David Shrigley

David Shrigley - The Paper Weighs Nothing, 2014

2014

David Shrigley I'm So Excited, 2022 17 colour screen print with a two varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm 29 1/2 × 22 in 75 × 56 cm Edition of 125 Numbered and signe...

David Shrigley White Elephant, 2021 Linocut Format 44 x 57 cm Paper: Somerset 300 gr. Edition of 100 Hand-signed and numbered Published by schaefergrafik

David Shrigley AS THE YEARS PASS YOU GET MORE BEAUTIFUL, 2022 Linocut Format 65 x 50 cm Paper: Somerset 300 gr. Edition of 100 printed by hand Hand-signed and numbered Published by s...

David Shrigley Witness My Joy, 2022 16 colour screen print with a two varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm 29 1/2 × 22 in 75 × 56 cm Edition of 125 Numbered and signe...

Studio Portrait: Medaglia d’Oro, 2009 Archival Pigment Print on Hahenmühle Fine Art Paper, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass 76x76cm/30x30in Edition of 5 only Certificate of Authenticity provided, Stamped and Signed by the gallery and John Reardon Archive Estate Medaglia d'Oro (foaled April 11, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several major stakes races including the 2002 Travers Stakes and the 2003 Whitney Handicap. He also finished second in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Classic in both 2002 and 2003, and the 2004 Dubai World Cup. Since retiring to stud, he has become an excellent stallion whose progeny include 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, two-time champion filly Songbird and two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty. This piece is part of "(after) Whistlejacket" - Contemporary Equine Photographs exhibition at MMX Gallery by John Reardon. The show explores an artistic way of photographing horses. "Racehorses, and the people in their realm, turned out to be his ideal subjects. Reardon’s eye found the elegance, power, and plaintive vulnerability of whatever settled before his camera, and the thoroughbred...

Cape Cross, ‘Hoof’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 2/7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This pie...

Le Lion Qui Marche Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875) Circa 1880 Etching on laid paper after the original bronze by master etcher Abel Lurat (F...

Antique Rooster Portrait Prosper Alphonse Isaac (France, 1858-1924) Woodblock Print circa 1910 9 x 7 1/8 (15 1/4 x 17 frame) inches The excellent book "The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints" which was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1974, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons its particular impact on the graphic work of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. This print directly relates to the discovery of Japanese art most notably through the woodblock prints which found their way to the West oftentimes as stuffing or packing materials from consumer goods that were being imported to the West at the end of the 19th century. Prosper-Alphonse Isaac was born in a well-to-do family. This gave him the means not only of leaving his native Calais to pursue a career as an artist in Paris, but also the means to acquire art. Isaac was particularly drawn to Japanese arts, which he collected avidly. Many of the objects he bought were eventually given to museums. As a printmaker Isaac started drawing seascapes in dry point, but eventually moved on to become one of only a handful of artists versed in color woodcut techniques in France. His compositions, generally small in scale, are heavily influenced by the arts of Japan. He printed small editions of these works. Aside from this artistic activity, Isaac was also an active textile decorator. "This mark, which he borrows from Hokusaï and Totoya Hokkeï...