1980s Art

Nude is an original etching realized by Sergio Barletta. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered, edition of 9/15 prints, on the lower left in pencil. In very good conditions. Sheet Dimension:35 x 50.5 cm The artwork represents a laying nude...

Brian - White Flower and House is an original offset of 1980, realized by Douglas Prince. The state of preservation of the artwork is good. On the left margin, Signed, Titled and ...

Keith Haring Pop Shop c. 1986: Set of 6 original Pop Shop magnets designed by Keith Haring. Sold at the Pop Shop in New York circa 1986 (dated 1985). Item is unopened. Features a bol...

Poster created for Erté’s exhibition at The Grosvenor Gallery in London, 1982. Printed in England by Coriander Studio, London. In Symphony in White, Erté presents a vision of refine...

Wonderfully evocative figurative (archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee) by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of abstracted, pixelated photograph of his then wife Susan and baby Willie titled "Susan Carrying Willie '80". #12/25. Titled, signed and dated '89. Stamp and signed on verso. Condition: Excellent. Unframed. Image size: 18.33"H x 22.50"W. Size including border: 22.25"H x 22.50"W. While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, bad credit people, and a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected in windows and mirrors. His photography establishes Nash as a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes not immediately available to the common eye. In 2006, fifty years of Graham Nash's photographic images were shown in his first solo museum exhibition, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. MoPA Director Arthur Ollman...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Post and Thistle, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 17.5 x 13 inches,...

This watercolor painting was created by Oscar Hess in circa 1980. It is hand signed in the lower right hand corner, and measures 19.5 x 14 inches. It is displayed in a 27 x 22 inch m...

Abstract oil on wood panel depicting the beginnings of the ascendancy of the Earth by Julie R. Fudge (American, 20th Century). Signed "Julie Fudge" on verso. Unframed. Image, 42"H x ...

A topless woman basking in the sun on an NYC rooftop. In the distance behind her, the twin towers are visible. Artist: Hilo Chen Title: Rooftop Sunbather from the City Scapes Portfo...

Beautiful hand signed lithograph by the Greek painter naturalized French citizen Antoine Malliarakis (Mayo, 1905-1990). Edition 68/100, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Very ...

This is a wonderful colour lithograph entitled ‘Scorcio di Roma con profilo femminile’ (View of Rome with female profile) by Italian artist Ugo Attardi (1923-2006). The work is a gr...

Artist: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian (1933 - ) Title: VI from the I am Third Series Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Paper Size: 42 x...

Vintage Photo. Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, the lead cast of "Working Girl". Good condition.

Boy with glasses is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a yo...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘FlowerHead ‘ who was captured on film in...

Lithograph on paper (Edition of 25) Signed in pencil, l.r. Numbered in pencil, l.l. This print is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Joan Brossa (1919-1998) was a Cata...

A tongue in cheek swipe at the futility of it all. A well heeled gent (Wolf) in a Tux bays at the moon at his good fortune, by G. Lester (American, 20th Ce...

Maxine Feldman (American, XX), "Whispering Surf", Acrylic on Canvas, 1984, signed, titled, and dated verso, silver-tone frame. Image: 36" H x 72" W; frame: 38" H x 74" W x 1.5" D. ...

Bold acrylic still life painting defining a concise perspective of room corner with portion of chair in frame by French artist Isabelle Troquet, circa 1980. Signed lower left. Ori...

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - African Violets, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 295, Image Size: 24 x 13 inches, Size: 29 in. x 1...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil and pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foreground th...

Beautiful and enigmatic print: Amber was made by Bruno Di Bello in 1980. This serigraph is hand-signed on the lower center. Edition of 100 prints. Original title: Ambra.

Seascape with Waves Breaking on Rocks - Oil on Canvas by 20th Century British Artist, Fletcher Art measures 24 x 20 inches Frame measures 28 x 24 inches This evocative mid 20th cen...

Abstract Composition is an original Lithograph realized by Simone Gentile in the 1980s. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, 75/90. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Donkey Ride, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Size: 26 ...

Artist: Charles Magistro Title: Valley Hose Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Paper Size: 30 x 35 inches

Keith Haring Pop Shop, c.1986: Vintage original 1980s Pop Shop bag designed & illustrated by Keith Haring. Features a bold 1985 Keith Haring prin...

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...

Representation of the Countryside is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1982 by Claudio Bissattini. Original Acrylic on canvas. Titled a...

An original woodblock print by American artist Werner Drews. This composition comes in an archival frame presentation which measures 26 x 30 on the wall. Werner Drewes (1899-1985) Werner Drewes, painter, printmaker, and teacher was born in Canig, Germany in 1899. His father, a Lutheran Minister, hoped he would become and architect but Werner chose the life of an artist. After he served on the front line in France during the war, Werner was admitted to the Bauhaus in 1921 where he studied under Klee, Itten, and Muche. Later, he traveled through Europe to study such old masters as Tintoretto, Velasque, and El Greco. After marrying Margaret Schrobsdorff, they traveled throughout South America, North America, and Asia. In 1930, Werner immigrated to New York City with his family. In New York City, despite the Depression, Werner joined other Bauhaus artists such as Mondrian and Feininger to make a living as an artist. This group became the core of the American Abstract Artists group. Werner taught at Columbia University, worked on the design of the 1939 Worlds Fair building...

Original exhibition poster for Sheila Gardner at Tatistcheff Gallery in 1982. Hand signed in black marker by the artist. Paper Size: 20 x 24.5 inches ( 51 x 62 cm ) Image Size: 14.7...

Bruno Côté, Canadian, 1940-2010 Quebec landscape, 1987 Oil on masonite 20 x 24 in Signed and dated lower right; Signed and titled verso framed For our US customers: 1) The artwork ...

Rare Original Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Flyer, 1984 Early Black Flag Punk Flyer featuring artwork by Raymond Pettibon. A rare postmarked version. Further details: Flyer / handbill...

18.50" x 23.50" sight size Debra Yoo received a degree in Fine Art and the Humanities from the University of Chicago, strongest influences were painting professor Vera Klement and the proximity of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her undergraduate work was primarily abstract, deeply influenced by Matisse, Russian icon painting, Robert Motherwell, and Barnett Newman. After graduation she decided to pursue a growing interest in painterly realism. At that time Minimalism and Conceptualism were dominant, but there was (as there is still) a core of distinguished American artists who practiced the kind of contemporary realism based on modernism. Matisse continued to be a guiding light, but she also became interested in the work of Larry Rivers, Louisa Matthiasdottir...

A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: 6C Year: 1984 Medium: Tempera on Paper, sig...

Prince Detroit 1980: A standout, hand signed photograph of the late all-time great Prince, shot by legendary Detroit photographer Leni Sinclair,...

David Hockney’s The Desk reimagines the traditional still life through the lens of perspective and how we view the world around us, a popular period of experimentation in his career....

MALCAH ZELDIS (American-Israeli, b. 1931) Moses and the burning bush, 1982, gouache on paper, Hand signed and dated lower middle. Paper 9''h, 11-3/4''w. Framed 14.5 X 17.5 Provenance: Estate of Laura...

Jane - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 Photographed in Brighton, England in 1987 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a...

Vintage abstract hills by Bay Area abstract expressionist artist. This abstracted landscape is created from five horizontal bars of color, simultaneously evoking minimalism and detai...

Mixed media on paper realized by Benito Trolese in 1987. Hand signed and daret. Titled on rear. Includes a contemporary woode frame cm. 54x55. Very good condition.

Artist: Nancy Genn Title: Oraibi #4 Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph and Chine Colle, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 6/20 Size: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

Rising to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, American artist Julian Schnabel is known for a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, sculpture and film. During his ...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Shattered Silence, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Etching with Chine Colle, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/40, Size: 22 x 29 in. (55...

Untitled (Hot Air Balloon Ascent and Spectators) Sepia wash on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in ink lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Probably a view of Cape C...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Mountain Bridge, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 31 inches, Size: ...

Artist: Francesco Scavullo Title: Lena Horne Year: 1984 Medium: Screenprint and Enamel on Canvas, Signed Verso Size: 34.75 x 32.25 in. (88.27 x 81.92 cm)

DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan) "How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" 1987 Silver gelatin print, printed later Sheet 60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.) Print only ...

Dreamer - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 8 Photography : 1989 Bichromate print : 2015 Pigment print : 2020 This image was captured on film. The ne...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Morgane 2 ‘ who was captured on film i...

Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau Graphite on paper Signed in the top right corner. Great condition. Provenance: Private collection. Image size: 12 in H ...

Echo in Grey Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo) Edition: 25 (24/25) Condition: Soft handling issues in top and bottom margin. Do...

"Ravanna's Palace Burning" is a woodcut signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, which is typical of the works Summers produced during the 1980s and '90s. In the image, a dark building stands burning, bright red flames licking from the windows and rooftop. It stands beside an orange field framed in pink, probably representing a plaza. Beyond the plaza are multicolored trees, their branches reaching upward like the flames on the building. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 24.5 x 37.25 in Frame: 30 x 42.75 in Numbered 53 of the edition of 125 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

Jordi Baget Ballester (Barcelona, 1930) Musical Notes Artwork Details Artist: Jordi Baget Ballester (Barcelona, 1930) Title: Musical Notes Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 × 73...

E. is an enchanting serigraph made by Bruno Di Bello in 1980. This print is hand-signed by the artist. Edition of 100 copies. This vertical composition is emblematic of the artist'...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Pennsylvania Dutch, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Siz...

Artist: Joan Miro Medium: Lithograph Dimensions: 12.5 x 11 in, 31.75 x 27.9 cm Arches Paper - Perfect Condition A+ This lithograph was used as a frontispiece for a book recounting fifty years of lithographic printing at the Mourlot studio. It was published by Pierre Bordas et Fils and this particular image reproduces an Original drawing by Joan Miro, created and given to Fernand Mourlot...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Friedrich‘s Window: Variation # 4 Year: 1981 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 36 x 48 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New Y...

Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Published by Nicole Fauché, Paris. Littmann 115. Edition 4/50. Artwork is in excellent conditio...

Serge Brunoni, Canadian, 1938-2020 Rue Saint-Paul, Montreal Oil on canvas 10 x 12 in Signed lower right; signed and titled on verso framed For our US customers: 1) The artwork is ...