Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

Douglas Semivan
Douglas Semivan Print "Abstract in Gold and Black"

1980 - 1990s

$2,900
£2,240.75
€2,590.52
CA$4,097.91
A$4,596.08
CHF 2,406.90
MX$55,846.83
NOK 30,563.54
SEK 28,976.38
DKK 19,336.89

About the Item

"Abstract in Gold and Black" is a well-balanced calm piece. The placement of the gold and white can be read as a distant landscape giving much imagined space to the heavier black area which contains a linear element and the color blue. Semivan is a Master Printmaker and sculptor. He often breaks his surfaces and extends beyond the perimeters in his sculptures. The particular placement of the black area in this piece suggests such a breakage beyond the edge where one imagines a continuation of the strokes or linear elements. This is an altogether extraordinary print. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Douglas Semivan is an artist and retired education who is Professor Emeritus of the Art Department at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. Semivan’s work resides in the permanent collections of several museums: including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The Toledo Museum of Art, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. His works are also part of the collections of several corporations: The Ford Motor Copany, William Beaumont Hospital, City National Bank, IBM Corporation, and The Max Factor headquarters in North Carolina. Semivan was visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan. He received his MFA in Printmaking from The Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1973, and a BA in Art from Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan in 1971. He has taught Lithography at Vancouver School of Art and Wayne State University and was Director of the Detroit Artists Market in Detroit, Michigan. Semivan's alma mater, The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs), Paul Evans (Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings), Eugene Caples (small bronze images/abstract), Morris Brose (Bronze Sculptures), Herb Babcock (blown glass) and Larry Butcher (mixed media.) He has a studio and resides in Royal Oak, Michigan. Measurements for print without frame: 28" h x 20 " w. This piece is signed and number 9 of 10.

More From This Seller

View All
Douglas Semivan Abstract Modern "Receiver I" Signed and Numbered
By Douglas Semivan
Located in Detroit, MI
"Receiver I" is an abstract print of three diagonally placed lines. It is reminiscent of an early work by Georgia O'Keeffe, "Blue Lines X" in that both artists, Semivan and O'Keeffe, have achieved a beauty in the placement, width of, length and juxtapositions of simple lines to achieve a never ending balance and harmony for the viewer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Douglas Semivan...
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Joyce T. Nagel Monoprint Abstract "Dropout" Signed Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
"Dropout" is one of the monoprints that Joyce Nagel so enjoyed creating. This monoprint is a one-off abstract print. The arrangement of shapes and colors p...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink

Robert Natkin Abstract Lithograph Signed Numbered
By Robert Natkin
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Soft pastel colors in floating smudges lay between and around lyrical abstract geometric and organic forms giving a diaphanous color and shape harmony to the work...
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lance Lawlor Lithograph "Design in Black & White" Geometric Abstract
Located in Detroit, MI
"Design in Black & White" is a lithograph by the well-known Michigan designer Lance Lawlor. He was a Master of linear and decorative design and this print displays the talent for which he was sought after. Lance Stephen Lawlor was born January 6, 1955, in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, graduating with a BFA in 1975 from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. He was a student of world renown costume designers of the 1930s-1950s, especially Adrian Adolph...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Untitled Abstract" Abstract Expressionist, Color Field, Black & White, Colors
By Robert Goodnough, 1917-2010
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled Abstract" is by the American painter, Robert Goodnough, known for calligraphy-like markings circa 1960s. Though he was associated with the Abstract Expressionists, Goodnoug...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joyce T. Nagel Monoprint "Storm" Signed and Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
"Storm" is one of the monoprints that Joyce Nagel so enjoyed creating. Like an actual storm whose characteristics are unique this monoprint is a one-off pr...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink

You May Also Like

Gold Leaf and Mesh Lithograph
By Patricia A. Pearce
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning horizontal abstracted mesh and gold-leaf lithograph on heavy bond paper with artist's protocol notes (for future projects) by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigne...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Gold Leaf

Hugo Weber Original Abstract Color Lithograph Titled "Black Print", 1964
By Hugo Weber
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original color lithograph by Swiss/American artist Hugo Weber. Pencil signed lower right and dated 1964. Titled lower left "Black Print." In excellent condition. Sheet size: 22" H x ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper

Essentials Collection: ESSENCE - Meditative Black Gold Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Abstract minimalist artist Jason DeMeo presents a collection of artworks designed to engage viewers in a meditative experience, drawing them closer to the enduring ideals of truth, b...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Monoprint - Black Brown
By George Dannatt
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) Monoprint -Black Brown, 2000, Oil on paper, Image: 26.0 x 21.0 cm Frame: 44.5 x 38.0 cm Provenance: The Estate of George & Ann Dannatt/George Dannatt T...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Adrian Heath, British, mid 20th Century abstract in golds and browns
By Adrian Heath, 1920-1992
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920 - 1992) Golden Brown Mixed media signed ‘Heath 88’ (lower right) 73 x 54 cm. Adrian Heath (1920–1992) was a 20th-century British painter. Heath was born in Burma and attended Bryanston School in Dorset, southern England. In 1938, he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn. In 1939 and 1945–47, he attended the Slade School of Art. He served in the RAF as a tail gunner in Lancaster bombers in World War II, but spent almost the entire war as a prisoner of war at Stalag 383. During this period he became friends with and taught fellow POW Terry Frost to paint. In 1949 and 1951, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met Ben Nicholson. In the early 1950s, he was also associated with Victor Pasmore and Anthony Hill. As such he became the main link between the emerging St Ives School and British Constructivism. He was also influenced by D'Arcy Thompson. In 1953 Heath published 'Abstract Painting: its Origins and Meaning' a slim but perceptive volume appraising the development of abstraction by the early moderns. He exhibited at the Musée Carcassonne in 1948, and at the Redfern Gallery...
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Large French Abstract Expressionist Painting Contemporary Gold & Cream and Black
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Michel Seguin (French contemporary) signed, paint on canvas, unframed canvas: 25.5 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: very good and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Spray Paint