John Baldessari set of 2 vintage gallery announcements, 1989 & 1996

1989

Basquiat Works in Black & White: Basquiat at Robert Miller Gallery, 1994: Rare vintage Jean-Michel Basquiat announcement card published in ...

Raymond Pettibon Captive Chains, 1978: Featured in its entirety at The New Museum in New York, Pettibon's well documented first artist book is widely regarded as a seminal piece in the development of the artist's style and themes. Offset printed. 68 pages. 7.25 x 10.5 inches (26.6 x 18.4 cm). Good to very good overall vintage condition; normal signs of aging commensurate with medium. Published by Black Flag's label SST Productions in 1978. Literature/References: Raymond Pettibon: the Books 1978-1998 (New York: D.A.P. c. 2000). Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus (David Zwirner Books). Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work (Massimialiano Gioni 2017). Exhibited: Raymond Pettibon, A Pen of All Work, The New Museum 2017 More on Raymond Pettibon: Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen...

Martin Wong, Futura 2000 Semaphore Gallery New York, 1986: Rare original, highly collectible 1980s graffiti announcement published on on the occasion of: ‘Semaphore Gallery Cordiall...

Ed Ruscha ‘I DON'T WANT NO RETRO SPECTIVE’: Vintage original, historic 1982 exhibition program to Ed Ruscha’s first major museum retrospective(s): “THE WORKS OF EDWARD RUSCHA”: Sa...

This is a lifetime edition - hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat himself in Basquiat's lifetime. Many younger collectors don't appreciate the difference between the numerous posthumous estate authorized prints...

Roy Lichtenstein (after) 1960s exhibition invitation for Galleria Apollinaire, 1965 Offset lithograph poster Unsigned Frame included This poster/invitation was published for Lichtens...

Roy Lichtenstein at CSU, exhibition catalogue, 1982 Softback exhibition catalogue with 2 very cool vellum pages with the Benday dots Unsigned 11 × 8 1/2 in...

After Andy Warhol. These lithographic prints feature an image of Mick Jagger - an iconic rock legend and the lead singer of the Rolling Stones. These unsigned postcard sized prints ...