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Limited Edition Historic 1st Companion Ever (Hand Signed and Dated '00 by KAWS)
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS VERY FIRST COMPANION - HISTORIC
Uniquely Hand signed by the artist.
(the regular edition was unsigned)
KAWS
Limited Edition 1st Companion (Hand Signed by KAWS), 1999
Painted Ca...
Category
Street Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
'Look Homeward, Angel', Anthony Perkins Costume, Broadway, Motley, Academy Award
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Look Homeward, Angel', Anthony Perkins Costume, Broadway, Motley, Academy Award, LACMA, Guggenheim Museum
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Initialed lower right, 'DJ', for Dorothy Jeakins (Ameri...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century More Art
Materials
Fabric, Watercolor, Graphite
Verdure Balmoral Tapestry
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is our last remaining one of very popular full size Verdure Balmoral tapestry, we will be completely sold out once this one sells.
Inspired by the Verdure Balmoral Tapestry, Fl...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century More Art
Materials
Tapestry
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
To Earl and Camilla Love Andy Warhol unique heart drawing in monograph Signed 2x
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
To Earl and Camilla, Love Andy Warhol, 1979
Original Heart Drawing held in book with unique dedication to Earl and Camilla McGrath (Signed Twice by Andy Warhol)
This uniq...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
"La Foret de Marly" The Forest of Marly
Located in Atlanta, GA
Inspired by the Flanders verdure from the early 17th century. The rapid development of new sciences such as botany inspired weavers to produce tapestries known as "verdures". These d...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century More Art
Materials
Tapestry
Les Oiseaux (The Birds)
Located in Atlanta, GA
This tapestry is based on a design by William Morris (1834-1896). He was instrumental in the revival of the decorative arts at the end of the 19th century.
This tapestry is French ...
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Art
Materials
Tapestry
Four original lithographs - A Los Toros series
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Four original lithographs - A Los Toros series
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1014-1017; Cramer 113.
Printed by...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Inferno, Canto 6 - Cerberus
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 6 - Cerberus
Woodcut print from 1960.
Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Les Heures C...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le débarquement
By Jean Carzou
Located in OPOLE, PL
Jean Carzou (1907-2000) - Le débarquement
Lithograph from 1966.
Dedicated to Pierre Sorlier, on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 77.7 x 62.2 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Exc...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1949 Painted Ceramic Tile Flowers Hand Painting Grandma Moses Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Dogwood Blossoms. 1949.
Dimensions: Tile 6 X 6 Frame 7.75 X 7.75 inches.
Provenance: The tile was in the possession of the Beers family and is from the estate.
Catalogue raisonné number at Galerie St Etienne: Kallir T #87
An exceedingly rare, authenticated, and hand painted floral decorated tile by Grandma Moses herself, fired by Helen Beers. Tile dated 1949 and signed moses recto as well as 'Moses Fired by Helen C. Beers, painted by Grandma Moses, Pinewold Pottery'. There are only a handful of these known to exist, approximately five, this being one of those five, outside the private collection of Galerie St. Etienne, Manhattan NY.
This listing is for the tile only. The photo archive, from the family, will be listed separately and is included here just for provenance and reference.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860 – 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis. In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: "The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring ... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild."
Moses's work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards. In 2006, her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1.36 million, setting an auction record for the artist. Her work is fundamental for any Naive art or Americana collection.
She was known as either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses", and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses", the press dubbed her "Grandma Moses", and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918 she used house paint to decorate a fireboard. Beginning in 1932, Moses used yarn to embroider pictures for friends and family. She created quilt objects, a form of "hobby art". Lucy R. Lippard stated in "The Word in Their Hands" that she found "hobby art" to be "an activity so 'low' on the art lists that it still ranks way below 'folk art'". She found that hobby art often involves reuse of otherwise discarded objects.
Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles.
Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life.
During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, saw paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Charles Levier [Solitude de Pierrot] signed large oil on canvas circa 1950
Located in Miami, FL
CHARLES LEVIER – [SOLITUDE DE PIERROT
⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Original Period Frame
A THEATRICAL PORTRAIT OF MELANCHOLY
“Solitude de Pierrot” captures Charles Levier’s fascination with the archetypal Pierrot from commedia dell’arte. With angular black outlines and muted pastel tones, Levier reduces the figure to its essential gestures, creating a poignant symbol of isolation and quiet reflection. The vertical format emphasizes Pierrot’s elongated stance, while his downcast eyes and red-tipped nose heighten the painting’s emotive impact. This work was acquired directly from the artist by noted Beverly Hills designer Dean Richard Kukuk and retains its original Martin Lowitz Gallery label, underscoring both provenance and historical context.
