Konstantin Bokov

Russian Mixed Media Pop Art Collage Painting Bumble Bee, Thinking, Hard Earned

1985

Born in 1940 in Shostka, Ukraine, Konstantin Bokov immigrated to New York City in 1974.Born the son of Viktor Bokov, the well known poet who perished in the Soviet gulag, Konstantin Bokov was an accordion player and sheep-herderbefore he became a self-taught artist and expelled dissident. When he appeared at the Morin-Miller Gallery in 1978 bearing a painting of a Tropicana juice carton, Carmen Morin brought it home. Jack Miller remembers his reaction: "We don't buy art, we sell it!" --- then their personal collection of Bokov's work grew to over a hundred pieces. Many paintings, sketches, collages and recycle assemblages were done, It's been said that Bokov’s canvases and collage recycled pieces offer an image of New York that is both a scathing critique and profession of love. This is especially evident in his pieces "Manhattan Madness (Road Repair)" and his Statue of Liberty series...

Vintage pencil signed and numbered limited edition lithograph on deckle edged Arches paper. Shalom of Sefad (Shulem der Zeigermacher in Yiddish Shalom Moskowitz) Shalom of Tzfat lived for over seventeen years in his native town of Safed in the hills of the Galilee. There he worked as a watchmaker, stonemason and silversmith, during the 50's. Since then this self-taught artist has achieved an international reputation. Shalom is a naive painter, but not a rustic one, he expresses a very elaborate way of thinking in his own way. While belonging to Hasidism, Shalom of Safed uses his artistic talents positively. 'I don't paint', he explains, 'to tell the story of the Bible in color and lines. His works have been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in Europe and the United States, and are included in the collections of the Museums of Modern Art in Paris and New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Modern Museum in Stockholm and the Jewish Museum in New York He has exhibited alongside all of the Israeli great artists. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladizhinsky had naive periods. The most well know if the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret...

Château de Cheverny in the Loire Valley of France Lithograph in colors depicting an enchanted evening at Cheverny with a horse drawn wagon and carriages on a winter day, Signed in...

Michoel Muchnik was born in Philadelphia in 1952. Muchnik received his artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design. He later studied Jewish and Talmudic studies at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey. Michoel Muchnik's art focuses on imaginative and joyful depictions of traditional and mystical Jewish and Hasidic themes. Muchnik has exhibited his work and lectured on Hasidic art throughout the United States as well as abroad. In 1977, Muchnik was selected alongside four other Hasidic artists, including Hendel Lieberman...

Artist: Muhammad Ali, American (1942 - ) Title: Under the Sun Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 500 Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm) Frame: 36 ...

DeLoss McGraw Leaving Home (97-301), 1997 Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges Signed and numbered 3/75 in graphite pencil on the front 17 × 24 3/25 inches...

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Untitled, from from the Artsounds Collection, 1986 Lithograph on paper Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio. 12 × 12 inches Unframed Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio. This terrific offset lithograph print exemplifies the combination of religion and kitsch that Lanigan Schmidt is best known for. This print was created in the 1980s for the famous Artsounds portfolio, which featured prints by Marcel Duchamp, Jonathan Borofsky among others. Lanigan-Schmidt was a subject of a 2013 retrospective at PS1 MOMA and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Provenance: Artsounds Portfolio About Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Ackland Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, among others. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including the 1980 and 1984 Venice Biennales, the 1991 Whitney Biennial, and the 1999 exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Tenemental: With Sighs Too Deep for Words, Howl! Happening, New York (2018); Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Mysterium Tremendum, Rockland Art Center, NY (2013); and Ecce Homo: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt & The Art of Rebellion, Pavel Zoubok...

PAUL HUMPHREY 1931 - 1999 Paul Humphrey was born in Poultney, Vermont, and remained a life-long Vermont resident, moving to Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1971 to work as a house painter ...