Men Interior Prints
17
to
36
204
146
43
50
182
156
14
179
60
56
30
28
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
117
62
19
12
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1,038
523
354
239
236
231
208
202
201
166
140
121
116
91
88
83
80
78
78
73
16
44
232
62
3
5
6
16
17
17
25
47
28
14
10
9
8
7
6
5
95
85
40
38
22
Art Subject: Men
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Color Lithograph, Lawyer and Clients, Civil Rights
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. THE DOOR OF JUSTICE was printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printers chop mark on lower corner, print documentation provided. THE DOOR OF JUSTICE was created as a tribute to civil rights lawyers and the people they counsel depicted as a figurative portrait drawing of two lawyer figures, male and female opening "The Door of Justice" to a gathering of everyday people awaiting outside the doorway. Printed in primary color shades of yellow, blue, red, green, brown, gray and black.
Print size - 24.25 x 27.5 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett
Image size - 18 x 22.5 inches
Year published - 2000
Edition size - 100
"The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis."
-Thurgood...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
DRAG QUEEN Original Lithograph, Surreal Pencil Portrait, Cabaret-Berlin style
Located in Union City, NJ
DRAG QUEEN is a superbly executed hand drawn, original lithograph printed from a lithographic stone using traditional hand printmaking techniques on archival paper 100% acid free. DRAG QUEEN portrays a pencil drawing of a seated man wearing a scallop edge black slip dress, dark stockings, pom pom mules/slides, holding a small black purse. He looks straight out toward the viewer with one eye open, one closed as he pokes the eye of a mysterious man looking up from the bottom of the composition. Very intriguing, Cabaret-Berlin style, surreal portrait that was hand printed in Paris France during the early 1970's. Artist is unknown....
Paper size: 12.75 x 9.5 inches, unframed, unsigned Printers Proof, hand torn edges, fine impression, excellent condition.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia-
A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. In modern times, drag queens are associated with gay men and gay culture, but people of other genders and sexual identities...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Costume - Haut Rhine - Lithograph - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Costume - Haut Rhine is a lithograph print on paper in the Late 19th century.
Good conditions.
From the suite of "France Pittoresques, including costume of the world.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN (MISSOURI MUSICIANS) 1931 (Fath 4)
Lithograph, signed in pencil. Although Fath indicates an edition of 75, it is numbered ...
Category
1930s American Realist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Composition, Degas Pastels Et Dessins Reproduits Par D. Jacomet (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d'Arches paper, mounted on archival museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Deg...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Sketch of Dancers, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Degas, A Portfolio Of 10 Reproductions, Ten B...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Famille Cardinal, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Famille Cardinal, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Famille Cardinal, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Famille Cardinal, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Melina Darde, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Degas, A Portfolio Of 10 Reproductions, Ten B...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Femme dans la Baignoire, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Devant la Cheminee, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Le Coucher, Les Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on Marais vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, E. Degas Les Monotypes, 1948. Published by Quatre...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, Dancer arranging her dress, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Degas, A Portfolio Of 10 Reproductions, Ten B...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Dancer touching her earring, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Degas, A Portfolio Of 10 Reproductions, Ten B...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Four sketches of a small dancer, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Degas, A Portfolio Of 10 Reproductions, Ten B...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Radical peace - Screenprint Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard Fairey
Radical peace
Screenprint
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Unnumbered proof
Size 91 x 61 cm (c. 36 x 24 in)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
Lotus Angel - Screenprint Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard Fairey
Lotus Angel
Screenprint
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Unnumbered proof
Size 91 x 61 cm (c. 36 x 24 in)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Freedom from Want 1943 vintage poster. Thanksgiving
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: FREEDOM FROM WANT, Ours to fight for ...
