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Period: 1970s
MARTIN GRELLE "Night Stop", WESTERN HORSES SHACK NOCTURNAL 24 x 36 CANVAS
By Martin Grelle
Located in San Antonio, TX
Martin Grelle
(Born 1954)
Clifton Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 33 x 45
Medium: Oil on Canvas
1978
"Night Stop" Nocturnal Western painting
Signed lower left
Biography
Martin Grelle (Born 1954)
Martin Grelle, b. 1954, Clifton, Texas, (United States)
Born and raised in Clifton, Texas, Martin Grelle still lives on a small ranch a few miles from town. His studio sits in the picturesque Meridian Creek Valley, surrounded by the oak & cedar-covered hills of Bosque County, just a short distance from his home, but also within a few miles of the family and friends who are so important in his life. He has two sons, Josh & Jordan, who have left home to pursue their own dreams, but who stay in touch frequently. Martin's parents, Ervin & Ella, have both passed from this life, but he still has his brothers, Carl & Marvin, living nearby, as well as his sister, Mary, who lives in Ft. Worth.
Martin began drawing and painting when he was very young, and was fortunate to have James Boren and Melvin Warren, two professional artists and members of the Cowboy Artists of America, move to the area when he was still in high school, and it has had a lasting impact on his direction and career. Mentored by Boren, he had his first one-man show at a local gallery within a year of graduating from high school in 1973. In the nearly 40 years since that time, he has produced some 30 one-man exhibitions, including annual shows in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1989, and has won awards of both regional and national importance at shows around the country.
He was invited into membership with the Cowboy Artists of America in 1995, fulfilling a dream begun in the early 70's when he first met Boren and Warren. That same year he was invited to participate in the first Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Since that time, he has won the Prix de West Purchase Award, twice (one of only seven artists to do so), the Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers' Choice Award, twice, the CA People's Choice Award in 2002, the CA Ray Swanson Award in 2008, the CA Buyers' Choice Award in 2011 and 2012, and the Silver Award for Water Solubles in 2012. He was awarded the Legacy Award by The Briscoe Museum in 2012, for his impact on western art.
Other major invitational exhibitions and sales Martin has participated in include The Masters at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, and the inaugural Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Coeur d'Alene Auction, and the Jackson Hole Art Auction. Martin has also been featured in a number of publications throughout his career, including multiple appearances in the following magazines: Art of the West, Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, Western Art and Architecture, Persimmon Hill, American Cowboy, Western Horseman, Informant, Wild West, and True West's magazine's 2011 Best of the West Source Book. He was honored with a retrospective showing of his work, along with fellow CA artist, Herb Mignery, for the Gilcrease Museum's Rendezvous Show 2013.
Martin has a real sense of responsibility to his collectors, which fills his heart every morning when he walks into the studio, believing that what he does is a gift entrusted to him from God, and must not be left unused or taken for granted, but developed and improved upon. His parents and Jim and Mary Ellen Boren, all set that example for him - an example of not only striving to be the best artist he can be, but the best man he can be as well.
Beyond his studio, Martin strives to pass on what others have passed to him. He has given multiple demonstrations around the country, teaches an annual weekend workshop along with his good friend, and fellow CA, Bruce Greene - which they have done for 22 years straight - and mentors other aspiring artists by critiquing their work. He has donated work to a large number of organizations to aid in their progress, including The Bosque Arts Center in Clifton, Texas.
He has twice served on the board of directors for the CA organization and is currently serving as President. He is also involved with The Joe Beeler Foundation, founded by the Cowboy Artists of America to coincide with their mentoring program, which provides scholarship opportunities for artists seeking to improve their skills, and has served as President of the Foundation for the past year as well.
Education
Self-taught; mentored by James Boren
Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, TX, Workshop, Harvey Johnson/Melvin Warren, 1983
Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, TX, Workshop, Bettina Steinke...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Woodland - Original Screen Print by D. Yordanov - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 pieces.
Very good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Mythology Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)"
Portfolio: Hommage à Albrecht Durer (Suite Mythologique Nouvelle)
*Signed by Dali in pencil ...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Intaglio, Engraving
WORKING ON IT INCESSANTLY
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CORITA KENT (Sister Mary Corita) 1918–1986
WORKING ON IT INCESSANTLY, ca. 1970 Color serigraph. Signed and numbered in ink 200/. In generally good condition. Image 22 3/8 x 11 1/2, sheet 23 x 12 1/4 inches.
Provenance: Marjorie Kauffman Graphics on original period label.
Sister Corita is highly important in the development of modern use of serigraphy with highly charged social and political content expressed in strong colors and dynamic composition. She often made biblical and well as literary references as a major part of the composition. She taught printmaking at Immaculate Heart...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Vintage Abstracted Fauvist Birch Tree Landscape
By Libby Beth Seligman
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid abstracted landscape in vibrant fauvist hues of birch trees in green field by Libby Beth Seligman (American, b. 1958), 1977. Signed and dated lower right corner. Presented in r...
Category
Fauvist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers (Hand-Colored)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Flowers (Hand-Colored)
Medium: Screenprint hand-colored with watercolor on white wove paper
Date: 1974
Edition: 238/250
Sheet Size: 40 7/8" x 27 1/4"
Signa...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Screen
Jack Nicholson, LA, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of American actor and fi...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"BEND IN THE CREEK" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LIMESTONE BLUFFS RIVER 33 X 45 FRAMED
Located in San Antonio, TX
W. A. Slaughter
(1923 - 2003)
Dallas / San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 33 x 45
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Bend in the Creek" Texas Hill Country
Biography
W. A. Slaught...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
The Coronation of Gala (The Empress), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Coronation of Gala (The Empress) from Visions Surrealiste
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904–1989)
Portfolio: Visions Surrealiste
Date: 1976
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
E...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist King
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist King
MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL
MEASUREMENTS: 29...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Leo Castelli Gallery (The Red Horseman) Poster (Signed) //// Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Title: "Leo Castelli Gallery (The Red Horseman)"
*Dedicated, signed, and dated by Lichtenstein in pencil lower right
Year: 1975...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
nude reclined
Located in Cologne, DE
Beautiful vintage nude photo created by the East German Photographer Sigurd Rosenhain, who lived and worked in Leipzig.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007)
Abstract Large Painting
Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect.
Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w
Circa late 1970s, early 1980s
Provenance: ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Abstract - Lithograph by Carla Accardi - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 150 pieces, hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Spanish landscape oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Josep María Riera i Aragó (1954) - Landscape - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x100 cm.
Frame measurements 77x104 cm.
Painter and sculptor,...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,912 Sale Price
60% Off
1970's Op Art Cintique Geometric Abstract Color Gradations Silkscreen Domberger
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen serigraph Op art print.
Luitpold Domberger (1912-2005 ) was a pioneer of artistic screen printing in Germany.
Luitpold (Poldi) Domberger...
Category
Op Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Vintage River Landscape Oil in English Countryside - 20th Century British Art
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage River Landscape Oil in English Countryside - 20th Century British Art
Art measures 11 x 7.5 inches
Frame measures 13 x 10 inches
Don Micklethwaite is a British Postwar & ...
Category
English School 1970s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Circa 1970 Original red composition on Plexiglas by Lucio Fontana
Located in PARIS, FR
Italian maestro Lucio Fontana, a trailblazer in spatialism and the mastermind behind "Concetto spaziale," pushed artistic boundaries with his innovative use of plexiglass. One such groundbreaking exhibition unfolded at Galleria il Quadro Biella.
Fontana, renowned for his Spatialist theories that advocated for a fusion of art and technology, harnessed the transparent allure of plexiglass to redefine the boundaries of artistic expression. The exhibition at Galleria il Quadro Biella became a testament to Fontana's avant-garde spirit and his relentless pursuit of transcending traditional artistic mediums.
With plexiglass as his canvas, Fontana delved into a realm where space and art converged. The material's transparency allowed for a unique interplay of light and form, creating an immersive experience for the viewer. Each piece, a testament to Fontana's mastery, unfolded a narrative that extended beyond the physical confines of the gallery.
Silvio Zamorani...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Plexiglass
In the Beginning There Were Mistakes, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - In the Beginning There Were Mistakes, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 7...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
'The South of France', MMA Paris, Pompidou, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Garcia Fons' for Pierre Garcia-Fons (French, 1928-2016), and inscribed lower left, 'Epr. d' Artist' (Epreuve d'Artist / Artist's Proof); also indistinctly inscri...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
Large 20th French Impressionist Pastel Painting Provence Valley Village View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape
signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Pastel, Wax Crayon
Piper - Original Lithograph by Pietro Morando - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Piper is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Pietro Morando (Alessandria 1889- 1980).
Hand-colored lithograph.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
Good conditions...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$149 Sale Price
50% Off
On the set of the film Paris Texas - Wim Wenders - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
On the set of the film Paris Texas - Wim Wenders is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1984.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Le chavelier de la mort
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 chavelier de la mort
Lithograph from 1972.
The edition of 187/250.
Dimensi...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$5,772 Sale Price
30% Off
Pierre Soulages, Lithograph No 28, from XXe Siecle, 1970
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), titled Lithographie No 28 (Lithograph No 28), from the album XXe Siecle, XXXIIe Annee, Nouvelle serie No. 34, Juin 1970, ori...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Myron Wood “Broadmoor and Front Range” 1978 Original Gelatin Silver Print
By Myron Wood
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative 1978 gelatin silver print by renowned Colorado photographer Myron Wood (1921–1999) captures the sweeping beauty of the Front Range as seen from the historic Broadmoor ...
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Father Christmas
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original Folk Art painting by American artist, Arthur Glazier (1928-2015).
Oil on canvas, measuring 14 x 18 inches.
Signed lower bottom.
Arthur was born May 29, 1928, ...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Souvenirs de Vacances Par David Hamilton, Female Nude Photograph Portfolio
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Hamilton, American (1933 - 2016) - Souvenirs de Vacances Par David Hamilton, Year: 1974, Medium: Incomplete Portfolio of 61 unbound reproduction prints with cloth bound cov...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Offset, C Print
Original Marc Chagall Peintures Bibliques Recentes Jacob's Ladder exhibition
Located in Spokane, WA
Marc Chagall, Vintage Exhibition Poster (1977) — 30 × 20.5 in — Very Good, A-
Lithography poster (Mourlot workshop). Expertly printed in Paris by the renowned Mourlot Printers.
Engra...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN (Uptown At Savoy) Signed Lithograph, Jazz Club
Located in Union City, NJ
INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN(Uptown At Savoy) is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175. INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN 1979 from Romare Bearden's colorful JAZZ series of musical imagery, is an abstract live music scene that captures the energy inside a jazz club where a female blues singer...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Polaroid
Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic portrait for After Dark, signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro the iconic portrait taken during the photo session for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol's 'Trash'. Vintage 11 x 14 in...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jon Carsman Faded Glory 1977 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Jon Carsman
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jon Carsman
Faded Glory - 1978
Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper 34¼'' x 24'' inches
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 156/100
image size 20" x 30" inches
“Jon Cars...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
GLOWING HANDS Signed Lithograph, Spiritual Inspiration, Yellow Light, Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
GLOWING HANDS is a hand drawn original lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free. GLOWING HANDS is a highly detailed sp...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Continuity #1
By Ibram Lassaw
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ibram Lassaw
Continuity #1
1971
Screenprint
Visible: 19.5 x 25.5 inches
Framed: 27 x 32.5 x 1 inches
Edition: 100
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil along lower edge
COA pr...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile) Dominican Artist
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alberto Ulloa Burgos (1 January 1950 – 1 October 2011). Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile), 1970. Oil on masonite panel measuring 20 x 24 inches; 26 x 30 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Original frame with export label stamp.
Alberto Ulloa Burgos was a painter, sculptor, and poet from Altamira, Dominican Republic. He was a student of the distinguished Latin American painter Jaime Colson...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Joan Miro, "Le Pitre Rose", etching, aquatint, hand signed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miró
"Le Pitre Rose", 1974
Original etching and aquatint
From the edition of 50 on arches paper, hand signed and numbered 9/50.
Sheet measures: 55 x...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Homage to the Square - P1, F5, I1
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Portraits of the 1970s, Deluxe Monograph + Slipcase Hand Signed/N by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Portraits of the 1970s (Deluxe Limited Edition Monograph with Slipcase, Hand Signed and Numbered by Warhol), 1979
Hand Signed and Numbered Hardback Monograph with 120 Bound offset lithographs and text, held in original slipcase (boxed set).
Boldly signed by Andy Warhol and numbered 7, from the edition of 200 on the colophon page.
9 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 2 inches
Provenance
The original (uptown) Whitney Museum
An amazing and historic gift! As dazzling as the Warhol show was in 2019 at the new Whitney Museum -- only his show in the late 1970s at the old Whitney Museum, could offer this Deluxe limited edition collectors item - hand signed and numbered by Andy Warhol - because the latter was published during his lifetime. This rare 1979 First (and only) Edition hardback monograph is held in the original slipcase, and is hand signed by Andy Warhol and numbered 108 out of only 200 on the first front end page (see image). This collectors item features text, accompanied by 120 full page color offset lithograph bound, double sided plates on regular pages. (Total pages are: 145) It was published by the Whitney Museum in collaboration with Random House, in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 1979 to January 27, 1980. Text foreword is by Tom Armstrong, the Whitney's director. Total pages are: 145. The Warhol portraits included are: Giovanni Agnelli, Marella Agnelli, Corice Arman, Marian Block, Irving Blum, Truman Capote, Cristina Caramati, Leo Castelli, Carol Coleman, Norman Fisher, Kay Fortson, Tina Freeman, Diane Von Furstenberg, Henry Geldzahler, Halston, Brooke Hayward...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
Venus III, Nude Lithograph by Roberto Carbone
Located in Long Island City, NY
Venus III
Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Diversions 1970 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Ian Tyson
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Ian Tyson
Diversions XI - 1970
Screen Print
16'' x 15'' inches
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 65/150
Ian Tyson, British painter, printmaker and book artist, was born in Wallas...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Dolly Immortalized, Vintage Black and White Photo, 1976, Signed and Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
**This artwork is on exhibition and if purchased will be available to ship after June 15, 2025
The incomparable Dolly Parton doing what she does best, performing. In this vintage si...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hommage à San Lazzaro
Located in OPOLE, PL
Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971) - Hommage à San Lazzaro
Lithograph from 1975.
Edition 371/575 (Photocopy of the colophone is included).
Dimensions of work: 31 x 24 cm.
Plate signed....
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$543 Sale Price
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Vintage Pop Art Portrait of Peter Max Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition - Screen Print by Salvatore Provino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an artwork realized by Salvatore Provino.
Screen print on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner.
Numbered on the lower left, edition of 75.
Very go...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Nick Caturano and Carol Amink, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$962 Sale Price
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Portrait of Male Model Ingolf, Copenhagen Denmark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of male model Ingolf wearing Torben Hardernberg, ca. 1975. Period print measures 9 x 11 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi ...
Category
Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette.
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Maine Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful winter landscape by American artist, J. Philip Richards (1906-1991). Maine Morning, 1974. Casein on paper, 16 x 26 inches; 26 x 36 inches framed. Signed lower right. Signed, titled and dated on verso. Excellent condition.
Glass has been removed and will need to be replaced.
Born in Moosic, PA, and graduated from the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse University in New York, J Philip Richards worked and studied with such artists of international reputation as William Von Schlagell, James Fitzgerald, David Porter, and John Taylor.He was professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Member of the American Watercolor Society, NYC, NY; York Artists Association, York, ME; Ogunquit Art Association, Ogunquit, ME; Wyoming Valley Art League, Wilkes-Barre, PA; National Society of Casein Painters, NYC, NY; Director Ancestor's Art Workshops, Searsport, ME; Gallery Director, "Gallery 164," Kennebunk, ME; Professional Artists League of America, NYC, NY; Art Guild of Kennebunks, Kennebunk, ME; Maine Artists...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Casein
$450 Sale Price
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Alain Le Yaouanc 'Study III' 1970- Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph, Study III, is part of the Derrière le Miroir No. 188 series, featuring the work of French artist Le Yaouanc. Renowned for his geometric and abstract compositions, Le...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$60 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled XXVI, Colorful Signed Abstract Screenprint by Piero Dorazio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXVI
Piero Dorazio, Italian (1927–2005)
Date: 1970
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 37/80
Size: 28.5 x 38.5 in. (72.39 x 97.79 cm)
Printer: Erker Presse...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Actor Robert La Tourneaux, 'Cowboy' from 'Boys in the Band' nude for After Dark
Located in Senoia, GA
Actor Robert La Tourneaux, "Cowboy" from "Boys in the Band" on Broadway, and in the motion picture, photographed nude in 1970 for After Dark magazi...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Victor Vasarely "Zebres 1" 1976 French Op Art Serigraph, Hand Signed & Numbered
Located in Miami, FL
VICTOR VASARELY – "ZEBRES 1"
⚜ Serigraph ⚜ Hand Signed and Numbered ⚜ Edition of 120
VASARELY’S ICONIC ZEBRAS
Created in 1976 and published by the Foundation Vasarely in an edition ...
Category
Op Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Continual, Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Title: Continual
Year: 1979
Edition: 41/175, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper
Size: 25 x 25 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Si...
Category
Op Art 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
$2,800 Sale Price
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1970 Tokio Mayashita-Rainy Street Woodblock Mid Century Modern
By Tokio Mayashita
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition woodblock print in colors seated in a black metal frame behind glass with a front profile of 1/4 inch and a side profile of 1 1/4 inch. Hand signed and numbered out o...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Apocalypse - Lithograph by Charles Lapicque - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Apocalypse is an original artwork realized by Charles Lapicque in 1974.
Colored lithograph.
Not signed. as issued.
Excellent condition. Printed by Mourlot , France.
This lithogr...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
70's Hippie Female Guitar Player
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3917 Acrylic painting on artist board of a 70's guitar player
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Acrylic
$300 Sale Price
47% Off
Los futbolistas - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
JAUME MUXART DOMÈNECH (Martorell, Barcelona, 1922).
"Futbolistas".
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Firmado en el ángulo inferior derecho.
Medidas Pintura: 97 x 130 cm. Medidas marco: 101 x 134 cm...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Lines & Color, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines, Using All Combinations..
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful geometric silkscreen print by American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Syracuse University where he studied tradition...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Transection No. 3, Ovoid Geometrical Figural Abstract Neon Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Transection No. 3, 1972
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated upper right
30 x 22 inches
Provenance: Collection of William H. Milliken
Cl...
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Acrylic





