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Contemporary Mixed Media

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Period: 20th Century
Large Julian Schnabel Diptych Painting, 88″H Framed
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Viva F.” Provenance: Christie’s auction #6242 lot 27 Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired 1986. Marking(s); notes: signed, ma...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil

Solo Samba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Solo Samba" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas in a palette of purples, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled (Dolls and Children)
Located in New York, NY
James Louis Steg Untitled (children playing and dolls) 30 x 22 “ Xerography on paper on paperboard Unsigned This is a unique work, a collage made from manipulated xerography. James...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Laid Paper, Black and White

Moonscape
Located in New York, NY
Moonscape with collaged battle scenes (See detail image) Mixed media with collage using xerox Signed and dated, JL Steg 1992 lower right Condition: Very Good Provenance: Artist S...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

'Adam', By Unknown, Enamel on Metal on Wood
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 43.75" x 19.5" work incorporates three painted metal panels on a white wood base depicting a simplistic rendering of Adam from the biblical story of 'Adam & Eve'. The figure is ...
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20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Metal, Enamel

Farmhouse Wood Assemblage by John W. Long "Artist in Wood"
Located in Larchmont, NY
John W. Long Untitled, 1984 Wood 11 3/4 x 24 1/4 x 2 in. Signed verso: John W. Long 84 Artist label verso "Since developing my art in 1970, my work has evolved from smaller, framed ...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood

German Lesson (two separate unique watercolor gouaches, each hand signed) Framed
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Allen German Lesson, 1981 Two separate mixed media works framed together: watercolor, gouache, ink, wash, laid paper collage (each signed by hand) Signed twice: each of the s...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

L. Arello Signed Mixed Media Piece on Wood
Located in Larchmont, NY
L. Arello Untitled, 1981 Mixed media on wood 27 1/2 x 28 7/8 x 1 3/8 in. Signed lower right: L. Arello 1981
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Flower Angel
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
Category

1950s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph, Offset

Kopf 3
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is dated, signed and inscribed verso. Franka Lechner was born in Vienna in 1944. The woven tapestrie-artworks constitute an important part of her oeuvre. The boundaries...
Category

1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Textile

It's Time
Located in Wien, 9
Gio di Sera was born in Naples and has lived in Berlin since 1986. He has been active as a multimedia artist since 1984 with numerous international solo and group exhibitions (e.g. A...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Home Sweet Home, ceramic plate of "cigarettes", limited edition for Gagosian
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst Home Sweet Home, 1996 Color screenprint on porcelain plate 8 11/25 in diameter Edition 1358/1500 Signed in plate, bears Damien Hirst's signature fired in the underside P...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ceramic, Screen

"Digital Relations and the Rescue Drone" 81" x 63" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Digital Relations and the Rescue Drone" 81" x 63" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Carpet, Wool, acrylic, varnish Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now li...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Varnish, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Lily Tomlin
Located in New York, NY
This artwork by Robert Risko is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Jodie Foster Signed Mixed media 17.75 x 12.75 inches, image
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20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Jodie Foster
Located in New York, NY
This artwork by Robert Risko is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Jodie Foster Signed Mixed media 18 x 13.75 inches (45.7 x 34.9 cm), image
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20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Digital Relationships and Debt Rescuer" 59" x 81" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Digital Relationships and Debt Rescuer" 59" x 81" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Medium: Carpet, Wool, acrylic, varnish Ships rolled in a tube Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris fo...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Varnish, Wool

Mixed Media Abstract Collage
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media, Collage Surface: Paper Country: Spain Dimensions: 14" x 11" Dimensions w/Frame: 15" x 12" Alejandra Icaza Born in Bilbao,...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Joan Miró Vinyl Record Art (set of 2)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Joan Miró vinyl album art: set of two, 1966 & 1979: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for the album Quan la aigua queixa, including the name of Raimon in large handwritten letters. As a result of this relationship, Raimon composed the song A Joan Miró, which creatively certified his admiration towards the painter. Off-set lithographs on vinyl record album covers...
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Joan Miró Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Joan Miró vinyl album art: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for t...
Category

1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Three Seat Eva Sofa by Bruno Mathsson
Located in Saint Louis, MO
A Vintage Bruno Mathsson 3-Seater Eva settee.
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Plywood

