Xavier Viramontes

Xavier Viramontes "Chocolate Kisses" Studio Proof Pencil Signed Color Etching

Late 20th Century

Surreal etching by noted German artist Manfred Sillner b.1937 This is a rare etching from 1975. Pencil signed and titled by the artist. Titled "Treas...

Pair of Framed Giovanni Battista Piranesi Architectural Vases Etchings C.1770 Outstanding pair of antique etchings by Piranesi A Sua Eccellenz...

Vintage Framed Serigraph "Jawbreakers" by Lee Lerfald C.1977 Mid Century Modern Serigraph Jawbreakers machines could be found most anywhere in American d...

Dang (Hoi) Lebadang Floral Still Life Lithograph C.1970 Lithograph dimensions 7" wide x 7.75" high Frame dimensions 17" wide x 19" high (the frame has no glass) Pencil signed and ...

Roger Bezombes: 1913-1994. Well listed French artist with auction prices for lithographs over $2000. This fantastically colorful still life is pencil si...

Brennie Brackett Original Still Life Framed Giclee Original giclee on paper Dimensions 20.5" wide x 21" high The frame measures 29" wide x 29.5" hi...

TISSOT, JAMES JACQUES JOSEPH (1836 -1902) L’enfant Prodigue: Frontispice (The Prodigal Son: Frontispiece) Wentworth 57 Etching, c. 1882 Signed and dated in the plate lower rightIma...

The "La Comtesse de Monte Christo" is from "Aube à l'Antipode", a book with poems by Alain Jouffroy and reproductions of seven drawings by Magritte. This etching has been part of the...

Smoking Cigarette #1. Original color etching and soft-ground etching on Arches watercolor paper, 1991. Edition of 65 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to imagine that his artworks featuring consumer goods and assorted American icons would be considered anything but pop art. At first he was a follower of abstract expressionism, but later switched to figurative art. In the late ‘50s he produced a series of small format collages, which became the basis for his future nudes and still lifes. In 1963 he married Claire Selley, his most faithful model from the series ‘Great American Nude’, and other nudes. In his search for creative styles he began to produce three-dimensional works with the technique of assemblage, using everyday objects such as telephones and televisions. In the ‘Still Life’ series he used advertising techniques and complemented traditional still lifes with mass consumption items taken directly from ads. In the ‘80s he began to work with metals and produced original works with a special laser. Over the next two decades he returned to large formats and the theme of the nude from the ‘60s, rounding off his career with The ‘Sunset Nude’ series, inspired by the works of Matisse. Tom Wesselmann went down in history as one of the greatest representatives of pop art due to his exciting commercial images, his aggressive intervention in three dimensions, his choice of trivial motifs, their monumentalisation, the use of stereotypes as a basis for his work and the choice of strong colors. Wesselmann’s aesthetic usage of everyday objects was done not in criticism of American consumerism and culture, but as a way to render Classical genres modern so as to explore the gap between art and contemporary life. The ‘Smoker Study’ series of works would become one of the most recurrent themes in the 1970s, which he developed throughout the rest of his artistic life. Characterized by the flattening and simplification of everyday subjects, here a single cigarette releases a precise stream of smoke. This burning cigarette on the first sight looks like just a banal representation of an everyday object, but it is more than this. Even cigarettes were one of the major consumer products, which we could previously often seen in different commercials with handsome men and pretty ladies, it also represents an allusion to the lips as an eroticized object...

Color aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite aquatints. Paper Size: 29.5” x 22.75” Edition of 30

Color spitbite aquatint and softground etching with drypoint. Paper Size: 29.5” x 22.75” Edition of 30

Irena Snarska (b. 1934, d. 2013) Irena Snarska was born in 1934 in Lviv. She studied at the Faculty of Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 1956 and 1...