Alice Asmar

Shalako Dancer, Native American Indian Lithograph California Woman Artist

1980

Robert Ellis Kushner (American, b.1949). 44/84 Lithograph on paper titled " Honor thy Mother and Father"; Depicting a husband and wife (I have seen this print described as a screenprint and as a lithograph) Hand signed in pencil and dated alongside an embossed pictorial blindstamp of a closed hand with one raised index finger. Solo Press. From The Ten Commandments Kenny Scharf; Joseph Nechvatal; Gretchen Bender; April Gornik; Robert Kushner; Nancy Spero; Vito Acconci; Jane Dickson; Judy Rifka; Richard Bosman and Lisa Liebmann. Robert Kushner, born in 1949, in California, lives in New York, and is a painter and sculptor. He gained attention in the early seventies as a performance artist, using food, fabric and nudity. Kushner was associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement and used fabric collage in large-scale, bold paintings of the figure. Since 1987 he has used flowers as the subject of his paintings, more recently adding a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables to his repertoire. Kushner's use of rich color harmonies and bold, fluid drawing, mark his belief in the importance of beauty in our lives. Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner’s work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms in a way that is both decorative and modernist. Kushner has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark since 1982 on various monotypes and lithographs. These exuberant, sensuous prints often include collage elements, including glitter, chine-collé, metal leaf and hand coloring. Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Venice Biennale in Italy. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. A mid-career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. He was one of the original painters of the Pattern and Decoration movements of the 1970s. (along with Cynthia Carlson, Brad Davis, Mary Grigoriadis, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro and Valerie Jaudon) The group began exhibiting together in 1976 in "Ten Approaches to the Decorative" at the Alessandra Gallery in New York, followed by "Pattern Painting" in 1977 at PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Subsequently, over fifty group exhibitions featuring the founding artists were held in museums and galleries in Europe and the U.S. including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Neue Galerie, in Aachen, Germany, the Pori Art Museum, the Mayor Gallery in London, Modern Art Oxford, and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.Robert Kushner's prints include a lithograph with gold leaf titled White Lilac and a series of monotypes that include Blue Bells II, Geranium IV, and Oregon Grape III. Robert Kushner lives in New York and has completed several major public commissions. He has exhibited his work widely and is represented in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, NY, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, London, The Whitney Museum, NY and others. In 1997 Hudson Hills Press published the monograph, Robert Kushner: Gardens of Earthly Delight by Alexandra Anderson-Spivey. The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts mounted the survey exhibition Robert Kushner: 25 Years of Making Art in 1998. Kushner's work is represented in numerous important public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Panama Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rockefeller Center, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Tate Gallery, London, England Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Select Exhibitions: Robert Kushner: 30 Literary Nudes, Luis De Jesus, Santa Monica, CA Robert Kushner: The Language of Flowers, DC Moore...

Jane Dickson (b. 1952) Lithograph printed in colors, 1987, Dimensions: 24 X 18 Hand signed and dated in pencil, verso, numbered 12/84 verso, Embossed pictorial blindstamp of a closed hand with one raised index finger. Solo Press. From The Ten Commandments Kenny Scharf; Joseph Nechvatal; Gretchen Bender; April Gornik; Robert Kushner; Nancy Spero; Vito Acconci; Jane Dickson; Judy Rifka; Richard Bosman and Lisa Liebmann. Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her oil stick painting, watercolor drawing, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. She was part of an eclectic East Village (Greenwich village) scene that included Keith Haring, John Crash Matos, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Kenny Scharf, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Crumb and Richard Hambleton. After moving to the city in 1977, Dickson worked as a programmer for the iconic Times Square billboard project and with collectives Fashion Moda (with Jenny Holzer) and Collaborative Projects Inc. As a participant in the iconic Colab DIY “Times Square Show” and “Real Estate Show” of 1980, her work was seen alongside artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Kenny Scharf, and Kiki Smith. Dickson’s paintings explore subjects such as peep shows, carnivals, and demolition derbies with dark irony. Widely exhibited, Dickson’s work has been shown in the 1985 Whitney Biennial Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Creative Time, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2008 she completed a mosaic for MTA in the 42nd street station. In 2010 she was invited to paint a leather jacket for the Andy Warhol Museum. In the early eighties, Warhol collected leather jackets, including one painted with his portrait and that of Jean-Michel Basquiat by the new wave artist Stefano Castronovo. Artists commissioned for this project include Castronovo, Rita Ackermann, Frederick “Fab Five Freddy” Brathwaite, Dan Colen, Ronnie Cutrone, Jane Dickson, Duncan Hannah, Lee Quinones, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, Walter Steding and Ouattara Watts. Her images have appeared extensively in books and periodicals. She received awards from the National Academy of Arts & Science, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was the recipient of the Bau Residency in Cassis, France. Museum Collections The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC The Bronx Museum, New York Yale University, CT Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art. PA The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington DC Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin Illinois State University Gallery, Normal The Jewish Museum, NYC Kings College, Cambridge, England The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts The Museum of the City of New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. The New School for Social Research, New York Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio The San Francisco Museum of Art, CA Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Select Group Exhibitions 2019 New York Underground: East Village in the 80s , Wuhan, China Basquiat: The Artist and His New York Scene, Schunck Museum of Art, Heerlen, Netherlands 2018 New York Underground: East Village in the 80s, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea We Dissent: Design of the Women’s Movement in New York, Cooper Union Gallery, NYC Shoot the Pump, Bullet Space, NYC Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Jean Michel Basquiat, Howl Happening and Maier Museum of Art, May China 2018 Art Expo Tour, Beijing Painter’s Academy, Beijing, China and Urumqi Painter’s Academy, Artist Multiples, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Uniqlo Soho, NYC 2015 The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy, New York, NY KIEV Biennial, Kiev Ukraine, Sept. "Mistakes Were Made" curated by John Miller Coney Art Walls Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Coney Island, NYC 2010 Down by Law Eric Firestone...

Marcel Vertes (French /Hungarian 1895-1961) Tango, from the suite Dancing, Jazz age in Paris. lithograph in colors on paper, published by Gustave Pellet-Paris, hand signed in pencil, lower right. Mounted in chrome frame with matting. Measures 23.75"H x 30.5"W framed; 15"H x 21.5"W image. Gustave Pellet (1859–1919) was a French publisher of art. He is best known for publishing prints of erotic artworks by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Louis Legrand. MARCEL VERTES FRENCH HUNGARIAN 1895 (Ujpest, Hungary) -1961(Paris, France) art deco artist.Vertes was born in Hungary and died in Paris, but spent a lot of time in New York as well. He was noted as a painter, illustrator, designer and scenic mural painter. His whimsical images graced the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Continuing in the footsteps of Boutet, Forain, Erte, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life...

Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition. Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Orthodox Jewish Rabbi having a glass of t...

The Couple is a beautiful colored lithograph realized by Stefania Guidi in 1993. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Dated on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 150. Very Good conditions. Stefania Guid i (Rome, 1929) belongs to the Marche family of the Marquises Guidi Giovanissima. In 1958, she had her first personal exhibition of sculptures and drawings at the Giosi gallery in Via del Babbuino in Rome. She married the musician and composer Michele Paradiso on 1 July 1978 in Campidoglio. From 1956 to 2014, the work of Stefania Guidi was expressed in various techniques and materials with great craftsmanship. She made 192 etchings on copper and zinc; 40 lithographs on stone...

Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Excellent Condition. All reasonable offers will be ...

Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 375. Sheet size 22 x 16 inches. Image size approx 19 x 13.5 inches. Artwork is ...

Offset lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 500. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Al...