Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger "I Shop Therefore I am" Shopping Bag Multiple, 1990 Framed

1990

Caviar20 has a particular interest in sculptors. Jeff Koons, as polemic as he is, is one of the 20th century’s most important and audacious sculptors. This print celebrates one of h...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...

Joan Miró is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Miró’s works, which were at the int...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. Motherwell was a tremendously gifted communicator and so fell in to being the unofficial spokesman of the New York School; writing, editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement and the merits of abstraction. While his contribution to the art historical canon as a painter is undisputed, Motherwell's role as a printmaker is equally important. One of the most experimental and courageous printmakers of the 20th century, he was always searching for new techniques to express or expand his ideas and aesthetics. This lithograph is visually bold. Framed by opaque black bands, and set among a striking blue flat, sits a grey impression. Etched with subtle lines and reminiscent of Motherwell's Open paintings, the central grey rectangle and its surrounding composition come together in a paradigm of Motherwell's oeuvre. His use of grey paper is clever, as the exposed sheet on the left mingles with the applied compositional elements. This combined with the textured application throughout, force the viewer to reckon with which greys are applied, and which are the substrate showing through. "The Aberdeen Stone" is one of three visually similar "Stone" prints that refer to Motherwell's Scottish heritage, and is a particularly meaningful impression for the artist. Aberdeen is both a town in northeastern Scotland, and the birthplace of Motherwell (b. 1959, Aberdeen, Washington). Motherwell assigned titles to each of the prints that inscribe site references onto the stones used: Celtic, Douglas, and Aberdeen. While visually different, the three works were printed using the same litho stone...

Blushed Hum (2024) By Francesca Mollett Francesca Mollett (b. 1991, Bristol, UK) is a London-based painter known for her abstract works that explore the interplay between light, su...

Sam Francis Exhibition Poster. Color lithograph 1986 Painter and printmaker who was prominent among the group of painters known as the seco...

Barbara Takenaga has had fun embellishing the last prints in the editions – Switchback State I and State II from 2011 – with extensive hand coloring. She has inverted and rearranged ...

Color lithograph, Patron Impression. Emmi Whitehorse is a painter and printmaker. Using a private language of symbols and memories, Whitehorse makes ‘personal diaries’ of her life a...