1980s Art

These recently discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created with a live model, working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the l...

Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Decks: set of 3 works: Vibrant Takashi Murakami wall art produced as a limited series in conjunction with the 2017 Murakami exhibit: The Octopus E...

Sol LeWitt Limited Edition Geometric Abstraction Silk Scarf, ca. 1987 Limited Edition Silkscreen on 100% Italian silk scarf/shawl Signed on the fabric with artist's printed signature...

This offset lithograph, OK Hot Shot, is part of a now out-of-print six-print portfolio published by the Guggenheim Museum, highlighting Roy Lichtenstein’s signature Pop Art aesthetic...

A Pop Art portrait of Pablo Picasso by American painter and illustrator Seymour Chwast. The silkscreen is hand-signed and numbered in pencil from the edition of 200.

Raymond Pettibon: Rare early Black Flag punk flyer: Black Flag Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Jun 11, 1983. Santa Monica, CA. Flyer / handbill for gig by Black Flag, Misfits, Vandals featuring artwork by Pettibon. Post-marked 1983 on verso; rare as such given the SST stamp on verso (Black Flag's record label). Offset Print; 8.5 x 11 inches. Features Pettibon printed signure on the lower right. Condition: Minor signs of handling and fading or yellowing; fold-lines and staple marks to upper & lower center (these were originally stapled together and mailed); in otherwise very good overall condition given age & medium. Post-marked 1983 and hand addressed on verso. Rare. Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist once said of Pettibon's Black Flag illustrations and iconic logo: "Before I knew what Black Flag was I remember walking around Hollywood and seeing Raymond's flyers and being like, 'What the fuck is that?'… Those flyers made me feel like something is going on and it's romantic and it's mysterious and it's heavy and I don't know what it is but I wanna know." About Raymond Pettibon (Americanb. 1957) Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen...

Basquiat, The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, March 1985: Original 1980s Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of: 'The Chi Chi Show': Massimo Audi...

James Rosenquist Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art 1968-1983 Offset Lithograph Poster on White Wove Paper Plate (printed) signature Limited Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Unframed A...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian (1935 - 2020) - Surrounded Islands, Year: 1983, Medium: Poster, signed in marker, Size: 25 x 33 in. (63.5 x 83.82 cm), Description: Image by Wol...

Sam Gilliam Buoy Landscape IV, 1982 Color relief print, etching, screenprint, drypoint, aquatint and roulette all from deeply etched copper plates, on handmade wove paper 31 1/2 × 24 inches Hand signed and numbered 3/25 in graphite pencil Hand-signed by artist, Signed by artist, numbered, and dated in pencil and blind-stamped by printer-publisher on lower right, titled in pencil on lower left, recto Unframed with elegant deckled edges Rare vintage intaglio and relief, all from deeply etched copper plates. Other works from this series are in the permanent collections of major museums & institutions like the Smithsonian, so they are quite scarce on the open market. Steven M. Andersen (Printer) Philip Barber (Printer) Hang Nguyen (Printer) Stephanie Nowack (Printer) Michael Reid (Printer) Daniel Rounds (Printer) Vermillion Editions Limited (Publisher) Sam Gilliam Biography: Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation was the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials. In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, Sam Gilliam was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings opened at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson...

In 1985, Warhol teamed up with Keith Haring to make a wedding gift for their friend Madonna before her marriage to Sean Penn. They replaced a New York Post image on the front page wi...

Hassid & Jewish Bodybuilder, Coney Island, NY 1980 Vintage gelatin silver print 14 x 11 inches Arlene Gottfried was a New York City street photographer celebrated for her intimate...

Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, as well as Memphis Group, Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions that became iconic examples of Postmodern architecture, such as the Portland Building and Denver Public Library. His recognition grew through designing domestic products sold by premium Italian housewares maker Alessi, and later low-cost new designs at stores such as Target and J. C. Penney in the United States. He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture and formerly designed postmodern buildings, and was recognized as a major influence in all three movements. Michael Graves was one of the most prominent and influential architects and designers of the late- 20th and early- 21st centuries. In his buildings and in his furniture and housewares, Graves embodied the essence of Postmodernism — a refined classicism inflected with a humanistic sense of joy. The Indiana-born Graves attended the University of Cincinnati’s architectural program and continued his studies at Harvard as well as at the American Academy in Rome. In 1962, he began teaching at Princeton, and remained there throughout his career. Following a seminal 1972 Museum of Modern Art group survey of rising modernist architects, Graves, along with Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman...

Artist: Roger Mühl Medium: Original Lithograph, signed and numbered, 1986 Dimensions: 12.5 x 16.5 in, 41.9 x 31.8 cm Arches Paper - Perfect Condition A+ ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat by Nicholas Taylor 1979/2014: The complete set of 9 works, shot in 1979 and recently exhibited at the The Philharmonie de Paris, as part of the heralded 2023 ‘B...

This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...

Keith Haring record art 1983: David BOWIE "Without You" A Rare Highly Sought After Vinyl Art Cover featuring Original Artwork by Keith Haring. Rare Japan 1st Pressing 1983 accompanie...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Visage sur Fond Rouge". The original painting was completed in 1914. In the 1970's after Pic...

Artist: André Brasilier Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1981 Dimensions: 29.92 x 20.67 in, 76 x 52,5 cm Classic Poster Paper - Great Condition A This original lithographic ...

Artist: Darryl Hughto, American (1943 - ) Title: Good Earth Grey XV Date: 1982 Screenprint with Acrylic Painting, signed, titled and dated in pencil Image Size: 37 x 24 inches Size...

Reduced to angular shapes, the female model in this Pablo Picasso print is portrayed in the Cubist style founded and propagated by the artist himself. Relying on invented perspective...

Sol LeWitt Unique Geometric Abstraction on Postcard, 1982 Original drawing done on postcard from the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), mailed, stamped and postmarked (franked) from Spolet...

#5-3405 Val D'Orcia Tuscany Landscape ,acrylic on board displayed in a gilt-wood frame, signed by Wosley .Image size 10.50 H x13.50 W

Originally produced for the 1981 art show at Navy Pier in Chicago, these posters were part of an estimated edition size of about 2,000. The cropped version is particularly rare, as i...

Roger Phillips Kinetic Sculpture Painted iron and aluminum on walnut plinth base 44 1/2 inches high x 13 inches wide x 7 3/4 inches deep oger Phillips was born in New York City in ...

Artist: Bernard Buffet Medium: Lithograph on Arches, 1988 Dimensions: 29.75 x 22.75 in, 75.6 x 57.8 cm

"Cock and Devil" is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, created and printed in 1982. The work is a gelatin silver print, known for its stark contrast and meticulous composition, whi...

Michael Heizer III-8 (two pages), 1983 Monoprint on two individual sheets of white handmade TGL paper, hand colored with colored pencils, paint sticks, and liquid and spray acrylic p...

5-3610 Tuscan landscape painting on artist board Set in a vintage ornate wood frame Image size 10.5x9"

Stephen White - Woman In Black, Year: 1981, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 2/100, Size: 24.5 x 31.5 in. (62.23 x 80.01 cm)

Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (set of 4 printed works): A grouping of 4 lithographs from the book Fault Lines by Brison Gysin with illustrations by Keith Haring. These works are eac...

John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Jardins de Luxembourg, Year: 1984, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 22 x 28 in. (55.88 x 7...

President Jimmy Carter Archival pigment print 48 x 48 inches Signed and numbered edition of 10 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally...

Steve McCurry Afghan Girl 1984 (printed later C-print on Fuji Crystal archival paper 24 x 20 inches Signed and dated Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contempo...

Among Wyss's notable works is the 1982 silkscreen poster titled "Facades of New York City," published by Modernart Editions for Art Expo 1982. This serigraph features stylized depic...

An original painting on paper by British Modern artist Robyn Denny. It is signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Framed to 44 x 32 inches.

This large, abstract image celebrates the 13th Annual Community Holiday Festival, 1983 at Lincoln Center. It is signed and numbered by the artist from the edition of 144 (plus 18 APs) and was printed at Fine Creations, NY. This print comes directly from the publisher, Lincoln Center Editions...

Artist: Larry Zox, American (1937 - 2006) Title: Moro II Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 185 Size: 42.5 x 30 inches

Israel Rubinstein, Israeli (1944 - ) - The Hunters, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 350, Image Size: 27 x 35.5 inches, Size: 3...

In 1990, the Cleveland Institute of Music commissioned artist Gary Bukovnik to create a poster featuring his work "California Still Life #40." Bu...

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This original poster was created by Chinese-American New Yorker T.F. Chen for the Statue of Liberty Centennial in 1986. Chen’s signature use of vibrant, bold colors forms the backdro...

This original lithograph poster was created by artist Martha Diamond for the American Dance Festival in 1981. The poster exemplifies Diamond's distinctive style and serves as a vibra...

William Eggleston (American, b. 1939), Okra Scale, Dye Transfer Print, circa 1980, signed, dated, and numbered edition "1 of 3" to verso, white wood frame. Image: 17.5" H x 11.75" W....



"Chains of love" is in a series of portraits by Jan Saudek, depicting two figures – either male or female chained together. In this work, the two models...

David Lee, Chinese (1944 - ) - White Orchid, Year: 1981, Medium: Poster, Size: 19 x 15 in. (48.26 x 38.1 cm), Description: Soft and bright, this rendering of flowers by David L...

Martha Diamond (1944-2023) was a Contemporary American painter best known for cityscape abstractions in sweeping, gestural brush strokes. Skyscrapers is...

This large scale, ethereal portrait depicts a tranquil male nude figure floating in pink and blue. Based on a tempera painting, an expressionist, emotive piece to bring dramatic impa...

Original 1987 Keith Haring Safe Sex poster: Illustrated by Keith Haring in conjunction with his many Aids Awareness efforts. A historical vintage 1980s Keit...

5159 Vintage American modernist oil pastel by Ruth Hammond Framed Image size 21.5x13"

White Swan Max Epstein, Canadian (1932–2002) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed in pencil Edition of 99, AP Image Size: 19 x 28 inches Size: 23 in. x 35 in. (58...

Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Oscars Movie Dance Legends Academy Awards Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Lithograph on heavy paper, 1989 Sight: 22 x 17 i...

Original watercolor and ink marine painting of a topsail schooner under full sail. The schooner flies the Betsy Ross flag. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1980...

4061 Modern beach scene on artist board Image size 7.75x9.5"

Artist: Erté Title: Aphrodite Year: 1985 Medium: Embossed Serigraph with foil stamping, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 185/300 Image Size: 32 x 22.5 inches Size: 35.5 x 25.5 ...

The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...

Sister Mary Corita Kent Sister Corita hand signed poster, 1985 Offset Lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right 24 x 18 inches Unframed This offset lithograph post...

Screenprint in colors on Wove Paper. Reference Littmann, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Works, Cantz, Stuttgart, 1997, p.97. Hand num...

This screen print was created to celebrate the Mostly Mozart Festival in 1982. A pattern of shapes in pale pinks, greens and silver tones creates an image resembling a tapestry. The total edition size is 144 plus 18 artist proofs. It is hand signed and numbered in pencil by the artist with the blindstamp of the printer, Fine Creations, Inc., New York. This print comes directly from Lincoln Center, the publisher of the edition. Joyce Kozloff was a founder of the 1970s Pattern...

Artist: Gene Davis Title: Carousel Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Image 13.5 x 20 inches Paper Size: 17 x 24 inches