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Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

American, 1924-2022

Philip Pearlstein was a key figure in the sharp-focus realist movement. A leader in the early 1960s of the revival of figure painting in America, Pearlstein experimented briefly with landscapes and then concentrated on the realistic depiction of the nude figure, a traditional subject that had almost vanished from the contemporary art world. 

Pearlstein’s paintings, prints and drawings are characterized by a non-traditional informality, unexpected postures, and unusual perspectives including the radical cropping of figures. In his later works, he introduced rather elaborate backdrops including richly patterned fabrics and decorative floor patterns.

Pearlstein was born and grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to school, graduating in 1949 with a BFA. Pearlstein pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a master's degree in 1955. Although he briefly pursued Abstract Expressionism, he found his mature subject matter during the 1960s when he evolved his signature highly finished-hard edged, objective studies of the nude figure. Pearlstein earned awards from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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(Biography provided by Graves International Art)

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Artist: Philip Pearlstein
Girl in Ballerina Dress (Thonet Chair) Color Lithograph, American Modernist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl in Ballerina Dress, c. 1970 Color lithograph printed on wove paper, hand signed in pencil and numbered 22/75, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Landfall Press, Chicago (they have published an eclectic list of many important artists including Christo, Judy Chicago, David Levinthal and Jack tworkov to name a few.) Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog work, while Warhol immediately found work illustrating department store catalogs presaging Pop Art. In April 1950, they moved to 323 W. 21st Street, into an apartment rented by Franziska Marie Boas, who ran a dance class on the other side of the room. During this time, Pearlstein painted a portrait of Warhol, now held by the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1950, Philip Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor, with Andy Warhol in the wedding party...
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1970s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nude in New Mexico
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN Nude in New Mexico, 1984 Lithograph on art paper 31 3/5 × 40 3/4 inches Signed, titled, dated and numbered in graphite pencil from the limited edition of only 65. (48/65) Unframed Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1924. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine's 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled Nude, from Atelier International Portfolio by renowned realist artist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nude, from Atelier International Portfolio, 1985 Etching. on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 78/85, and dated on the lower front with printer's and publisher's blind stamps. 30 × 22 1/2 inches Unframed This vintage (mid 1980s) etching by Philip Pearlstein is hand signed, numbered and dated from the edition of 85. The late Philip Pearlstein is one of the most renowned realist painters in the world, but has become best recognized of late as Andy Warhol's former roommate in Pittsburgh, who traveled together with Warhol to New York. The Warhol museum in fact hosted a show of the two unlikely artists and roommates. Philip Pearlstein Born in 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Philip Pearlstein died in 2022. He is considered to be one of the masters of new figuration and modernist realism. He has been examining the question of how the model is represented since the 1960s, his complex works straddling the line between naturalism, abstraction and hyperrealism. His still lives in oil feature nudes with mask...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Etching

Monograph: The Complete Paintings (Hand signed, inscribed by Philip Pearlstein)
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein The Complete Paintings, 1984 Hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed to Nadine by Philip Pearlstein 12 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches This i...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph, Mixed Media, Ink, Paper

Untitled Nudes in bathtub
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nudes in bathtub, ca. 1971 Lithograph on paper with Deckled Edges Numbered from the limited edition of only 19. Unframed Hand signed and numbered 19 on the...
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Olga Hirshhorn is 90, by world top realist artist, the late Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Olga Hirshhorn is 90, 2010 Lithograph on Aquarelle Arches Paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 158/185 by the artist on the front 31 1/2 × 24 inches Unframed Thi...
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2010s Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes, by Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein Title: Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes Year: 2010 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 40 Size: 34.5 x 25 in. (87.63 x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Models & Horses, " Original Color Lithograph signed by Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Models & Horses" is an original color lithograph by Philip Pearlstein. The artist signed the piece lower left and it is edition 15/140. This piece features two nude female models lo...
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

NUDE ON STRIPED HAMMOCK.
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Portland, ME
Pearlstein, Philip. NUDE ON STRIPED HAMMOCK. Field 59. Etching with aquatint, 1974. Edition of 100, signed, titled and numbered 59/100 all in pencil. Printed on Copperplate Paper at...
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1970s Philip Pearlstein Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

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