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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Artist: Audrey Flack
PABLO PICASSO "Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) "Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune" linocut in colours, 1958, on Arches wove paper, signed in blue crayon, numbered 31/50, a very good impression of t...
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Portrait de Femme II
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1955, on Arches wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50, printed by Mourlot, Paris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 66.4 x 50 cm. (26⅛ by 19¾ in.) This abstract, three-quarter profile is of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque. The couple met during the summer of 1952 whilst Roque was working at Georges and Suzanne Ramié’s Madoura pottery works in Vallauris, the studio where Picasso made his ceramics in the South of France. The couples love endured until the artist’s death in 1973, Picasso adored Jacqueline so much so that for seventeen of the twenty years the couple spent together - the longest relationship of Picasso’s life - Roque was the only female Picasso painted. When Picasso embarked on his late, great period, his biographer John Richardson succinctly defined and characterised as ‘l’époque Jacqueline.’ In this lithograph, Picasso bestows Roque with an elegant, sphinx-like appearance. The straight line of the nose which extends directly from the forehead to the tip is particularly evocative of these ancient Egyptian sculptures...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Woman with a Collar - Picasso - Spanish Female Portrait Period Costume
Located in London, GB
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973 Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish) Title: The Lady with a Collar La Dame à la Collerette, 1962 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Linocut in Co...
Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Linocut

Petit Visage N° 12 . MADOURA . 1963 . VALLAURIS
Located in CANNES, FR
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 - 1973 ) Petit Visage N° 12 . Literature : A Ramié Catalogue raisonné N° 460 page 242 Marked and numbered N° 88/150. Edition Picasso / Madoura (underneath ) part...
Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pablo Picasso Silver 'Dormeur' A. R. 343
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Dormeur (A. R. 343) Silver repoussé plate conceived in 1956 and executed in silver by Pierre Hugo in 1977, from an edition size of 20 + 2 exemplaires d'ar...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver

Pablo Picasso 'Espagnol au toros' A. R. 403
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Espagnol au toros (A. R. 403) Terre de faïence plate, painted and partially glazed, 1957, numbered 59/100 and incised 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', wit...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze

Femme a la Mantille- Carmen, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. In 1949 Picasso’s illustrations...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Aquatint

Beach Scene : Bathers - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 450 (Ramié #391)
Located in Paris, FR
Pablo Picasso Beach Scene : Bathers, 1956 Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, black covered bath and enamel. Annotated on the Back : Empreinte originale Picasso ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Le Deux Modeles
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Picasso, Pablo Title: Le Deux Modeles Date: 1954 Medium: Lithograph on watermarked Arches paper Unframed Dimensions: 19.5" x 24.75" Framed Dimensions: 31.25" x 37" Sign...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pichet Espagnol, Picasso, 1950's, Pitcher, Ceramic, Earthenware, Multiple
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Espagnol, Picasso, 1950's, Pitcher, Ceramic, Earthenware, Multiple Pichet Espagnol Ed. 47/200 pcs 1954 White earthenware clay, decoration in en...
Category

1950s Post-War Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso 'Joueur de diaule et faune' A. R. 342
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Joueur de diaule et faune (A. R. 342) Terre de faïence plate, 1956, with the workshop numbering, aside from the edition of 100, with the Empreinte Origin...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic

347 Series: No. 198, July 3, 1968 I
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 198, July 3, 1968 I sugar-lift aquatint, ed. of 50 11 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (28.3 x 34.6 cm)
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Aquatint

347 Series: No. 255, August 7, 1968 II
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 255, August 7, 1968 II etching, edition of 50 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (28.6 x 40 cm)
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

347 Series: No. 311, September 4, 1968 II
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 311, September 4, 1968 II etching, ed. of 50 11 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (28.3 x 34.6 cm)
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

347 Series: No. 313, September 4, 1968 IV
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 313, September 4, 1968 IV etching, ed. of 50 11 x 13 5/8 in. (27.9 x 34.6 cm)
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

347 Series: No. 77, May, 1968 II
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 77, May 12, 1968 II etching, ed. of 50 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Peintre et modele [Modele et peintre chauve], 5 septembre 1966 IV
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso Peintre et modele [Modele et peintre chauve], 5 septembre 1966 IV drypoint, edition of 50 16 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (41.9 x 49.8 cm) Bloch 13...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Picador Au Repos, from "Le Carmen Des Carmen"
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. In 1949 Picasso’s illustrations...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint

347 Series: No. 163, June 19, 1968 I
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso 347 Series: No. 163, June 19, 1968 I etching, ed. of 50 13 3/4 x 11 in. (34.9 x 27.9 cm) Bloch 1643; GB 1659; Cat. 166 Signed in pencil
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Visage No. 127' A. R. 478
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Visage No. 127 (A. R. 478) Terre de faïence plate, 1963, numbered 142/150, titled, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', glazed and painted.
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Ceramic

Buste d'homme barbu by Pablo Picasso
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Spanish Buste d'homme barbu (Bust of a Bearded Man) Signed "Picasso" (upper right) and dated "8.4.65" (en verso) Oil on canvas Pablo Picasso and his work transcend art history: they have achieved global celebrity within both academic circles and popular culture. More than any other artist, his ever-evolving, evocative style has come to define modern art of the 20th century, and to this day he continues to gain recognition. The most compelling of his works offer a glimpse into the psyche of the master himself, and the present work can be counted among these. Combining saturated color with a jarring simplicity, Buste d'homme barbu represents an important series of bearded men portraits that the artist composed during the last few years of his life. These works are among the most highly personal and intimate of his career, and they serve as remarkable examples of his mature style with their highly modern expressivity. Many of Picasso's works from his last years capture the visage of his wife Jacqueline, who was his chief model during this period. In April, however, at his home studio in Mougins, France, Picasso changed direction and produced a series of individual portraits of men. His male subjects derive from various sources. Often they were self-referential portraits; often they referenced his father, Spanish painter José Ruiz...
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pablo Picasso 'Profil de Jacqueline' A. R. 457
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Profil de Jacqueline (A. R. 457) Terre de faïence plate, painted colors and partially glazed, 1962, numbered 83/100 a...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso 'Danseurs' A. R. 387
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Danseurs (A. R. 387) Terre de faïence plaque, 1956, from the edition of 500, partially glazed and painted, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso and Mad...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Picasso Madoura 'Petit Carré Au Visage' A. R. 633
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Petit Carré Au Visage (A. R. 633) Terre de faïence tile, 1971, numbered 64/500, with the workshop numbering, with the Poinçons Originaux de Picasso and Ma...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Bacchanal with Owl and Young Man in a Mask
Located in Zeist, UT
Pablo Picasso- Bacchanal with Owl and Young Man in a Mask Medium Etching on old laid wove paper. Printer & Publisher: Printed by Jacques Frélaut, 1955 Published by Galerie Louise Le...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Plongeurs' A. R. 378
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Plongeurs (A. R. 378) Terre de faïence plaque, 1956, from the edition of 500, partially glazed and painted, with the Madoura and Empreinte Originale de P...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso 'Oiseau No. 82' A. R. 482
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Oiseau No. 82 (A. R. 482) Ceramic plate, 1963, numbered 87/150, titled, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', partially glazed and painted.
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

"Chouetton (A.R. 135)", Ceramic Dish Stamped Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881 - 1973 CHOUETTON (A.R. 135) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / Madoura' (underneath) white earthenware ceramic va...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

"Visage (A.R. 288)", Ceramic Dish Stamped Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881 - 1973 VISAGE (A.R. 288) stamp underneath: Foundry Mark: EDITION PICASSO and MADOURA PLEIN FEU white earthenware, polychr...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Youth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original lithograph printed in black ink on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated on the stone lower right Picasso 23 mai 50 A superb trial proof impression...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pablo Picasso 'Picador' A. R. 202 Prototype
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 202 V) Terre-de-faïence plate, 1953, unique prototype molded and painted by Picasso before the edition of 300. With the Madoura Plein Feu ...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Pierrot (Massine en Pierrot)
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 20 to 25 that accompanied Max Jacob's 'Le Phanérogame' in December 1918. With wide margins (the version issued with the...
Category

1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Scéne de Plage' A. R. 391
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Scéne de Plage (A. R. 391) Terre de faïence plaque, 1956, from the edition of 450, partially glazed and painted, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Lozenge with Dancer and Hind
Located in Missouri, MO
Lozenge with Dancer and Hind (#620, Ramie) Red Earthenware Clay Edition Madoura Picasso, 93/500 (Verso)
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Little-Headed Pitcher (R.222)
Located in Missouri, MO
Turned Pitcher Edition of 300 A.R. White Earthenware Clay, Oxidized Paraffin Decoration, White Enamel, Black 5.12 x 5.71 inches
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Reflexion du Peintre sur la Vie (Reflection of the Painter on Life)
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Drypoint, 1967. 350x300 mm; 13 5/8x11 5/8 inches, full margins. With the artist's ink stamp signature, lower right, and numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower left. A very good impression. ...
Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Torero, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developme...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Aquatint

Nature Morte, Compotier - Etching and Drypoint by Pablo Picasso - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Nature Morte, Compotier is a rare black and white drypoint on laid ivory-colored paper, realized by Pablo Picasso in 1909. Edition of 100. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right m...
Category

Early 1900s Cubist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Picasso, Homme dans un interiéur jouant de la guitare
Located in Miami, FL
Drawn in 1912 by Picasso, this fine piece of work is a recognizable mark of his unique style. "Homme dans un interiéur jouant de la guitare", 1912 is on cream laid paper, with abstra...
Category

1910s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Smiling Face for Madoura - Original Linocut, Handsigned (Bloch #1279)
Located in Paris, FR
Pablo PICASSO Smiling Face for Madoura, 1958 Original linocut (printed in Arnera workshop) Handsigned with red pencil From a limited edition of 200 unumbered proofs On vellum 60 x ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Linocut

Pop Art Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack Rolls Royce Lady Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. "Rolls Royce Lady" featuring a sculpture the Spirit of Ecstasy, a crystal goblet, dice, flowers, a pocket watch, jewelry, perfume and a red rose. Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism; her work encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. From Audrey Flack: 12 Photographs 1973 to 1983. A set of this portfolio is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. The Kodakchrome photos were photgraphed with a NIkon camera, the Ektachrome photographs were taken with a Hasselblad camera. Each negative was printed on a 20 X24 inche fiber based paper, dry mounted wth seal MT5 dry mounting tissue to 4 ply 100% cotton fiber board by Arnon Ben-David and Ari Rivera Gonzales under the supervision of Carol Brower. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she also gave a commencement address. Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealist paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today. Flack attended New York's High School of Music & Art. She studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under Josef Albers among others. She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1953 New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York City 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York City Career Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. Most influential amongst her early supporters was the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. It was he who persuaded Flack to take up a scholarship at Yale with the mission of shaking up the institution's stuffy academic reputation. The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Her move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Between 1976 and 1978 she painted her Vanitas series, including the piece Marilyn. The critic Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." In the early 1980s Flack's artistic medium shifted from painting to sculpture. She describes this shift as a desire for "something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to." Flack discusses the fact that she is self-taught in sculpture. She incorporates religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings. Her sculptures often demonstrate a connection to the female form, including a series of diverse, heroic women and goddess figures. These depictions of women differ from those of traditional femininity, but rather are athletic, older, and strong. As Flack describes them: "they are real yet idealized... the 'goddesses in everywoman.'" Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from Baroque art. Flack is currently represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and Hollis Taggart Galleries. Her work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally. Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting. The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit. These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo realist paintings. In her Neoclassical public sculpture of gilded bronze angels...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack "Skull & Roses" Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack Tarot Card, Skull Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. "Wheel of Fortune" featuring a tarot card, a skull, lipstick, a crystal necklace, candle, mirror etc. Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism; her work encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. From Audrey Flack: 12 Photographs 1973 to 1983. A set of this portfolio is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. The Kodakchrome photos were photgraphed with a NIkon camera, the Ektachrome photographs were taken with a Hasselblad camera. Each negative was printed on a 20 X24 inche fiber based paper, dry mounted wth seal MT5 dry mounting tissue to 4 ply 100% cotton fiber board by Arnon Ben-David and Ari Rivera Gonzales under the supervision of Carol Brower. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she also gave a commencement address. Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealist paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today. Flack attended New York's High School of Music & Art. She studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under Josef Albers among others. She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1953 New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York City 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York City Career Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. Most influential amongst her early supporters was the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. It was he who persuaded Flack to take up a scholarship at Yale with the mission of shaking up the institution's stuffy academic reputation. The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Her move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Between 1976 and 1978 she painted her Vanitas series, including the piece Marilyn. The critic Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." In the early 1980s Flack's artistic medium shifted from painting to sculpture. She describes this shift as a desire for "something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to." Flack discusses the fact that she is self-taught in sculpture. She incorporates religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings. Her sculptures often demonstrate a connection to the female form, including a series of diverse, heroic women and goddess figures. These depictions of women differ from those of traditional femininity, but rather are athletic, older, and strong. As Flack describes them: "they are real yet idealized... the 'goddesses in everywoman.'" Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from Baroque art. Flack is currently represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and Hollis Taggart Galleries. Her work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally. Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting. The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit. These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo realist paintings. In her Neoclassical public sculpture of gilded bronze...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack Judaica Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack Fruits Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph "Course in Miracles" Print Audrey Flack Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. "A course in miracles"" The title, taken from the 1976 book on New Age spiritual guidance encourages speculation about each element in this still life. The amount of roses--three--is a significant number in many religions and mythologies. Besides Jesus and Albert Einstein, Flack included the silent mystic Hindu philanthropist Shree Krishnaji, also known as Baba. Flack used the detail of his face with the roses, hovering above the ocean, in her monumental painting, Baba. Following an illness, she turned to mysticism, framing Christian and Hindu images with Jewish ones in A Course of Miracles of 1983: On the “west” side, a photograph of Albert Einstein and a European Jewish candlestick...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print "Queen" Audrey Flack Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. "Queen" featuring a red rose, paint, a cameo portrait locket, makeup, a chess piece, a pocket watch and a red lucite dice piece . Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism; her work encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. From Audrey Flack: 12 Photographs 1973 to 1983. A set of this portfolio is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. The Kodakchrome photos were photgraphed with a NIkon camera, the Ektachrome photographs were taken with a Hasselblad camera. Each negative was printed on a 20 X24 inche fiber based paper, dry mounted wth seal MT5 dry mounting tissue to 4 ply 100% cotton fiber board by Arnon Ben-David and Ari Rivera Gonzales under the supervision of Carol Brower. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she also gave a commencement address. Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealist paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today. Flack attended New York's High School of Music & Art. She studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under Josef Albers among others. She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1953 New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York City 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York City Career Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. Most influential amongst her early supporters was the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. It was he who persuaded Flack to take up a scholarship at Yale with the mission of shaking up the institution's stuffy academic reputation. The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Her move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Between 1976 and 1978 she painted her Vanitas series, including the piece Marilyn. The critic Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." In the early 1980s Flack's artistic medium shifted from painting to sculpture. She describes this shift as a desire for "something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to." Flack discusses the fact that she is self-taught in sculpture. She incorporates religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings. Her sculptures often demonstrate a connection to the female form, including a series of diverse, heroic women and goddess figures. These depictions of women differ from those of traditional femininity, but rather are athletic, older, and strong. As Flack describes them: "they are real yet idealized... the 'goddesses in everywoman.'" Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from Baroque art. Flack is currently represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and Hollis Taggart Galleries. Her work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally. Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting. The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit. These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo realist paintings. In her Neoclassical public sculpture of gilded bronze...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print "In My Life" Audrey Flack
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. "In My Life" featuring flowers, a lit candle, dice, an Oriental rug, music notes. a pocket watch and a small porcelain box...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print "Time to Save" Audrey Flack
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Photograph Dye Transfer Print "Leonardo's Lady" Audrey Flack
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. A portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, nail polish, a pink rose, pocket watch, green pear. "Leonardo's Lady" a still life tableaux. Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism; her work encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. From Audrey Flack: 12 Photographs 1973 to 1983. A set of this portfolio is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. The Kodakchrome photos were photgraphed with a NIkon camera, the Ektachrome photographs were taken with a Hasselblad camera. Each negative was printed on a 20 X24 inche fiber based paper, dry mounted wth seal MT5 dry mounting tissue to 4 ply 100% cotton fiber board by Arnon Ben-David and Ari Rivera Gonzales under the supervision of Carol Brower. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she also gave a commencement address. Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealist paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today. Flack attended New York's High School of Music & Art. She studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under Josef Albers among others. She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1953 New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York City 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York City Career Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. Most influential amongst her early supporters was the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. It was he who persuaded Flack to take up a scholarship at Yale with the mission of shaking up the institution's stuffy academic reputation. The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Her move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Between 1976 and 1978 she painted her Vanitas series, including the piece Marilyn. The critic Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." In the early 1980s Flack's artistic medium shifted from painting to sculpture. She describes this shift as a desire for "something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to." Flack discusses the fact that she is self-taught in sculpture. She incorporates religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings. Her sculptures often demonstrate a connection to the female form, including a series of diverse, heroic women and goddess figures. These depictions of women differ from those of traditional femininity, but rather are athletic, older, and strong. As Flack describes them: "they are real yet idealized... the 'goddesses in everywoman.'" Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from Baroque art. Flack is currently represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and Hollis Taggart Galleries. Her work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally. Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting. The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit. These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo realist paintings. In her Neoclassical public sculpture of gilded bronze...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print "Royal Flush" Audrey Flack
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the color saturated 1980's. Royal Flush, cigars, Jack Daniels Whiskey, cash, playing cards and beer. Boys night out. perfect for the man cave or bachelor pad. Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism; her work encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. From Audrey Flack: 12 Photographs 1973 to 1983. A set of this portfolio is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums. The Kodakchrome photos were photgraphed with a NIkon camera, the Ektachrome photographs were taken with a Hasselblad camera. Each negative was printed on a 20 X24 inche fiber based paper, dry mounted wth seal MT5 dry mounting tissue to 4 ply 100% cotton fiber board by Arnon Ben-David and Ari Rivera Gonzales under the supervision of Carol Brower. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union in New York City. Additionally she has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and attended New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she studied art history. In May 2015, Flack received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Clark University, where she also gave a commencement address. Flack's work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack's photorealist paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today. Flack attended New York's High School of Music & Art. She studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, studying under Josef Albers among others. She earned a graduate degree and received an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1953 New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York City 1952 BFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1948-51 Cooper Union, New York City Career Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. Most influential amongst her early supporters was the Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. It was he who persuaded Flack to take up a scholarship at Yale with the mission of shaking up the institution's stuffy academic reputation. The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Her move to the photorealist style was in part because she wanted her art to communicate to the viewer. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Between 1976 and 1978 she painted her Vanitas series, including the piece Marilyn. The critic Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism, radical realism, or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and Audrey Flack as well, often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." In the early 1980s Flack's artistic medium shifted from painting to sculpture. She describes this shift as a desire for "something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to." Flack discusses the fact that she is self-taught in sculpture. She incorporates religion and mythology into her sculpture rather than the historical or everyday subjects of her paintings. Her sculptures often demonstrate a connection to the female form, including a series of diverse, heroic women and goddess figures. These depictions of women differ from those of traditional femininity, but rather are athletic, older, and strong. As Flack describes them: "they are real yet idealized... the 'goddesses in everywoman.'" Flack has claimed to have found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from Baroque art. Flack is currently represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and Hollis Taggart Galleries. Her work is held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally. Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting. The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit. These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo realist paintings. In her Neoclassical public sculpture of gilded bronze angels...
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1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Dancer, Musician and a Owl - Original signed Etching - Limited to 50 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Pablo PICASSO Dancer, Musician and a Owl Original etching Signed with the artist stamp bottom right Numbered in pencil 4/50 On vellum 41 x 48 cm (c. 16 x 19 inch) REFERENCES : - C...
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1970s Cubist Art

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Etching

Cubist Nude - Original lithograph, 1929
Located in Paris, FR
Pablo PICASSO Cubist nude Original lithograph Signature printed in the plate Dated May (19)29 Limited to 300 copies (not numbered) On vellum 27 x 21 cm (c. 11 x 8 inch) REFERENCES...
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1920s Cubist Art

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Lithograph

Joie de Vivre
Located in Missouri, MO
JOIE DE VIVRE (A. Ramié no. 346) stamped, marked, engraved and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu/Empreinte Originale de Picasso (underneath) unglazed white ea...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Yan Black Headband
Located in Missouri, MO
"Yan Black Headband" (A.R. 514) 1963 Red Earthenware Pitcher Painted in Black Inscised 'EDITION PICASSO MADOURA' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on...
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1960s Modern Art

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Ceramic

Diurnes (Femme Assise En Pyjama De Plage II)
Located in Missouri, MO
Pablo Picasso "Diurnes" (Femme Assise En Pyjama De Plage II) 1962 Linocut printed in ochre and brown, 1962, on Arches paper Inscribed "Epreuve D'Artist" (Artist Proof) lower left, as...
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1960s Modern Art

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Linocut

Fish Pitcher
Located in Missouri, MO
Fish Pitcher 1952 Turned Pitcher 13 cm x 21 cm/approx 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches Red Earthenware Clay, Decoration in Engobes Black, White Edition Madoura Picas...
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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Ceramic

La Danse des Faunes, Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
An original lithograph on Arches wove paper created by Picasso in 1957, La Danse des Faunes contains the artist’s stamped signature and measures 19 x 25 3/8 in. (48.3 x 64.5 cm), unf...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

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