Joseph Raffael

New Beginnings

1982

This artwork "Landscape with Deer Herds" c.1970 is an original color lithograph by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand sig...

Artist: Billy Al Bengston – American (1934-2022) Title: Untitled Year: 1990 Medium: Lithograph, silkscreen on Arches paper Sight size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches. Sheet size: 24 x 30 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Publisher: Cirrus Editions, Ltd., Los Angeles, CA Edition: 250 This one: 120/250 Condition: Excellent This print is by Billy Al Bengston. It depicts what looks like a coyote staring out at the horizon on a full moon night. This print was created at the same time Bengston was creating his Moon paintings. The print has dark colors. As a result, my photographs are imperfect; they have a bit of glare. The print is in excellent condition. It is attached by two hinges to a matboard measuring 26 x 32 inches and has a Plexiglas frame. The frame is in fair condition with some light scratches. Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's "Kustom" car and motorcycle culture. He pioneered the use of sprayed layers of automobile lacquer in fine art and often used colors that were psychedelic and shapes that were mandala-like. ARTnews referred to Bengston as a "giant of Los Angeles's postwar art scene." Early life and education Bengston was born in Dodge City, Kansas, on June 7, 1934. His family relocated to Los Angeles in 1948. He attended Los Angeles City College in 1952. Subsequently, he studied painting under Richard Diebenkorn and Saburo Hasegawa at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, California, in 1955 and returned to Los Angeles to study at Otis Art Institute in 1956. Career Bengston began showing with the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (founded and run by Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz, and later Irving Blum), having five shows between 1958 and 1963. As a fixture at the gallery, he was among a cohort of artists that included Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell, Kenneth Price, Ed Moses, and Robert Irwin. (The gallery closed in 1966.) In a 2018 article in Vanity Fair, Bengston recalled that he and Irwin hung the 32 pieces in Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup-can paintings show at Ferus in 1962. He notably described the atmosphere of Ferus as a "macho intellectual gang bang". After seeing the work of Jasper Johns at the 1958 Venice Biennale he adopted the motif of a set of sergeant's stripes. This recurring chevron image was painted with industrial materials and techniques associated with the decoration of motorcycle fuel tanks and surfboards. According to Grace Glueck of The New York Times, Bengston "was among the first to ditch traditional oil paint on canvas, opting instead for sprayed layers of automobile lacquer on aluminum in soft colors, achieving a highly reflective, translucent surface." Bengston encouraged viewers in the early 1960s to associate his art with motorcycle subculture; on the cover of a 1961 catalogue for a Ferus show, he was seen straddling a motorcycle. (He also competed in motocross competitions.) "When I painted these motorcycle paintings...

This artwork titled "A Tire d'Aile" 1986 is an original color etching with aquatint on Arches paper by French artist Jean Solombre, 1948-2005. It is hand...

This artwork "Two Horses" 1964, is an original color aquatint on paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered 107/120 in pencil by the artist. ...

Artist: Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006) Title: Fantastic Animal with Sun Head Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Inscribed A.P (Artist proof) Paper: Wove Image s...

This artwork titled "Animals Board the Ark" c.1990 is a color lithograph with embossing by noted Israeli artist Amram Edgi b. 1939. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 852/950 in pencil by the artist. It is custom framed in a gold metal frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist: Amram Ebgi was born in Morocco in 1939. He has been considered a visionary whose imagination combines the warmth of sensitive feelings with light and the complexities of life with subtle structure. Devoting his life to art and spending more than 30 years in his Art Studio. Master Printmaker and Sculptor AMRAM EBGI has been creating beautiful Art for decades, bringing the deeply symbolic and beloved images of his rich Jewish Heritage. His intricately detailed masterpieces are bursting with the Colors of Life. EBGI is truly an Ambassador of the Arts, with his exquisite work commissioned by UNICEF; permanently displayed in the Museum Collections of Yale, Princeton and UCLA exhibited by museums and collected worldwide. One Man Shows 1998 (MAY) Ohev Shalom Congregation, Orlando 1998 (MAR) UJA Federation, Miami, FL 1997 (JUN) Turnberry Jewish Center, Aventura, FL 1997 (JAN) International Ketubah Expo, Museum of Florida 1996 (NOV) Schaarai Zedek, St. Petersburg, FL 1996 (FEB) Jerusalem 3000 Celebration, Jerusalem 1994 (SEPT) Fine Arts Gallery, Ardmore, PA 1994 (JUN) Carter Art Exhibition, Paris, France 1993 (JUN) Lucien Krief Gallery, Jerusalem 1992 (NOV) Nuance Art Gallery, Tampa, FL 1991 (JAN) J.C.C. of San Antonio, TX 1990 (MAR) Temple Beth Am, Miami, FL 1989 (DEC) J.C.C. of Houston, TX 1989 (DEC) Gallery Nicole, Sherman Oaks, CA 1989 (MAY) J.C.C. of Central Florida, Maitland, FL 1989 (MAY) Riverdale YM-YWHA, New York 1989 (JAN) J.C.C. of Rockville, MD 1988 (OCT) Memphis J.C.C., Memphis, TN 1988 (AUG) J.C.C. of Central Florida, Maitland, FL Museums Beit Ha-Shoah-Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles Florida Gulf Coast Art...

This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored 1st octavo edition lithograph entitled "Rocky Mountain Flycatcher, Male, Swamp Oak. Quecus Aquatica", No. 12, Plate 6...

This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Saucerottia Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two green, blue and a little brown colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and pink flowers. This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph has a few very small faint spots, but it is otherwise in excellent condition. The original text page is included. There are other unframed Gould hummingbird...

This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Bubo Maximus" (Great Horned or Eagle Owl) by John Gould, from the supplement to his "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Eagle Owl about to feed her brood of babies who are in the their nest. A another adult (possibly the male) is seen in the distant background in the upper right. This striking framed Gould...

Edition of 80. Signed and numbered in pencil. Really, no one could draw on a lithographic stone like Stow Wengenroth. He drew many animals and birds...

Terriers No. 2 1883-84 Chromolithograph 8.5 x 11 inches

Dachsunds 1883-84 Chromolithograph 8.5 x 11 inches