David Hockney

Ann Combing Her Hair /// Contemporary David Hockney Lithograph Figurative Lady

1979

Artist: Dagmar Mezricky (Czech, 1944-) Title: "Act III with Portrait" *Signed by Mezricky in pencil lower right Circa: 1988 Medium: Original Lithograph on unbr...

Artist: (after) Robert Longo (American, 1953-) Title: "Men in the Cities: Robert Longo (Gretchen)" Series: Men in the Cities: Robert Longo Posters ...

Artist: Louis Toffoli (Italian-French, 1907-1999) Title: "Le Mexicain (Le Gilet Jaune) The Mexican (The Yellow Vest)" *Signed by Toffoli in pencil lower right Year: 1990 Medium: Orig...

Artist: Janusz De Rola (Polish, 1906-1991) Title: "Un Soir a Paris" *Signed by De Rola in pencil lower right Year: 1990 Medium: Original Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 31/125 Printer: Unknown Publisher: Vision Nouvelle, Paris, France Sheet size: 30" x 22" Image size: 25.5" x 19" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In mint condition Extremely rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Paris, France. Rives BFK watermark lower right. Biography: Janusz de Rola (1906-1991) was born in Poland to a family of the princely nobility. His father is friends with the Emperor of Austria-Hungary the famous Franz Joseph. Having studied at Vienna (Austria), he entered the diplomatic service as vice-consul of Poland in Sicily and is pursuing a cultural and diplomatic career until 1939. A volunteer in 1939 in the Polish forces fighting alongside the French troops, the hazards of war led him to Nice. He will live there after the armistice, to meet with his wife. Then he will live in Vienna in the 1960s (Salesianer Gasse 7), then in the Var, Pignans (the field of Cressonniere from 1971) and finally in Gonfaron from 1981 until his death in 1991. He holds a "Nansen Passport", he will remain stateless after the war. Between 1940 and 1950 he was a pupil of the painter Sylvain Vigny. He joins a group where Picasso whose face he meets. Since the fifties of Janusz ROLA imposes his figurative painting, including his famous "elegant" works acquired by larger collections. In the early 1970s he met the painter Roger Boubenec who became his friend and who said of him: "He was the man of Europe. Painter, poet, musician To him I owe the visual sense the composition ". Janusz from ROLA received the title of Artist of the Year 1986 awarded by the largest German magazine in the cultural field, "Madame". In 1987 the South Art magazine wrote an article in the first issue. Salvatore Lombardo, founder of the magazine, will honor him in a small book published in 1991. official portraitist of the Saudi royal family has also produced portraits of Sophia Loren...

Artist: (after) David Hockney (English, 1937-) Title: "Contemporary British Drawings (Tel Aviv Museum) (Celia)" Year: 1980 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: L. Malis. Photolitho Reprocolor LTD., Tel Aviv, Israel Publisher: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Reference: "Hockney Posters" (1987) - Baggot No. 45; "David Hockney: Poster Art" (1995) - Baggot No. 59 Sheet size: 27.25" x 20" Condition: Some light handling creases. In excellent condition Notes: Poster produced for a special exhibition of Hockney's work "Contemporary British Drawings" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel during the Summer of 1980. The image featured on this poster is Hockney's 1973 drawing "Celia in a Black Dress and Lace Collar". Celia Birtwell, CBE, who was a close friend of David Hockney, is a British textile designer and fashion designer, known for her distinctive bold, romantic and feminine designs, which are influenced by Picasso and Matisse, and the classical world. She was well known for her prints which epitomised the 1960's-1970's. GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Devil Chicken Dinner" *Signed by May in pencil lower left Circa: 1995 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbrande...

Collagraph layered with mulberry paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Numbered, dated, titled, and signed along the bottom edge, "1/5 Stage 1 Kimono 3 Patricia A Pearce" (images altered for better viewing). Presented in a new off-white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 30"H x 25"W Paper size: 27"H x 22"W Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948) is a California artist who attended San Francisco State and UC Irvine and was the Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at the College of San Mateo. Her early work on paper explored images of garments using various printmaking techniques. Later, she began to work mainly in collagraph and monotype prints creating singular images of kimonos and ribbons in her subtle shifting, subdued pieces are constructed in a three-step process. Awards include Grade Prize, 3rd Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Wakayama Japan; Grant, Peninsula Community Foundation. Collections: Nieman Marcus, San Francisco; Wells Fargo, San Francisco Exhibitions...

Collagraph layered with mulberry paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned but acquired in a portfolio of artist's work. Presented in a new white mat. Mat size: 3...

Collagraph layered with mulberry paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Numbered, dated, titled, and signed along the bottom edge ("AP 1980 Kimono 11 Patricia A Pearce...

Impressed design layered with mulberry paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This pieces is unsigned, but was acquired directly from the artist with a collection of other ...

In the present work, Judy Chicago turns the subject of the female nude on its head: from the Renaissance though the twentieth century in Western art, the female nude was a favorite s...

Over the course of her prolific and radical career, Nancy Graves became a master of translating the primary data of soft science disciplines such as archaeology and anthropology into empirically informed, expressive works, such as "Canopic Prestidigitation." A large-scale, 23-color lithograph, Canopic Prestidigitation is as technically masterful as it is conceptually layered. Graves combines the Egyptian visual lexicon of the afterlife and allusions to European Renaissance masterworks to catalyze heuristic understandings of cross-cultural communication—Figures rendered in the hybridized profile-portrait style of Egyptian hieroglyphs float through a swirling and subtle maze of neo-classical architectural suggestions, while a disembodied hand reminiscent of Michelangelo’s "The Creation of Adam" reaches out through a frothing red portal. A cast-paper representation of Horus perches in the bottom right corner of the work, a nod to the symbolic language of the print and Graves’ multi-disciplined artistic approach. When read together, the elements of Canopic Prestidigitation become an artistic interpretation of the intangible qualities of social science...