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Period: 1970s
Terrace with Green Chair oil painting Spain mediterranean
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Author: Rafael Durán Benet (Barcelona, 1931–2015) Title: Terrace with Green Chair Technique: Oil on canvas-board Support: Daler panel (England) Dimensions: 33 × 41 cm (F6) — approx. ...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Oil

Look Not Upon Me..., Surrealist Etching with Gold Dust by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Look Not Upon Me..., Portfolio: The Song of Songs of King Solomon, Year: 1972, Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed ...
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Surrealist 1970s Art

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Gold Leaf

Paisaje con Luna, Surrealist Mixografia by Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Paisaje con Luna, Year: 1977, Medium: Mixografia on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in crayon, Edition: 16/100, Size: 19.75 x 27.25 in. (...
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Surrealist 1970s Art

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Etching

Original GRATEFUL DEAD Skull and Roses 1971 Tour poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Grateful Dead “Skeleton & Roses” Poster (1971) — Tour Blank. Grade A, A- condition, ready to frame. A striking 1971 Grateful Dead poster featuring the band’s iconic skeleton c...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Offset

Abstract Composition - Etching by Nino Cordio - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1972. Hand signed, numbered and dated in pencil. Edition of 60. Very good condition.
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Contemporary 1970s Art

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Etching

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró VIII Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm Condition: In...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Joyce Kozloff, Tepoztlan II unique, signed gouache & pencil, coveted 1970s work
Located in New York, NY
Joyce Kozloff Tepoztlan II, 1973 Gouache and colored pencil on paper Signed, dated and titled twice: once on the back of the work (shown) and once on the original board which has bee...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Gouache, Color Pencil

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró XX Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm Condition: In v...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Canal in Venice oil painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Author: Rafael Durán Benet (Terrassa, 1931 – Barcelona, 2015) Title: Canal in Venice Date: ca. 1970–1985 Technique: Oil on canvas-mounted cardboard Dimensions: 33 × 41 cm (12.99 × 16...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Oil

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró V Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 71 cm Observations: Lith...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Peach Lady, Psychedelic Art Lithograph by Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Max, German/American (1937 - ) - Peach Lady, Year: 1973, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 224/300, Image Size: 22.25 x 17.25 inches, Size: 26 x ...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Purple Composition - Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Victor Debach in 1970s. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 100. Very good condition.
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Op Art 1970s Art

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Screen

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 for the art revue Derrière le Miroir (issue number 183) and published in Paris by Maeght. Sheet size: 14 3/4 x 11 inches (377 x 277 mm). ...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Blue and White Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6131 Blue and white abstract Expressionist painting Image size 18x14"
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1970s Art

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Oil

Gold Unicorn
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6095 Gold unicorn gold pen painting Signed Paul Breeden Wood frame image size 19.5x15.5"
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1970s Art

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Oil

Gold Unicorn
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original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 for the art revue Derrière le Miroir (issue number 183) and published in Paris by Maeght. Sheet size: 14 3/4 x 11 inches (377 x 277 mm). ...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

DAVID SHRIGLEY - BLACK CATS EVERYWHERE. Modern Design British Artist Blue
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAVID SHRIGLEY - Black Cats Everywhere Date of creation: 2021 Medium: 12 colour screenprint on Somerset satin paper Edition: 125 Size: 75 x 56 cm Condition: Brand new, in mint cond...
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Modern 1970s Art

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Paper, Screen

Stormig natt (Stormy Night) (1978)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Bruno Wiklund (1937-2011) Sweden Stormig natt (Stormy Night) (1978) medium: pastel signed and dated unframed 52 × 41.5 cm (approx. 20.5 × 16.3 in) framed 59 × 48 cm (approx. 23.2 ×...
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Modern 1970s Art

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Pastel

Pablo Picasso, The Ostrich, from Natural History, 1970 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled L'Autruche (The Ostrich), from the folio Picasso, Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon, Histoire naturel...
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Cubist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Andre Derain, The Two Hangars, 1970 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Les deux hangars (The Two Hangars), from the folio Andre Derain entre 1935 et 1949, V (Andre Derain between 1935 and ...
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Fauvist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Miro Lithographe II Plate III
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Medium: Original lithograph Title: Miro Lithographe II, Plate III Portfolio: Joan Miro Lithographe II Year: 1975 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 27 1/2" ...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, 25.4.64., The Taste of Happiness, 1970 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled 25.4.64., from the folio Le Gout du Bonheur, trois carnets d`atelier (The Taste of Happiness, Three Studio Sketchboo...
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Cubist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Jean Tinguely - Hommage à Yves Klein (Homage to Yves Klein), Mixed Media, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Jean Tinguely - Hommage à Yves Klein (Homage to Yves Klein), or Le Monstre dans la Forêt (The Forest Monster), 1974 Mixed media work in silkscreen, watercolor, collage, drawing, feat...
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1970s Art

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Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Graphite, Screen

Commentaire de Personnage Lithograph, 1964
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pierre Alechinsky (1927) - Commentaire de Personnage Lithograph from 1964. The edition of 125. Dimensions of work: 30 x 21 cm. Publisher: Atelier Clot, Paris. The work is in Exc...
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Surrealist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Led Zeppelin #D2 Robert Plant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photo of Robert Plant striking one of his famous pose fronting Led Zeppelin at the Forum in 1973. About The Print: Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a satin baryta fi...
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Other Art Style 1970s Art

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Archival Pigment

Marc Chagall, Sun Over the City, from XXe siecle, 1973
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Soleil sur la ville (Sun Over the City), from the album Chagall Monumental Works, Special Issue of the XXe Siecle Review...
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Expressionist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Neil Welliver 'Stump' 1975, Vintage Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original exhibition poster featuring the work of the acclaimed American realist painter Neil Welliver (1929–2005). Welliver is best known for his monumental landscapes of the Maine w...
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1970s Art

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Offset

Robert Indiana, Handwritten letter with original postmarked LOVE FDC, signed 2x
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana Original postmarked LOVE First Day Cover, with handwritten letter on the back (hand signed twice), 1973 Handwriten latter on the verso of postmarked First Day Cover (H...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Ink, Lithograph, Offset

Cow
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on wallpaper, 1971. Printed by Bill Miller's Wallpaper Studio, Inc., New York. Published by Factory Additions, New York. Catalogue raisonné reference: Feldman / S...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Screen

Saturday on Wednesday, Large Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting, 20th C.
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927–2013) Saturday on Wednesday, c. 1975 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 48.5 x 62.5 inches Richard Andres was born in Buff...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art

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Acrylic

The Monkey - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
The Monkey  is a Contemporary artwork realized in the 1972  by the italian artist  Leo Guida. Etching on paper. Mint conditions.  Artist proof. Hand-signed n pencil.
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Contemporary 1970s Art

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Etching

Vintage French Impressionist Floral Still life Vase of Flowers
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3795 Impressionist vase of flower Signed on verso Gelant Set in a carved gilt wood frame Image size 19.75 x15.75"
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1970s Art

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Oil

Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Reclining Nude Artist: Roser Vinardell Tolrà (Cabrera de Mar, 1941) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 46 x 65 cm (18.1 x 25.6 in) Date: 1970s Signature: Signed in the lower...
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Impressionist 1970s Art

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Oil, Canvas

Cadaques in Calm oil on canvas painting mediterranean spanish seascape art
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Cadaqués in Calm Artist: Ramón Pichot Soler (Figueres, 1924 – Barcelona, 1996) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in) With frame: 66 x 79 cm (26 x 31...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Alexander Calder, Rings on Black, from Derriere le Miroir, 1973
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Alexander Calder (1898–1976), titled Anneaux sur noir (Rings on Black), originates from the historic 1973 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 201. Published by...
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Modern 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Yankee Doodle /// Gene Davis Abstract Geometric Huge Screenprint Colorful Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985) Title: "Yankee Doodle" *Signed and numbered by Davis in pencil lower right Year: 1972 Medium: Original Screenprint on wove paper, laid down t...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Canvas, Screen

