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Period: 20th Century
Parade (Hand Signed and inscribed by David Hockney to renowned artist/collector)
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
Parade (Hand Signed and inscribed), 1981
Offset Lithograph
Boldly signed by David Hockney in black ink on the front and inscribed to artist Tom Levine
38 × 24 inches
...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Nature Morte Harvest scene
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is original and pencil signed an numbered by the artist.
It is one of a kind in black and white.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Iesus a Satana Tentatur - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Iesus a Satana tentatur ("Jesus temptet by Satan") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Roy Lichtenstein-Stepping Out, 1979- First Printing -Vintage -Leo Castelli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This strikingly large poster was produced for a 1979 exhibition at the iconic Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway, New York. It captures the vibrant art scene of the late 1970s, sh...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Picasso, Composition, Picasso and the Human Comedy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Picasso and the Human Comedy, Verve: Rev...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mao from New York Collection for Stockholm (F&S II. 89), Lt Ed Unique variation
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Mao. from the New York Collection for Stockholm (F&S II. 89), 1973
Sequential Xerox Print on Typewriter Paper
Hand signed in ink and numbered 25/300 by Andy Warhol (uniqu...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
Moore, Reclining Figure, Interior Setting I (Cramer 458), XXe Siècle (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°49, 1977. Published and printed under the direction ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE RUG WEAVER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Bullfight, the Arena - Vintage lithograph exhibition poster # Mourlot
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso (after)
Bullfight, the Arena, 1982
Lithograph (printed in Atelier Mourlot)
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 89 x 60 cm (c. 36 x 24 inch)
Original lithogra...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 207-261), Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso, Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires, 1969. Published by Éditions Cerc...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY 1986 Lithograph, African American History, Black Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grandmère et Louise Nue Assise à Terre-Etching by Suzanne Valadon-1932
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and signed on plate. Edition of 95 copies (1/95).
Provenance: Galleria Prandi 10/04/1968
Realized in 1910 and Published in 1932.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alexander Calder Las Vegas card players lithograph (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Card Players Lithograph form Derrière le miroir:
Lithograph in colors; circa 1975.
11 x 15 inches.
Good to very good overall vintage condition.
Unsigned from an edi...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean COCTEAU & Raymond MORETTI: Birth of Venus - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Cocteau and Raymond Moretti
Birth of Venus
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate, handsigned by Raymond Moretti
Numbered 1/29 - Very look for proof bearing n°1
On ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Schéhérazade - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1950 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker.
Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest.
Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937.
He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange
hand pulled limited edition lithograph
signed and numbered by the artist
Glenn Green Galleries also pr...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pin Up Girl with Red Hat, untitled, original pinup vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Pin-Up Girl with Red Hat vintage pin-up poster. Artist: Billy Devorss. Size: 15.25" x 20". Archival linen backed in mint condition; ready to frame.
This striking original poster displays a graceful model wearing a vibrant red sun hat against a light blue background. This is truly a lovely piece!
Billy DeVorss (1908 – 1985) was a self-taught illustration artist who started his commercial career in 1933. He was well known throughout his career for the voluptuous figures and attractive faces of his images. This poster is one of those great pin-up style images created by DeVorss.
Alone among the pin-up artists in being entirely self-taught, Billy De Vorss sold his first three published pin-ups to the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company in St. Paul in about 1933. Until that time, he had been working as a teller in a bank in St. Joseph, Missouri. There, he met the stunning woman Glenna, who became his wife and first official model. Encouraged to develop his talent by Gene Sayles, the manager of Brown and Bigelow...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Home David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Clandeboye House
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Composition (Ginestet/Pouillon 42-64), Hésiode, Les Travaux et les Jours
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hésiode, Les Travaux et les jours. E...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Femme Assise a la Robe Bleu (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Femme Assise a la Robe Bleu
Year: 1981
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Size: 29 x 22 inches
Edition: 1000, plus proofs
Condition: Good
Ins...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney Poster Galerie der Spiegel 1970 (Boy in an Egg) with bird
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster reproduces The Boy Hidden in an Egg by David Hockney from his Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969. A shirtless young man curls up inside a d...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
M like Miguel - Linocut by Miguel Berrocal - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
M like Miguel is an artwork realized by Miguel Berrocal (1933 – 2006) in 1975.
