Shusaku Arakawa

Blankless Tone

1979

Ed Paschke BAD, 1991 Silkscreen and Lithograph on Rising Mirage Paper, accompanied by documentation Pencil signed, titled "BAD", and annotated "Trial Proof" on the front 22 × 20 inches Unframed This work is a unique Trial Proof on Rising Mirage Paper, pencil signed by the artist and annotated "Trial Proof" the very first impression, aside from the regular edition. It is accompanied by the tirage sheet, with the biography of the artist and a description of the work. (see photos). As such it is a rare impression. Published by Chicago Serigraphic Workshop and Artco, Incorporated Ed Paschke Biography: Ed Paschke was born in Chicago where he spent most of his life as an important painter. He was initially associated in the late 1960s with the second generation of Chicago Imagists who called themselves The Hairy Who. He received his B.F.A. from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1961 and his M.F.A. in 1970. Between degrees he lived for a time in New York where he easily came under the influence of Pop art, in part, because of his interests as a child in animation and cartoons. His fascination with the print media of popular culture led to a portrait-based art of cultural icons. Paschke used the celebrity figure, real or imagined, as a vehicle for explorations of personal and public identity with social and political implications. Although his style is representational, with a loose affiliation to Photorealism, Paschke’s art plays...

Robert Irwin Cacophonous (hand signed by Robert Irwin), 2015 Softback exhibition catalogue with stiff wraps (hand signed by Robert Irwin) Hand signed by Robert Irwin on the title pag...

Shusaku Arakawa The Degrees of Meaning, from Realities and Paradoxes, 1973 Color Lithograph and Silkscreen Hand signed, numbered from the edition of only 100 and dated on the front (lower right hand corner). Bears the Styria Studio blind stamp Frame Included Hand signed, numbered from the limited edition of only 100 and dated on front lower right hand corner with blind stamp. This work is from the Realities and Paradoxes portfolio. It is classic Arakawa - an important example of his way of displacing sometimes cryptic words onto images as a form of artistic philosophy and performance. Shusaku Arakawa (荒川 修作 Arakawa Shūsaku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) who spoke of himself as an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of the distant future,” first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa’s early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport and over time formed a close friendship. He started using diagrams within his paintings as philosophical propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and Hans-Georg Gadamer has described it as transforming “the usual constancies of orientation into a strange, enticing game—a game of continually thinking out.” Quoting Paul Celan...

Yves Klein Yves Klein Propositions Monochromes with IKB (International Klein Blue), 1957 Extremely rare fold-out silkscreened vintage invitation with IKB for Galerie Schmela exhibiti...

Niki de Saint Phalle My Love We Wont, 1968 Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper Signed and numbered 51/75 in graphite pencil on the front Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass From the Brooklyn Museum, which has an edition of this work in its permanent collection: "Throughout her long and prolific career Niki de Saint Phalle, a former cover model for Life magazine and French Vogue, investigated feminine archetypes and women’s societal roles. Her Nanas, bold, sexy sculptures...

George McNeil Untitled Figure, 1986 Lithograph on paper. Publisher's and Printer's Blind Stamps Hand-signed, numbered 78/84 and dated by the artist on the front with publisher's and...

Numbered and signed rf Lichtenstein and dated '75 in pencil lower right by the artist. Blindstamp Styria Studio chop lower right. From the America: The Third Century Portfolio. Publi...

Abstract composition is a beautiful color serigraph and lithograph on paper, realized by the Italian artist Enzo Brunori (Perugia, 1924 - Rome, 1993). Hand-signed and numbered in pe...

Author: Red Grooms (United States, 1937) Title: 'Brooklyn bridge bustle', 2002 Medium: Print. Technique: Lithograph on paper Size Image: 22 x 30 in. (55 x 76 cm.) Size Sheet: 27 x 3...

A very good impression of this color lithograph and screenprint on Arches 88 white wove paper. One of 14 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, dated, inscri...

Lithograph, waxtype woodcut and screenprint on 638-g/m cold-pressed Saunders Waterford Paper. From the "Brushstroke Figures" series, 1989. Hand signed rf Lichtenstein, dated ('89) a...

Donald Baechler The Accordion Player #1, 1995 Lithograph with silkscreen 30 x 22 1/4 inches Edition 32 of 49 Signed In 1995 five well-known Ameri...