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Period: 1970s
Zero Horizontal (Zero I)
By Peter Max
Located in Missouri, MO
Peter Max
"Zero Horizontal" (Zero I) 1973
Color Lithograph
Ed. 194/300
Signed and Numbered
Framed Size: approx. 32 x 25 inches
Print Size: approx 20 x 26 inches
Peter Max is a multi-dimensional artist focused on contemporary events. When he left art school in the 1960s he began producing, "cosmic imagery . . . that caught on right away, and before you knew it, I got an eight-page cover story in Life magazine." He explores all media, including mass media as a "canvas" for his creative expression.
His decorative designs are on a Boeing 777 Continental, Dale Earnhardt's #3 Millennium race car, U.S. postage stamps and 235 U.S. border murals. He created two 155-foot murals for the U.S. Pavilion at the Seville World's Fair in Spain, 12 postage stamps for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a 600-foot stage mural for Woodstock 2. He has also painted for five U.S. presidents, as well as the Beatles, Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones.
After September 11th, 2001 Peter Max began a project by finishing 356 portraits of the firefighters that were lost in the attack. His portraits were then given to the victims' families. In addition, from a special request from President George W. Bush, he recently created another 356 portraits for a firefighters' memorial.
Peter Max has worked with oils, acrylics, water colors, finger paints, dyes, pastels, charcoal, pen, multi-colored pencils, etchings, engravings, animation cells...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Les Fleurs, Poésies (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 11.24 x 8.46 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the fo...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse Lautrec (Blue), large hand signed serigraph
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Peter Max. From the edition of 125 (there are also Artist Proofs). Sheet size 48 x 36 inches. Image size approx 41.5 x 3...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$987 Sale Price
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Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype from frottage on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972. Published and printed by Verla...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$1,756 Sale Price
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Diva e Reporter - Etching by Giulio Turcato - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Giulio Turcato in 1974.
Edition of I/X.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Belongs to the series "Quello Era il Tempo".
Very good condition.
Pr...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
USTEOK
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork size 36 x 18 inches. Frame size approx 49 x 30 inches. From the edition of 200.
Certificate of authenticity i...
Category
Op Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$2,212 Sale Price
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Paradies VIII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Fegefeuer IX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Bird, Pop Art Screenprint by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Bird, Year: 1971, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 9/100, Image Size: 28.5 x 17 inches, Size: 30.5 x 23 in. ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Cavaliers of King Arthur - Original Etching Handsigned (Field #70-10 M)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Cavaliers of King Arthur, 1970
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered edition of 75 copies
On Japan paper 66.5 x 51 cm (c. 26.19 x 20.08 inch)
REFERENCES...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Basquiat Test Pattern 1979 (Basquiat Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Test Pattern 1979:
Basquiat created this impossibly rare flyer on the occasion of a performance by his band, Test Pattern (later renamed to Gray), at the much fa...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Jorge Castillo - EROTIC COMPOSITION Etching on paper Spanish Surrealism
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Jorge Castillo - COMPOSICIÓN ERÓTICA (Erotic Composition)
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching on paper
Edition: 75 + 20 E.A.
Size: 50 x 65,5 cm
Condition: In perfect conditions an...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Nude Lying Model - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized in 1976 by Nicolas Simbari.
Hand Signed. Edition of 99 pieces.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Tosca - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
God, Time, Space, and the Pope - orignal etching - signed - 1974
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali
God, Time, Space, and the Pope
Original etching and stencil
Handsigned in the right corner
with the blind stamp of the editor in the left corner
On BFK Rives vellum...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Stencil
Crazy Horse No.7 - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Crazy Horse No.7 - Front View of Nude Female is a screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976. Hand signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin (Simbari 76) and number...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Landscape on Red - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Fegefeuer XXVIII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$1,756 Sale Price
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Hölle XIX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Nude on Pink - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Fegefeuer XXXIII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
King David, Modern Poster by Reuven Rubin
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Reuven Rubin, Israeli (1893 - 1974) - King David, Year: 1971, Medium: Poster, signed in pencil, Image Size: 22.5 x 17.5 inches, Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Documenti d'Identità Territoriale - Offset - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized by Galleria Rondanini in 1978.
Offset print.
Excellent condition.
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Ladies and Gentlemen - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1975
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Ladies and Gentlemen is a colored screen print realized in 1975 by the Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Mixed colored screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse.
Edition of 204...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Fegefeuer XXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Debbie Harry - NYC - 1977
By Bob Gruen
Located in North Adams, MA
Silkscreen in 10 colors
40 x 54 inches
2-Ply Museum Board
Edition of 50
2014
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon t...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original 1973 Vail Village Colorado vintage travel and skiing poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1973 Vail Village, Colorado vintage travel and skiing poster. Preservation linen-mounted in A- condition, ready to frame.
Discover Vintage Vail Magic!
Take a trip back i...
Category
American Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Lithograph Hand Signed Old Women Riding First Airplane Flight Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) First Airplane Ride/ Old Women Riding Airplane, 1938 Originally created as cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post.
Media print lithography on paper, this twelve-color lithograph was hand proofed and printed at Atelier Ettinger in December 1976. A/P Artist Proof impression on papier d'Arches. Hand signed in pencil by Norman Rockwell. hand editioned and with publishers blindstamp.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 – 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in a modern folk art style over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With...
