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Bob Dylan at Prison Cell of Rubin Hurricane Carter, Trenton State Prison
By Ken Regan
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bob Dylan at Prison Cell of Rubin Hurricane Carter, Trenton State Prison, NJ, 1975 Estate sealed
Category

1970s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

German Art Deco Wabi Sabi Naive Brown Oak Prison Cell Table and Bench, 1930s
Located in Berlin, DE
This German Art Deco Wabi Sabi Naive Prison cell table and bench was made in the 1930s for a Berlin
Category

Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Dining Room Sets

Materials

Metal

The Window - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed Art, Robben Island
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
depicts a view of Table Mountain through the bars of a prison cell on Robben Island. In fact Table
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

reich's dream boundless energy, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Edward Zelinsky
Located in Yardley, PA
freedom to think his own thoughts. What an original! Of course he died in a prison cell... for nothing
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Unholy Wife / Furia Infernale
Located in London, GB
his fortune. The story is told in a series of flashbacks from her prison cell. She really is the
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Posters

Materials

Paper

The Unholy Wife / Furia Infernale
The Unholy Wife / Furia Infernale
H 55 in W 39 in D 0.1 in
Las Rinde el Sueño - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
, beggars, imprisoned, harlots, all in the same space that recalls a prison cell. The gloomy scene shows a
Category

1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Flooted Building
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Modem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Laptop
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

CPU
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

CPU
H 36 in W 36 in
Bitcoin Farm
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Property Ladder
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

City
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Digital

City
H 30 in W 30 in
Windows
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Mobile Phones
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Insecticide
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Video Card
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Stock Market
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Intensive Egg Farm
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Price Tag
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Rechargeable Batteries
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Milk Extraction
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Intensive Pig Farm
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Mountain Top Coal Mining
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Coal Mining Collection
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Carcass
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Digital, Archival Paper

Open Pit Diamond Mine
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Cargo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Light Traffic
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Pipeline Spill (Green)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Nuclear Waste
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Factory
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Surveillance
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foucault's panoptic prison cells, Sorenson's images recall the modular infrastructures of post-industrial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Cell Block
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Huntsville, Texas, 1968 The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos River bottomland
Category

1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Six-Wing Cell Block
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Huntsville, Texas, 1968 / Printed 2011 The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Young Prisoners; Juvenile Prison for Boys
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ira (Sentenced for Theft): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sveta (Sentenced for Murder): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prison 30, unique signed drawing 1990s by renowned contemporary artist, framed
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
very simple vocabulary: I call the rectangles either prisons or cells, and they’re connected by lines
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Pencil

Sergey and a friend (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vania (Sentenced for Sexual Violence against Women): Juvenile Prison for Boys
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Joseph interpreting Dreams - Italian Old Master 17thC religious art oil painting
Located in London, GB
is Joseph in prison interpreting the dreams of Pharoah's Baker and Butler. The bars of the cell can
Category

17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Dinshaway Massacre VI" Pencil on Paper Drawing 7.5" x 11" in by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
realities of prison life, not least for women in Nasser’s Egypt. The ever-present cell bars became a
Category

20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Pencil

"Seated Prisoner VI" Pencil on Paper Drawing 7.5" x 11" in by Inji Efflatoun
By Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
realities of prison life, not least for women in Nasser’s Egypt. The ever-present cell bars became a
Category

20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Pencil

La Santé, Jail House in Paris, 1930 - Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
". (The cells of the condemned to the prison of La Santé. In the dungeons of this ground floor, the
Category

1930s Art Deco Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dima and Maksim (Sentenced for Violence and Robbery, Brick Building Class): Juve
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Katya and Dasha (Sisters, Sentenced for Theft. Caught Stealing together with the
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside. When
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

“Boy with Blue Birds”
By Agapito Labios
Located in Southampton, NY
Revolution and was put in prison. There he started painting the cell wall. The mayor of the town saw his
Category

1930s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A Final Tomb for Frank "Jelly" Nash (Hand Signed)
By Robert Morris
Located in New York, NY
between text and art, and it is an example of Morris' preoccupation with the concept of prisons and cells
Category

1980s Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln rare exhibition poster (Hand Signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his paintings to explore the
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph

Peter Halley Small Paintings Rare European poster Minimalist Neo Geo Hand Signed
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his paintings to explore the
Category

1990s Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Felt Pen

Fine 1950's English Oil Grand Interior Room Scene Ancestral Portraits signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
building. Part of the prison was a cell called 'the peephole', which gained a notorious reputation. There
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Maiakovski (For Mayakovsky) signed by Alechinsky & Christine Rochefort #10/50
By Pierre Alechinsky
Located in New York, NY
over six months in Butyrskaya prison in Moscow. There he wrote his first poems while in a solitary cell
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Lithograph, Pencil

The Courtyard - Nelson Mandela, South African, inspiration, Robben Island, hope
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
cell looked onto on Robben Island. It was a grim wasteland where he was eventually able to cultivate
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

New Works, The Butler Institute of American Art (Hand Signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
has included three elements: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

New Works, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (Hand signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his paintings to explore the
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Peter Halley, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (Hand Signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
has included three elements: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
the 1980s, Halley’s lexicon has included three elements: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Heterotopia 2 (Hand Signed by Peter Halley)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
has included three elements: “prisons” and “cells,” connected by “conduits,” which are used in his
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Peter Halley at Sonnabend Gallery, New York (Hand Signed by Peter Halley)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
era. Since the 1980s, Halley’s lexicon has included three elements: “prisons” and “cells,” connected
Category

1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

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