Castelli Wall Decorations

I Fiori di Andy Warhol fecero la loro prima comparsa sulla scena artistica di New York nel 1964 quando vennero esposti alla Leo Castelli Galley. riscuotendo un’enorme successo. Flow...

Leo Castelli poster.

Querelle A27 (white) screen print by Andy Warhol, circa 1982. The print is in very good vintage condition and measures 27.5"W x 39.25"H. Very impressive piece in person, sorry about the glare in the photos. #2631 This rare print of two young men in a rather provocative pose, Andy Warhol used a photograph taken in preparation of his poster for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Querelle. In 1982, Warhol was commissioned by the German film director Rainer Fassbinder, to design a poster for his adaptation of Jean Genet’s classic novel, ‘Querelle’. The story of a sailor’s journey into the sexual underworld of a French port appealed to Warhol’s cinematic sensibilities and could easily have been one of his own productions (he had started making films in the 1960s). This design is based on a photograph by Warhol of two young men with bare shoulders. It is characteristic of his work in the 1980s, incorporating elements of both hand-drawn and photographic screen printing. He focuses attention on the suggestively licking tongue by splashing it with a vibrant red. The film is based on Jean Genet’s scandalous novel Querelle de Brest, written in 1947 and published only six years later. It is not difficult to imagine that both Fassbinder and Warhol where fascinated by Genet’s violent and explicitly homoerotic story of the sailor, opium dealer and murderer Georges Querelle. The film’s notoriety was further heightened by Fassbinder’s death of drug overdose and its posthumous release in 1982. Warhol’s screen prints...

In 1983, Keith Haring was asked to create a poster for the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, in turn, he submitted 3 designs which were instantly accepted. Haring visited Montreux for t...

Early Arista / border tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575. Catalogue: La Azulejería Toledana a Través ...

Italian Maiolica Crespina a Compendiario style, Central Italy, Late 17th century This Crispina has a convex shape on the front and a concave shape on the back, resting on a small ...

Paper size: 12.75" x 16", image size: 7.5" x 10.25" unframed. Sized and annotated by Cathelin to his American Dealer, Dave and Mimi (Finlay). Not fra...

Wonderful art deco poster from Fix-Masseau for Bugatti. This stone lithograph was printed in 1989 and depicts a speeding vintage Bugatti being driven in fantastic style. The German/ ...

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

Original Poster-Razzia-International Film Festival-Cannes, 2004 Project for the official poster of the Cannes Film Festival 2004. Additional details: Materials and Techniqu...

Fantastic and one of the rarest original first print Polish Jazz Jamboree posters from 1971, featuring a fabulous design by Henryk Tomaszewski. The most collectable of the acclaimed ...