a...

Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...

Paper Size: 36 x 24 inches ( 91.44 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 30 x 24 inches ( 76.2 x 60.96 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Supplementa...

Paper Size: 39 x 27 inches ( 99.06 x 68.58 cm ) Image Size: 23.5 x 23.5 inches ( 59.69 x 59.69 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shipping and Ha...

Paper Size: 39.5 x 26.75 inches ( 100.33 x 67.945 cm ) Image Size: 39.5 x 26.75 inches ( 100.33 x 67.945 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addit...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approximately Eugenio ...

Paper Size: 19.5 x 27.5 inches ( 49.53 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 15.75 x 21.75 inches ( 40.005 x 55.245 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shippin...

Light in Darkness is a lithograph print on paper realized by Pietro Pizzicinnella in 1983 and Dedicated to Marisa Busanel. Good conditions with aged margins. The artwork is represe...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint with metal foil Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approxi...

Eduardo Arranz-Bravo - CASA AZUL Y BLANCA (BLUE AND WHITE HOUSE) Date of creation: 1988 Medium: Lithograph on paper Edition: 75 Size: 56 x 75 cm Condition: In perfect conditions and ...

A colorful abstract incorporating successive portraits of the Statue of Liberty by American artist, Loretta Bozung. A signed and numbered silkscreen from the Liberty portfolio. Libe...

Raymond Pettibon My Struggle for Life After Death 1982 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 1982 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine titled incl...

"Femme Assise Devant sa Fenetre" - Lithograph on Arches Paper “Femme Assise Devant sa Fenetre” by Pablo Picasso depicts a multicolored cubist portrait of a woman sitting in a rockin...

A colorful OP Art silkscreen by Poland-born American OP Artist, Julian Stanczak. Artist: Julian Stanczak, American (1928 - 2017) Title: Compounded Red Year: 1981 Medium: Screenpri...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approximately Eugenio ...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint with metal foil Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approxi...

Original vintage Soviet Cold War era poster - Мир Индиискому Океану! Peace to the Indian Ocean - featuring an illustration of a large blue wave about to engulf a black and white imag...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approximately Eugenio ...

Vintage gallery exhibition poster. Bright vivid red and bold yellow. The Galerie Maeght is a gallery of modern art in Paris, France, and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The gallery was...

This listing includes two works by Shinsuke Notomi: a book and print. The book was produced in a limited edition as part of Shinsuke Notomi’s 1982 exhibit “Light”. In 1979 Notomi tr...

Genre: Modern, Modernist Subject: Abstract Medium: Print, Aquatint Hand signed dated 1988, limited edition Surface: Paper Country: Italy Dimensions: 26" x 20" approximately Eugenio ...

Paper Size: 31.5 x 22.5 inches ( 80.01 x 57.15 cm ) Image Size: 31.5 x 22.5 inches ( 80.01 x 57.15 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Su...

Paper Size: 20 x 16 inches ( 50.8 x 40.64 cm ) Image Size: 8 x 9.75 inches ( 20.32 x 24.765 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Supplemen...

Artist: Gene Davis Title: Royal Curtain Medium: Screenprint on Arches paper Date: 1980 Edition: 181/250 Frame Size: 35" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21 3/4" Signature: Signed and ...

Paper Size: 25.25 x 24 inches ( 64.135 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 25.25 x 24 inches ( 64.135 x 60.96 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Su...

Paper Size: 16 x 13 inches ( 40.64 x 33.02 cm ) Image Size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches ( 16.51 x 12.065 cm ) Framed: Yes Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Framed in and matted in a...

Etching and aquatint, 1989 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 30/99 Publisher : Poligrafia (Barcelone) Printer : Poligrafia (Barcelone) Catalog : Agerup 342 76.00 cm. x ...

Yang Mingyi (Chinese, b. 1943) Passing Through at Winding Gates by Moonlight, 1980 Lithograph Sight: 19 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. Framed: 22 5/8 x 22 1/4 x 3/4 in. Signed, dated, inscribed, a...

JACOB LAWRENCE THE BUILDERS 1985 Commemorative Poster - National Urban League 75th Anniversary 1910-1985, original 1985 printing Poster size - 35.25 x 23 inches, unframed, unsigned ...

Eduardo Arranz-Bravo - Casa negra (Black House) Date of creation: 1988 Medium: Lithograph on paper Edition: 75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In perfect conditions and never framed Obse...

Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg. While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting. Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked. Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium. Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print. There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...

Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) Untitled, c. 1980 Silkscreen print Sight: 33 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 52 x 29 1/8 x 1 in. Signed lower right Inscribed verso Yaacov Agam was born Yaac...

Raymond Pettibon Short Teats Bloody Milk 1985 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 1985 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine titled, Short Teats,...

Renee Gaylin Ritter (American, b. 1935) 1. Untitled, 1974 Print (lithograph?) Sight: 16 x 20 in. Framed: 21.25 x 25 x 1 in. Signed and dated lower right 2. Untitled, c. 1970s Print...

Stephen Frailey Explanation, 1989 Ektacolor print on board 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. Edition 1/3 Provenance: Lieberman & Saul Stephen studied at the San Francisco Art Institute...

Agnes Mills (American, 1915-2008) Guignol Intermezzo, 1982 Hand colored etching (UNIQUE) Sight: 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 x 3/4 in. Titled lower right Inscribed "AP" bo...

Stephen Frailey Untitled (diptych), 1988 Polaroid print Overall: 20 3/4 x 41 x 1 1/2 in. Image: 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (each) Edition 1/5 Provenance: Lieberman & Saul Stephen studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received his BA from Bennington College. He has had solo exhibitions at 303...

Paper Size: 38.5 x 26.75 inches ( 97.79 x 67.945 cm ) Image Size: 37 x 24 inches ( 93.98 x 60.96 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Vintage lithographic reproduc...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Petite Fille a la Robe Verte (Paloma Picasso)". The original painting was completed in 1956. ...

Artist's proof 6 of 10 apart from the edition of 45 Lithograph with embossing on Arches Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘AP 6/10 Robert Longo’ Published by: Brooke Alexander, Inc.,...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Guéridon et Guitare". The original painting was completed in 1920. In the 1970's after Picass...

Paper Size: 39.5 x 26.75 inches ( 100.33 x 67.945 cm ) Image Size: 39.5 x 26.75 inches ( 100.33 x 67.945 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Vintage lithographic ...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Tete". The original painting was completed in 1954. In the 1970's after Picasso's death, Mari...