Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

"Head of an Oriental" etching

circa 1800

Medium: original etching. Executed by Tissot for the "Rene Mauperin" suite of etchings, published in Paris in 1884 by Charpentier in a limited edition of 550. This is a nice impressi...

Medium: original etching. This impression is printed on watermarked Arches MBM laid paper. Size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (plate) with good margins. Signed in the plate (not by hand).

Medium: original etching and drypoint. A rich, dark impression on laid paper, printed in 1900 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 4 1/2 x 8 5...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1968 and published in Paris for the Humanisme actif portfolio. Plate size: 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm). Sig...

This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in blue pencil by the artist with his initials "MM", at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition ...

Untitled Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 25 (9/25) (see photo) Engraving, drypoint & carborundum Printed by the artist Condition: Excellent, slight residue on rever...

Peter Halley Cell with Explosions I, 1993 Line Engraving on Japanese Wahon Creme Kozo Paper with glazed surface Hand signed and numbered 49/50 by the artist on lower front Original frame included: matted and framed in a wood frame Rarely to market, this hand signed and numbered 1993 Peter Halley print is held in its original 1990s vintage frame. It's on elegant Japanese Wahon cream paper which is 100% Kozo paper with glazed surface. The specs on the paper are part of the design process. Measurements: Frame: 19 x 19 x 1 inches Visible: 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches Sheet: 15 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches Peter Halley Biography Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. He began his formal training at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1971. During that time, Halley read Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color (1981), which would influence him throughout his career. From 1973 to 1974 Halley lived in New Orleans, where he absorbed the vibrant cultural influences of the city, began using commercial materials in his art, and first became acquainted with the writings of earthwork artist Robert Smithson. In 1975 the artist graduated from Yale University, New Haven, with a degree in art history. After Yale, Halley returned to New Orleans, where he received an MFA in painting from the University of New Orleans in 1978. He had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, that same year. In 1978 Halley spent a semester teaching art at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He has continued to teach throughout his career. In 1980, Halley moved back to New York and had his first solo exhibition in the city at PS122 Gallery. At this time, Halley was drawn to the pop themes and social issues addressed in New Wave music. Inspired by New York’s intense urban environment, Halley set out to use the language of geometric abstraction to describe the actual geometricized space around him. He also began his iconic use of fluorescent Day-Glo paint. In 1984, Halley started to exhibit with the International With Monument gallery, becoming closely associated with the organization and its artists, who exhibited conceptually rigorous work in a market-savvy, coolly presented space that stood in stark contrast to the bohemian, Neo-Expressionist flair of the East Village art scene at the time. In 1986, an exhibition of four artists from International With Monument at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York heralded the group’s growing success. By the late 1980s, Halley was exhibiting with prominent galleries in the United States and Europe. In 1989, an exhibition of his paintings traveled to the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Maison de la culture et de la communication de Saint-Étienne, France; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 1991 to 1992, a retrospective toured Europe, with presentations at the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Musée d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1992, the Des Moines Art Center hosted his first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum. While developing his visual language, Halley became interested in French post-structuralist writers, including Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, and Paul Virillio, all of whom shared his concern with the character of social spaces in a post-industrial society. In 1981, he published his first essay “Beat, Minimalism, New Wave, and Robert Smithson” in Arts, a New York–based magazine that would publish eight of his essays before the decade’s end. Halley’s writings became the basis for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism (also known as Neo-Geo), the offshoot of Neo-Conceptualism associated with the work of Ashley Bickerton, Halley, and Jeff Koons. In 1988, the artist’s writings were anthologized in Collected Essays, 1981–1987, and again in 1997 in a second anthology, Recent Essays, 1990–1996. In the mid-1990s, Halley began to produce site-specific installations for museums, galleries, and public spaces. These characteristically brought together a range of imagery and mediums, including paintings, wall-size flowcharts, and digitally generated wallpaper prints. Halley has executed permanent installations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. In 2011, his installation of digital prints Judgment Day...

Ascension Etching and aquatint printed in red and gold leaf on Arches France paper Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 60 of which this number...