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Period: 1980s
Lithographie Originale II
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Lithographie Originale II
Color Lithograph
Year: 1981
Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches
Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer 177, Der Lithograph IV, 1969-1972
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris,...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$149 Sale Price
69% Off
Romare Bearden JAMMING AT THE SAVOY Vintage 1981 Brooklyn Museum Poster, Jazz
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN 1970-1980
The Brooklyn Museum, September 26-November 29, 1981
Vintage 1981 Exhibition Poster "Jamming At The Savoy" (image from original 14" x 18" collage on board by ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$298 Sale Price
25% Off
Lt. Ed. Monograph of drawings, hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
This is a lifetime edition - hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat himself in Basquiat's lifetime. Many younger collectors don't appreciate the difference between the numerous posthumous estate authorized prints...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media
1984 After Tom Wesselmann 'Galleria Plura'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster is a rare and highly collectible item, originally produced for Tom Wesselmann's solo show at Galleria Plura in Milan, which took place from February to March 1...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
By Ella Fort
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort
St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
Color lithograph
Signed, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 390 + 10 E.A.
size:...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Deluxe Hand Signed Lt Ed Olympic Diver in Swimming Pool coveted lithograph w/COA
Located in New York, NY
"Water in swimming pools changes its look more than any other form. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the color of the spectrum appear everywhere." -
- David Hockney
David Hockney
Offset Lithograph poster (Deluxe Hand Signed Limited Edition) on Parsons Diploma Parchment Paper, accompanied by COA from the Publisher and Olympic Committee
36 × 24 inches
Pencil signed and unnumbered from the Edition of 750 (there was a separate, larger unsigned edition)
Unframed
Also accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee
One of the most coveted, historic and popular David Hockney limited editions created - beloved by American and international collectors alike:
The official edition of this work is 750, but the publisher famously destroyed unsold editions after the Olympic Games and only about 200-250 are said to remain. This hand signed limited edition iconic Hockney work was printed as one of the fifteen Official Fine Art Olympic Posters for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (the XXIII'rd Olympiad). It depicts an aerial view of a swimmer under rippling water broken up into 12 squares. A statement released by the 1984 Olympic committee explains the set as follows - "The posters commissioned for the 1984 Olympics contain an enlightened selection of the best American artists with special emphasis on those who work in Southern California...As the Games develop, transpire and pass into memory, these fifteen posters contain the images, forms and symbols that will represent the 1984 Olympics in the museums, galleries, homes and the minds of people all over the world.” This work is NOT to be confused with the ubiquitous plate signed poster of the same image, which was printed on different paper in an open edition.) In 1982, the Olympic Committee commissioned 15 artists to create posters for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Hockney designed this offset lithograph depicting Olympic swimming. It was printed on Parsons Diploma Parchment paper in 1982, in an edition of 750, hand signed in pencil by the artist. Even though this print was published in an edition of 750, after the first marketing blitz, the publisher destroyed the remaining portfolios of signed prints - literally discarding hundreds of them in the dumpster. The Olympic Committee commissioned these portfolios to celebrate and promote the 1984 Olympics, and nobody expected the individual prints to have such enduring value. As the executives running the short-term promotional campaign were neither prophets nor curators, they saw no reason to hold on to these huge prints...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
David Hockney 'Two Dancers' 1983
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First edition exhibition poster for Hockney Paints the Stage, held at the Walker Art Center in 1983. Published by Petersburg Press and mounted on museum board, this original poster i...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Los Angeles Olympics Poster (Signed)
Located in Manchester, GB
The colour offset lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment wove paper. Published in 1982 for the LA Olympic Games in 1984, David Hockney was one of the fifteen artists invited to create a poster for the Games. Hand signed by the artist in pencil lower right, un-numbered from the limited edition of 750, although there are said to be less than 200 prints in existence. Not to be confused with the unsigned LA Olympics poster...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Spanish Elegy (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall, The Tribe of Levi, from XXe siecle, 1983 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La Tribu de Levi (The Tribe of Levi), from the special issue of the XXe Siecle Review, Chagall in Jerusalem, originat...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Emerald Lady