“Girl with Scarf”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media composed of graphite, watercolor, gouache and acrylic paint on hardboard by the well known American artist, Thornton Utz. Signed lower left and dated 1992. Con...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor, Fiberboard, Graphite, Gouache

Tony Cragg, Palette (from For Joseph Beuys) - Wall Sculpture, Signed
Located in Hamburg, DE
Tony Cragg (British, b. 1949) Palette (from For Joseph Beuys), 1986 Medium: Wooden palette covered with coloured plastic granules Dimensions: 75 × 58 × 1.5 cm (29 1/2 × 22 4/5 × 3/5 ...
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20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Matrix of Amnesia - mixed media by John Isaacs - 1999
Located in Roma, IT
Matrix of Amnesia is a contemporary artwork realized by John Isaacs in 1999. C-Type Print on dibond. The artwork includes the certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Pro...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

44.25x36" - "Owl House" - Mixed Media, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky greys, blues and blacks of this piece contrasts against the light and symbolism of vessels and pictographs. Vessels are a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal, Mixed Media

Blüten
By Jutta Pointner
Located in Wien, 9
handwoven Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist. Exhibited in the Personale in the Museum Angerlehner 2020 The contemplative element of a tapestry arises from the working p...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Textile

Assemblage (Untitled)
Located in Wien, 9
- The artwork is a untitled material image / collage / assemblage - Material: pencil, newspaper and magazine clippings and tobacco leaves, mounted on cardboard - Signed "Juan del Rio" and dated "96 " (1996) - Back protection with label of the former gallery Clasing in Münster. - Mounted behind glass in a walnut veneered frame. - Cardboard approx. 13.7 x 14.5 cm Juan Alberto del Rio was born in Buenos Aires in 1956, where he studied at the State Art Academy "Prilidiano Pueyrredon". Del Rio has exhibited in Buenos Aires, Frankfurt/M., Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. His artistic work moves between material works, collage and classical painting with acrylic and oil on cardboard. With his collages, Del Rio creates a strong sense of materiality. For example, he collected leftover moulded wood and other wood scraps for his small ship objects...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Cardboard, Newsprint, Pencil

Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Minute Maid'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
Category

1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil, Mixed Media

Memento (Dr. Martin Luther King John F. Kennedy Malcolm X, Civil rights workers
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Memento, 1997 Featuring civil rights leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Medger Evers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Malcolm X, Black Panthers 6-Color lithograph with gold powder on soft white Somerset paper with deckled edges Pencil signed, titled and numbered 6/33 on the front Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a handmade museum frame with UV plexiglass This is an excellent impression of a scarce and consequential 1997 Kerry James Marshall graphic work printed by Master Printer Ross Zirkle (1955-2007) at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico (the publisher). Other examples of this work are in major public institutions such as SFMOMA, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Library of Congress - which is why Memento is so elusive and rarely found on the market. The present example is elegantly floated and framed in a white wood hand made museum frame with UV Optium Acrylic glazing - the highest quality. Measurements: Framed: 33 inches vertical by 47 inches horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 30 inches vertical by 44 inches horizontal Bibliography: Pamela Franks and Robert E. Steele, Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), 62, ill. Text from the Yale University Art Gallery website: Kerry James Marshall’s Memento memorializes the persons associated with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The work depicts multiple headshots of civic leaders and other individuals who died during this era, such as Medger Evers and members of the Black Panther Party. Rather than drawing these images, Marshall uses the newspaper obituary photographs that the general public is accustomed to seeing. He exalts the fallen individuals by placing angel wings behind most of the images. A black woman carrying an urn of flowers stands before portraits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. The woman turns toward the viewer, asking us, and the larger community, to “mourn” with her. And from the Birmingham Alabama Art...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gold

Barton Lidice Benes Mixed Media Work
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is dedicated in pencil “For Howard”. Provenance: Gift from the artist │ The Collection of Dr. Howard Grossman, West Palm Beach, Florida. Barton Lidice Be...
Category

