- Design Credit: Samantha Todhunter Design Ltd., Photo Credit: Oliver Clarke. Dimensions: H 20.5 in. x W 19.75 in.
- Design Credit: Lucy Harris Studio, Photo Credit: Francesco Bertocci. Dimensions: H 20.5 in. x W 19.75 in.
- Design Credit: Timothy Godbold, Photo Credit: Karl Simone. Dimensions: H 20.5 in. x W 19.75 in.
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John BaldessariTwo Figures (One with Shadow), from Hegel's Cellar Portfolio1986
1986

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- CreatorJohn Baldessari (1931, American)
- Creation Year1986
- DimensionsHeight: 20.5 in. (52.07 cm)Width: 19.75 in. (50.17 cm)Depth: 1 in. (2.54 cm)
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- ConditionThis work is in excellent condition.
- Gallery LocationMiami, FL
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU53832169163
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About the Artist
John Baldessari
Although conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.
Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.
In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”
From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.
The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of conceptual art.
Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.
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- Falling StarBy John BaldessariLocated in Miami, FLTECHNICAL INFORMATION John Baldessari Falling Star 1989-1990 Sugar-lift, spit-bite, aquatint in colors and photogravure, on torn Somerset Satin paper with full margins 64 1/2 x 2...Category
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
MaterialsAquatint, Photogravure
- Six RoomsBy John BaldessariLocated in Miami, FLTECHNICAL INFORMATION John Baldessari Six Rooms 1993 Suite of 6 color offset lithographs with varnish and handwritten text 21 x 17 1/4 in. each Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numb...Category
1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
MaterialsVarnish, Lithograph, Offset
Price Upon Request - Intersection Series - Person On Horse And Person Falling From HorseBy John BaldessariLocated in Miami, FLTECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Intersection Series - Person On Horse And Person Falling From Horse, (With Audience) 2002 Chromogenic print on archival paper 15 1/2 x 14 1/2...Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
MaterialsC Print
- Two Figures: One Leaping (Orange); One Reacting (with Blue and Green)By John BaldessariLocated in Miami, FLTechnical Information: John Baldessari Two Figures: One Leaping (Orange); One Reacting (with Blue and Green) 2005 Duotone photolithograph and lithograph with embossing and debossing...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- HeroBy John BaldessariLocated in Miami, FLTECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Hero 2017 Screenprint in colors on archival pigment print 30 x 22 in. Edition of 56/65 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gr...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
MaterialsArchival Pigment, Screen
Price Upon Request - Ring Image BBy Robert MangoldLocated in Miami, FLTECHINICAL INFORMATION Robert Mangold Ring Image B 2008 Intaglio 30 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. Edition of 35 Pencil signed and numbered ABOUT THE WORK The Ring paintings highlight Mangold’s...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Prints and Multiples
MaterialsIntaglio
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