1980s Art

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Eleonora Giorgi and Ivo Garrani in "La Traversata". Lightly damaged.

Patricia Zippin The Sun 1980s Mixed Media 11.25"x 15", unframed Signed bottom right in paint Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-2015) She was born to Ben and Dorothy Schubert on January 5...

This 26" x 28" abstract acrylic painting on linen by Oklahoma-native, Los Angeles-based artist Robert Bonaparte was completed in 1980. Bonaparte utili...

Artist: Kazuhide Yamazaki (Japanese-American, 1951-2023) Title: "Pitcher III" *Signed and dated by Yamazaki in pencil lower right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Monotype on Arches paper...

Perspective is an etching print on paper realized by Bruno Conte (1939-2021) in 1980. Good condition. Hand-signed and numbered in Roman number IX/XXV.

Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - Dunes. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 11 x 16 inches, Size: 19 x 23 i...

'Isletas Ice' by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print People wait by an ice cream cart in Isletas near Isletas banana plantation, ...

Robert Rahway Zakanitch (American b. 1935), Lilies, Blue and Orange, Hand signed and dated 78 in pencil at the lower right, and inscribed Artists Proof with edition notation AP 6/6...

Plum Branches and Flowers watercolor on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy. Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter 1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows. O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.” Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.” “The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.” When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.” O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.” Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes. As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...

Area Nightclub Archive 1983-1987: A collection of 40+ items (including approx 30 club invitations) spanning the history of the seminal 1980s New York nightclub known as "Area". Area opened its doors in September 1983 and virtually overnight became the nexus of one of the most vibrant Downtown art and club scenes in New York. Every six weeks, they transformed the enormous space at 157 Hudson with a different art exhibit & performance theme. Area was the place where A-listers such as Andy Warhol, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Madonna, JFK Jr. & many others went to see and be seen: A place where Basquiat DJ'd, while Keith Haring and Andy Warhol produced several installations. Area's wildly creative invitations became the hottest tickets in town and instantly collectible art in and of themselves. Further details: Comprised of 40+ items in total: approx 30 club invitations; 3 original darkroom photographs taken by & signed by Fernando Natalici - the art designer of each piece; 6 drink tickets; 2 original mailing envelopes; a Halloween handkerchief invite; plus an original advertisement proof for the 80s fashion publication Details Magazine (image 4). Invitation dimensions ranging from: 9.5 inches on the longest side to 3.5 inches on the shortest side + 1 invite folding out to 11x17 inches (image 8). 3 signed silver gelatin photographs measuring: 8x10 inches (2 works) & 5x7 inches (1 work); Ad proof (image 4): 11x15 inches. Most pieces generally in good overall vintage condition; with a couple or more invites in fair condition. Provenance: Obtained directly from the club's original graphic designer, Fernando Natalici. Rare and not to be passed upon. Literature/References: Area: 1983-1987 by Eric Goode Jennifer Goode (pub. by Abrams 2013). New York Magazine 2013: "It Was the Hottest Club in Town." New York Times November 2013: "Waking Area Nightclub From the Dead". Exhibitions: 'Area: The Exhibition': The Hole Gallery NYC November 2013. Area: Further History (New York Magazine 11/1/13): "Influenced equally by sixties-era happenings and the gonzo childhoods of its proprietors, Area opened its doors in 1983. The club, unlike any that came before it, underwent a painstaking transformation roughly every six weeks, with themes like Confinement, Suburbia, and Science Fiction that incorporated elaborate art installations with taxidermied bears...

Artist: Pierre Clerk, Canadian (1928 - ) Title: Morocco Series #10 Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 45 Image Size: 21 x 36 inches Paper...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Serigraph on paper. Sheet size 32 x 42 inches. Image size 27 x 36 inches. Edition of 275. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate...

Jules Olitski (1922-1977) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the color-field movement, if not 20th-century American abstraction. Possibly one of ...

Keith Haring for New York CityKids, 1986. Rare vintage 1986 sticker illustrated by Keith Haring for the CityKids coalition in New York: "City Kids Speak on Liberty" New York, 1986 sponsored by Burger...

Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Spell III Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Image Size: 19 x 23.5 inches Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 c...

This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...

