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Period: Late 20th Century
Large Vintage American Modernist Framed Landscape Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive modernist landscape by Larry Horowitz (Born 1956). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Artist Bio: Larry Horowitz is an American landscape painter, focused especi...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Susanna
Located in New York, NY
Lucian Freud Susanna 1996 Etching on Somerset Textured White paper 20 x 19 5/8 inches; 51 x 50 cm Edition of 40 Initialed and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Published by Matthew Marks Gallery...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Etching

French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or & Estérel Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or & Estérel Coastline by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor p...
Category

French School Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pen

Vintage Museum Press Kit (National Gallery, LACMA & Dallas Museum)
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein Vintage Museum Press Kit (National Gallery, LACMA & Dallas Museum), 1994 -1995 Offset Lithograph brochures, press releases, magazines and a bookmark 12 x 9 inches Un...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Vintage Reclining Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous oil-on-canvas of a reclining nude female figure by Monterey California-area artist Patricia Gillfillan (American, 1924-2016). Signed "Gillfillan" lower left. Unframed. Size,...
Category

American Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
Located in New York, NY
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban The painting measures 65 x 48 inches. We love that in the middle of ...
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Outsider Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"The Capture, " Jacob Lawrence, Harlem Renaissance, Black Art, Haitian Series
Located in New York, NY
Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) The Capture of Marmelade (from The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture series), 1987 Color screenprint on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag paper Sheet 32 1/8 x 22 1/16 inches Sight 29 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches A/P 1/30, aside from the edition of 120 Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "A/P" and numbered 1/30 in pencil, lower margin. Literature: Nesbett L87-2. A social realist, Lawrence documented the African American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was one of the first nationally recognized African American artists. “If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.” — Jacob Lawrence quoted in Ellen Harkins Wheat, Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938 – 40. The most widely acclaimed African American artist of this century, and one of only several whose works are included in standard survey books on American art, Jacob Lawrence has enjoyed a successful career for more than fifty years. Lawrence’s paintings portray the lives and struggles of African Americans, and have found wide audiences due to their abstract, colorful style and universality of subject matter. By the time he was thirty years old, Lawrence had been labeled as the ​“foremost Negro artist,” and since that time his career has been a series of extraordinary accomplishments. Moreover, Lawrence is one of the few painters of his generation who grew up in a black community, was taught primarily by black artists, and was influenced by black people. Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917,* in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was the eldest child of Jacob and Rosa Lee Lawrence. The senior Lawrence worked as a railroad cook and in 1919 moved his family to Easton, Pennsylvania, where he sought work as a coal miner. Lawrence’s parents separated when he was seven, and in 1924 his mother moved her children first to Philadelphia and then to Harlem when Jacob was twelve years old. He enrolled in Public School 89 located at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue, and at the Utopia Children’s Center, a settlement house that provided an after school program in arts and crafts for Harlem children. The center was operated at that time by painter Charles Alston who immediately recognized young Lawrence’s talents. Shortly after he began attending classes at Utopia Children’s Center, Lawrence developed an interest in drawing simple geometric patterns and making diorama type paintings from corrugated cardboard boxes. Following his graduation from P.S. 89, Lawrence enrolled in Commerce High School on West 65th Street and painted intermittently on his own. As the Depression became more acute, Lawrence’s mother lost her job and the family had to go on welfare. Lawrence dropped out of high school before his junior year to find odd jobs to help support his family. He enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal jobs program, and was sent to upstate New York. There he planted trees, drained swamps, and built dams. When Lawrence returned to Harlem he became associated with the Harlem Community Art Center directed by sculptor Augusta Savage, and began painting his earliest Harlem scenes. Lawrence enjoyed playing pool at the Harlem Y.M.C.A., where he met ​“Professor” Seifert, a black, self styled lecturer and historian who had collected a large library of African and African American literature. Seifert encouraged Lawrence to visit the Schomburg Library in Harlem to read everything he could about African and African American culture. He also invited Lawrence to use his personal library, and to visit the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of African art in 1935. As the Depression continued, circumstances remained financially difficult for Lawrence and his family. Through the persistence of Augusta Savage, Lawrence was assigned to an easel project with the W.P.A., and still under the influence of Seifert, Lawrence became interested in the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the black revolutionary and founder of the Republic of Haiti. Lawrence felt that a single painting would not depict L’Ouverture’s numerous achievements, and decided to produce a series of paintings on the general’s life. Lawrence is known primarily for his series of panels on the lives of important African Americans in history and scenes of African American life. His series of paintings include: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1937, (forty one panels), The Life of Frederick Douglass, 1938, (forty panels), The Life of Harriet Tubman, 1939, (thirty one panels), The Migration of the Negro,1940 – 41, (sixty panels), The Life of John Brown, 1941, (twenty two panels), Harlem, 1942, (thirty panels), War, 1946 47, (fourteen panels), The South, 1947, (ten panels), Hospital, 1949 – 50, (eleven panels), Struggle: History of the American People, 1953 – 55, (thirty panels completed, sixty projected). Lawrence’s best known series is The Migration of the Negro, executed in 1940 and 1941. The panels portray the migration of over a million African Americans from the South to industrial cities in the North between 1910 and 1940. These panels, as well as others by Lawrence, are linked together by descriptive phrases, color, and design. In November 1941 Lawrence’s Migration series was exhibited at the prestigious Downtown Gallery in New York. This show received wide acclaim, and at the age of twenty four Lawrence became the first African American artist to be represented by a downtown ​“mainstream” gallery. During the same month Fortune magazine published a lengthy article about Lawrence, and illustrated twenty six of the series’ sixty panels. In 1943 the Downtown Gallery exhibited Lawrence’s Harlem series, which was lauded by some critics as being even more successful than the Migration panels. In 1937 Lawrence obtained a scholarship to the American Artists School in New York. At about the same time, he was also the recipient of a Rosenwald Grant for three consecutive years. In 1943 Lawrence joined the U.S. Coast Guard and was assigned to troop ships that sailed to Italy and India. After his discharge in 1945, Lawrence returned to painting the history of African American people. In the summer of 1947 Lawrence taught at the innovative Black Mountain College in North Carolina at the invitation of painter Josef Albers. During the late 1940s Lawrence was the most celebrated African American painter in America. Young, gifted, and personable, Lawrence presented the image of the black artist who had truly ​“arrived”. Lawrence was, however, somewhat overwhelmed by his own success, and deeply concerned that some of his equally talented black artist friends had not achieved a similar success. As a consequence, Lawrence became deeply depressed, and in July 1949 voluntarily entered Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York, to receive treatment. He completed the Hospital series while at Hillside. Following his discharge from the hospital in 1950, Lawrence resumed painting with renewed enthusiasm. In 1960 he was honored with a retrospective exhibition and monograph prepared by The American Federation of Arts. He also traveled to Africa twice during the 1960s and lived primarily in Nigeria. Lawrence taught for a number of years at the Art Students League in New York, and over the years has also served on the faculties of Brandeis University, the New School for Social Research, California State College at Hayward, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Art. In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of Lawrence’s work that toured nationally, and in December 1983 Lawrence was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The most recent retrospective of Lawrence’s paintings was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2020, and was accompanied by a major catalogue. Lawrence met his wife Gwendolyn Knight...
Category

American Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

The Study of Via Ripetta 32 - Acrylic Paint by Dario Cusani - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Acrylic painting realized by Dario Cusani in 1996. Certificate of authenticity by the Artist on photograph. I BECOME A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (1986) In the spring of 1986, with the clo...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Acrylic

Large 1980's French Abstract Surrealist Original Oil Amazing Bright Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French abstract, by T. Fabris Title: Abstract Surrealist Portrait Medium: oil on board, unframed Painting: 24 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris C...
Category

Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Spain : Flamenco Dancer - Lithograph (Artcurial edition)
Located in Paris, IDF
Sonia DELAUNAY Spain : Flamenco Dancer Lithograph after a painting Printed signature in the plate Numbered /600 On Arches vellum 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.8 in) ArtCurial edition, 1...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool 1976 by Slim Aarons printed 2025 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 72" ...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Helmut Berger
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
Category

Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Polaroid

1979 After Joan Miro 'At Pace-Columbus
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition five-color offset lithograph by Joan Miró was created for an exhibition of his work held at Pace Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, in 1979...
Category

Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Offset

Abstract, Signed Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract (57) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1977 Oil on Board, signed l.r. Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 18.5 x 22.5 inches
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Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Board

India Modern Contemporary Painting Girl with Flowers Indistinctly Signed
Located in Norfolk, GB
Girl with Flowers C 1970 Watercolour and mixed media on Paper Image Size: 35.5 x 24.5 cm Frame Size: 51.5 x 41 cm Full description to follow
Category

Other Art Style Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

FEATHER DANCER Signed Lithograph, Abstract Color Wash, Native American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FEATHER DANCER is a limited edition color lithograph by the American painter Lamar Briggs printed using traditional lithography techniques on archival Arches paper. Lamar Briggs (193...
Category

Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Heller "Luna Luna" Exhibition Catalog, 1987
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andre Heller "Luna Luna Karussell: A Poetic Extravaganza!" Exhibition catalog Published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1987 The rare original 1987 Luna Luna by Andre Heller catalo...
Category

Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper

Nautical New England Realist Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seaside boathouse painting by Franklin Shores (1942-2020). Watercolor on rag paper measuring 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Provenance: Collec...
Category

Realist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

Hemis Figure by Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white lithograph ed
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hemis Figure by Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white lithograph ed unframed hand pulled at Tamarind Institute limited edition lithograph Glenn Green Galleries also p...
Category

Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Flowers In Vase. Still Life Floral Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Michael Forster (bn. India, 1907-2002) Vase of flowers, an impression, signed, dated 1984, Polymer medium / Acrylic on paper or board, 58cm x 43cm. More Information Framed and glaz...
Category

Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Acrylic

SALVO, March, Color aquatint
Located in Torino, IT
SALVO (SALVATORE MANGIONE), Leonforte 1947 - Turin 2015 March, ca. 1990. Original aquatint and aquatint hand-signed by the artist. (cm. 53x48). Paper size: cm.80x60 Perfect specimen,...
Category

Realist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Aquatint

Village Motel Sunset (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Icons
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Village Motel Sunset (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2 (the very last from this edition), Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, ...
Category

Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Blumenfeld, Composition, Erwin Blumenfeld, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Alcune Lettere Respinte al Mittente - Mixed Media by G. Baruchello - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Alcune lettere respinte al mittente  is an artwork realized in 1987 by Gianfranco Baruchello . Mixed media on paper (China ink and enamel on cardboard). Hand-signed and dated on the...
Category

Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Enamel

Still Life - Gladiolus Bouquet
Located in Houston, TX
Bold and vivid acrylic painting of a bouquet of fresh gladiolus flowers by Graf, 1977. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold...
Category

Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"Weather Eye" - 1989 Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Weather Eye" - 1989 Lithograph on Paper 1989 Lithograph on paper titled "Weather Eye" by Deborah Rumer (American, 20th Century). A windowsill is the focal point, as the viewer look...
Category

Expressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Alexander Calder lithograph derrière le miroir (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1973 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preseved. Unsigned from an edition of u...
Category

Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro is known for his abstract, expressive, and child-like Modern style. Original lithograph published in Miro Lithographe II Catalogue Raisonne. Nicely framed. Lithographs II ...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Totem - Lithograph by Giulio Marelli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Giulio Marelli in 1970 ca. Edition of 150 in arab numbers and XXV in roman numbers. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Very g...
Category

Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Boy on Carousel" large oil painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Boy on Carousel" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist, Helen Rayburn Caswell, 1923-2018. It is signed at the right bottom corner by the artist...
Category

American Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Pantz Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Pantz Pool 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz’ Marbella home, Septem...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Picasso: a Ticket to Glory
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Picasso: a Ticket to Glory Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring Unframed Dimensions: 26" ...
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Surrealist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Drypoint, Engraving

Monte Carlo Beach Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Monte Carlo Beach Club 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970. unframed c type print pri...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Paysage, Impressionist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Paysage". The original painting was completed in 1937. ...
Category

Modern Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tranquil Normandy River Seine Landscape at Vernon near Giverny Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Banks of the Seine, Vernon (near Giverny, Normandy) French School, signed and dated 1991 oil on canvas, framed framed: 24.5 x 27.5 inches canvas : 18 x 21 inches Provenance: private ...
Category

Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rosanna Lambertucci - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Rosanna Lambertucci is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980s. Good conditions.
Category

Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category

Abstract Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

"El Innombrable" Fernando de Szyszlo, Red Mysticist Abstract Composition
Located in New York, NY
Fernando de Szyszlo El Innombrable, 1980 Titled inscribed dated verso: Orrentia 1980 "El Innombrable" Signed lower bottom edge center "Szyszlo" Oil on canvas 59 1/2 x 59 inches Fernando de Szyszlo was a Peruvian painter...
Category

Surrealist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

GOING TO CHURCH Signed Lithograph, Southern Landscape, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
GOING TO CHURCH was the very first limited edition print created by the self-taught African American artist William Tolliver (b.1951-2000) in 1987. GOING TO CHURCH is an original han...
Category

Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Abstract Expressionist Figurative Oil Painting, Style of Edvard Munch
By Jacqueline (Jackie) Kirk
Located in Soquel, CA
Robert Azensky Fine Art is proud to offer this evocative figurative in Edvard Munch's German Expressionist style by Jackie Kirk (American, b. 1929- 2021), c. 1980. This painting is unique in artist's oeuvre in that she fully embraces a darker, grittier German expressionism style...
Category

Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Raymond Pettibon 1980s illustration art (early Raymond Pettibon)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon, "No Mag,'" 1981: A rare late 70's/early 80's Los Angeles Punk scene publication featuring several stand out illustrations by Raymond Pettibon Medium: Newspaper magazine, offset printed. Minor aging to cover commensurate with age & medium; otherwise very good condition; well-preserved. Dimensions: 14 × 11 inches (closed). Publisher: No Magazine, Los Angeles, 1981. Rare; unsigned from an edition unknown. Well-suited for framing. NO MAG: Los Angeles, CA, 1978 - 1985: Bruce Kalberg's No Mag brought a subversive art-driven perspective to early Los Angeles punk publications. Though only 14 issues were published, No Mag is considered, as Pettibon is, a seminal part of Southern California punk history. Catalogue MoMa, The Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection Raymond Pettibon emerged from Southern California DIY culture and its punk-rock sensibility, and his work still embraces a youthful edginess and sense of political engagement. Drawing from disparate cultural sources—which range from Marcel Proust and William Blake to the Bible—the artist makes cartoon-inspired ink drawings on paper which evoke the aesthetics of fanzines and concert flyers. Baseball players, trains, crashing waves, political figures, and comic book characters make frequent appearances, often accompanied by cryptic, ironic snippets of handwritten text. Pettibon has been the subject of solo shows at the New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Kunsthalle Wien. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and the Whitney Biennial, where he was the recipient of the Bucksbaum Award in 2004. On the secondary market, Pettibon’s work has sold for over $1 million. Alongside his fine-art practice, Pettibon has illustrated album art for Sonic Youth and Black Flag, among other musical acts. Related Categories Punk, Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Contemporary Graphic Realism, Politics...
Category

Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Cloud And Sea First Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The image of “Cloud and Sea, 1964” by Roy Lichtenstein was used for the design of this exhibition poster at the Museum Ludwig Köln in 1989. Published by Achenbach Editions in Düsseld...
Category

Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Screen

Tony & Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, 1983. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Pink Lady
Located in San Francisco, CA
THis artwork "Pink Lady" 1989, is an acrylograph on hand made paper by noted Mexican artist Byron Galves, 1941-2009. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 64/150 in white pencil by the artist.The artwork size is 28.5 x 15.5 inches, paper sheet size is 32 x 23.85 inches, framed size is 44 x 36 inches. Beautifully custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with dark purple backing and bevel. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor restorations, barely visible. About the artist: Byron Gálvez (October 28, 1941 – October 27, 2009) was a Mexican artist who was primarily known for his painting but also created sculpture, including monumental works. He was born in rural Hidalgo state, to a father who played jazz music and read literature, a rarity in 1930s rural Mexico. However, it exposed Gálvez to culture, even though this led to an interest in visual art rather than musing or writing. He went to Mexico City to study art at both the undergraduate and graduate level, but never completed his degrees, opting instead to begin career after his coursework. Before his first individual exhibition, his work was criticized by Justino Fernández, but all of the paintings were sold in advance to foreign buyers including American actor Vincent Price, who called Gálvez a “Mexican Picasso.” Gálvez then managed to replace the forty five paintings for the exhibition in a week. Since then he had individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and other parts of the world. He concentrated on painting, which he is better known for, in the 1970s and 1980s, but moved on to sculpture, including monumental works later in his career. Recognitions for Gálvez's work include membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and two books published about his life. Gálvez was born in Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo and described his childhood as happy, and would not have changed it. His father, Roberto Gálvez, was a farmer and merchant, who was a music and literature enthusiast, a rarity is 1930s rural Mexico. His father played the violin in the town's jazz band, which had almost all classical instruments, making it similar to bands in New Orleans. They even composed new pieces. The artist was named after Lord Byron, and his brothers, Eliot, Aníbal and Dante, after his father's reading preferences This meant that Gálvez grew up in an environment that encouraged the enjoyment of the arts. However, instead of music or literature, Gálvez stated that his earliest memories related to his attraction to art and that he always wanted to be a painter. The difficulties of farm life convinced him that he needed an education and would have to move to Mexico City in order to go to school. At age sixteen he left home for the capital to study painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, not knowing what the study would entail. It was far more rigorous than he expected, with thirteen-hour school days leaving only weekends to earn money to live on.[3] He did his undergraduate studies from 1958 to 1962, then continued with the graduate courses from 1962 to 1964, specializing in painting. He did much of his studies under teachers such as Luis Nishizawa, Fernando Castro Pacheco, Francisco Moreno Capdevila, Santos Balmori, Antonio Rodríguez Luna and Antonio Ramírez. The last teacher taught him to love his studies above all else and he submitted himself to the academic rigor. This led him to become attracted to the Cubism of Picasso, and felt that the artist has opened roads which could be taken and widened. Although he specialized in painting, his interest in sculpture was also evident at this time as he was a founding member of a metal sculpture workshop at the institution along with Armando Ortega and Baltazar Martinez.[2][5] Although he completed his coursework, he did not finish the other requirements needed for the degree, instead opting to start his career. Gálvez married once to art dealer Eva Beloglovsky.The couple first met in 1973, but did not meet again until two years later, when Beloglovsky bought one of his paintings and sold two more through her art gallery. At first it was a working relationship, and then evolved into a romantic one. During their marriage, they worked on a number of projects together such as multi-media presentations and charity benefits. The couple remained together until Galvez's death. Although he began and developed much of his career in Mexico City, in his later life, the artist moved back to his rural hometown. Gálvez constructed a house and studio on the edge of a ravine in which flows the Moctezuma River. The structure has glass walls positioned for maximum light and a privileged view of a local landmark, a hill called El Elefante. Gálvez's work included painting, sculpture, etching, lithography, and drawing.