Ron Davis

Drypoint Lambda II

1980

This artwork titled "Drypoint Lambda I" 1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Ronald Davis, b.1937. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 9/25 in pencil by the artist....

This artwork titled "Mimbres" 1983 is an original mixed media, color monotype and pastel, by noted Hungarian artist Miklos Pogany, b.1946. It is hand signed, titled, dated and inscribed "For Austin, Miss You, Love Miklos" MCMLXXXIII in pencil by the artist. The artwork (plate mark) size is 8.35 x 7.5 inches, sheet size is 22 x 17.75 inches, framed size is 26 x 21.75 inches. Custom framed in a maple frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Miklos Pogany was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1946. He moved to the United States for his education, first attending St. Procopium College in Illinois where he earned his BA in English and philosophy in 1964; and then at the University of Chicago, where he earned his M.A. in Comparitive Literature/Aesthetics in 1965. While studying for his Ph.D. in Chiacgo, he studied art independently while working as a lecturer, and in 1972 he completed his pursuit of English Literature at UofC in 1972. He soon turned his full attention to art, studying painting and monotype printmaking, and in 1976 he held his first solo show at the Triangle Gallery in San Francisco. Selected awards: The Connecticut Vsion, Mattuck Museum Prize 1990 Prints International, Silvermine Galleries, CT Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Bellagio, Italy International Graphic Arts Foundation, Sigma Gallery, New York Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Connecticut Commission for the Arts SECA Award for Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2019 - Danese Corey, New York 2012 - Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA 2008 - Harvard university Owl Club, Cambridge, MA 2004 - Kantar Fine Arts, Newtonville, MA 1998 - J. Leighton Gallery...

Original etching, aquaforte, aquatint engraving. Hand pencil signed and numbered. Published by Editions Denise René, Paris. Number: 10 from the folio edition of 120 which were on ...

Jean Miotte - Original Etching 1998 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Edition: /40 From La Déchirure Jean Miotte, 1926 - 2016 Miotte came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the contemporary artistic language. The term, "L'Art Informel," was coined by the French critic, Michel Tapi, to connote "without form." The negation of traditional form, a radical break from established notions of order and composition, was particularly suited to a cultural environment born out of the circumstances of post war Europe where abuse of morals and fascist ideology had led to such horror and destruction. While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde. Rather the artists who came to be grouped as Informel, Jean Miotte, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher...