Berto Lardera

Astres Egares (Lost Astral)

1970

This artwork titled "Bicycle" 1979 is an original color lithograph by Colombian/American artist Knox Martin, b.1923. It is hand signed and numbered 199/300 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 30.35 x 12.35 inches, sheet size is 35.5 x 21.15 inches, It is in excellent condition, it has a small reference tag in the back. The colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed. About the artist: New York School artist Knox Martin was born in Barranquilla, Colombia to an American aviator father - the first man to ever pilot an aircraft over the Andes - and a Colombian mother. His family moved to Salem, Virginia and later to New York City when he was 5 years old. Knox Martin served in the Coast Guard in WWII on a sub-chaser, part of a rescue flotilla at Omaha Beach in Normandy. He attended The Art Students League of New York from 1946 to 1950 under the GI Bill. At the League he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet and Morris Kantor. There he met fellow students Susan Weil...

This artwork titled "La Melodie Acide II" 1980 (printed and published in 1983) is a color lithograph on Guarro paper after Joan Miro 1893-1983. It is si...

This artwork titled "Spring 69" 1969 is an original color lithograph by American artist Nancy Genn, b. 1929. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the artist. The size is 23.75 x 34.65 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has very small marks in the back due to tape removal from previous framing, not visible from the front. About the artist: Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions. Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art. Her abstract expressionist paintings of this period, continuing through the mid-1970s, featured all-over compositions of colorful layers of gestural brushwork and calligraphic mark making resembling asemic writing. In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture,[5] and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...

This artwork titled "Spectral Vision" 1970, is an original color lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Zao Woo Ki, 1921-2013. It is hand signed and inscribed H.C. (Hors Commerce) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 17.25 x 24.5 inches, framed size is 32.65 x 39 inches. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver color spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Zao Woo Ki was born in Beijing with family roots in Dantu, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. In his childhood he was brought back to his hometown Dantu where he studied calligraphy. From 1935 to 1941, he studied painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, where he was taught by Lin Fengmian, Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. In 1948, he went with his wife Lan-lan, a composer, to Paris to live on the same block in Montparnasse where the classes of Émile Othon Friesz took place. His earliest exhibitions in France were met with praise from Joan Miró and Picasso. In 1957, Zao decided to visit the United States where his younger brother Chao Wu-Wai was living in Montclair, New Jersey, close to the art scene of New York City. He wanted to learn more about "pop art". While in the US, he painted seven canvases at his brother's house. There are relatively few items dating from that year (1957). Years later, the largest canvas was given by his brother, Chao Wu-Wai, to the Detroit Institute of Arts. He left the U.S. after a six-week stay, traveling to Tokyo and then to Hong Kong, where he met his second wife Chan May-Kan Zao's works, influenced by Paul Klee, are orientated to abstraction. He names them with the date in which he finishes them, and in them, masses of colours appear to materialise a creating world, like a Big Bang, where light structures the canvas. He worked formats in triptychs and diptychs. While his work was stylistically similar to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met while travelling in New York, he was influenced by Impressionism. Zao Wou-Ki stated that he had been influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne.[ His meetings with Henri Michaux pushed him to review his Indian ink techniques, always based in Chinese traditional drawings. Zao was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, and was considered to have been one of the most successful Chinese painters during his lifetime. In 1982, he was invited to paint for the Fragrant Hills Hotel in Beijing, designed by I. M. Pei. In 1983, he returned to his alma mater, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou to give lectures. Former French President Jacques Chirac was offered a painting by Zao Wou-Ki by his ministers during their last meeting. His auction record of HKD 510 million was set at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, on 1 September 2018. Zao's work 'Juin-Octobre 1985' is now the most expensive painting ever to go under the hammer at auction in Hong Kong. By the end of his life Zao had stopped producing new paintings due to health problems. He died on 9 April 2013 at his home in Switzerland. Selected public collections and museums: Vienna, Albertina Museum, Graphische Sammlung Brussels, Museum of Modern Art Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art Montreal, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal (Quebec) Montréal, Museum of Fine Art (Quebec) Quebec City, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (Quebec) Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (Ontario) Hangzhou, China Academy of Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art Beijing, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Suzhou, Suzhou Museum Helsinki, Ateneum Museum Tempere, Sara Hildén Art Museum Châteauroux, Bertrand Museum Colmar, Unterlinden Museum Dunkirk, LAAC Évreux, Museum of Art, History and Archeology Gravelines, Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale Issoudun, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch Le Havre, Malraux Museum Lyons, École normale supérieure Metz, Museum of Art and History Montauban, Ingres Museum Montpellier, Fabre Museum Nantes, Museum of Fine Art Orléans, Museum of Fine Art Paris, L’Adresse – Musée de La Poste Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France Paris, Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art / Industrial Design Center Paris, Cercle de l’Union Interalliée Paris, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art Paris, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins Paris, Manufacture Nationale de la Savonnerie Paris, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Paris, Mobilier National Paris, Museum of Modern Art of Paris Paris, Cernuschi Museum Paris, Musée du Louvre (at Musée Fabre in Montpellier) Paris, Schlumberger Ltd. Paris-La Défense, Société Générale Paris-La Défense, TOTAL France Rennes, Museum of Fine Art Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Musée Pierre-Noël Sceaux, Musée de l’Ile-de-France, Château de Sceaux Tournus, Musée Greuze Tours, Museum of Fine Art Tours, Conseil général d’Indre-et-Loire, fourteen windows for La Demeure de Ronsard, La Riche Valence, Museum of Fine Art and Natural History Essen, Folkwang Museum Liverpool, The Tate Gallery London, The Tate Gallery London, Victoria and Albert Museum Jakarta, Jakarta Museum Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum Genova, Gallery of Modern Art Milan, Museum of MOdern Art of Milan Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum Hakone-Machi, The Hakone Open-Air Museum Kyoto, Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art Nagaoka, Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum Osaka, National Museum of Art Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation Luxembourg City, Grand Ducal Collections of the State of Luxembourg Luxembourg City, National Museum of History and Art Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art Mexico, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo Mexico, Museum of Modern Art Mexico, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Castelo Branco...

Artist: Jonathan Lasker– American (1948- ) Title: Ball Figures I Date: 2003 Medium: Three Color lithograph on BFK Rives paper Publisher: Tamarind Institute. Tamarind number: 03-304 ...

This artwork titled "Sculptures et Ceramiques" 1973 is an original colors lithographs on Wove paper by Spanish artist Joan Miro, 1893-1983. It is hand signed and numbered 119/150 in ...

Red and brown- original litograph painting. framed Argimon (Sarriá 1929 - Barcelona 1996) is one of the great Catalan informalist artists. This painter, engraver and sculptor touche...

La melodie acide. original lithograph painting. signed on the stone and numbered 1 to 1500

La melodie acide. original lithograph painting. signed on the stone and numbered 1 to 1500

" CENTENARI CENTRE EXCURSIONISTA " Lithography CATALOGADO .MIRO LITOGRAFICO 6, PAG 10,REF 1085. 1976 82X63 CM Edition 100 Copies + HC on paper Guarro Numbered 50/100 Printed and edit...

Artwork size : 72 × 102 cm Frame size : 92 x 121 x 3 cm Signed and numbered AP (Artist proof) Edition of 40 + Proofs 8 Artists Proof, 6 Trial Proof, 6 State Proof. Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-106A. Literature: Lembark L108. Museum glass anti-reflective. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...

Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio” 1992. Signed by the artist. Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm Frame size : 75x97x4 cm Museum glass anti-reflective. Signed AP (artist proof) Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-353 Publisher: The Litho Shop, Santa Monica. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...