Linocut print.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
The Love Letter, 1951 - Original lithograph (Catalog raisonne Stone Echoes #8)
Located in Paris, IDF
Françoise GILOT (1921)
The Love Letter, 1951
Original lithograph
On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches)
REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Fr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait head of a woman, Original French Mourlot Modernist Lithograph 1950s
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Original limited edition lithograph, printed by Mourlot in Paris, France on vélin du Marais watermarked paper. this is not signed as issued. This is from a signed and numbered p...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Johns, Two Cup Picasso (ULAE 123) (after)
By Jasper Johns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Jasper Johns (1930)
Title: Two Cup Picasso
Year: 1981
Medium: Lithograph and silkscreen on premium paper
Size: 14 x 10.5 inches
Inscription: Signed & dated with the artist's ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
In the Beginning There Were Mistakes, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - In the Beginning There Were Mistakes, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 7...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Amies - Etching by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint on japanese paper applied on cardboard.
One of 10 artist's proofs, numbered I/X, aside of the edition of 100.
Hand signed and numbered.
Very Good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pepper Jelly Lady, Modern Lithograph, signed and numbered by Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) - Pepper Jelly Lady, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered, Edition: 113/150, Size: 26 x 21 in. (66.04 x 53.34 cm...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'The Red Horseman', Hand Signed, Leo Castelli Gallery Exhibition Poster, Pop Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Vintage, 1975, Leo Castelli New York Gallery exhibition poster; signed, lower right, in felt pen, 'R. Lichtenstein' for Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Roy Lichtenstein firs...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Purgatory 11 - The Haughty - woodcut - 1963 (Field #p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 11 - The Haughty
From "The Divine Comedy"
Original woodcut
Signature printed in the plate
Printed on BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lullaby: Jacob Lawrence wife, mother & child family embrace in abstract interior
By Gwendolyn Knight
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a rare print, #46 in an edition of 96 that Gwendolyn (Gwen) Knight created while visiting Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop with her late husband, the artist Jacob Lawrence. It is signed, titled, and dated along the lower edge. The print itself measures 22" x 30" and is professionally framed in a contemporary dark wood frame with muted green and gold double mats under UV protective glass. Framed measurements are 29.5" x 38".
This print can also be found in the permanent collections of:
- Washington State Arts Commission
- Telfair Museums
- David Driskell Center, University of Maryland
- Seattle Art Museum
and many private collectors.
Gwendolyn Knight was born in Barbados in 1913. When she was seven, her widowed mother entrusted her to close friends who brought her with them to the United States. In 1926, Knight moved with her foster family from their first home in St. Louis to Harlem, where her developing interest in the arts flowered in the creative atmosphere of the Harlem Renaissance. In Harlem, Knight became a daily participant in the workshop of sculptor Augusta Savage, in whom Knight found a mentor, and Savage's studio became a second home. Through Savage, Knight first came into contact with Claude McKay...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, 1979
Original lithograph on heavy wove paper
46 × 30 inches
Limited Edition of 5000 (unnumbered)
Stamped with copyright mark and publisher's blindstamp
Published by Stony Johns, Inc. and Gemini G.E.L.
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
Unframed
This stunning, impressive, large vintage lithograph...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Deux Femmes Accroupies - Lithograph by Pablo Picasso - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Picasso in 1956. Lithograph on Arches Paper.
Hand Signed and numbered.
Edition of 19/50.
Ref. Bloch n.790.
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adam and Eve Banished from the Paradise - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BIrds - Lithograph by Aldo Pagliacci - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Edition of 130 copies (105/130).
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Papier Collés 1910-1914 - Lithograph - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph on BFK Rives, from the series "Papier Collés".
This series reproduces some of the most iconic works by Picasso in the years 1910-1914, during the birth of cubism.
...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Sculpteur devant sa Sculpture - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
B/w etching on Hollande Van Gelder Paper, with margins.
Belongs to the series "Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu".
Hand Signed and numered in bistre ink. Edition of 10/99, aside from the port...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Picasso, Picador and Bull (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso: Grabados al linóleo. Published by Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona, and...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Chagall, Tribe of Asher, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Enlèvement III, from Séries 347 - Cubist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Appearing like ghosts against a black background are three white figures rendered in an almost Abstract style. One, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, sits atop a horse and looks down to th...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, Dwan Gallery Poster
Located in New York, NY
Robert Smithson
Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, Dwan Gallery Poster, 1970
Offset lithograph poster
38 × 22 inches
Unframed
Rare, historic poster feature...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
John Taylor Arms, Study in Stone, Cathedral of Ourense
Located in New York, NY
John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY 1985 Lithograph Art Poster, Black Women, Purple, Green
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN
NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY
Year published - 1985
Commemorative Poster - Hofstra University - Noah Program
Poster size - 34.5 x 21 inches, unframed, unsigned
NOAH MEANS -...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Transport in the Mountains - Lithograph by Alfred Kubin - 1929
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vellum, realized by Kubin in 1929.