Located in Palm Springs, CA
In "Emerald Woman" by Chinese artist Jiang Tie-Feng, a sensuous, jade-green female figure is depicted astride a vividly rendered horse, fusing human form with the spiritual energy of...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Richard Diebenkorn, Olympic Lithograph, 1984, Deluxe signed Lt Ed w/official COA
Located in New York, NY
Richard Diebenkorn
1984 Olympic Lithograph (Hand signed deluxe limited edition w/Olympic Committee COA), 1982
Lithograph with offset lettering on 100% cotton Parsons Diploma Parchment paper
24 × 36 inches
Edition of 750
Hand signed by Richard Diebenkorn in graphite pencil on the front (unnumbered)
Published by Knapp Communications Corporation for Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher. This is one of only 750 hand signed lithographic posters, published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics . However, the publisher is said to have destroyed many of the works that did not sell in the original marketing period, so only about 200-250 are said t remain. The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 nationally known artists, including West Coast artists like Sam Francis and Richard Diebenkorn, to create unique designs to promote the event. This was Diebenkorn's contribution to the portfolio. Hand signed Richard Diebenkorn prints (with the full signature) like this are extremely elusive and desirable. excellent provenance as it was acquired as part of the complete portfolio of limited edition hand signed Olympic prints, all held in the original box with colophon. All of the works in this rare portfolio, including this Diebenkorn lithograph...
Category
Abstract 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Poster of Albert Decaris' Exhibition in Paris - Lithograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in 1981.
Offset and lithograph.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wayne Gretzky #99
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Wayne Gretzky #99
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Date: 1984
Edition: AP 32/50
Sheet Size: 40" x 32"
Signature: Hand signed by Andy Warhol and Wa...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Leonor Fini 'La Serrure'- Vintage Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction poster of La Serrure by Leonor Fini captures the enigmatic and symbolic nature of the original artwork. Leonor Fini was known for her surreal and fantastical imager...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
KEITH HARING 'THE STORY OF RED AND BLUE - 1990, L. pp. 128-13, SIGNED & NUMBERED
By Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring
Title: Plate 5 from Story of Red and Blue (L. pp. 128-133)
Medium: Screen print in colors on wove paper
Sheet Size: 22 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: approx 28.5 x 22...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Jazz II Deluxe 1980 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Jazz II Deluxe
Medium: Screen Print
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 178/200
Size: 31 x 41½ inches
Romare Bearden (1911–1988) was a celebrated Afri...
Category
Abstract 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Fred Astaire, Pop Art Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) - Fred Astaire, Year: 1989, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 80/125, Size: 28 x 25 in. (71.12 x 63.5 cm), Frame S...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Bullfight, the Arena - Vintage lithograph exhibition poster # Mourlot
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso (after)
Bullfight, the Arena, 1982
Lithograph (printed in Atelier Mourlot)
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 89 x 60 cm (c. 36 x 24 inch)
Original lithogra...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring lithographic insert 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Lithograph 1982:
Double-sided lithographic insert from the seminal spiral bound, 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalog published on the occasion of Haring's first gallery solo exhi...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Bouquet Rose, Large Signed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
This simple still life is a lithograph by Russian Modern artist Marc Chagall. It employs several of Chagall's recurring motifs, such as a bird (in this case a rooster), a bouquet of ...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
American Indian Theme VI
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Title: American Indian Theme VI
Medium: Woodcut on handmade Suzuki Paper
Date: 1980
Edition: 24/50
Frame Size: 40" x 53"
Sheet Size: 37 3/4" x 50 5/16"
Image...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Original "1984 Olympics Los Angeles" Torch Runner signed and numbered
Located in Spokane, WA
The Los Angeles Olympics Torch /runner. 1984 Los Angeles Olympics original vintage poster.
Original, hand signed and numbered #232/300 "The Olympic Tor...