Joe D'Allesandro
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Joe D'Allesandro, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Measures 12 x 15 inches framed. Studio...
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American Realist 1970s Art

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Silver Gelatin

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró XVIII Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm Observations...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Lithograph

View of Cadaqués oil on board painting mediterranean landscape Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: View of Cadaqués Artist: Ramón Pichot i Soler (1924–1996) Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 13 x 21.7 in Date: 1960s Condition: Good Framing: Unframed Signature: Signed ...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Oil, Board

'Bicentennial Independence Celebration' Benjamin Franklin, Saturday Evening Post
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Norman Rockwell' (American, 1894-1978) and inscribed, lower left, with number and limitation '200/200'. Originally created for the May 29, 1926 edition of the S...
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1970s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Vintage Impressionist Large Tropical Red Flower Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3048 Oversized red floral painting on canvas applied to board Set in a vintage wood frame Neapolitan artist P. Russo
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1970s Art

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Oil

Geometric Abstraction, signed and inscribed to designer Robert Vogele, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov Untitled, inscribed to Robert Vogele, 1978 Watercolor and etching on paper with 2 deckled edges. Hand signed in pencil and inscribed on lower front. Inscription reads as ...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Etching

Homage to the Square - P2, F13, I2 - Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 2, Folder 13, Image 2" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origin...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Screen

Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse oil painting Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Barcelona, 1931–2015) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in Signature: Signed "R. Duran" in ...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Interaction of Color: Homage to the Square, Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
This "Homage to the Square" print was created by Albers for the occasion of an exhibition at Grippi Gallery in Manhattan in 1973. It is in an excellent white contemporary frame. Art...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Screen

'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
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Modern 1970s Art

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Woodcut

Nude - Etching by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Marcantonio. Hand-signed in the lower right in pencil. Good conditions. Edition of 50.
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Contemporary 1970s Art

Materials

Etching

Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, 1975 Polaroid dye-diffusion print Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, bears the Foundation stamp verso Frame included: Framed in white wood frame with UV plexiglass; with die-cut window in the back to show official Warhol Foundation authentication stamp and text Measurements: 9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame) 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window) 4.16 x 3.15 inches (Artwork) Authenticated and stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol/Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts An impressive piece of Pop Art history! A must-have for fans and collectors of both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: This is a unique, authenticated color Polaroid taken by one Pop Art legend, Andy Warhol, of his most formidable contemporary and, in many respects, rival, Roy Lichtenstein. One of only a few portraits Andy Warhol took of Roy Lichtenstein, during one tense photo shoot. Both iconic artists, colleagues and, perhaps lesser known to the public, rivals, would be represented at the time by the renowned Leo Castelli Gallery. The truth is - they were really more rivals than friends. (the rivalry intensified when Warhol, who was working with Walt Disney, discovered that Lichtenstein painted Mickey Mouse before he did!!) Leo Castelli was committed to Roy Lichtenstein, and, it's easy to forget today, wasn't that interested in Warhol as he considered Lichtenstein the greater talent and he could relate better with Roy on a personal level. However, Ivan Karp, who worked at Castelli, was very interested in Warhol, as were some powerful European dealers, as well as many wealthy and influential American and European collectors. That was the start of Warhol's bypassing the traditional gallery model - so that dealers like Castelli could re-discover him after everybody else had. Warhol is known to have taken hundreds of self-portrait polaroid photographs - shoe boxes full - and he took many dozens of images of celebrities like Blondie and Farrah Fawcett. But only a small number of photographic portraits of fellow Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein -- each unique,- are known to have appeared on the market over the past half a century - all from the same photo session. This is one of them. There is another Polaroid - from this same (and only) sitting, in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California. There really weren't any other collaborations between these two titans, making the resulting portrait from this photo session extraordinary. It is fascinating to study Roy Lichtenstein's face and demeanor in this photograph, in the context of the great sense of competition, but perhaps even greater, albeit uneasy respect, these two larger than life Pop art titans had for each other: Like Leo Castelli, Roy Lichtenstein was Jewish of European descent; whereas Warhol was Catholic and quintessentially American, though also of European (Polish) descent. They were never going to be good friends, but this portrait, perhaps even arranged by Leo Castelli, represents an uneasy acknowledgement there would be room at the top for both of them. Floated, framed with die cut back revealing authentication details, and ready to hang. Measurements: 9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame) 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window) 4.16 x 3.15 inches (sheet) Authenticated by the Estate of Andy Warhol/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Estate Stamped: Stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate, Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp, numbered "B 512536P", with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp and inscribed UP on the reverse. Bears the Warhol Foundation unique inventory number. Roy Lichtenstein Biography Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it. Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own. In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy. As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957. To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960. At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing. Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School. With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes. Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true. The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer. Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore. Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Polaroid