Johanan Vitta, painter, born 1941, Jerusalem. Lives in Italy. Education Firenze, Florence, Italy He designed the famous La Sinagoga di Firenze poster. The poster features a painterly synagogue it was done for the “Comunita Israelitica" He has also designed Judaic ritual objects including a menorah that is in a famous museum collection. Arman, Elio Carmi, Eugenio Carmi, Lucio Del Pezzo, Guy De Rougemont, Maurizio Galimberti, David Gerstein, Claude Lalanne, Marino Marinelli, Mimmo Paladino, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Tobia Rava...

Abstracted still life of a vase of red flowers and fruit blending into an abstract expressionist watercolor composition by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" l...

Hank Laventhol, American (1927 - 2001) - Ripe Sky, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 16 x 24 inches, Size: 22 ...

Mystery Italian Artist Untitled (Portrait of a Woman With Hat), 1985 Oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. Framed: 33 x 25 x 3/4 in. Signed an...

Fishing For Shrimp by Alain Le Garsmeur African American fishermen fishing on a dock for shrimps, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in...

This Palomino Ain’t No Pal of Mine 1982 Giant Size, Special Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Original Pencil Signature, Signed Lower Right Made in collaboration with Ed Mell ...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - Gloucester Fisherman, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Image Size: 29.5 x 22 inches, S...

Marko Spalatin, Croatian/American (1945 - ) - Nautica XI, Year: circa 1982, Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: 60/80, Image Size: 12.25 x 15 inc...

Donald J. Trump- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph, realized by Randy Drouke in the 1980s. Good condition.

This captivating circa 1980 screenprint by Richard McLean features Diamond Tinker and Jet Tex rendered with the photographic precision that defines American Photorealism. McLean’s me...

Alan Johnston (Scottish, born 1945), Untitled, 1988, cast bronze, edition of 2, cast #2 Incised A.J. 2/2 88 on underside Provenance: Jack Tilton Galler...

Large Museum Scale Surrealist Composition Dalí Circle Catalan Painting 1987 Artist: Antoni Pitxot Birth–death: Figueres, 1934–2015 Title: Battle of Constantine Series Date: 1987 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 in) Signature: Signed and dated “pitxot 87” lower right Condition: Excellent overall condition Frame: Unframed Provenance: Private collection, Barcelona DESCRIPTION Important large-scale surrealist oil painting executed in 1987 by Antoni Pitxot, one of the closest artistic collaborators of Salvador Dalí and a central figure within the visual universe of the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. This powerful 100 × 100 cm composition belongs to Pitxot’s Battle of Constantine series, one of the artist’s most ambitious narrative cycles. In this work, his unmistakable geological figuration becomes a theatrical surrealist battlefield, where mineral forms, latent human presences, fossil memory and Mediterranean landscape merge into a monumental symbolic construction. Pitxot’s mature paintings are instantly recognizable for their transformation of stones into anthropomorphic figures and metaphysical architectures. Rather than depicting a conventional landscape, the artist creates a stage of petrified forms, suspended between archaeology, sculpture, mythology and dream imagery. The work is especially strong for its museum-scale square format, its dramatic vertical construction and its direct connection with the Dalí circle. Large paintings by Pitxot with this level of compositional complexity are considerably less common than his smaller cabinet-format works and are particularly attractive for collectors of Spanish surrealism, Catalan modernism, European surrealism and artists connected to Salvador Dalí. A major statement piece with exceptional wall presence, ideal for an important private collection, curated interior or collector focused on late twentieth-century European surrealism. ARTIST BIO Antoni Pitxot (Figueres, 1934 – Cadaqués, 2015) was a Catalan painter and one of the most significant artists associated with Salvador Dalí’s late artistic environment. Born into the historic Pichot family, closely linked to the artistic life of Cadaqués, Pitxot studied drawing in San Sebastián under Juan Núñez, who had also been Dalí’s teacher. During the 1950s and early 1960s he exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Lisbon before settling permanently in Cadaqués in 1966. From that moment, he developed his mature and highly distinctive pictorial language based on the rock formations of Cap de Creus. Pitxot collected stones from the coast, arranged them in his studio as sculptural constructions, and then transformed them into oil paintings populated by anthropomorphic mineral figures. His friendship and artistic collaboration with Salvador Dalí became central to his career. Dalí dedicated a permanent gallery to Pitxot’s work inside the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. After Dalí’s death...

City landscape is an artwork realized by Lello Barresi in 1980s. Oil on Canvas 67 x 47 cm ; 100 x 80 cm. Good conditions

Artist: Erté Title: Freedom and Captivity Year: 1982 Medium: Screenprint with Foil Stamping, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: AP 57/70 Image Size: 25.5 x 18 inches Size: 32.75 ...

Abstracted print by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Nine panes are arranged in a three by three grid, each with a small abstracted scene. There are objects that look like flo...

Astrological sign of leo is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta, in 1980s. Signed on the lower left margin. 68 x 49 cm. In good conditions except for fairl...

Patricia Zippin Silver Wrinkles 1980s Mixed Media 30.5"x 22.75", unframed Signed in paint bottom center Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-2015) She was born to Ben and Dorothy Schubert on...

Miming - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Yellow, Red, and Black in Acrylic on Textured Paper A dynamic abstract painting in stark black, yellow, and red shows a brown-haired p...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Waterlilies Year: 1981 Edition: 42/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 23.25 x 41.5 inches Condition: Good Inscriptio...

This exceptional 1980 screenprint by Richard McLean captures the racing horse Buzz Ballou with the photographic precision and hyperrealistic detail that defines American Photorealism...

Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 17 Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Size: 35 x 45 inches

Roxanne Lowit’s “Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Art in Area Party, 1985” is a remarkable work of limited edition fine art photography that captures the vibrant energy, spontaneity, and ...

Signed in pencil on verso Vintage gelatin silver print Image: 9" x 6", Paper: 10" x 8", Matted 20" x 16"

Two Color Offset Lithograph on Wove Paper by photo realist star Robert Cottingham Pencil signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 150 on the front This hand signed, titled and...

Mountains and High Desert, Large-Scale Modern Abstract Landscape by Erle Loran Modernist abstracted landscape painting of the mountains and John Day Painted Desert in Oregon by Erle...

Patricia Zippin Temescal 3 1980s Mixed Media 30.5"x 22.5", unframed Signed in paint on bottom right and signed and titled on reverse in pencil Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-2015) She ...

“Roommates” by Roy Lichtenstein, from the Nudes series published by Tyler Graphics in 1994. A refined late-period work uniting Lichtenstein’s signature Ben-Day dots, bold outlines, a...

With the exception of the dark metallic one they are transparent and opaque glass. I have shot the photos on a dark background so you can better see the images. they are signed in in...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...

La obra va firmada a mano por el artista y con justificante, que en este caso es el número 3 sobre un tiraje de 99 ejemplares Se presenta enmarcada la obra (se enviará sin cristal p...

The couple is a work of art realized by Giovanna Picciau (1977, Turin) in 1987.  Oil on Canvas. Cm. 90x100.  Very good conditions!

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

Artist: Mark Kostabi (1960) Title: Merger Year: 1988 Edition: 50, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 39 x 27.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed and ...

This work on paper is by Donald Farnsworth (1952-). It is titled Counterpoint Gothic VI. It measures 29.5 x 21 inches the sheet, 38.5 x 29.75 inches ...

American Film Actor Stacy Keach at Home in Malibu American actor and star of TV series Mike Hammer, Stacy Keach, at home he shares with with third wife Jil...

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...

Le Tennis is a beautiful large painting by the artist and painted painted in 1981. The artist has one of the paintings in his own collection and was happy to hear when we acquired t...

A subtle, refined Abstract Geometric Modern painting by notable Chicago Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Acrylic on canvas, titled: "Homage to Boutet de Monvel". Artwork si...

Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - ) Title: Abstract Composition II Year: 2011 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l. and verso Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)

Rudolph Carl "R.C." Gorman (1932-2005) "Sora" 1981 Original color woodcut print Hand signed and dated "1981" in pencil by the artist Numbered XV/XXV in Roman numerals 23 x 19 inches ...

This original lithograph is one of six produced by Joan Miró especially for the fourth volume of the catalogue of his lithographs. These are excellent examples of his later work and ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Russian/American ballet dancer Alexander Godunov, photographed for Dance Magazine, 1981. Signed by Jack...

Martin Victor - Sands Cove, Year: 1985, Medium: Linocut on thin wove paper, signed, titled and dated in pencil, Image Size: 17 x 25.75 inches, Size: 21.75 x 29.5 in. (55.25 x 74....

Diana Gonzalez Gandolfi, Argentine/American (1951 - ) - Bridge in Merida II, Year: 1986, Medium: Etching with Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed, ...