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Beverly Pepper Prints and Multiples

American, 1922-2020

Celebrated internationally for her large-scale abstract sculptures and site-specific works, provocative environmental artist Beverly Pepper was renowned for her ability to transform unwieldy industrial metals such as Cor-Ten steel and cast iron into seemingly weightless objets d’art.    

Born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, Pepper studied advertising design, photography and industrial design at Pratt Institute before embarking on a career as a commercial art director. Meanwhile, she also attended the Art Students League and studied art theory at Brooklyn College under Hungarian painter György Kepes, who introduced her to the works of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.

In 1949, Pepper shifted her interest from commercial art to painting, studying in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There, she met Cubist painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger, and visited the studios of Constantin Brâncusi and Ossip Zadkine. Pepper’s work at the time, owing to her experiences in Europe following the war, was largely characterized by a social realist perspective.

Pepper developed a passion for sculpting following a trip to Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 1960. She made her debut in 1962 with a series of carved tree trunks at a gallery in Rome. That same year, Pepper was invited to exhibit at the “Festival of Two Worlds” show in Spoleto, Italy alongside the likes of Henry Moore and Alexander Calder. To prepare for the exhibition, Pepper quickly learned how to weld and soon became an accomplished metalworker — an unusual skill for women at the time.

By the late 1960s and 1970s, Pepper became known for her stainless-steel abstract and still-life sculptures such as Matera Scatolata. She also created several abstract geometric, foil-embossed collage prints including Collage 1 and Collage 3. In later years, she used heavier materials including bronze, iron and Cor-Ten steel in her modern monumental works such as Curved Presence

Throughout her sculpting career, Pepper had countless solo exhibitions and participated in group shows, and won several awards, including the Allied Arts Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects in 1999, the Alexander Calder Prize in 2000 and the International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Her sculptures are part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

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Artist: Beverly Pepper
Untitled
By Beverly Pepper
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and chalcography on wove paper, 1989 Signed in pencil, numbered 17/40 Published by 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome with their blindstamp, the full sheet Very Good condit...
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1980s Contemporary Beverly Pepper Prints and Multiples

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Untitled - Original Etching by Beverly Pepper - 1970s
By Beverly Pepper
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 50 specimens. Good conditions.
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1970s Abstract Beverly Pepper Prints and Multiples

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Beverly Pepper, "Collage 1, " Collage Multiple, 1968
By Beverly Pepper
Located in Long Island City, NY
This shiny foil-embossed collage was created by American artist Beverly Pepper (b. 1922). Throughout Pepper's career, she became known for her graceful geometric welded steel sculptu...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Beverly Pepper Prints and Multiples

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Foil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Beverly Pepper prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Beverly Pepper in paper, etching, foil and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Beverly Pepper prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 28 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Jack Sonenberg, Alexander Archipenko, and Arnold Hoffmann. Beverly Pepper prints and multiples prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $624 and tops out at $4,000, while the average work can sell for $1,500.

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