Hand signed in pencil.
Framed under glass, frame dimension 63.5x51 cm.
Ref. Raabe 380.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Clown sur Fond Bleu
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Clown sur Fond Bleu" from the suite "Clowns" 1985, is an original color lithograph on Arches watermarked paper by renown French artist Bernard Buffet, 1928-1999...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 27-28. Published by Aimé Maeght, Édite...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Exclusive Invitation Card to Andy Warhol Memorial Lunch from Estate of Tim Hunt
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
SUPER RARE!
Invitation Card to private Andy Warhol Memorial Lunch, from the Estate of Tim Hunt, 1987
Offset lithograph card
6 1/2 × 3 3/5 inches
Unframed
This exclusive invitation to the private memorial lunch for Andy Warhol is an historic collectors item. Few people in the world own this card other than those who were invited to the event and/or their heirs, though it has occasionally appeared at public auction now that another generation has passed. This offset lithograph invitation card to Andy Warhol's Memorial Lunch at the Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel bears an image of Andy Warhol's iconic 1967 Marilyn on one side, and on the other side is an announcement that reads as follows:
ANDY WARHOL
A Memorial Lunch
Wednesday, April 1, 1987
The Diamond Horseshoe
235 West 46th Street
New York City
Special thanks to:
Carillon Importers
Caffe Condotti
Glorious Food
All leftover food and flowers will be donated to the homeless program at Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Marilyn - Andy Warhol 1967
The provenance of this card is impressive as it comes from the estate of Warhol Foundation curator and sales agent Tim Hunt, who was married to bestselling author Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York". Tama would describe how she met Tim Hunt as follows: "Andy Warhol died in 1987. In the long hot summer after, I bought a tiny basement apartment on West 70th Street over by West End Ave. That’s when I met Tim Hunt. A model for Werther’s Caramel and Ralph Lauren who’d gone to Oxford and had a brother who was a famous race car driver, he’d been with Christie’s a few years and had come over from England to work on the Warhol estate. He would later become my husband. Andy would have loved Tim. But the two had never met..."
The event in this invitation is the more exclusive Memorial Lunch on April 1st 1987, held prior to Warhol's Memorial Mass at St. John the Divine, later that evening, the latter of which was attended by thousands of people. The press referred to this earlier event as a "Special Memorial Lunch Party" - using the vernacular of the day, as everything in the mid to late 1980s seemed like a party - until it was not. Interestingly, no start time, or even time range, is mentioned on this invitation - something that is rarely if ever missing from such an item; further evidence that it wasn't enough just to get this card; one had to already be in the know to be able to attend. Either that, or the lunch party was going on all day - so invitees could show up whenever they wanted. Or, alternatively, it was simply an accidental omission with no hidden message. And another side note: one of the sponsors of this Memorial luncheon, Carillon Importers, is the holding company or importer for Absolut Vodka, which commissioned Andy Warhol to create a series of advertising ads that would comprise one of the most successful, award-winning advertising campaigns of the era - and the most successful of the company's history. Who attended this event? Probably everybody who was anybody in the nexis of art, celebrity, high fashion and big business. Getty images features photographs by celebrity paparazzo Ron Galella of some of Warhol pals entering or leaving the Diamond Horseshoe for this exclusive event including Dianne Brill...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Save Freedom of Worship original 1943 Four Freedoms vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Save Freedom of Worship (S) Artist: Normal Rockwell. Archival linen backed. Original fold marks touched up at the time of b...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Miró, Composition, (Cramer 230; Mourlot 1115), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume III, 1977. Published by Maeght Édite...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Les Mexicaines" / "Mexicans"
Located in Berlin, MD
Bernard Cathelin (French 1919-2004) "Les Mexicaines" Colored Lithograph on Rice Paper.
A peaceful impressionistic scene of three Mexican women in the street.
Red. Orange. Black. W...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph