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Art For Sale
Artist: Bert Stern
Artist: George Grosz
Seated Nude
Located in New York, NY
Seated Nude by George Grosz (1893-1959) Oil on canvas 9 ½ x 5 ½ inches unframed (24.13 x 13.97 cm) 15 x 12 inches framed (38.1 x 30.48 cm) Signed on bottom...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Marilyn new black dress by Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Exclusivity New photo recently released from the archives of Bert stern Marilyn new black dress 2009 draw 72 copies Signature on front and back Dated...
Category

Early 2000s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Aroused, Erotic Painting by George Grosz 1940
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz, German (1893 - 1959) Title: Aroused Year: 1940 Medium: Oil on Paper, signed l.r. Paper Size: 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm) Frame Size: 36 x 30 inches Prove...
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1940s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Marilyn Looking up in the Wedding Veil
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Looking up in the Wedding Veil Print on photo paper Inkjet technique Paper dimension: 48 X 33 cms Dimension photo: 30 X 30 cms 50 copies Photo of ...
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1960s Modern Art

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Inkjet

Marilyn in the Wedding Veil
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn in the wedding veil Bern Stern print on photo paper inkjet technique paper dimension: 48 X 33 cms dimension photo: 26 X 38 50 copies photo of 19...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Inkjet

"He Made Fun of Hindenburg" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

1936 Lithograph Interregnum, Cigar, Kid w Toy Gun, Small Edition Weimar Germany
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand lithography on BFK Rives French hand moulded paper Style: German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1936 Lithograph Interregnum Street Riot Protest Small Edition Weimar Germany
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand lithography on BFK Rives French hand moulded paper Style: German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bert stern " Marilyn WITH BERT'S NIKON " 2011
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern Marilyn WITH BERT'S NIKON No 16/72 Mythical photo of the last seance (1962) Ink jet print by bert stern 2011 No 8/62 taille image : 25 X 35,5 cms signed on both sides ...
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2010s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

1936 Lithograph Interregnum Portfolio Butcher Shop Small Edition Weimar Germany
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand lithography on BFK Rives French hand moulded paper Style: German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1936 Lithograph Interregnum Portfolio Windblown Man Small Edition Weimar Germany
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand lithography on BFK Rives French hand moulded paper Style: German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1936 Lithograph Interregnum portfolio Artist Studio small edition Weimar Germany
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand lithography on BFK Rives French hand moulded paper Style: German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bert stern Brigitte Bardot so french
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern Brigitte Bardot so French inkjet print by Bert stern 2010 edition of 50 copies 48 X 33 cms (image 36 x 25 cms) signed on the front and back by the artist signed, dated and...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe Day Glo Colors Avant Garde Last Photos Bel Air Hotel
Located in Nantucket, MA
This set of 12 Serigraphs , each mounted on board, was published in Avant Garde Magazine in March, 1968. Avant Garde magazine only published 14 issues between January 1968 and July 1...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cover for Ecce Homo - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Cover for Ecce Homo is an artwork realized by George Grosz in 1923. Cover for the Suite "Ecce Homo". Lithograph and Offset. 26 x 26 cm, no frame. Good condtions. Reference: Wieland Herzfelde (introduction), Der Malik-Verlag, 1916-1947, exhib. cat. Deutsche Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin (Ost) 1966, cat. no. 59; Lothar Lang, George-Grosz-Bibliographie, in: Marginalien, Zeitschrfit für Buchkunst und Bibliophilie, 30th issue, July 1968, p. 1ff, no. 38; Rosamunde Neugebauer, Georges Grosz, Macht und Ohnmacht satirischer Kunst. Die Graphikfolgen "Gott mit uns...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
Located in Surfside, FL
From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on watermarked paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbe...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
Located in Surfside, FL
From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on watermarked paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbe...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
Located in Surfside, FL
From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on laid paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbered in ...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Marilyn (Head Shot)” Blue Silkscreen Portrait Print on Silver Foil Ed. 47/100
Located in Houston, TX
Blue-toned silkscreen portrait print of actress Marilyn Monroe by legendary photographer Bert Stern. The piece features a blue headshot portrait of Marilyn in blue on a metallic silv...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Foil

THE LAST SITTING: MARILYN MONROE IN JACKIE WIG
Located in Aventura, FL
C-print on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Bert Stern. Frame size approx 33 x 33 inches. AP edition of 6. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity include...
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Paper

Interrogation - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Interrogation is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is from the book "Kobes" by Heinrich Man, that Grosz illustrated with 10 drawings reproduce...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe With Roses. Nude
Located in Carmel, CA
AUTHENTIC C. 1970 MARILYN MONROE 'ROSES' BY BERT STERN Edition of 98/300 SIGNED SERIGRAPH PHOTO Mint Condition
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Man and Woman with Lamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz (1893-1959) Title: Man and Woman with Lamp Year: circa 1940 Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper, signed l.r. Paper Size: 23.5 in. x 18 in. (59.69 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame ...
Category

1940s Expressionist Art

Materials

Ink

Iman Supermodel New York Black Woman Nude
Located in Carmel, CA
Rare photograph printed by Bert Stern. Has been framed since purchase. Selling unframed. Signed and stamped on verso. Please note picture was taken w...
Category

1980s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marilyn With Diamonds, Laughing Marilyn Monroe
Located in Carmel, CA
Sometimes referred to as Marilyn with Pearls or Marilyn Laughing into Camera. Taken with 35mm hence the format, image size smaller. Printed on 16x20 paper. Signed on front in pen. T...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Twiggy, Paris Collection Vogue
Located in Carmel, CA
Twiggy wearing Cardin with wine, break and a television monitor. Twiggy - Paris Collection Vogue 1967 Printed by Bert Stern Printed 1985 Stamped and signed on verso
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hunger - Lithograph by George Grosz - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hunger is an original litograph, realized by George Grosz in 1924, from Hunger Hilfe Von Künstlern, edition of Neuer Deutscher Verlag, Included a frame. In very good conditions. Here representing a family, with a child, outside of bakery shop looking with desire and despair through the bread of shop, the title of the artwork, Hunger, critically demonstrated an allegorical and dramatic representation of Grosz's moral perspective regarding war. George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings, in which his main focus was attacking the social corruption of Germany (capitalists, prostitutes, the Prussian military caste, the middle class). His artworks had great impact in the Berlin Dada movement 1917-20 and collaborated with John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in the invention of photomontage. Many of his drawings were published in albums (Gott mit uns...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Separe - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Separe is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n.22 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-Ve...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Richard Burton, Hollywood Actor
Located in Carmel, CA
Taken 1961 possible 1962. Printed 1988 Signed and stamped on verso. Story told to me by his friend – “The jacket is on backwards because Mr. Stern was having issues getting the ligh...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Monique and Babies; Monique Chevalier in Norman Norell Harvey Winston Diamonds
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint Condition silver gelatin photography printed by Bert Stern. Stamped on verso. Vogue 1962
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Factory - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The factoryis an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is from the book Kobes by Heinrich Man, that was illustrated by Grosz with 10 lithographs and ...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Louis Armstrong Posed With Trumpet
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent Condition Rare Signed and stamped on verso
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Amber Smith Playboy Playmate Nude Topless on Swing
Located in Carmel, CA
Taken for Playboy 1995 Color Photograph. Print Date Unknown. Overall Size 26x36" Mint Condition
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Color

Sill Life, Wine Bottle & Bread
Located in Carmel, CA
Rare early print. Printed by Bert Stern 1958 Stamped on Verso
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ray Charles Posed Portrait
Located in Carmel, CA
Rare portrait of Ray Charles. Signed, Title and Date and stamped on Verso For Vogue 1969
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Gerry Mulligan and Monique Chevalier Vogue
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed by Bert Stern Signed and titled on verso in pen 1989
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Kenneth & Monique Chevalier for Vogue Classic 60's
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent Condition Printed in 1988 by the artist
Category

Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Gary Cooper with Gun and Cowboy Hat, Esquire Magazine
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed by artist in 1987 Excellent Condition
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Allegra Kent & Edward Viella, Bugaku New York City Ballet Vogue
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent Condition Taken 1961 Published Vogue 1963 Printed 1988
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

David Bailey and Veruschka, Vogue New York
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent Condition Printed by artist Signed and Stamped on Verso 1989
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Frank Llyod Wright - American Architect Posed With Cane
Located in Carmel, CA
Signed, stamped and dated on verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. Comes with over mat.
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

A Drink - by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Champagne is an offset lithograph, realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 77 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-Verlag Berl...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Execution - Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Execution from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 84 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edi...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Studies - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Studies is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n.10 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-V...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset, Paper

Alone - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Alone from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 67 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition ...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Hard Times - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Times from is an original offset lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n.27 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Ma...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Offset, Lithograph

Greeting - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Greeting is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 5 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Offset

1936 Lithograph Soldiers in battle World War I small edition
Located in Surfside, FL
According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA NY) website "Edition:300 announced; only approx. 42 issued (including regular edition of 30, deluxe edition of approx. 10, and 2 artist's proofs)" I believe these are from the deluxe edition as they are on Mould made BFK Rives French paper and the dimensions are larger than stated in the MOMA website. the sheet size here is 40X29 cm. Date 1936. Publisher:Black Sun Press, New York. Printer:George C. Miller & Son, New York. most of them are plate signed. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his Satire and Caricature drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers were Richard Müller, Robert Sterl, and Oskar Schindler. He subsequently studied at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts under Emil Orlik. Grosz left the Communist Party KPD in 1922 after having spent five months in Russia and meeting Lenin and Trotsky, because of his antagonism to any form of dictatorial authority. Along with Otto Dix, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Bitterly anti Nazi, Grosz left Germany shortly before Hitler came to power. In June 1932, he accepted an invitation to teach the summer semester at the Art Students League of New York. In October 1932, Grosz returned to Germany, but on January 12, 1933 he and his family emigrated to America. In 1946 he published his autobiography, A Little Yes and a Big No. In the 1950s he opened a private art school at his home and also worked as Artist in Residence at the Des Moines Art Center. Grosz was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1950. In 1954 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Grosz worked in a style influenced by Expressionism and Futurism, as well as by popular illustration, graffiti, and children's drawings.The City (1916–17) was the first of his many paintings of the modern urban scene. Other examples include the apocalyptic Explosion (1917), Metropolis (1917), and The Funeral, a 1918 painting depicting a mad funeral procession. In his drawings, usually in pen and ink which he sometimes developed further with watercolor, Grosz did much to create the image most have of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Corpulent businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects His draftsmanship was excellent although the works for which he is best known adopt a deliberately crude form of caricature. His oeuvre includes a few absurdist works, and also includes a number of erotic artworks. ("Ecce Homo" which saw him accused of pornography) My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. ... I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands ... I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket ... I drew a skeleton...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Visit - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
The Visit is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 11 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Mali...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Offset

They Thunder forth from Their Clouds-Lithograph by George Grosz - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
They Thunder forth from Their Clouds is an original lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922, from Die Raüber, edition Malik Verlag in 100 prints, plate n°8 da Die Raüber, hand-signed in pencil. "They thunder forth from their clouds about gentleness and forbearance, while they sacrifice human victims to the God of love." (Da donnern sie Sanftmut und Duldung aus ihren Wolken und bringen dem Gott der Liebe Menschenopfer.)" Sheet dimension: 61,5 x 42 cm. In very good conditions. Here representing a man in front of cross miserably praying, below of his feet laid down many dead bodies and ruined part of the city. here is one of his artwork affected by consequences drama of war. George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Drawings - Rare Book Engraved by George Grosz - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Drawings is an original modern rare book with illustrations by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin), published in 1944. Original First Edition. Published by Bittner and Co., ...
Category

1940s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Engraving

The Cobweb - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The cobweb is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is part of the suite of 10 offset and lithographs realized by Grosz for the book "Kobes". 1st ...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Family - Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Family is an original offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 2 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Ma...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Offset

Marilyn Monroe . Marilyn Monroe pink angel . The last sitting
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern Marilyn Monroe pink angel Mythical photo of the last seance (1962) ink jet print by bert stern 2012 signed on both sides certificate signed by the artist in his lifetime ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Prisoner - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The Prisoner is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is part of the suite of 10 offset and lithographs realized by Gro...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

The Spies - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The spies is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is part of the suite of 10 offset and lithographs realized by Grosz for the book "Kobes". 1st e...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Offspring - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Offspring from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate. 19 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, editio...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Better People - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Better People from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n.8 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, e...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Offset

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