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Billy Al Bengston
Etching and aquatint with dog and airplane, signed/n by California Pop Art star

1988

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BILLY AL BENGSTON Untitled, from the In Barcelona Portfolio, 1988 Etching with aquatint on Rives BFK paper 22 × 30 inches Signed, dated and numbered 29/75 in graphite pencil on the front Published by: Poligrafia Obra Grafica SL, Barcelona, Spain Abstract etching with aquatint containing the silhouette of a dog and an airplane contrasted with a highly textured background, by renowned West Coast based American artist Billy Al Bengston. Published by Poligrafia Obra Grafica, SL in Barcelona, Spain Billy Al Bengston was memorialized in the New York Times as the artist who epitomized California Cool. Billy Al Bengston was born in 1934 in Dodge City, Kansas and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. He studied painting under Richard Diebenkorn at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. In 1957, Bengston began showing with the Ferus Gallery (founded and run by Walter Hopps, Edward Kienholz, and Irving Blum), participating in solo and group exhibitions regularly until the gallery closed in 1966. Bengston has had major solo presentations at the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. His work is included in a number of important public collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Chicago Art Institute; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Bengston retains friendships with international art world celebrities including Frank Gehry and Ed Ruscha, as well as local Los Angeles legends such as Sonny Nutter
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