Original. Artist: Normal Rockwell. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Note: All US Go...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
ROY LICHTENSTEIN 'AS I OPENED FIRE' TRIPTYCH SET OF 3, SIGNED (RIGHT PANEL) 1966
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Title: "As I Opened Fire Poster (Triptych) (First Edition)"
Year: 1966
Medium: The Complete Set (Triptych) of Three Offset-Lithograph, Posters on white wove paper
This is one of the few signed sets from the 1966 edition of approximately 3,140 printed by Drukkerij Luii & Co. and published by the Stedelijk Museum., not to be confused with one of the 6+ subsequent reprints up to and even after the artist's death in 1997) Reference: "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue RaisonnE 1948-1997" - Corlett App. 5, page 324; "Lichtenstein Posters" - DAring/Osten No. 14, page 114
Overall size (triptych of all three prints): 25.25" x 62.82"
Sheet size (each): 25.25" x 20.94"
Image size (each): approx. 24.07" x 19.69"
The Triptych set, comes framed floating on Black mat and framed with white Moulding.
In excellent condition
The work is hand-pencil signed in pencil by Lichtenstein in the lower right margin of the third print. Each panel has the correct printed inscription on the verso "edition and color correction / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / [copyright symbol] R. Lichtenstein 1964...
Category
1960s Pop Art Interior Prints
Materials
Offset
Peter Doig, Two Students - Signed print, 2008, Contemporary Art
By Peter Doig
Located in Hamburg, DE
Peter Doig (born 1959 in Edinburgh)
Two Students, 2008
Medium: Giclée Print on wove paper
Dimensions: 73 x 57 cm
Edition of 500: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Condition: Very good
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
Stairway with Vegetation, Interior Staircase, Photomontage, Gravure, Etching
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Gravure, Handmade Artwork, Limited Edition of 15. The work is not framed.
Medium : Photopolymer Gravure on Fine Art paper 300Gsm
Artist : Suzanne Moxhay
Subject / Ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Etching, Archival Paper, Photogravure
Sadistic Dog Walker Shepard Fairey Blue Edition Street Contemporary Art Obey Pop
Located in Draper, UT
A major figure of the contemporary street art movement, Shepard Fairey rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” campaign, which distributed poster...
Category
2010s Street Art Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT, 'UNTITLED 1997' VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION ESTATE LITHO.
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Jean Michel Basquiat
"Untitled 1997"
Limited Edition Print: Lithograph in Colors
Approximate Size: 30 x 22 in 76 x 56 cm
Edition: Unnumbered limited edition
Other: Stamped By Artist...
Category
1990s Pop Art Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
RABBI TEACHING Signed Lithograph, Rabbi and Young Boy, Jewish Art, Judaism
Located in Union City, NJ
RABBI TEACHING is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed in black ink on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free from a hand drawn lithography stone usin...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Andy Warhol - Halston fragrance and cosmetics Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Sadistic Dog Walker Shepard Fairey Red Edition Street Contemporary Art Obey Dog
Located in Draper, UT
"I’ve made several images over the years addressing police brutality, and I think humor and absurdity help make such a heavy topic more digestible. There is a violent history of poli...
