Max Epstein

Born Free, Pop Print by Max Epstein

1980

Artist: Joan Melnick, American (1942 - ) Title: Morning Star Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 35 Paper Size: 25 x 40 in. (63.5 x 101.6 cm)

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Old Stone Bridge, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Size: 30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.76 cm)

The Spring series represents Katz’s profound engagement with the cyclical nature of time. The abstracted compositions of falling leaves or budding branches embody a conceptual rather...

A classic Rosenquist pop art composition with gold, turquoise, purple, pink, blue, green and yellow. Characteristically surreal and graphic, Rainbow incorporates bold geometric forms with painterly washes of color and airbrush texture. Rosenquist's signature gleaming metallic chrome texture can be seen on an inverted fork behind the glass of a golden window. Paper 25.25 x 30.25 in. / 64 x 77 cm Image 17 x 21.5 in. / 43 x 54.5 cm Lithograph with screenprint on cream-coloured Hodgkinson handmade Wookey Hole paper. Edition of 75 with 8 color trial proofs: this impression 8/8. Signed and dated 1972 lower right in pencil; titled, numbered 8/8 and labeled Color Trial Proof lower left in pencil. This graphic, colorful scene is based on Rosenquist’s 1962 oil painting of the same name, collected in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The artist used real glass and wood to construct windows for the original painting – here, house siding is abstracted to bold, black horizontal lines, and the window glass is printed in dark gold ink. At the top of the composition, a window with shutters pushed open is colored in turquoise, with sharp black shadows. The left-hand window pane is shattered, and to the right, the outline of an oversized...