1960s Art

Untitled is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1964. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage a...

Arts Festival 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964. unframed c type pr...

Renowned American artist Robert Rauschenberg left an indelible mark on the art world, not only through his groundbreaking works but also through a distinctive poster created for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1968. Born on October 22, 1925, Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. His interdisciplinary approach to art, incorporating elements of painting, sculpture, and graphic design, set him apart. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra poster...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

La Sirene Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997) Date: 1969 Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 38/45 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 28 x 21....

Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Publ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 121-122, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; prin...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Slim Aarons Desert House Party, 1970. (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity A poolside party at a desert house, desig...

Cove (45) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 12 in. x 14 in. (30.48 cm x 35.56 cm)

Signed lower right, "Keith Halonen" (American, b. 1946), dated 1969, and titled lower left, "Life Among the Clouds". Richly patterned, ink figurative showing a man lounging on the f...

Celebrate a piece of artistic history with this original poster by James Rosenquist for the 1967 Aspen Jazz Festival, held on Easter Sunday, March 26. Featuring Rosenquist's signatur...

Unique black and white capture of actress Audrey Hepburn smiling while holding a pet Yorkie. Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and w...

La Belle Captive is an lithograph realized after René Magritte (after) in 1969. Signed on plate on the lower left corner: Magritte. Numbered in penci...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Eye of the Desert, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated lower right 16 x 12 inches 25 x 21 inches, framed A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condit...

Wonderful small scale mid century landscape of tree, grasses by the bay by unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Heavy textural impasto adds extra interest and depth. Presented in...

"Francoise Hardy" by Reg Lancaster 1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a motorbike. Unframed Paper Size: 40"x 30'' (inches) Printed 2022 ...

The Avaricious - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" - Song 7- Hell - is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. Plate n.7 (as reported on the back of the artwork) that depicts a scene from Hell. Good conditions. Limited edition of 2900, realized by Unione Editoriale, Italy.Ref. Michler-Lopsinger no. 1039/1138, pp.102/114. Prov. Private Collection Rome, Italy. Between 1951 and 1960, Dali was invited by the Italian government to commemorate the birth of Dante Alighieri, Italy’s most famous poet, by producing a series of illustrations for a full-text Deluxe edition of Dante’s masterpiece, the "Divine Comedy". However, in 1958 a new government was elected in Italy, which objected the idea of entrusting the illustration of the "Divine Comedy" to a foreign artist. As a result, Dali decided to offer the project to the French publisher, Joseph Forêt and the publication was completed on November 23rd, 1963. Dalí painted...

Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...

Black and white candid capture of President John F. Kennedy smiling in sunglasses. John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States f...

Charming and colorful mid century watercolor of a small coastal neighborhood and orchard by Zella Mae (Wunderlich) Dickinson (1895 - 1982). Initialed and dated "ZD '64" lower right c...

Honeymoon Machine, original 1 sheet U. S. theater poster; acid-free archival linen backed; this poster is ready to frame. Very fine condition with original theater-issued fold mark...

On the Sugarbush Slopes 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of people sit relaxing in a chalet on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one o...

Etching and drypoint realized to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 specimen on Arches...

Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching 1958 Printed by Tériade Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm Handsigned and numbered handcolored Edition: 100 Reference: Cramer 30. Etching with hand-coloring, circa 1930, initialled in pencil, numbered 75/100 (there were also twenty hors-commerce copies) , published 1958 by Tériade, Paris, on Arches wove paper Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...

Still life with palette and books is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in 1969. Oil on canvas. Handisgned and dated in the lower right margin. 47 x 66,5 cm ; 58,5 x 78 cm ...

Dancer/choreographer Louis Falco and Jose Limon dancers photographed for Dance magazine in 1968. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by...

Winged woman is a fine ink drawing, realized by Albert Decaris (1901-1988) . Good conditions. Albert Decaris was a French artist, engraver and painter. ...

Beautiful landscape by listed Los Angeles and Carmel artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in gold-toned wood frame. Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Size: 20"...

Industrial Landscape with Row Houses in Oil on Linen Bold industrial landscape by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). A large red building with smoke...

Cover for Derrière Le Miroir is an original lithograph realized by Antoni Tapies for the Art Magazine Derrière le Miroir no. 175, in 1968. Printed by Ateliers de Maeght, Paris, 19...

Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré a George...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Tree (P1.31), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Rendered in watercolor...

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1968 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Fr...

Saks Fashion 1955 Slim Aarons Estate Edition A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Imag...

This is one of a series of great posters created by the noted American artist David Klein. Klein (1918 - 2005) produced illustrations for Broadway theatrical productions, Hollywood f...

Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010) Mixed media sculpture "Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage, Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d. There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made. Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010 From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd." Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years. Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis. In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place. Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...

Original oil paint on heavy archival paper abstract by the American artist, Martin Rosenthal. Bold, vibrant colors. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1964. Condition is goo...

This limited edition lithograph, signed by Fernand Mourlot beneath the right-hand corner of the image, is part of a suite of eight “Le Domaine Enchanté” images, printed in an edition...

Technology in 1960s - Vintage Photograph is a vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer. With script on the rear. Good conditions.

"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist James Daugherty (1887-1974) "Lascaux" 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches Pastel on paper Initialed lower left, titled lo...

This piece is an original etching, aquatint, dry-point and carborundum by Joan Miro, done in 1969. It is hand signed and numbered 54/75 from the edition of 75 copies on Arches, plus ...

Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24H x 30L

Modern warm toned Cubist style still life painting by Texas artist David Adickes. The work features a collection of bottles and fruit displayed on a pedestal against a deep maroon ba...

Black and white candid capture of actress Brigitte Bardot lying in bed with a dog under the sheets. Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an anima...

Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...

Hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969. Limited edition of 145 copies water-coloured, numbered in lower left corner EA (Epreuve d'artist)...

‘The Picture Frame’ by Arthur Steel Paper size: 20 x 13.5 inches / 51 x 34 cm Framing options available. Note: Image unearthed January 2013. Arthur r...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 179, 1969. Published by Aim...

Hommage a Rene Char litho by Moulot Imprimerie After Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and co-founder of the Cubist movement, which revolutionized Europe...

La Camacunta Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941) Date: 1966 Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 29.5 x 24.5 in. (74.93 x 62.23 cm) Frame Size: 30.5 x 25.5 inches

Screen print in colors on lightweight board folded into a three-dimensional pyramid. Hand signed and numbered on interior edge by Roy Lichtenstein Numbered 41/300 (only approximate...

Original Abstract Color lithograph by Dutch artist Karel Appel (1921-2006). Created 1969. Edition size is 53 of 200. The work is signed in pencil lower right. The image size is: 25 5...

Maurice UTRILLO Montmartre : Sacre Coeur Church and Moulin de la Galette under the Snow Lithograph enhanced with gouache and watercolor pochoir Printed signature in the plate On Ar...

Original poster of Kees Van Dongen representing Brigitte Bardot, for the exhibition of the painters witnesses of their time. Isis Kischka founded, with the art critic Jean Cassou and...

Delightful watercolor seascape of a sweeping view over a rugged cliff off the English coast by artist Tae, circa 1960. Unsigned. Original artwork on pap...

Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photographers, who used a Leica. His images today are d...

Antonina Aleksandrovna Dolinina (Russian, 1925-2004), "Spring", Oil on Canvas, 1960s, International Art Fund Certificate of Authenticity to verso, giltwood frame. Image: 22.75" H x 3...

"Porch" is a colorful, original painting on board by New York Pop Artist George Mueller (1929-2021), signed and dated from 1967. The work measures 24 x 32 inches.