Category
2010s Street Art Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE Signed Linocut, Thurgood Marshall Portrait, Civil Rights
Located in Union City, NJ
CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE is a hand pulled original limited edition relief print created using linocut printmaking techniques on white archival heavyweight paper, 100% acid free. Pencil signed by Ms. Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printers chop mark lower left, print documentation provided. CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE was created as a tribute to Thurgood Marshall...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
QUILTING TIME Signed Lithograph, African American Culture, Interior Scene, Quilt
Located in Union City, NJ
QUILTING TIME is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. QUILTING TIME by the African American master artist Romare Bearden is from Bearden's Mecklenburg series of images depicting recollections from his childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, NC. A colorful, intimate interior scene showing a black woman and young man tending to a multicolor quilt. Bearden's well known visual motif - the quilt, refers back to a time when the African American quilting tradition was employed by enslaved black people who worked coded messages into their handmade quilts to pass on information about the Underground Railroad...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Concerto
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint in black on Auvergne paper
Image Size: 13 x 10 cm
Sheet Size: 32 x 25 cm
Framed 48.7 x 41 cm
Edition of 50
hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Banksy "Cut and Run" Rat Poster Street Urban Art & Banksy Exhibition Poster Set
By Banksy
Located in Draper, UT
First Print:
Banksy
"CUT AND RUN"
Technique: Offset Lithograph
Paper: Thick Stock Glossy
Size: 16.5 X 23.4
Materials
Thick glossy paper
Size
23 2/5 × 16 1/2 in 59.4 × 41.9 cm
Rarit...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
El origen de la luz (rojo caverna)
By Hugo Lugo
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Serigrafía sobre papel.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Bernard Sanders, (Mesopotamian Figure)
Located in New York, NY
Clearly Sanders was looking at ancient Mesopotamian figures. Even the elaborate feathered wings can be found there -- made about 5000 years ago!
There's an initial 'S' in the plate...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Gloria Hendry in "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour, Gloria Hendry
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, a...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, adventure, live ...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
George Lazenby in "James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service", UK 1969
By Larry Ellis
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour, George Lazenby
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, ...
Category
1960s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
Original La Malou les Bains vintage French thermal spa poster
By Luc Lafnet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: LAMALOU LES BAINS. CEVENNES - MONTAGNE NOIRE. Linen-backed old original French spa poster. Excellent condition. Statues look at t...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, adventure, live ...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
"James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, adventure, live ...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
Trevor Frankland (1931-2011) - 20th Century Linoprint, Evening Window
Located in Corsham, GB
Finished with white gouache and collage. Unsigned. On laid paper.
Category
20th Century Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
The Lonely House at Asajigahara.
Located in Middletown, NY
A scene from a series of ghost stories and spooky rural legends.
Tokyo: Matsuki Heikichi, 1896.
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry pa...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut, Handmade Paper
Garden With Henry, by Peter Milton
By Peter Milton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Resist Ground Etching & Engraving
Image Size: 9.5 x 12 inches
Year: 1993
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, this print was specially made by Milton to accom...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Two Women Playing Sugoroku from "Comparison of the Customs of Beauties."
Located in Middletown, NY
A scene from a vanishing Japan.
Two Women Playing Sugoroku from "Comparison of the Customs of Beauties."; The Customs and Manners of Women
Japan: Matsuki Heikichi, 1891.
Woodblock ...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
Portfolio L'Atelier - 10 Linocuts Russian
By Jean Pougny
Located in London, GB
The portfolio consists of 10 linocuts, each printed on a separate sheet and stamp signed with the artist's signature stamp "Pougny".
These original prints were created by Pougny hims...
Category
1910s Interior Prints
Materials
Stencil, Linocut
MECKLENBURG AUTUMN Signed Lithograph, Black Women Portrait, African Mask, Quilt
Located in Union City, NJ
MECKLENBURG AUTUMN is an original limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dyeing Paper
Located in Middletown, NY
Japan: circa 1770.
Woodcut on cream laid paper, 7 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (182 x 63 mm), narrow margins. Laid down to non-archival board with scattered soiling and some adhesive staining...
Category
Late 18th Century Edo Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Woodcut, Laid Paper
French Vintage Modern Art Deco Nitrolian Fast Drying Paint Promotional Poster
Located in Houston, TX
Modern art deco promotional poster by artist and illustrator Leonetto Cappiello. The work features a man using Nitrolian paint to paint a set of stairs as a woman walks down. The pa...