1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

"Love with a Robot and a Two-Headed Pegasus" 81" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Love with a Robot and a Two-Headed Pegasus" 81" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Medium: Carpet, Wool, acrylic, varnish Ships rolled in a tube Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Pari...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Varnish, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Freddy Wittop “Bajour” Dress Illustration
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Freddy Wittop’s drawing depicts one of the costumes he designed for “Bajour”. Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for...
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Kimono Applique with Mulberry Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Collagraph layered with mulberry paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned but acquired in a portfolio of artist's work. Presented in a new white mat. Mat size: 3...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mulberry Paper, Lithograph

Three Strikes You're Out (Limited Edition Triptych)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo Three Strikes, You're Out (Triptych), 1990 Silkscreen and Color Photograph (C-Print) on Aluminum and Lead Plates 9 4/5 × 23 3/5 inches Edition 120/200 Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's and publishers printed name & copyright Unframed Three Strikes You're Out was created in 1990 by Robert Longo exclusively for the mixed-media box-edition Contemporary Archeology, Pandora Part Three. The works were executed by jennifer Cox for Publishing House Bebert in an edition of 200, numbered and signed copies. This work is assembled as triptych and consists of two aluminium plates. Both aluminium plates show a color photograph of a cloud with silkscreened red X, the lead plate only showing the red X Total size is: 9.8 inches by 23.6 inches Individual Metal Plate Sizes: 9.8 x 9.1 in (2) / 9.8 x 5.1 (1) Unframed Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's printed name and copyright mark, along with the publisher - Publishing House Bebert, Rotterdam. Robert Longo Biography: Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, New York. He graduated high school in 1970, weeks after the Ohio National Guard massacred several students at Kent State University who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. One of those killed was a former classmate of Longo’s, and his body was shown in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that was seen across the world. The event shocked Longo, triggering his interest in political activism and media imagery. In 1972, Longo received a grant to study restoration and art history in Florence. While touring the museums of Europe, he realized he wanted to make, rather than restore art. In 1973, Longo enrolled at Buffalo State College, where he worked for artists Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton, who introduced him to structuralist filmmaking. Along with Charles Clough, Longo also co-founded Hallwalls (1974–ongoing), an alternative non-profit art exhibition space where he organized shows and talks with artists such as John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Robert Irwin, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Serra. At Buffalo State, Longo started a friendship–that still exists to this day–with Cindy Sherman, and in 1977 the two moved to New York together, where Longo began working as a studio assistant to Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. That year he was included in the exhibition Pictures at Artist’s Space, curated by Douglas Crimp, which showcased work by a group of five young artists who were engaged with the politics of image-making, drawing from advertisements, newspapers, film, and television. The “Pictures Generation,” as they became known, included artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, David Salle, and drew from semiotics and poststructuralist theory to investigate the way meaning is made and circulated in modern society. Their work often critiqued the anaesthetizing power of consumer capitalism and the indoctrinating effects of mass media. At his first solo show at Metro Pictures in 1981, Longo presented his charcoal and graphite Men in the Cities drawings, which instantly became icons of the “Pictures Generation,” and some of the most recognizable artworks of the 1980s. Longo performed in New York rock clubs with the band Menthol Wars with Richard Prince, throughout the 1980s. During that period, he also designed numerous album covers, including Glenn Branca’s The Ascension (1981) and The Replacements’ Tim (1985). In 1986, he directed his first music video for New Order’s chart-topping song Bizarre Love Triangle, and the following year directed The One I Love, a video for R.E.M.’s first hit single. Longo began working with diverse materials at increasingly ambitious scales. His Combines series, first exhibited in 1983, incorporated materials such as paint, graphite, wood, plaster, cast bronze, and steel in works that were part-painting, part-sculptural reliefs. Using Sergei Eisenstein...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Thelonius Monk- Little Rootie Tootie
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Thelonius Monk- Little Rootie Tootie Collage, 1989 Signed and dated lower right: "Longstreet 89" Titled by artist lower left Excellent, with usual imperfections associated with the c...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Horse Race - Mixed Media - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse race  is an artwork attribuited to Monique Boillat (1933, France).  Work made on paper, placed between two sheets of glass.  21 x 25 cm; Sheet 13 x 6 cm. Very good conditions. 
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Martin Wong Eureka California 1978 (1970s Martin Wong mixed media)
By Martin Wong
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Martin Wong (untitled) Cowboy Sacred Heart 1978: Martin Wong constructed this endearing mail art piece for his close friend John Rotter in 1978. This rare high collectible Wong mixe...
Category

1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Plastic, Paper, Ink

Untitled
Located in Cragsmoor, NY
This work is an unique work since the artist added to it with acrylic.
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Lithograph, Acrylic

For Ciccio, 1988
Located in Wien, 9
Keith Haring was an American artist and representative of American Pop Art of the 1980s. He first came to public attention with his chalk drawings in the New York underground, which ...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard, Plexiglass

Mirror by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Manchester, GB
Mirror by Jean-Michel Basquiat 24" diameter glass and mirror with film interlay and polished edges includes wooden mounting bracket zippered storage pouch open edition Find your swagger and coronate yourself with this exclusive mirror...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Mirror

Untitled - Mixed Media by Ezio Bruno Caraceni - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Ezio Bruno Caraceni, in 1956.  Mixed media on canvas, 52 x 67 cm. Hand signed and dated bottom right. Good conditions 
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1950s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Corner Rope" glass wall sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
For "Corner Rope," Mary Shaffer twisted beautifully clear hot glass into a thick rope shape. The metal ends attach to opposite walls in any corner, forming a sculpture light bridge t...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Steel

Joan Miró Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Joan Miró vinyl album art, 1979: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for th...
Category

1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

"Double Wall Hang" glass wall sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Slumped cast glass and found metal tool. One of five pieces from Mary Shaffer's "Tool Wall" series selected for Sonoma Valley Museum of Art's exhibition "Pairings: 16 Artists Creati...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Steel

Nine Pointed Stars, Colors
Located in Greenwich, CT
With Nine Pointed Stars, the most complex of the “Pointed Star” series executed in 1996, Lewitt employs his trademark systematic use of grids, geometric shapes, and precise mathemati...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Handmade Paper

Gold-Plated Earrings
Located in New York, NY
Tom Otterness Gold-Plated Earrings, ca. 1995 Pair of gold-plated earrings Signed with incised signature TOM OTTERNESS on the verso of the circular penny shape. 1 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1/4 inches Unframed An irrepressible and unforgettable gift. These anatomically correct, signed vintage gold plated earrings of figures dangling from a replica of a U.S. penny by public sculptor Tom Otterness are real collectors items. Although the edition is unnumbered, the artist has stated that approx 200 were created. The artist has also confirmed to us that these earrings were originally made as gifts to close personal friends and associates, so he did not sell them on the open market and did not make them again after the initial group. They are quite rare and desirable. In 2013, these works sold at Phillips auction house for US  $2,750. Wonderful, racy conversation pieces. Wearable art which would also look terrific framed hanging in a small shadow box. About Tom Otterness: Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1952. He came to New York City in 1970 to study at the Arts Students League, and in 1973 took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 1977 he became a member of Collaborative Projects, a pioneering community of independent artists, and took a leading role in organizing Colab’s 1980 Times Square Show, which was called “the first avant-garde art show of the ‘80s” by the Village Voice. Otterness is one of a handful of contemporary artists invited to design a balloon for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, for which he devised a tumbling Humpty-Dumpty in 2005. Otterness lives and works in New York. Otterness may well be “the world’s best public sculptor,” as the art critic Ken Johnson opined in the New York Times in 2002. Public art is his focus, and Otterness has had major outdoor exhibitions of his sculptures on the Park Avenue Mall in New York (2003), in more than a dozen sites in downtown Indianapolis (2005), on the grounds of the Beverly Hills city hall (2005-06) and throughout Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006). His first solo exhibition, held at Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York in 1983, featured elements of The New World (1991), a white plaster frieze of 250 nude “Ur-people,” as essayist Hayden Herrera called them, eventually destined for the plaza of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles, a General Services Administration commission. In the U.S., Otterness has completed at least three dozen public commissions, including Life Underground (2004), his celebrated multi-figural bronze sculpture installation for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Agency at the 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway lines. His international commissions include public plazas in Münster, Germany (1993), Toronto, Canada (2007), and Seoul, South Korea (2010), and a large public park in Scheveningen, the Netherlands (2004). In 2013, Creation Myth, a gateway park for the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, N.Y., was dedicated. Otterness has exhibited his work at John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, and other important contemporary art galleries. His most recent exhibition, Metal on Paper: Silverpoint, Copperpoint & Steelpoint Drawings, opened at Marlborough in September 2015. Works by Otterness are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Eli Broad Family Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum, the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and others. He was elected a member of the National Academy in 1994. Most recently, Otterness has installed The Tables from the collection of the Whitney and 50 new sculptures in niches at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, as part of the group exhibition, The Value of Food. On a personal note, Otterness has practiced Tai Chi, martial arts, and boxing in the school of William C. C. Chen since the 1970s, and his studio features a boxing bag...
Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Metal, Gold

Abstract Green Composition - Mixed Media by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Green Composition is an artwork realized by Leo Guida, in 1970s.  Oil painting on canvas, with frame.  122 x 81 cm. Good conditions
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Down with the Dead, 1969, Sarenco, Visual Poetry
Located in Milano, IT
Work from the late 1960s, signed and dated on the front, accompanied by certification of authenticity on photograph issued by the Sarenco Foundation. Coming from the Sarenco Foundati...
Category

1960s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen

Corpse Drawing #47, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis hand signed by four artists
Located in New York, NY
Francisco Fernández, Claudia Fernández, Diego Toledo, Hector Quinones Corpse Drawing #47, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, 1993 Ink, graphite, acrylic, and watercolor, with collage ...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite

Le Rouge et le Noir, 1966, Visual Poetry, Stendhal
Located in Milano, IT
Alphanumeric Homage to Stendhal, work from the early 1960s, signed and dated on the front, accompanied by certification of authenticity on photograph issued by the Sarenco Foundation...
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1960s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen

Composition - Mixed Media by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s.  Fabric, 120 x 78 cm; framed. Good conditions.
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Alcune Lettere Respinte al Mittente - Mixed Media by G. Baruchello - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Alcune lettere respinte al mittente  is an artwork realized in 1987 by Gianfranco Baruchello . Mixed media on paper (China ink and enamel on cardboard). Hand-signed and dated on the...
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1980s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Enamel

Oiseau Bleu, Lalanne, 1970's, Multiples, Bronze, Sculpture, Animal, Bird
Located in Geneva, CH
Oiseau bleu Ed. 21/250 pcs 1979 Bronze H. 19 cm Signed and numbered underside : FXL, 21/250 Certificate of authenticity issued by Edition Artcurial.
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Bronze

Large Contemporary Paper Assemblage In Warm Maroon Brown Color By Bo SällStröm
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
A striking contemporary assemblage that exudes warmth and an botanical-inspired charm. Thin strips of newspaper have been expertly bundled together and consistently duplicated in a longline pattern, creating an eye-catching and highly decorative piece that's sure to capture attention. The artwork was acquired from the artist atelier and is attributed to Swedish artist Bo Sällström...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Newsprint, Paper

Linda Stein, Writing on the Wall 001 - Mixed Media Collage Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Writing on the Wall 001 - Mixed Media Collage Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture These wall constructions and dioramas were made in the 1970s when Linda Stein was also wor...
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Linda Stein, The Eagle 002 - Mixed Media Collage Contemporary Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Eagle 002 - Mixed Media Collage Contemporary Wall Sculpture These wall constructions and dioramas were made in the 1970s when Linda Stein was also working on her Below ...
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Mixed Media Floral Oil Painting Collage Bouquet of Flowers Topiary
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Paris in 1946 and raised in the heart of an idyllic French countryside near the Loire Valley, Jacques Lamy began painting at a very early age. Jacques completed his formal a...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Mixed Media

I–VI (Boxed set with hardback monograph and audiocasettes) - hand signed
Located in New York, NY
John Cage I–VI (Hand signed box set), 1990 Boxed set: Mixed media hand signed hardback monograph accompanied with 2 audio cassettes and dust jacket and ...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Plastic, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Mixed Media Farmhouse, Barn Oil Painting Collage
Located in Surfside, FL
A contemporary mixed media painting on cloth, plaster and board created by listed Texas artist Jacques Lamy (French/American, 1946 – 2016). The piece uses a combination of woven and ...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Mixed Media

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