Category
American Realist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1988 poster for David Hockney: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1988 poster for “David Hockney: A Retrospective” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vibrant and visually striking representation of the artist’s distinct style. Featuring Hoc...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Original 1980 exhibition poster featuring Femme en bleue by Henri Matisse
Located in PARIS, FR
This is an original 1980 exhibition poster featuring Femme en bleue by Henri Matisse, created for a show at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret. Printed in rich, elegant tones, this pos...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Historic Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples poster - rarely found collectors item
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Lucio Amelio Napoli poster, 1987
Offset lithograph poster
Plate signed
39 × 21 inches
Unframed
This poster was published for the exh...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Statue of Liberty, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Robert Rauschenberg is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Provence, landscapes, countryside art
By Ella Fort
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort
The Lonesome Road (La course seule)
Color lithograph
Signed, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 390 + 10 E.A.
size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inche...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games w/COA from Olympic Committee offset lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Star In Motion, 1982
for the Los Angeles Summer 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee)
Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper
Stamp signed (aut...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
'Surrounded Islands 1982', Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83
Using 6.5 million square feet of floating pink fabric, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled eleven islands in Miami...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
SEVENTH TORII Signed Lithograph Japanese Landscape, Mountains Water Gold Sky
By Jim Buckels
Located in Union City, NJ
SEVENTH TORII is an original, hand drawn(not a photo reproduction or digital print), limited edition lithograph with gold silkscreen printed using hand lithography and serigraphy tec...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
THE LAMP Vintage Lithograph Poster, 1st Printing 1984, Civil Rights, Justice
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN 1970-1980
THE LAMP (after the 1984 collage on board by Bearden)
Vintage 1984 Commemorative Poster - Brown v. Board of Education 30 Years later: "The Politics of Excel...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$315 Sale Price
21% Off
'At the Fun Gallery', Hand Signed by Haring, Subway Drawings, New York, Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Hand signed by Keith Haring in felt pen, upper center, 'K. Haring' for Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) and dated 1983. A trimmed, print magazine advertisement for the artist's ina...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Paper
"Untitled" by Joan Thorne (Abstract, Expressionist, Geometric, Red, Vibrant)
By Joan Thorne
Located in New York, NY
The limited edition was printed at Fine Creations Inc. and has the printer's blind stamp on the bottom right. It was published by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The availab...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Henri Matisse 'Nu Assis I' Serigraph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nu Assis I" is a large serigraph reproduction by Henri Matisse, utilizing his renowned cut-out technique. Released by Silvio Zamorani Editore in Italy, this print has the approval o...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
IN THE GARDEN Signed Lithograph, Black Woman Pink Gingham Dress Collage Portrait
Located in Union City, NJ
IN THE GARDEN is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 150 by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. Featuring fresh, uplifting shades of lavender, hues of fresh green, pink, warm tomato red, orange yellow, grays, black and white, IN THE GARDEN depicts a charming collage portrait drawing of a young black woman waving as she carries her basket of freshly picked flowers. She is standing in the garden wearing a bright pink gingham...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1982 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 250), and published in Paris by Maeght. Image size: 15 x 12 1/4 inches (380 x 310 mm)....
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Les amoureux et luna park II"
By Joan Miró
Located in Warren, NJ
Frame: 47.5 x 39.5 x 2
Picture: 32.5 x 22.5
Frame has a lot of ware
Picture itself is in excellent condition
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Olympic Balloons – Screen Print on Aluminium by M. Pistoletto - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on aluminium Sheet.
Hand signed. One of the 20 Artist’s Proof, numbered and hand signed.
The Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the most important exponent...
Category
Arte Povera 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
$10,056 Sale Price
30% Off
Mercedes 370 and Hotel Gonnet - Signed lithograph - 115ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Denis-Paul NOYER
Hotel : Mercedes 370 and Hotel Gonnet
Original lithograph, c. 1980
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 115 copies
On Arches vellum 75 x 105 cm (c. 30 x 42 in)
INFORMAT...
Category
Realist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Boy in Red Shirt original lithograph by Margaret Keane c 1980
Located in Paonia, CO
Boy in Red Shirt is an original lithograph by Margaret Keane c. 1980. A young boy in a red shirt is seen in front of a three story building in a city on a blue sky day. An ori...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$950 Sale Price
36% Off
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987 extremely rare poster numbered 138/190 rarely seen!
Located in New York, NY
Debi Szarkowski-Effron
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987
Limited Edition offset lithograph poster
Bears the photographer's copyright stamp and pencil numbered 138/190 on the lower left fron...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Harlequin from Parade for the Metropolitan Opera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This rare and collectible poster by David Hockney was part of a series of three billboards commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1981. Designed specifically for ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
MARC CHAGALL "DAY BREAK - 1983"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
"Day Break"
lithograph in colours, 1983, on wove paper.
Signed in pencil, Numbered 26/50 in pencil
21.5 x 17 Inches.
LITERATURE: Mourlot 1014
CONDITION: Exce...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$10,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Dusk, Hopi Arizona landscape lithograph contemporary by Dan Namingha purple pink
hand pulled limited edition lithograph signed and numbered by the a...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Woman, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Nude Woman, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 65/100, Size: 19 x 13 in. (48.26 x 33.02 cm)
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Marilyn Monroe, Pop Art Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) - Marilyn Monroe, Year: 1988, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 65/125, Size: 24.5 x 21.5 in. (62.23 x 54.61 cm), ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1980 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (310 x 232 mm). Not signed.
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
MARC CHAGALL "MONDE FAMILIER - 1983"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
"Monde familier"
lithograph in colours, 1983, on wove paper.
Signed in pencil, Numbered 23/50 in pencil
Image 350 x 270 mm.
Sheet 545 x 430 mm.
LITERATURE: M...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$10,800 Sale Price
20% Off
There's No Biz Like Show Biz, Pop Art Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) - There's No Biz Like Show Biz, Year: 1989, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 27/175, Size: 30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original pre-release 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster, Linen-backed original Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pre-release. "Coming May 23rd, 1984.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 Steven Spielberg treasure-hunting action-adventure fantasy sequel ("If adventure has a name... It must be Indiana Jones."; "Trust him."
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone...
Category
American Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Tàpies, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 253, 1982. Published by Aim...
Category
Post-War 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
57% Off
Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman the Nun' 1983 Vintage pop Art
By Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This Ingrid Bergman nun portrait is among the most color-charged variants from Warhol’s 1983 Börjeson series — a radiant, electrified palette merging violet shadow, scarlet veil, and...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Romeo and Juliet - Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonor FINI (1908-1996)
Romeo and Juliet, 1980
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Vellum 43 x 36 cm (c. 16.92 x 14.1 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
$138 Sale Price
25% Off
Portofino, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Portofino, Year: 1988, Medium: Screenprint, Signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: 51/150, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches...
Category
Modern 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Tete de Femme, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Tete de Femme". The original painting was completed in 1958. In the 1970's after Picasso's d...
Category
Cubist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Artiste Animaliers, Art Nouveau Poster by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, French/Swiss (1859 - 1923) - Artiste Animaliers, Year: 1981, Medium: Poster with Embossed Cat Blindstamp, Size: 20.5 x 25 in. (52.07 x 63.5 cm), Prin...
Category
Art Nouveau 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Fashion Designer
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Fashion Designer
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART
EDITION NUMBER: I 234/250
MEASUREMENTS: 21" x 29"
...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Manhattan Triptych, Set of Three NYC Conceptual Art Lithographs by Alan Sonfist
By Alan Sonfist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Part of a triptych, this rendering of Manhattan shows the uppermost area of the island of New York City. Along the coasts of the city are large illustrations of plants native to the ...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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Revisiting Robert Rauschenberg’s Creative Rebellion on His 100th Birthday
A planet-wide celebration feels fitting for an artist who saw connections everywhere: between paint and photography, art and life, self and surroundings.
Red Grooms’s 3D Tugboat Is a Chaotic, Comic Take on New York Life
The sculptural lithograph is part of the inimitable artist’s “Ruckus” series, now on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
Joan Mitchell’s Rare, Late-Career Diptych Buzzes with Life
Beneath the inky blackness, the painter’s irrepressible energy electrifies this pair of intaglio prints.
The 1stDibs Guide to Types of Abstract Art
Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
Romare Bearden’s Humanity Infuses His Bright, