AM & CB Art

Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002 Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper Not signed, edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches Unframed Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters 1999 Oil on Aluminum abstract picture) More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...

This Lithograph by Miro was originally for Galerie Berggruen exhibition Poster. It is published by Mourlot, listed in the Catalogue Raissone as Mourlot 831. Sheet size is 21 3/8 by ...

Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes (Hand signed and inscribed), 2000 Elegant, beautifully illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed by...

Frank Stella at Leo Castelli (Hand Signed and Dated), 1969 Offset Lithograph Invitation Boldly signed and dated 2014 in black marker; Stella signed this f...

KENNETH NOLAND (hand signed and warmly inscribed to artist Arthur Secunda), 1977 Hardback monograph (hand signed and warmly inscribed to renowned artist Art Secunda) Warmly signed, d...

Ernest Tino Trova TROVA (hand signed by Ernest Trova), 1978 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed by Ernest Trova) Hand signed by Ernest Trova on the half title page 11 × ...

Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance (hand signed and inscribed by Bridget Riley), 2001 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (hand signed and inscri...

Emily Mason The Fifth Element (Hand signed and inscribed by Emily Mason), 2009 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (Hand signed, dated and inscribed by Emily Mason) Hand signed in marker directly underneath the title; inscribed to Kevin and dated 2013 top right by Emily Mason 10 1/2 × 9 × 1 inches Provenance Signed for the present owner at the artist's opening at the David Findlay...

This is a limited edition lithograph that is untitled. It was originally in a catalogue and consequently there is slight evidence of a fold in the centre. We have had this ironed by ...

Mary Heilmann To Be Someone (hand signed and inscribed "Love from Mary Heilmann"), 2007 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed by Mary Heilmann) Warmly signed...

This is a limited edition lithograph that is untitled. It was originally in a catalogue and consequently there is slight evidence of a fold in the centre. We have had this ironed b...

Shipping on request This impressive offset lithograph by Serge Poliakoff, a significant figure in abstract art, captures the powerful dynamism of his work. The skillful interplay of ...