Dave Lefner

LOVE

2018

Artist: (after) Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Title: "Neue Nationalgalerie (Flowers)" Year: 1969 Medium: Original Linocut, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: ...

Artist: (after) Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) Title: "Neue Nationalgalerie (Compositions I)" Year: 1969 Medium: Original Linocut, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: likely Linol-Druck Berek, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Framing: Recently framed in a contemporary dark brown wood moulding Framed size: 34.25" x 24.75" Sheet size: 33.07" x 23.5" Condition: Some light edge wear with a few minor tears at upper right edge. Some light foxmarks visible in white center. In otherwise very good condition with strong colors and full margins. As one of our gallery specialties, this is the rarest original vintage Lichtenstein poster we have ever acquired in nearly 50 years. Extremely rare. An important poster of Pop Art history Notes: Provenance: private collection - San Francisco, CA. Printed in two colors: green and black. Poster produced for a special exhibition of various artists' work "Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher" at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany from February 29 - April 14, 1969. The image featured on this poster is a variation with added green color of Lichtenstein's 1964, 68.13" x 56.25", magna on canvas painting "Compositions I". This painting "Compositions I" was part of Karl Ströher's collection exhibited at the show. Within a sleeve lower center on verso, this artwork comes with its rare original accompanying exhibition catalog: over 200 pages with pictures of all of the 176 works of art exhibited at the show including "Compositions I", (No. 32). This monumental exhibition included the work by such artists as Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, Morris Louis, Piero Manzoni, Robert Matta...

Donald Baechler The Benefit Mummy, 2005 Linoleum print, one color, with chine colle, on Rives BFK paper Hand signed, numbered 7/17 and dated by the artist on the front; bears a docum...

Jasper Johns Sun on Six, 2000 Color linoleum cut on Gampi Torinoko paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 4/26 on the front Published by Z Press, Calais, Vermont Frame included: ele...

Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Inscribed 'AP', an artist's proof aside from the edition of 65.

Hand signed and numbered edition of 25. 16 x 36" sheet size without frame. “Workshop” is an ambitious color lithograph and linocut with chine collé printed in twelve colors from nine plates and one linocut. It has been printed in an edition of 25, plus proofs, on white Rives BFK paper 16 x 36” with chine collé of various papers. (No, it’s not upside down) Born 1964 in New York where he still currently resides and works alongside his partner the ceramist Kathy Butterly. Son of the photographer Rudy Burckhardt and painter Yvonne Jacquette, Tom Burckhardt was 1986, BFA, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 1992–1993, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME 1996, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant 1997, New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Grant 1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2002 George Hitchcock Award, National Academy of Arts 2003, Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy 2005, AICA Best Show of an Emerging or Underknown Artist 2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2006 Best Installation, Best of Houston, the Houston Press 2009 Guggenheim Foundation Grant 2010, New York Foundation for the Arts Drawing/Print Grant 2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Tom Burckhardt’s work is a carnival of images jumbled and jostling each other in precarious nonsensical compositions. He uses lushly colored and patterned images from all kinds of sources that bounce between abstraction and representation. Images come from tool catalogs, paper and fabric patterns, funhouse painting, architectural details, stripes, dots and squiggles. It is as if Burckhardt is a cartoonist merrily channeling Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Robert Therrien, and Myron Stout, among others. Like Red Grooms, for whom he worked as an assistant, Burckhardt ransacks his influences yet ends up with something unmistakably his own. His work bears the influence of is a synthesis of many things: the tribal-influenced abstract painting of Steve Wheeler...