1980s Art

Keith Haring Nuclear Disarmament poster 1982: In 1982 Keith Haring created this poster for Nuclear Disarmament, which features his signature Radiant Baby in a mushroom cloud. This hi...

The Angel is a mixed colored prin realized by Pericle Fazzini in 1981. Etching and lithograph. Image Dimensions: 25 x 25 cm Very good conditions. Ha...

Great piece by Peter Keil. The piece is from his family's private collection. It is framed in its original gold wood frame with a linen liner. Background is a beautiful blue with ma...

To Be Little Consciousness is an original contemporary artwork realied by Nancy Graves in 1991. Mixed colored aquatint and soft varnish. Hand signed an...

Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Blue Impressions" 1980 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Paper, Tape, Graphite, Ink, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting....

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails II, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Siz...

Erte, Russian (1892 - 1990) - Bride, Year: 1982, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 135/300, Image Size: 18 x 13.5 inches, Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm)

French technical drawing of geometric shapes, c.1980. Academic drawing of geometric shapes and perspectives on hand laid paper. Original artwork on...

Couple is an original modern artwork realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original colored watercolor and pencil...

Etching realized by Sigfrido Oliva in 1989. Hand signed in pencil. Artist Proof. Excellent condition.

Modern colorful abstract gouache painting by Texas based artist Dee Wolff. The work features Hebrew text from Hekhalot literature surrounded by yellow burs...

Hockey is an original artwork realized by Edgar Stoëbel during the 1980s. Tempera on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Very good conditions except for som...

Deep Night 1988/89 24 inches x 30 inches oil on canvas Artist Statement: This is an early work I produced in my studio at 11th street and Ave 'B" NYC...

Ronnie Landfield (1947- American) "Untitled" 1982 Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: Sheet 30" X 42" Frame 32 X 44 Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Denman Associates, Seattle gallery Ronnie Landfield (American, 1947-) is an abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions. Born and raised in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, Landfield first exhibited his paintings in Manhattan in 1962. He continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. He briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963. At sixteen Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery (sublet with a friend from the figurative painter Leland Bell), during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes. In February 1964, Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965. From 1964 to 1966 he experimented with minimal art, sculpture, hard-edge geometric painting, found objects, and finally began a series of 15 - 9' x 6' mystical "border paintings". After a serious setback in February 1966 when his loft at 496 Broadway burned down, he returned to painting in April 1966 by sharing a loft with his friend Dan Christensen at 4 Great Jones Street. The Border Painting series was completed in July 1966, and soon after architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. Landfield moved into his loft at 94 Bowery in July 1967; there, he continued to experiment with rollers, staining, hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time. Briefly in 1967-1968 he worked part-time for Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press. Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Peter Reginato, Eva Hesse, Carlos Villa, William Pettet, David R. Prentice, Kenneth Showell, David Novros, Joan Jonas, Michael Steiner, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, James Monte, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis...

This black and white portrait of a young RuPaul, taken by Paula Gately Tillman in 1988, is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Miss Guy, Wigstock,...

Spring (Original Title: "Primavera") is a beautiful colored lithograph on paper, realized in 1987 by the Italian artist, David Giovannini. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on lowe...

The Seine at the Louvre. Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Serge Mendjisky was born in 1929 in Paris. His father, Maurice Mendjisky, was a painter from the School of Paris, this is how Serge became acquainted with the world of arts since childhood. After completing his studies at the School of Fine Arts of Paris, he soon became a recognized artist and his work was exposed in Europe, Japan and the United States. He used photography to make his preliminary studies in painting. By decomposing and recomposing the horizons of some of the most famous cities of the world like New York and Paris, Serge Mendjisky creates new urban landscapes which put into question our perceptive faculties. Volumes, lights and colors create different visual rhythms which create new connections between time and space. Through Serge Mendjisky's creativeness, Broadway becomes an explosion of colored lights...

20th Century Post-War Painting of Mountain River Scene in the Mournes in Ireland, by Modern Artist, Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 30 x 16 inc...

Composition is an original lithograph artwork on paper realized by Elio De Luca (b.1950). Very good conditions. Hand-signed on the lower right. Artist's proof. Numbered in pencil ...

This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxing by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz' Marbella h...

Vintage modernist still life and cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1911. Signed. Image size, 41L x 33H.

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Symbolist painting, colored painting, Israeli art, Israeli art

Swimmer in the Jump with the Kitten by Marco Silombria. Italian Pop art Large scale painting on paper. Mixed tecnique with glitter dust on corners. Created by Italian Pop - Art ar...

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1981 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel on the Pointe de la Vieille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France,...

Slim Aarons Il Canille, Capri, 1980 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terr...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Strawberry Plant and Figaro, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 11.5 x...

Flying Carpet is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1984 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original colored etch...

Composition is an original drawing in oil on cardboard realized by an unknown artist in 1989. This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident s...

Evening Night from Morning Day/Evening Night Suite. Serigraph in colors with foil stamping and embossment on wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Erte. Hand numbered CL/CL lower...

This gouache on paper executed in 1988 by Menachem Gueffen depicts a female musician holding a mandolin within an interior setting opening onto a stylized landscape. The vertical com...

Reindeer In Forest Tempera on silk, gold leaf frame under glass, by Chinese artist Ma Hai Feng born 1958.

Katz, Alex Serena 1984 Vernis mou and aquatint on Hahnemuehle paper 18 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. 24 from the limited edition of 40 Hand Signed and Numbered Mint Condition

A wonderful drawing by Keith Haring on the first page of a catalog of his artworks exhibition. printed by Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1982 Signed lower right. Hand signed Marker...

This is an Erte 1986 original bronze “wedding” signed and numbered . In good condition measures 15x18x5

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Balloon Trips, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, HC, Image Size: 19 x 26 inches, Size: 21.5 in. x 28 in. (54.61 cm x 71.12 cm), Description: In this fantastical scene depicting dozens of hot-air balloons filling the sky, Jack Hofflander showcases his childlike imagination and mastery of landscape painting. Flying high through the air, balloon baskets...

Women is an original collage artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1975. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right, and titled on the lower center. From the series of " La Mappa de...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Up, Up and Away, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 21.5 x 28 inches, Size...

Ivan Theimer, Czech (1944 - ) - Le Leze I, Year: 1982, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Size: 21 in. x 30 in. (53.34 cm x 76.2 cm)

Marion McClanahan, American (1921 - 1993) - Paris Roofs, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 50, Image Size: 23 x 31 inches, Si...

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 ...

Victor Schrager Title: Olympia Date: 1980 Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer) Location: Cambridge Massachusett...

Signals is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1986 by the italian artist Leo Guida. Original Colored Etching on paper. Hand-signed, numbered and dated in pencil on the l...

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...

Gobardhan Ash - Untitled Gouache on Paper 13 x 8 inches ( Framed & Delivered ) In this tender composition, Gobardhan Ash captures an intimate moment of familial connection through s...

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...

The bold graphic imagery of this large diptych composition was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The Canadian artist has earned an international reputation for her contemporary artwork—th...

Keith Haring City Cycles NYC 1985: Vintage double-sides 1980s Keith Haring City Cycles bag designed and illustrated by Haring for the legendary former downtown bike store: City Cycle...

Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Untitled Flowers 17, Year: 1980, Medium: Hand-Painted Lithograph, signed lower right, Edition: I/I, Size: 35 in. x 26 in. (88.9 cm x 66.04 cm)

Flower and Pot Color mezzotint, 1983 Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil John Szoke Graphics blindstamp, lower right Edition: 150 (100/150) Image si...

*picture with description not included with lithograph. Attilio Taverna, born 1945. Italian geometric abstract artist known for his painting and lithograph and silkscreen prints. ...

Georges Mathieu - "Voile d'Etoiles" acrylic on canvas 81 x 100 cm (32 x 39 in.) signed lower left Provenance: Acquired from the Art Collection gallery 91 rue du Faubourg St Honore,...

Artist: Josephine Sacabo, American Title: Storm Light Year: 1985 Medium: Photograph, signed l.r. Size: 18 x 13 in. (45.72 x 33.02 cm)

6053 Two lovers italian monochromatic oil painting Set in a ornate frame Image size 35.5x23.5" Signed lower left

Ernie Barnes Sketch for boxing No. 2, 1984 Mixed media on paper 30 x 24 in Provenance: Private Collection, Los Angeles. Bonhams, NY. Made in California Contemporary Art. From June 2...

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

This is a large oil painting by the Surrealist artist Mark Kostabi. It depicts two figures seen through an open window, playing pool. On the exterior of t...

Jean-Pierre VIELFAURE (1930–2015) Celestial Pyramid, 1986 Original lithograph Signed and dated in pencil Numbered /65 copies On vellum, 57.5 x 45.5 cm (22.44 x 18.11 in) Excellent ...

Project for an advertising poster of Facis, from the 1980s. Technique: drawing with colored pencils, markers, with collage applications. Facis is a pret-a-porter company from Turin. This project is created during the collaboration of Marco Silombria...

'Sally And Summy' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Debutante Sally Lawrence with her horse 'Summy' at her ranch in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 1958. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 ...

Hand Signed edition of 50 with blindstamp. Surprising Novel Woodblock and heliorelief with handpainting 18-1/2 x 16-1/4 inches (sheet alone without frame) Biography: Sandro Chia was...