WHY COLLECT THIS WORK?
✓ An early and expressive Charles Levier oil from circa 1950
✓ Features the Pierrot subject, connecting to the theatrical tradition of commedia dell’arte
✓ Strong provenance: Martin Lowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, and the collection of Dean Richard Kukuk, Beverly Hills
✓ Retains its original period frame in excellent condition with gallery label affixed verso
ARTWORK DETAILS:
▸ Title: [Solitude de Pierrot]
▸ Artist: Levier, Charles
▸ Medium: Oil on Canvas
▸ Creation Date: circa 1950
▸ Country of Creation: US
▸ Signed: Hand Signed Lower Right
▸ Current Condition: Excellent commensurate with age. Original period frame in great condition consistent with age.
▸ Documentation: Martin Lowitz Gallery label affixed to verso
▸ Provenance: Martin Lowitz Gallery, Los Angeles; Dean Richard Kukuk, Los Angeles
▸ Dimensions:
— ◼︎ Canvas Size: 44.25 inches x 15 inches
— ◻︎ Frame Size: 59 inches x 30 inches x 2.625 inches
INCLUDED DOCUMENTATION
✓ Certificate of Authenticity
✓ Artist Biography Document
THE ARTIST:
Charles Levier (1920–2003) was a French-American painter known for expressive oils, gouaches, and watercolors that bridge Modernism and postwar design sensibilities. His subjects include harbor towns, still lifes, café society, and commedia dell’arte figures such as Pierrot and Harlequin. Levier’s linear bite and stylized elongations have invited comparison to Bernard Buffet, while collectors of Modigliani, Rouault, and mid-century École de Paris painting...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Keith Haring designed Martin Luther King Day announcement 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Invitation for Martin Luther King Day celebration 1988, designed by Keith Haring
In 1988, 20 years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Keith Haring illustrated this rare invi...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
Matadores
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Matadores
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'A...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy 11/35
obituary published by CNN March 2021
Celebra...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shadow, 1970, offset lithograph on card (hand signed by Sean Scully), Framed
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Shadow, 1970, 2016 (hand signed)
Offset lithograph card
Boldly signed in black marker by Sean Scully
Published by Cheim & Read on the occasion of the exhibition "Circa '...
Category
Abstract 20th Century More Art
Materials
Cardboard, Lithograph, Offset
Andy Warhol "Mick Jagger-F&S. II.144" Framed Announcement card, Hand signed
By Andy Warhol
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol.
Title: Mick Jagger F&S II.144 Framed Announcement card.
Medium: Lithograph Hand Signed
Size: Image size: 6" x 4", Framed: 10" x 8
Year: 1975
Edition: Limited Re...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
Robie House Window
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Produced under the auspices of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. It is an exact replica of the Robie House No. 2 Window.
Inscribed "1988 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation #60" lower b...
Category
20th Century More Art
Materials
Copper
$8,410
Rare Keith Haring Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring & Futura)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 'Rap It' record art 1983:
A rare vinyl art cover featuring original artwork by Keith Haring and Futura 2000 (reverse side). Truly vibrant colors that make for stand-out ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
The Forest
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a Flemish style tapestry reproduction of the Jagaloon tapestries created to decorate the interiors of the royal Wawel Castle in Kraków, P...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century More Art
Materials
Tapestry
$450
Equestrian Scene
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a piece from my private collection of 20th Century School of Paris era artists. It is hand signed by the artist and numbered, Guilde de la Gravure, and is in very ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century More Art
Materials
Oil, Engraving, Lithograph
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Andy-Warhol "Mick Jagger-F&S. II.146" Framed Announcement card, Hand signed
By Andy Warhol
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol.
Title: Mick Jagger F&S II.146 Framed Announcement card.
Medium: Lithograph Hand Signed
Size: Image size: 6" x 4", Framed: 10" x 8
Year: 1975
Edition: Limited Re...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
Lt. Ed. Monograph of drawings, hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media
'Dogwood Tree', By Unknown, Japanese Antique Scroll
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This Antique Japanese Scroll is a depiction of a dogwood tree. Painted in a traditional Japanese style with watercolor, the brush strokes are ...
Category
Edo 20th Century More Art
Materials
Silk, Paper, Watercolor
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Kusama Skateboard decks (Yayoi Kusama MoMa)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama MoMa Skateboard Decks (set of 2 works):
These Kusama skateboard decks feature Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and make for standout Kusama wall art that hangs with ease...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Wood, Offset
"The Woodland" Tapestry
Located in Atlanta, GA
Arcadian landscape inspired tapestry. Belgian made, jacquard woven with relief stitch. Fully lined with rod pocket for hanging.
Cotton and rayon.
Measurements are approximate.
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century More Art
Materials
Tapestry
EDWARD BOHLIN 1920s-1930s SILVER ART PARADE SADDLE HOLLYWOOD WESTERN ARTIST VAIL
Located in San Antonio, TX
Circa Late 1920s - Early 1930s. It is all Bohlin made and marked to include the saddle, the headstall and the breast collar. All made in Hollywood California. The only non-Bohlin item is the bit which appears to also be early California. There is some interesting provenance of the fine saddle. It was commissioned by Charles R. Bell, married to Margaret Vail Bell who was the daughter of Walter Vail. On the Bolin nameplate it has engraved, Vail Ranch as well as made for Charles Bell. Charles Bell Died in 1939.
The Vail Ranch has some great Western History which I will go into a little detail. You see, not only am I selling Saddles, but I’m also selling History.
If you want to skip the history lesson you can just scroll down past the following info to images of the saddle.
It’s no secret that ranching runs in the family blood. There is no greater example of that than California Rangeland Trust CEO Nita Vail. On April 14, 2018 Nita had the opportunity to witness her great-grandfather Walter L. Vail’s induction into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. This high honor is bestowed by the Museum to “exceptional individuals who have made an indelible impact upon the history of the great West.” A pivotal figure in early California and Arizona ranching, Walter Vail joins just over only 200 individuals who have been inducted into this esteemed hall.
The Vail legacy of advocacy and ranching lives on strongly through his descendants, including Nita.
All these years later, Nita carries the mantle of advocacy for ranchers in her own work at the California Rangeland Trust. Reflecting on her great-grandfather’s induction ceremony in Oklahoma, Nita says, “Witnessing my great-grandfather’s induction with family and friends was an incredible experience and a reminder of why I do what I do. Ranching plays an integral role in the culture, economy, and quality of life in California. Generations later, I get to honor Walter L. Vail’s legacy in my work with the California Rangeland Trust every day, preserving those open spaces for new generations and partnering with ranchers to continue to sustain life on the range in California.”
Walter Vail History
A native of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Walter Vail purchased the 160-acre Empire Ranch southeast of Tucson, Arizona in 1876, along with an Englishman named Herbert Hislop. In 1882, the Empire Land & Cattle Company was formed with Walter L. Vail as principal shareholder. Over the years Vail, along with various partners, expanded the original land holdings to include over one million acres. The year after Walter purchased the Empire Ranch, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a railroad line, which was great news for the Vail family as it provided a means for them to ship their cattle.
Edward L. Vail, George Scholefield and Bird at the mouth of Rosemont Canyon ca. 1896-1898
Standing Up for Ranchers
In the fall of 1889, the Southern Pacific Railroad announced they would raise cattle freight rates by 25 percent. They ignored loud protests from ranchers who had already been hit hard by depressed cattle prices. In response, the Vails made a plan to drive the cattle overland themselves without the railroad. They knew that, if they were successful, they could break the railroad’s monopoly on the ranchers and force prices down.
Walter’s brother Edward Vail and foreman Tom Turner volunteered to drive the almost 1,000 steers on the 300-mile trip to the Warner Ranch in San Diego. The journey ahead would be grueling. Most of their trip was through desert with water sources 15 to 30 miles apart.
The ranchers would face a slew of obstacles—a stampede, a chaotic Colorado River crossing, an encounter with a group of horse thieves. In spite of all the dangers and challenges, they reached their destination. Just 71 days after leaving Arizona, the Empire cowboys arrived at the Warner Ranch. They had only lost 30 steers.
The historic Empire Ranch Trail Drive of 1890 inspired other Arizona ranchers to make similar drives as a stand against the railroad. That fall, a group of Arizona cattlemen met and agreed to fund improvements to establish a safe cattle trail from Tucson to California.
In response to the united stand of the ranchers, sparked by the Vails, the railroad finally agreed to restore the old freight rate—on the condition that the cattlemen would make no more cattle drives.
Walter Vail led by example, but he was also an active representative of ranching interests in the legislature. He served in the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1878 and in 1884 on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. He introduced two significant bills: One proposing the creation of Apache County in the northeastern corner or Arizona Territory, and the other calling for the repeal and replacement of a Pima County fencing ordinance. Elected to the Arizona Stock Growers Association in 1884, Walter L. Vail advocated for levying fines on outfits that brought diseased cattle into the Territory, proposed a system of recording brands and earmarks, and requested the establishment of the livestock sanitary commission to oversee quarantines on infectious diseases, and tighter trespass laws.
Moving to California
In the late 1880s when a long drought hit Arizona, the Vails began leasing California pastures and shipping increased numbers of their cattle there to fatten. This marked the beginning of Walter’s efforts to purchase land in Temecula Valley.
Vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) at the Empire Ranch in Arizona
In 1890, with growing corporate holdings in California, Walter Vail established his headquarters in downtown Los Angeles and moved his family there. By this time, he had pieced together four Mexican land grants—Pauba Rancho, Santa Rosa Rancho, Temecula Rancho and Little Temecula Rancho—to form the Pauba Ranch. Eventually, the Vails would own more than 87,500 acres surrounding the little town of Temecula. In 1892 they leased Catalina Island and in 1901-1902 in partnership with J. V. Vickers, they purchased most of the interests in Santa Rosa from the estate of A.P. More. In March of 1894, Vail and Gates joined Vickers in setting up a third cattle company, the Panhandle Pasture Company, with the hopes of expanding new markets in the east. The Panhandle Pasture Company bought seven thousand acres of grassland in Sherman County, Texas, and an equal amount across the line in Beaver County, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma).
Walter Vail was tragically killed in a Los Angeles streetcar accident in 1906. After his death, the Empire Land & Cattle Company (later renamed the Vail Company) assumed control of all his ranches and other real estate holdings. Walter had five sons and they would all have a hand in running the various ranches and the Vail Company as whole throughout their lives. The Empire Ranch in Arizona was sold in 1928. The Temecula area ranches continued to operate until it was sold in 1965. Santa Rosa Island, the last of Walter Vail’s holdings, was sold to the National Park Service in 1986, and ranching operations shut down there in 1998.
Walter Lennox Vail (May 13, 1852 - December 2, 1906) was an American businessman, cattle dealer, and politician. He is known for his Empire Land & Cattle Company (later the Vail Company), which spanned over one million acres throughout five states.[1] Vail has been called "a pivotal figure in early California and Arizona ranching."
Early life
Vail was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia on May 13, 1852, to Mahlon Vail, Sr. and Eliza Vail.
Career
Empire Ranch
The headquarters of the Empire Ranch in the modern day
Vail left his family's Plainfield, New Jersey house in the middle of 1875 to pursue riches in the West. He worked for a few months in Virginia City, Nevada as a mine's timekeeper, but in November he wrote of his intention to get involved in Arizona's sheep business. He, along with an Englishman named Herbert R. Hislop, then purchased the Empire Ranch along with its 612 cattle on August 22, 1876. The purchase from Edward Nye Fish and Simon Silverberg cost $1,174 at the time and was only 0.25 square miles (0.65 km2). Vail had met Hislop for the first time in August of that year, at the Lick House in San Francisco. Vail also became the main shareholder of the Empire Land & Cattle Company, which was formed in 1882.
Politics
Vail additionally served in the House of Representatives on the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature for two years, starting in 1879. He was one of five representatives from Pima County. There, he proposed the creation of Apache County in the northeast. In 1884, Vail was elected to the Arizona Stock Growers Association, where he introduced many laws relating to cattle farming.
California
Vail moved his main operations to California in the late 1880s due to a long drought in Arizona. He started leasing Californian land mainly in Temecula Valley, but established his headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. By this time, he had already bought four ranches: the northern half of Rancho Little Temecula, Rancho Pauba, Rancho Santa Rosa, and Rancho Temecula. Later, Vail would own over 135 square miles (350 km2) surrounding the city of Temecula. He also leased Santa Catalina Island and Purchased Santa Rosa Island in 1892 and 1901, respectively. Vail, along with Carroll W. Gates and J.V. Vickers, set up the Panhandle Pasture Company, which bought about 22 square miles (57 km2) in Sherman County, Texas and Beaver County, Oklahoma.
Personal life
Vail married Margaret "Maggie"[a] Newhall in 1881, with them having five children: Nathan Russel, Mahlon, Mary, Walter Lennox Jr., and William Banning (who used his middle name) together.
In 1890, a Gila monster bit Vail on his middle finger, and for years thereafter he experienced bleeding and swelling in his throat, which was thought to be caused by the venom from the bite.
Death
Vail died at 54 on December 2, 1906, due to complications from a tram (Trolley Car) accident in Los Angeles. He was cremated, then buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on December 6.
Legacy
Vail's sons took over the company after his death, renaming it to the Vail Company. The Empire Ranch was sold in 1928, and the Temecula ranches were bought by a syndicate of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Industries, and Macco Realties in 1965. Santa Rosa Island was acquired by the National Park Service in 1986, and ranching ceased in 1998.
Vail was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2018.[2] Various properties have been named after the Vail family including: Vail Headquarters, an outdoor shopping mall, Vail Lake, and Vail, Arizona.
In 1867, German immigrant, Louis Wolf, and his Chumash wife, Ramona, built a small adobe trading post next to Temecula Creek. Their Wolf Store helped launch the Temecula community, serving as a saloon, livery stable, legal services, hotel, general store, stagecoach stop, post office, school and employment agency. After Louis and Ramona’s deaths, their land and other Ranchos were purchased by Arizona cattle baron Walter Vail. By 1905, the 87,000-acre Vail Ranch became one of the largest cattle operations in California, stretching from Camp Pendleton to Vail Lake to Murrieta. It operated through the late 1970’s when it was sold to build Temecula’s housing. Some of the ranch’s oldest buildings survived in a cluster around the long-vacant Wolf Store. Together they would wait more than 40 years to be restored and once again become a center for community life in the Temecula Valley.
In 1905 after his death, Wolf’s Temecula was purchased by Arizona cattle baron Walter Vail, along with three other Ranchos totaling 87,500 acres. The sprawling Vail Ranch spread from South of Highway 79 to South of Clinton Keith Road, East to Vail Lake Resort and West to Camp Pendleton and continued operations through the late 1970’s when it was sold for housing subdivisions. The remaining buildings that comprised the Vail Ranch Headquarters, several having been demolished, have sat mostly vacant since then awaiting their restoration and re-use.
John N. Harvey, Edward L. Vail, Walter L. Vail, 1879
Ned Joins the Partnership - May 1879
In May of 1879 Walter’s older brother, Edward Lang Vail, known as Ned, joined the Empire Ranch partnership. He had no ranching experience but quickly learned. The Empire Ranch herds were finally sufficiently developed for sale, and the Empire Ranch found a ready market in the town of Tombstone and its nearby mines. Walter finally had sufficient funds to begin to pay off some of the loans from his Uncle Nathan and Aunt Anna.
North end of the original four rooms of the Empire Ranch House.
Empire Ranch Census Records - 1880
The 1880 U.S. Census documents that eight men were living full time at the Empire: the partners, Walter Vail, John Harvey and Ned Vail; John Randolph Vail, Uncle Nathan and Aunt Anna’s son; John Milton Requa, nephew of Isaac Requa who hired Walter in Virginia City; John Dillon, who was instrumental in locating the Total Wreck Mine; Tomás Lopez, a herder; and Mon Ta, the cook.
Section of Official Map of Pima County by Roskruge 1893.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Arrives in Pantano - April 1880
In 1880 the Southern Pacific Railroad finally reached Tucson and by April it was extended to Pantano, north of the Empire Ranch. The availability of rail transportation was a major boom to the Empire Ranch as it was now possible to sell cattle and beef to markets beyond Southern Arizona. The railroad also increased the availability of goods in Tucson and allowed for much quicker and safer transportation to California and the East.
Empire Ranch land acquisitions are highlighted in red. Courtesy of Dave Tuggle
Land Holdings Expand-1881-1882
Starting in 1881 the land holdings of the Empire Ranch expanded considerably. They acquired Charles and Agnes Paige’s Happy Valley Ranch near the Rincon Mountains in 1881. 1882 saw the addition of Don Alonzo Sanford’s Stock Valley Ranch totaling over twenty-eight square miles of grassland between the Whetstone and Empire Mountains.
Charles Bell Bohlin Saddle. All of the leather has been professionally cleaned and conditioned. All of the sterling has been professionally polished as are all of my saddles.
THE BOHLIN BRAND IS AS ICONIC AS THE FAMED WESTERN STARS that wore it. The late actor Richard Farnsworth sported a recognizable gold steer-head Bohlin buckle...
Category
Realist 20th Century More Art
Materials
Silver
Femme Nu
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Nu
Photogravure from 1952.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure sh...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century More Art
Materials
Photogravure
Large Budd Hopkins Modernist Hard Edged Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting 1965
Located in Surfside, FL
Budd Hopkins, American (1931-2011)
'City Sun II',
1969
Oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Verso: Artist, title, and year in pencil on stretcher. Dimensions: 36" H x 52" w. Frame: 37.25" h x 53.25" w.
Budd Hopkins was one of the leading proponents of the "hard-edge" abstract minimalist school of painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Budd Hopkins (born 1931) created works that show the strong influence of Jackson Pollock and other leading painters of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Hopkins' paintings are now in numerous major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Collection in Washington, DC.
Recently, he has also been recognized for his research into the matter of UFOs and one of his books, "The Intruders", printed by Random House, was on the New York Times best-seller list and was the basis for a television show on CBS.
Born in 1931, he is a graduate of Linsly Military Institute (now Linsly School) in 1949 and Oberlin College in 1953. He first displayed artistic abilities when, as a child recovering from a long-term illness, he began to create sculptures of ships made out of modeling clay. But it wasn't until he arrive at Oberlin that he made a serious study of art. Later, Hopkins included abstracted figures in his sculptural pieces. While moving away from Abstract Expressionism, Hopkins retained in his work the use of intense colors and hard-edged forms. His works of the 1980s, including Temples and Guardians, featured these "sentinels" who were, according to Hopkins, "participating in a frozen ritual, fixed – absolutely – within a privileged space..." Though Hopkins denied any connection, some critics viewed these ritualistic pieces as an extension of Hopkins' fascination with alien beings. Hopkins viewed his sculpted guardians not as human per se, but as magical, fierce, noble robots of the unconscious.
He settled in New York after obtaining his degree and has had a residence there ever since. He and his wife, April Kingsley, and their daughter, Grace, divide their time between their home at Cape Cod, Mass., and that in New York City. In his work, he travels widely. He has exhibited in England, Finland, Italy and Switzerland.
In 1963, Hopkins was selected by the Columbia Broadcasting System as one of the 15 painters featured in the network's first television special on American art. In 1958, Art News picked him as one of 12 Americans for exhibition in Spoleto, Italy, in the "Festival of Two Worlds."
His brilliance has won him a number of fellowships and awards. In 1972, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council awarded him its Commission Prize. In 1976, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting and in '79 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He also won a special project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1982. He was friends with Robert Ryman and many of the other 10th street avant garde artists. He was an original member of March Gallery which showed Alice Baber, Elaine de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Lester Johnson, Matsumi Kanemitsu.
His work was handled by Poindexter Gallery. (a major gallery founded in 1955 in New York City by Elinor Poindexter. The gallery specialized in sculpture, abstract, and figurative art and featured the works of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Jules Olitski, Nell Blaine, Al Held, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Earl Kerkam, Milton Resnick and Robert De Niro, among others.
His art has been featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum in New York, and the Public Library of New York. He was included in Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six buy Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Artists included: Sonia Gechtoff, Edward Giobbi, Ron Gorchov, James Harvey, Budd Hopkins, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Robert Natkin, Rudy Pozzatti, Dean Richardson, Frank Roth, William Wiley, and Noriko Yamamoto...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century More Art
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Canvas, Oil
Concetto Spaziale
Located in OPOLE, PL
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) - Concetto Spaziale
Lithograph from 1975.
Edition 371/575 (Photocopy of the colophone is included).
Dimensions of work: 31 x 24 cm.
Each copy of this li...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
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Lithograph
"Tea Cup" Mary Caroline Richards, Black Mountain College, Modernist Pottery
Located in New York, NY
Mary Caroline Richards
Tea Cup, circa 1970s
Glazed earthenware
2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches
Provenance
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards (1916 – 1999)...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Femme nue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme nue
Lithograph, pochoir from 1962.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 262.
Dimensions of work: 48.5 x 36 cm
Publisher: Leda, Éditions ...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring The Great Peace March 1986 (announcemet)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring The Great Peace March 1986:
Rare vintage original 1986 Keith Haring (offset) illustrated announcement published on the occasion of: The Great Peace March New York, 1986....
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
Mother and Child
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Mother and Child
Lithograph from 1946.
Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm
Publisher: Pantheon.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure shi...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Face of the Poet
By Alex Katz
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Adored by collectors and art lovers the world over, Alex Katz is renowned for his elegant and distinctive version of figuration.
Born in 1927, Katz has been dedicated to art-making ...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Aquatint
Don Quichote
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Don Quichote
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle ...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXVI
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXVI
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in ...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
$336 Sale Price
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Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987:
RARE folding announcement designed by Haring in 1987 to promote, "The American Run for the End of Aids". A rare, historic Keith Haring activist coll...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Basquiat Gagosian Gallery Los Angeles 1983 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 1983:
RARE historic Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of:
Jean- Michel Basquiat. Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los ...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
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Paper
The Taste of Happiness, Planche XV
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XV
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in fr...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Roy Lichtenstein at CSU, exhibition catalogue
Located in New York, NY
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...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
A Banjo. Art Deco Era Musical Instrument With Wood Inlay. Achille Jacomoni.
Located in Firenze, IT
Banjo. Art Deco era musical instrument to be restored in inlaid wood.
Signed on the handle Achille Jacomoni, the signature is made with the pyrographed technique.
Materials: Wood, ...
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Art Deco 20th Century More Art
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Metal
$201 Sale Price
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The Anointing of Saul
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Anointing of Saul
Etching from 1952.
Edition of 100
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37 cm.
Hand signed.
Publish...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Etching
$5,287 Sale Price
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Rare Folk Art Hebrew Judaica Carved Gilded Wood Lions Torah Synagogue Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Paint and gold paint on wood
Circa early to mid 20th century.
This is not signed
A treasure from a proud congregation. It is a hand-carved wooden sculpture showing the Tablets of the Law flanked by two Lions of Judah. Their paws held the tablets. Their roaring mouths faced outward, protecting the commandments from threats. In a foliage design with gold and silver paint.
Circa 1920-1940's. This Neoclassical, Judaic, Art Deco, Egyptian revival, Shul, Aron Kodesh hand carving, wood with gilding, Hebrew lettering ten commandments sign sculpture, was produced probably in New York.
There was a show at the Folk Art Museum titled “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” That featured these antique magnificent pieces. From gilded lions to high-stepping horses, the sacred to the secular, and the Old World to the New, “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” traces the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and other artisans from Eastern and Central Europe to America and the unsung role they played in establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the United States. The exuberant artworks stand as a testament to a history of survival and transformation and provide a surprising revelation of the link that was forged between the synagogue and the carousel as immigrant Jewish artists transferred symbolic visual elements into this vernacular American idiom. The first major study of this important aspect of the Jewish contribution to American folk art, the exhibition features approximately one hundred artworks and objects, including rare documentary photographs of Eastern European synagogue arks and carved gravestones, sacred carvings, papercuts, and carousel animals. Some of these same Jewish European carvers worked on Coney Island amusement park rides and carousel horses and other carnival and circus carvings.
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Folk Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Metal
Pair of Antique Hand Painted Chinese Jars With Foo Dogs and Inscriptions
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Antique Hand Painted Chinese Vases with Foo Dogs and Inscriptions
China, early 20th century
Porcelain
17 x 8 x 8 inches
Painted in iron red, these Foo Dogs or Imperial Guardian Lions are strong Feng Shui protection symbols which were traditionally placed in front of Imperial palaces, temples, and government offices. They were also a traditional symbol of family wealth and social status and were placed in front of wealthy homes.
It is widely accepted that foo dogs were created sometime after real lions...
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Qing 20th Century More Art
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
$1,500 Sale Price
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Le Cocu Magnifique - Complete Suite of Etchings by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In-folio Oblong
Dimensions : 29x39 cm.
Paris
Atelier Crommelynck
1968
Edition of 200 copies including 12 original out-of-text etchings (7 etchings, 4 etchings and acquatint and 1 e...
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Cubist 20th Century More Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
The Lovers
Located in New York, NY
Wood engraving on Japan paper, 1928. Edition of 100. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right.
Framed dimension is 14.5 x 17.25 inches, with full margins.
Catalogue raisonne r...
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American Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Signed Andy Warhol Interview Magazine (Andy Warhol Bianca Jagger)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Signed Andy Warhol Interview Magazine 1978:
A handsomely signed 1970s Warhol Interview magazine featuring a striking Bianca Jagger cover & a bold, well-preserved Warhol signature. Standout highly decorative 1970s pop art that is well-suited for framing.
Magazine on newspaper stock. The full edition of the magazine.
Measures: 11 x 17 inches.
Well-preserved bold signature.
Magazine: good overall vintage condition.
Private collection New York, NY.
Further background:
Interview Magazine, founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol and John Wilcock, was a pop culture magazine known for its celebrity interviews and Warhol's influence. Originally a film journal, it evolved into a major player in celebrity culture, especially in the 1970s, with a focus on glamour and pop culture
After starring on the cover of January 1973 edition, Interview founder Andy Warhol and then-editor Bob Colacello, went back in the saddle with Jagger twice by highlighting the Halston muse and humanitarian on covers in 1975 and 1978. Each image from the issues depicts Jagger as beguiling as the next, a total knockout that leaves little wonder why she became the seductress of Studio 54.
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Signed Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol Interview Magazine. Warhol studio 54.
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Paper, Offset
Femme nue debout
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme nue debout
Lithograph, pochoir from 1962.
An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 267.
Dimensions of work: 48.5 x 36 cm
Publisher: Leda, Éd...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Schooner
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist New England marine painting with a schooner at the dock by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for...
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American Impressionist 20th Century More Art
Materials
Oil
Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Etching and aquatint from 1965.
The edition of 33/50.
Dimensions of work: 39 x 51.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher:...
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Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$17,731 Sale Price
20% Off
Le cheval de Troie
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de Troie
Lithograph from 1972.
The edition of 187/250.
Dimensions o...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
$5,804 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Sailors Valentine
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty vintage sailors valentine handcrafted in exotic organic seashells in a delightful composition of floral designs. Presented under glass in an octagon mahogany shadow box.
Category
Victorian 20th Century More Art
Materials
Wood
The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIII
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in...
Category
Modern 20th Century More Art
Materials
Lithograph
Raventos Big Ocher Blue Green Original tapestry
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Happy world. Original tapestry
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
Raventós expa...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century More Art
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Tapestry
Basquiat Amateur Bout 1989 (Basquiat Vrej Baghoomian gallery)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Amateur Bout 1989:
Basquiat Amateur Bout is a 1989 printed version of a composition notebook of same by Basquiat. Limited to only 1000 copies, the work was pub...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
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Paper
Sam Gilliam Handmade Paper "Untitled #34" Acrylic. Signed & Dated
By Sam Gilliam
Located in Detroit, MI
“Untitled #34” was created by Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. It is dated and signed on the lower front. The thick handmade paper is rich with folds and texture and the colors lively. In addition to Acrylic paint on the surface there appears to be imbedded color in the handmade paper which has additional embossed accents. Unframed the piece measures 16 x 14. Provenance of Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan is on the verso along with the note that the Paper Surfaces in contact with this artwork are acid free.
In the mid-1960s he emerged from the Washington D.C. scene with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. One profound manner was the sculpture aspect of the painting giving it a free flowing expression of pure color.
In the latter half of the 1950s, Washington D.C. saw a flourishing of abstract art that emphasized the form-making capabilities of pure color. Known as The Washington Color School, the loosely affiliated group of abstract painters knew each other through various teaching experiences. The moniker has an uncertain origin but likely originated with the title of a 1965 exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Washington Color Painters," curated by Gerald Nordland. The show exhibited the works of Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Gene Davis. Additionally, Leon Berkowitz...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century More Art
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Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Exquisite India Miniature Persian European Illustration Erotic Signed 1921
Located in Norfolk, GB
Couple at play
Watercolour on paper laid to board
21cm x 14cm
Mounted 39cm x 29cm
1921
Signed with Monogram Bottom right
This is an exquisitely executed watercolour painting that ...
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Other Art Style 20th Century More Art
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1980s Keith Haring Album Cover Art (vintage Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage Vinyl Record Art by Keith Haring with bright, lush colors that make for stand-out wall art within reach:
Year: 1986.
Off-Set Lithograph on record jacket, vinyl record.
Dimen...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Offset
Cow
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on wallpaper, 1976. With the printed text in the left margin "Andy Warhol Whitney Musemm".
Printed by Bill Miller's Wallpaper Studio, Inc., New York. Published b...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Art
Materials
Screen
$10,000
Vintage Hermes 1963 Piano Black Leather
By Hermès
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Vintage Hermes
Flap Bag
Shiny black Porosus
Piano Black Leather
1963
Claf leather lining
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20th Century More Art
Materials
Leather
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