Richard Prince

Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)

2009

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Untitled" is a Bay Area Figurative Painting, oil on canvas in a brown and tan palette by American artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Oliveira 64". A Californian whose work is of preeminent importance during the post war period, Oliveira is most often associated with Park, Diebenkorn and the other artists with whom he sketched early in his career. Yet it was not an oversight when Oakland Museum director Paul Mills chose not to include Oliveira in the 1957 exhibition “Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting.” All came to figuration by initiating a sophisticated dialogue with abstraction, yet it is Oliveira, the often characterized ambivalent loner among Bay Area artists whose work is most often compared to Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, or Willem de Kooning with whom he shared walls and space at The Images of Man exhibition held in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959. During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggested an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there was also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig. Through and through, flesh to bones, and bones to dust Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...

A mixed media on paper by contemporary artist Anton Henning. This work is one of Henning’s "Interieur" paintings, a complex, pictorial systems of paintings within paintings...

"New Baby" is a lithography by Robert Kushner. Signed in pencil, lower right, "Robert Kushner". The work is number 5 from an edition of 35. The artwork size is 22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches...

A 17-color screenprint by John Baldessari. “Front Row (Valentine)” is print from the Front Row suite by American conceptual artist, John Baldessari. The artwork is signed lower right...

Classical Nude, 2016 by Roberta Fineberg (RF) is a 13" x 10.75" photopolymer chine-colle monoprint on rag paper - signed, titled, and dated by the artist on verso (back of the work)....

Richard Prince Untitled (de Kooning), 2008 Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage with extensive additions in graphite mounted on on inset board. Hand signed and numbered with the letter L (from A-Z) by artist on the front Frame Included Richard Prince’s “de Kooning” series is a process of interaction and appropriation with the works of ground-breaking imagery of the Abstract Expressionist master, Willem de Kooning. The idea for these edgy, Oedipal works came to him when he was leafing through a catalogue of de Kooning’s "Women" series. Prince started sketching over the paintings, and, as time went on, he began applying fragments cut and pasted from catalogues and vintage porn...

Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage on inset board. It is signed in pencil, with numbering on the original label. Published by Two Palms ...

Colette (aka Colette Justine), Tunisian/American (1952 - ) - Pink Kool Aid, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: ...