[4] For Galvez, art was spiritual and disconnected with physical logic, when only aesthetics mattered. Female figures are common, and often are sensual. He work has been influenced by the Cubism of Picasso and Georges Braque, by African and Oceanic folk art and by pre-Columbian sculpture. He preferred large scale works often bigger than seven by seven feet. He painted while listening to classical, jazz and occasionally, rock music. Galvez's work experienced periods in which different artistic currents dominated including expressionism, abstract art and mixtures of the two. In his work, he tried to achieve a balance between figurative and abstract expression. The first stage of his painting was figurative expressionism, then abstract expressionism, under strong influence of Carlos Mérida, Rufino Tamaho, Santos Balmori, Kandinsky, Wifredo Lam and Picasso, along with some from classical painters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio. Then for some time, he practiced abstract art, but then felt the need to draw human bodies again, especially female ones because he felt it allowed him better expression. Around 1980, he moved on to geometric figurativism, marked by the “Woman” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. This has also been describes as “pure chromatic constructivism. He considered himself primarily a sculptor and painted in that fashion. The work of Byron Galves is held in numerous corporate and private collections Galvez died at age 67 at Inglés Observatorio Hospital from a heart attack. His ashes were deposited a year after his death to the side of one of the sculptures at his home in Mixquiahuala. During his career, he exhibited individually and collectively in over sixty venues in Mexico, various cities in the United States, Europe and Latin America. In 1964, he had his first individual exhibition at the ENAP Gallery, after showing in collective exhibitions at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and private galleries along with more prominent painters such as José Chávez Morado, Alfredo Zalce, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Carlos Orozco Romero and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Before the opening of this exhibit, his work was severely criticized by art historian Justino Fernández. Despite this, the paintings for the exhibit were bought in advance, most by American actor Vincent Price, who called Gálvez a “Mexican Picasso.” The paintings were taken out of the country one week before the exhibit, but Gálvez was not concerned about not having paintings for the show, rather he was satisfied about his work being recognized and supported.He managed to create forty five more paintings in the remaining time in order to have the exhibit. After this individual exhibit, Gálvez had over 55 more over he career, along with participated in other 75 collective exhibits. Important exhibits include the Solar 68 collective exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes (1968), the Sterenberg Galleries, Chicago (1972), Eye Corporation in various US cities (1973), Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros (1978), Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City (1982), Harcourts Contemporary Gallery in San Francisco (1983, 1990), Art-Forum Gallery in Mexico City (1984), Bishop Gallery in Phoenix (1989), Merryl Chase Gallery in Washington, DC (1991, 1992), Suhan Galleries in San Diego (1992), Misrachi Gallery (1994) and San Francisco Theater in Pachuca (1995) .[4][2] After his death, the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores sponsored an exhibition of his work in Tainan, Taiwan in 2011. His works can be found in major collections in both Mexico and the United States. The strongest demand has been for his figurative work especially that produced later in his life. Gálvez also created murals and sculptures, both small and monumental. His first mural was sculpted done in 1968 in Los Angeles. However, most of his monumental work was produced later in his career as he concentrated on painting in the 1970s and 1980s. These include a mural at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City (1970), a thirty-foot high sculpture in Unidad Morelos in Mexico City (1971), a hand hammered copper triptych for a private residence in Mexico City (1984), a sculpted door for a private residence (1985), a sculpture for a private home in New York (1986), Reclined Torso at the Hotel Nikko Mexico (1998), Torso I a five-foot high sculpture for the city of Pachuca (1999), Torso II a nineteen foot high sculpture at the Altiva Building, Mexico City (1999), Millenium, a bronze sculpture/fountain at the highway entrance to Pachuca (2000), a sculpture garden for Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo (2005) and the master plan and central mosaic for the David Ben Gurion Cultural Park in Pachuca (2007). The park project, the last before his death, included not only the creation of the central mosaic, the largest pedestrian mural in the world at 345,000f, but also the design of the 65-acre park itself. His other activities included the teaching of drawing at his alma mater, the creation of a program for the radio ministry of Mexico in 1973, participation in a documentary about lithography in Mexico in 1980 and the creation of several special programs for the office Radio...
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Large 1970's Israeli Abstract Sculpture Steel Menashe Kadishman Tel Aviv Uprise
Located in Surfside, FL
Hitromemut (Uprise) Beautiful large sculpture by renowned Israeli sculptor Menashe Kadishman. Super quality, and visually stunning. There is a large monumental version of this in fro...
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Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Art

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Stainless Steel

Salvador Dalí­ -- James the Greater from The Twelve Apostles
Located in BRUCE, ACT
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Late 20th Century Art

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Lithograph

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Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alexandre Siches (1921-2009) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas Oil measures 73x54 cm. Frameless. Alexandre Siches Piera (1921-2009) Catalan painter with an innate capacity for dra...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

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Miró, Composition, (Cramer 198; Mourlot 1039), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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Surrealist Late 20th Century Art

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"EK IK" from the series Homage to the Square
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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) "EK Ii" from the series Homage to the Square 1970 Screenprint on Hahnemühle Buttenboard 55 x 55 cm 21.65 x 21.65 inches Number 31 of 125 Edition Keller, Star...
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Modern Late 20th Century Art

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Board

Harkness Ballet principal dancer Dale Talley, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photo
Located in Senoia, GA
Harkness Ballet principal dancer Dale Talley photographed nude in 1978 for 'After Dark' magazine. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This ...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

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Archival Pigment

The Last Civil War Veteran limited edition signed mixed media silkscreen collage
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers The Last Civil War Veteran, 1970 Silkscreen and mixed media collage on paper 29 × 19 3/4 inches Hand signed and numbered 55/100 in graphite pencil lower front Provenance...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

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Mixed Media, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite, Screen

III from the Aquarius Suite, Abstract Screenprint by Stanley William Hayter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Hayter, British (1901 - 1988) Title: III from the Aquarius Suite Year: 1970 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150; AP XXX Paper Size: 27 x 23...
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Abstract Late 20th Century Art

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Screen

1980s Keith Haring record art (Keith Haring Christmas)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1987 Vinyl Record Art by Keith Haring: Off-Set Lithograph on vinyl record jacket; engraved gold foil. 12 x 12 inches. Printed Haring signature on the mid lower left. Very good over...
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Pop Art Late 20th Century Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Waiting, Pop Art Framed Offset Print by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waiting from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio Will Barnet, American (1911–2012) Date: 1975 Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued) Image Size: 11.25 x 11 inches Size: 17 x 14 in. (43.1...
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American Modern Late 20th Century Art

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Offset

La Corrida
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Also known as Before the Promenade (1985), this original exhibition poster by Fernando Botero was published by Marlborough Gallery in 1985. Printed as an offset lithograph on semi-gl...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Art

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Offset

Harlequin oil on canvas painting
By Francesc Tornero
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 53x40 cm. FRANCERSC TORNERÓ (1934) He studied at the Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts. In 1956 he won the “El Paular” ...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

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Oil, Canvas

Home Run: abstract modern minimalist color field drawing with rainbow colors
Located in New York, NY
Rainbow shades shine in this abstract, color field print. Vibrant red, yellow, orange, purple, and green lines take on the organic quality of handmade paper, resulting in this subtle...
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Abstract Late 20th Century Art

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Lithograph

Garda lake Italy oil painting european art seascape urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Garda Italy - Oil on canvas on cardboard Oil measurements 41x33 cm. Frame 46x38. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan ...
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Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Art

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

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