Category
American Realist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape thru Window, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Landscape thru Window
Year: 1978
Edition: 98/100, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Size: 30 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Sig...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$3,200 Sale Price
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Paradies XXI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Rome and Cadaques - Original etching - 1973
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Rome and Cadaques (1973)
Original Etching on Japan paper
Handsigned in pencil
Artist proof
Size : 30 x 22.2 inch (76 x 56,5 cm)
References : Catalog ra...
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Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
David said the Philistine, Modern Lithograph by Reuven Rubin
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Reuven Rubin, Israeli (1893 - 1974) - David said the Philistine, Portfolio: Story of David Portfolio, Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edit...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Green Bird, Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Expressionist poster of “The Green Bird” by Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985) for Chagall’s exhibition in 1962 at Galerie Maeght in France.
Marc Cha...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wisteria, Psychedelic Art Lithograph by Robert Anderson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Anderson, American (1945 - 2010) - Wisteria, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP, Image Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches, Size: 28 in....
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS - Color Poster Homage to Picasso
Located in Napoli, IT
Homage to Pablo Picasso Title "Susanna and the Elders" - Lithographic colored print -
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype from frottage on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972. Published and printed by Verla...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Léger, Composition, mes voyages (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Gloster Heming (Sheehan 96-108), Mother of Us All, Robert Indiana
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 24 x 20 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 51/150, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Mother of Us All, 1977. Published by ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$2,000 Sale Price
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The Forbidden Tree, by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Edition of 90
Year: 1977
ImageSize: 4 x 4 inches
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. Humorous portrait of the Serpent (from Adam and Eve) on ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
THE VILLAGE SMITHY
Located in Aventura, FL
From Poor Richard's Almanac portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 16.75 x 13.5 inches. From t...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$1,960 Sale Price
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Techtite
Located in Kansas City, MO
Leonard Marchant
Techtite
Messotint Engraving
Year: circa 1980
Size: 13.6x14.75 on 31x23in
Edition: 70
Signed, inscribed and numbered by hand
Drystamp lower left
COA provided
Ref.: 9...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$722 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Untitled - Beach Scene, Folk Art Lithograph by Vasilios Janopoulos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Vasilios Janopoulos, Greek (1953 - ) - Untitled - Beach Scene, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Size: 23 in. x 29 in. (58.42 c...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NIÑO CON PAJARO
Located in Aventura, FL
Niño con pájaros from Rufino Tamayo 16 aguafuertes 1976. Color etching on Guarro paper. Hand signed and numbered in crayon by the artist. HC edition. Published by Ediciones Poligra...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
$6,375 Sale Price
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SUMMER SEASON II
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Published by AMX Art Ltd., NY and printed by IZMO Productions, NY.. Artwork is in excellent condition. Edition of 175. All reasonable offer...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$3,150 Sale Price
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Dufy, L'atelier de Perpignan, Vacances forcées (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Abstract Composition - Signs on Yellow - Lithograph - 1972
By Hans Hartung
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition - Signs on Yellow is a lithograph realized by Hans Hartung in 1972.
It comes from the portfolio " San Lazzaro et ses Amis. Hommage au fondateur de la revue XX...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$396 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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The Lyricism of Alphabet - Original Lithograph by Raphael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 99 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Category
Abstract 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Fegefeuer XXVI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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The Magicians Message From Cuevas' Comedies
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Magicians Message From Cuevas' Comedies.
Screenprint with collage additions and five lithographs from a portfolio
of ten lithographs (one with screenprint and embossing, one with embossing)
and five screenprints (two double-sided, one with collage additions).
Pencil signed and dated 1971, edition 84/100, blindstamp visible, published by Collector's Press, San Francisco.
Framed under Plexiglas.
Jose Louis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1933 -2017.
A master draftsman, Jose Luis Cuevas played a pivotal role in Latin America's drawing and printmaking renaissance of the sixties and seventies. He is also associated with Latin America's neofigurative movement, along with artists such as Fernando Botero and Antonio Segui. By the age of fourteen, he had illustrated numerous periodicals and books and had had his first exhibition in Mexico City. In 1953 Cuevas published La cortina del nopal (The Cactus Curtain), an article condemning aspects of the Mexican Mural movement and advocating greater artistic freedom. This philosophy inspired the founding in 1960 of the group Nueva Presencia, which he joined for a brief time. It promoted individual expression and figurative art reflecting the contemporary human condition.
Cuevas' work was influenced by the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as by Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, degraded humanity and prostitutes were of particular thematic interest. Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints. Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate. It is for this reason that he often distorts and transforms the human figure to the point of uniqueness.
Cuevas has had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world including the:
University of Texas, Austin, 1961, the San Francisco Museum of Art, California,1970, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1972, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, 1974, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1975, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1976. His work was included in Four Masters of Line: Jose Luis Cuevas, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Morris Graves, Musee de la Napoule, France, 1957 and in The Emergent Decade, Cornell University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965. Among his many awards are First International Prize for Drawing, Biennial of Sao Paulo, 1959, First Prize, International Black and White Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland, 1962, First International Prize for Printmaking, Triennial of Graphic Arts, New Delhi, India, 1968, First Prize, III Latin American Print...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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