Category
1920s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Guy Gee, Albania (medium)
Located in Manchester, GB
Guy Gee, Albania (medium)
Hand-engraved print on 350gsm on G.F Smith card
53 x 56cm (20 4/5 x 22 2/5 in)
Frame included
Edition of 75
Each artwork by Guy had been digitally reima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Guy Gee, India (medium)
Located in Manchester, GB
Guy Gee, India (medium)
Hand-engraved print on 350gsm on G.F Smith card
53 x 56cm (20 4/5 x 22 2/5 in)
Frame included
Edition of 75
Each artwork by Guy had been digitally reimagi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original The Pit and the Pendulum vintage Italian movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Pit and the Pendulum “Il Pozzo e Il Pendolo” vintage Italian movie poster. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to fr...
Category
1970s Gothic Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
l'Amateur d'Art
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "l'Amateur d'Art" c.1990 is an original color lithograph by noted French artist Guy Buffet, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 4/10 in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 24 x 18 inches, framed size is 32.25 x 24.15 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black an gold frame, with decorated gold color matting. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor restorations, barely visible.
About the artist:
Guy Buffet was born in Paris on January 13, 1943. His parents were in the restaurant business and were fond of art. Guy Buffet learned early that his neighborhood had once been the home of such artistic figures as Chagall, Matise, Picasso, and Modigliani. "At home there was always talk about these famous painters," he says, "and I used to listen to these conversations while doing my homework at the kitchen table. I remember drawing on napkins and the linen tablecloths while my brothers were busy with kitchen preparations."
On his twelfth birthday, his mother gave him his first box of paints, a couple of brushes, a wooden easel, and several canvases. The young Buffet was soon displaying paintings on the walls of the family restaurant. He sold his first watercolor painting to an American who was visiting the family restaurant that next year.
At age 14 he was transferred from public school to the famed Beaux Arts de Toulon and later studied advanced painting in Paris. By age 18, he joined the French Navy where his artistic abilities were so distinguished, he was named the official artist of the French Navy and given the prestigious assignment to "paint the world."
"In the South Pacific, while I was on shore leave and hitchhiking with some fellow sailors," Buffet says, "we were picked up by a motorist who was the mayor of the city. After visiting the ship and seeing some of my paintings, the mayor talked to the captain and got permission for me to put on an exhibit in town."
From this came a series of one-man exhibitions in exotic Tahiti and New Caledonia. Afterwards, the French Navy helped organize his first exhibition in the Hawaiian Islands introducing Buffet to what he called "Paradise." The year was 1963 and the rest, as they say is history.
Guy Buffet soon settled in this "Hawaiian Paradise" after the prominent Cooke family offered to provide him living and studio space after his Navy discharge. What followed were several commissions from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts which emblazoned major murals at libraries across the state of Hawaii.
Of his paintings, Buffet says, "I invite the viewer to share my experience. I take you into my world like a guest into my home. I want you to be comfortable, relaxed, happy; to forget about problems and sorrows. If you like it and want to come back, my world is yours."
Guy Buffet has also been commissioned by many corporations including Aloha Airlines, Grand Marnier, Westin Hotels, and Ritz Carlton Hotels. He has literally toured the world with one-man shows and exhibitions.
One can feel the international influence of his Hawaiian creations, reminiscent of the French master Gaughin who depicted Polynesia from Tahiti generations earlier. Enthralled with the history and culture of the islands, Buffet continues to create famous images depicting the folklore of the Hawaiian people, animals and events. Buffet‚s whimsical Hawaiian world is where cows wear flower leis and bellow, "Amoo" and road signs bear, Baby Pig Crossing to allow mama piglet and her babies to cross a country road.
His vibrant color palette helps evoke a playfulness that brings out the child in every aficionado.
While some of his other works are positively Polynesian, a great deal of it is decidedly derived from his French heritage. Depicting French sommeliers, chefs, and waiters mid-shift, Guy consistently captures the spirit and passion of the French people and their love of fine cuisine.
Guy Buffet's images are now commissioned for a wealth of items from men's dress ties and shirts, to dinner plates, coffee cups, postcards, calendars, and women's wear. Buffet is also the official artist for Champagne Perrier...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph