1970s Abstract Prints

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXIVe Année, N°39, Déc...

Richard Pettibone The Appropriation Print Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, 1970 Silkscreen in colors on masonite board (unique variant on sculpted board) Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated on the front (see close up image) Bespoke frame Included This example of Pettibone's iconic Appropriation Print is silkscreened on masonite board rather than paper, giving it a different background hue, and enabling it work to be framed so uniquely. The Appropriation print is one of the most coveted prints Pettibone ever created ; the regular edition is on a full sheet with white background; the present example was silkscreened on board, allowing it to be framed in 3-D. While we do not know how many examples of this graphic work Pettibone created, so far the present work is the only one example we have ever seen on the public market since 1970. (Other editions of The Appropriation Print have been printed on vellum, wove paper and pink and yellow paper.) This 1970 homage to Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Roy Lichtenstein exemplifies the type of artistic appropriation he was engaging in early on during the height of the Pop Art movement - long before more contemporary artists like Deborah Kass, Louise Lawler, etc. followed suit. This silkscreen was in its original 1970 vintage period frame; a bespoke custom hand cut black wood outer frame was subsequently created especially to house the work, giving it a distinctive sculptural aesthetic. Measurements: Framed 14.5 inches vertical by 18 inches horizontal by 2 inches Work 13 inches vertical by 16.5 inches horizontal Richard Pettibone biography: Richard Pettibone (American, b.1938) is one of the pioneering artists to use appropriation techniques. Pettibone was born in Los Angeles, and first worked with shadow boxes and assemblages, illustrating his interest in craft, construction, and working in miniature scales. In 1964, he created the first of his appropriated pieces, two tiny painted “replicas” of the iconic Campbell’s soup cans by Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). By 1965, he had created several “replicas” of paintings by American artists, such as Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), Ed Ruscha (b.1937), and others, among them some of the biggest names in Pop Art. Pettibone chose to recreate the work of leading avant-garde artists whose careers were often centered on themes of replication themselves, further lending irony to his work. Pettibone also created both miniature and life-sized sculptural works, including an exact copy of Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968), and in the 1980s, an entire series of sculptures of varying sizes replicating the most famous works of Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876–1957). In more recent years, Pettibone has created paintings based on the covers of poetry books by Ezra Pound, as well as sculptures drawn from the grid compositions of Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944). Pettibone straddles the lines of appropriation, Pop, and Conceptual Art, and has received critical attention for decades for the important questions his work raises about authorship, craftsmanship, and the original in art. His work has been exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Pettibone is currently based in New York. "I wished I had stuck with the idea of just painting the same painting like the soup can and never painting another painting. When someone wanted one, you would just do another one. Does anybody do that now?" Andy Warhol, 1981 Since the mid-1960s, Richard Pettibone has been making hand-painted, small-scale copies of works by other artists — a practice due to which he is best known as a precursor of appropriation art — and for a decade now, he has been revisiting subjects from across his career. In his latest exhibitions at Castelli Gallery, Pettibone has been showing more of the “same” paintings that had already been part of his 2005–6 museum retrospective,1 and also including “new” subject matter drawn from his usual roster of European modernists and American postwar artists. Art critic Kim Levin laid out some phases of the intricate spectrum from copies to repetitions in her review of the Warhol-de Chirico showdown, a joint exhibition at the heyday of appropriation art in the mid-1980s when Warhol’s appropriations of de Chirico’s work effectively revaluated “the grand old auto-appropriator”. Upon having counted well over a dozen Disquieting Muses by de Chirico, Levin speculated: “Maybe he kept doing them because no one got the point. Maybe he needed the money. Maybe he meant it when he said his technique had improved, and traditional skills were what mattered.” On the other side, Warhol, in her eyes, was the “latter-day exemplar of museless creativity”. To Pettibone, traditional skills certainly still matter, as he practices his contemporary version of museless creativity. He paints the same painting again and again, no matter whether anybody shows an interest in it or not. His work, of course, takes place well outside the historical framework of what Levin aptly referred to as the “modern/postmodern wrestling match”, but neither was this exactly his match to begin with. Pettibone is one of appropriation art’s trailblazers, but his diverse selection of sources removes from his work the critique of the modernist myth of originality most commonly associated with appropriation art in a narrow sense, as we see, for example, in Sherrie Levine’s practice of re-photographing the work of Walker Evans and Edward Weston. In particular, during his photorealist phase of the 1970s, Pettibone’s sources ranged widely across several art-historical periods. His appropriations of the 1980s and 1990s spanned from Picasso etchings and Brancusi sculptures to Shaker furniture and even included Ezra Pound’s poetry. Pettibone has professed outright admiration for his source artists, whose work he shrinks and tweaks to comic effect but, nevertheless, always treats with reverence and care. His response to these artists is primarily on an aesthetic level, owing much to the fact that his process relies on photographs. By the same token, the aesthetic that attracts him is a graphic one that lends itself to reproduction. Painstakingly copying other artists’ work by hand has been a way of making it his own, yet each source is acknowledged in his titles and, occasionally, in captions on white margins that he leaves around the image as an indication that the actual source is a photographic image. The enjoyment he receives in copying is part of the motivation behind doing it, as is the pleasure he receives from actually being with the finished painting — a considerable private dimension of his work. His copies are “handmade readymades” that he meticulously paints in great quantities in his studio upstate in New York; the commitment to manual labor and the time spent at material production has become an increasingly important dimension of his recent work. Pettibone operates at some remove from the contemporary art scene, not only by staying put geographically, but also by refusing to recoup the simulated lack of originality through the creation of a public persona. In so doing, Pettibone takes a real risk. He places himself in opposition to conceptualism, and he is apprehensive of an understanding of art as the mere illustration of an idea. His reading of Marcel Duchamp’s works as beautiful is revealing about Pettibone’s priorities in this respect. When Pettibone, for aesthetic pleasure, paints Duchamp’s Poster for the Third French Chess...

Raoul Ubac AVL Zurich 74 Lithograph on heavy paper Signed and numbered by hand Edition: 150 Size: 27.625x15.75in COA provided -------------- Raoul Ubac (31 August 1910, Cologne – 2...

Hans HARTUNG Black and Yellow Composition Original Lithograph (Maeght / Arte workshop) Printed signature in the plate On paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch) Made for the Olympic Gam...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Julian Stanczak Diamonds Floating in Orange 1970 Silkscreen 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. Edition of 135 Pencil Signed and Numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shien...

Surrealistic Composition is an original lithograph realized by Le Oben in 1970s. This original print is hand signed. This is an edition 54 of 100 pieces.

71 x 71 cms (28 x 28 ins) Edition of 50

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - The Accident Syndrome the Genesis of Injury, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed ...

Modern abstract etching with hard edges of the printing plate contrasting with the soft dark gray tones inside the figurative centerpiece. Titled "Falling Figures, Decayed State", "E...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Cary Grant as a Male War Bride, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Editio...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Twenty Traumatic Twinges, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Edition: 350...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Cucumber Night Cream, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Edition: 350, Si...

"Alice Monday Morn" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1975 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "Alice Monday Morn" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece gives the impression of looking through a tunnel or cave to see biomorphic objects. Some of them look like bugs, cells, or worms. Several of the shapes are connected by a thin line, implying a rope of some other mechanism. Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge: Alice Monday Morn 11/20 J Crabb...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Watch Out for Miracles New Hope for Better Babies, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp s...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Inside Down Under... What are the Building Blocks of Structuralism? I, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Phot...

Untitled is an artwork realized by the English artist Martin Bradley in 1971. Lithograph on paper, hand-signed and dated on the lower righ...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Pig or Person, it's the Same, Fortune Plays a Funny Game II, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograp...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Early Mental of 300 Geniuses, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Edition:...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Sheehan, Susan, et al. Robert Indiana Print...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Careers Today... How Children Fail, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Ed...

Artist: Antonio Calderara, Italian (1903 - 1978) Title: untitled from 9x5 Konkret Portfolio Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen on PVC foil, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 25/200 S...

Joan Miro Lithographie Originale IV (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic) Color Lithograph Year: 1977 Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches Framed: 18.25 x 15.5 x 1 inches Catalogue Rai...

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - The Puzzle of Female Pleasure, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Edition...

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Lithograph and screenprint with collage (silver foil) Prints are different sizes: 36 1/2 x 68 inches (92.7 x 172.7 cm) and 36 5/8 x 64 inches (93 x 162.6 cm) Published by Multiples...

Richard Paul Lohse Group of eight complementary squares with four rectangles (Gruppe von acht komplementären Quadrat Mit vier Rechtecken), 1976 Colo...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...

Mark Tobey, American (1890 - 1976) - Transformation, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Screenprint on Richard de Bas, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 15.75 ...

A sketch of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The drawing was made with a pencil on paper. Untitled (from Codies Madrid) Granolithography - double-sided 1975 ...

Joe Tilson Transparency, 1970 Color silkscreen Signed and numbered 166 from the edition of 500 in pencil in upper margin Frame Included: held in the original vintage wood frame A lov...

Kenneth Noland Limited Edition Canvas Tote, 1977 Mixed Media: Silkscreen on Canvas with handles and leather tag. Numbered with ink stamp 15 × 15 inches Edition 268/500 Plate signed and dated Kenneth Noland and stamp numbered from the edition of 500 Very good vintage condition with handling and creasing (see photos) This was not commercially marketed but was designed as a prototype with each one stamp numbered. Not too many are around, and very rarely found in such good condition. This work is sold unframed as shown in the first image, but for inspiration only, see a photograph of how one collector framed a different edition of this work - and it looks like a print or painting! (see last image) A true vintage collectors item.

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 362 Year: 1971 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 35 Image Size: 25 x 20 inches Size: 29 in...

"It's just a shadow" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1975 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "It's just a shadow" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece resembles a s...

Artist: Yannick Ballif, French (1927 - ) Title: Untitled - Abstract II Year: 1973 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Carborundum, signed and dated Size: 22 x 30 inches

Rita Simon (aka Atirnomis), American (1938 - ) - Untitled 7, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 33.5 in. x 25.5 in. (85.09 cm x 6...

Joan Miró Litografia Original IV Color Lithograph Year: 1975 Size: 13.25 x 20 inches (33.65 x 50.8 cm) Catalogue Raisonné: Queneau, Miro Lithographe II, 1952-1963, p.36 Publisher: Ma...

Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle Paris, Hommage à Wassily Kandins...

Artist: Yaakov Agam (1928) Title: Wash Art Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 38.5 x 23.25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in colored ink Notes: Publis...

Charles Chamot, Peruvian/American (1951 - ) - Reflect, Year: 1979, Medium: Tapestry, Size: 90 x 67 in. (228.6 x 170.18 cm)

This series of abstract black and white Roth prints is full of movement, wildly diverse mark making, visceral, three-dimensional shapes and dynamic sketched lines. The artist worked on the same stone, erasing and adding elements with each step of the process to create a new print. Working on a lithography stone allowed him to scratch away areas with precision, revealing tightly hatched white lines that complement swaths of smokey gray. A Muse reflects Roth’s interest in permutations, decay, and a mathematical approach to making images. Each week the artist created a new variant: the series was originally planned as a set of 52. Dieter Roth, A Muse 1971-1972 series of 12 prints (this set is an incomplete set of ten prints), lithographs from stone printed in black on white handmade paper image 18.9 × 14.6 in / 48 x 37 cm paper 30.7 × 20.9 in / 78 x 53 cm edition of 30 each, numbered and signed, 6 artists copies this series 1/30 printed by Karl Schulz, Braunschweig and published by Petersburg Press, London weekly variant printed from the same stone, began October 1971 (52 prints were planned, but only 12 were executed) Condition: excellent with some dimples and wear commensurate with age Catalogue Reference: Roth 185-196 Dieter Roth was a printmaker from childhood: his first etching at the age of 16 was scratched into a soda can, and despite the failure of the can to print anything but a shadow of ink, he continued his study and by 20 was a serious apprentice in lithography to a well-known commercial artist, Eugen Jordi. Later he would continue to print and publish much of his own work. From the 1960s onward, his collaborations with Petersburg Press brought him international recognition and produced some of his most celebrated work: Six Piccadillies (1970), and Containers (1972). Interested in chance and spontaneity, Roth was drawn to make prints using unorthodox means: according to mathematical principles, using equations, or by randomly rearranging blocks before they were run through the press. The artist often printed plates repeatedly in different colors, producing many variations from just a few images. He used the printing press and materials to interrogate the creative process rather than just as tools to achieve an edition of identical prints: for example, overprinting or under-inking, or running objects through the press (in 1968, a box of chocolates). Roth was not just interested in the chance of making pictures but the unpredictability of decay: allowing the grease from slices of meat to slowly contaminate paper, immersing a print in vegetable juice, clamping metal to paper to produce rust, and pouring chocolate over a finished work. Roth would make hundreds of print editions and books over his career and blurred the line between genres and mediums, embarking on prodigious collaborations and experimentation with music, poetry...

A sketch of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The drawing was made with a pencil on paper. Untitled (from Codies Madrid) Granolithography - double-sided 1975 ...

White Origin is a lovely silk-screen and copperplate engraving print on heavy paper, realized in 1973 by the Japanese artist Shu Takahashi. Unsigned, and not numbered, this specimen...

Abstract Composition is original lithograph realized by the artist Antoni Clavè. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left margin. This original print is from an edition of 50. Good conditions. Antoni Clavé (Barcelona, 1913 – St. Tropez, 2005) Antoni Clavé was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. Nominated for two Academy Awards as Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design for his work for a Andersen's movie in 1952. One of Spain's best known and most celebrated artists, he changed his style, evolving from baroque, ornamental style to a minimal aesthetic. He is best known for his lyrical abstractions, artworks combing paint...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 19.5 x 14.125 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and ...

Gerlinde Beck (1930 Stuttgart-Cannstatt - 2006 Mühlacker-Großglattbach), Untitled, 1973. Series of four serigraphs, 29.8 cm x 29.8 cm, each signed in lead on the front and numbered on the reverse. Sheet 1-3 no. 74/100, sheet 4 no. 48/100. - Corners occasionally slightly bumped, minimal crease, otherwise in very good condition - Dancing Sculpture...

Lone Boat At Dusk - Serigraph Print Original serigraph depicting a landscape scene with contrasts of black, blue and green. Hues of blue make up the ...

R.B. Kitaj (British American 1932-2007) Hand signed and numbered Screenprint Measures approximately 24.5 X 16.65 inches This is from the Robert Creeley daybook. They were done in ...

Claes Oldenburg Fagends Carved in Rock, De-Accessioned from the Denver Art Museum (137, Axsom and Platzker), 1975 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed and ...

Lithograph, 1976 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 12/100 Publisher : Bram Van Velde & Jacques Putman (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : Mason-Putman 223 ...

For Gene Swenson by James Rosenquist, American (1933–2017) Date: 1978 Etching/Aquatint with Embossing on Pescia Italia Edition of 37/78 Size: 23 x 40 in. (58.42 x 101.6 cm) Frame Siz...

Green Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Mauro Reggiani in 1976. Mixed colored screen print. Hand signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. E...

Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition number: 51/75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In very good conditions and...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 221,...

A black, white, and grey silkscreen by Josef Albers from, "Articulation : Formulation," published by Harry N. Abrams, 1972, and printed by Ives - Still...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...

Blue Composition in a screenprint realized by Victor Debach in 1970s. 50x70 cm. Limited edition of 100. Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin. Excellent condition.

'Stabiles' is a lithograph poster after Alexander Calder and published by Galerie Maeght in 1971. Calder had produced the stones for this lithograph a year earlier in 1970 for a prin...

Lithograph, 1971 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated "Epreuve artiste" Artist proof Printer : Erker Presse, St Gallen 76.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 22.05 in. (pape...

Lithograph realized by Costantino Persiani in 1971. Limited Edition of 120. Excellent condition.