Litografia Original VI (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic, 40% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Litografia Original VI Color Lithograph Year: 1975 Size: 13.25 × 10 inches (33.65 x 25.4 cm) Catalogue Raisonné: Queneau, Miro Lithographe II, 1952-1963, p.35 Publisher: Ma...
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Surrealist 1970s Art

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Lithograph

Flowers and Butterflies - Oil Paint by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers and Butterflies is a painting realized by Claude Deschamps in the 1970s. Tempera on paper Hand-signed. Very Good condition.
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Modern 1970s Art

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Oil

Salobreña Granada Spain oil painting landscape seascape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Salobreña Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 – Barcelona, 2015) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in Support: Canvas board, unframed Signature: Sign...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Homage to the Square - P1, F5, I1, Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 2, Folder 5, Image 1" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origina...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Screen

Mid-Century Painting Drawing Framed Colorful Texture New York Estate Red Black
Located in Buffalo, NY
A wonderful minimalist black and red mixed media work Circa 1970. Though the artist is unknown this work was acquired along with pieces by well know artists Karel Appel and Robert M...
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Minimalist 1970s Art

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Coating, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Diamond Ring 1977 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Richard Bernstein Diamond Ring - 1977 Print - Silkscreen on Heavy Paper Paper : 30'' x 26'' inches image size : 28" x 23 ½" inches Edition: Signed in pencil, titled, dated and marked...
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Pop Art 1970s Art

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Screen

Bathing Nudes in Landscape, French Vintage Figurative Oil Painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Landscape with nudes, vintage oil painting of bathing nudes in a landscape by French artist Jean Chevauchet (b.1937). An unusual and interesting almost dreamlike or indeeed Symbolis...
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French School 1970s Art

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Oil

Sunbathing In Capri, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features sunbathers by a swimming pool at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capri, Italy, Au...
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Realist 1970s Art

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Lambda

Homage to the Square - P2, F14, I1 - Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 2, Folder 14, Image 1" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origin...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Screen

Gates No.1
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) 'Gates' No 1 1976 Medium: Oil & crayon on oil wash Image: 21.0 x 33.0 cm Reference no: 0450 George Dannatt’s long career as a painter and sculptor ended ...
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Abstract 1970s Art

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil

Spring in Cadaqués Spain mediterranean seascape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Spring in Cadaqués Author: Rafael Duran Benet (1931–2005) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 14.96 x 18.11 in Signature: Signed "R. Duran" in the lower left corner Dat...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Art

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Blue Rectangles, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Cris Cristofaro 1978
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Cris Cristofaro, American Title: Blue Rectangles Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Art

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Screen

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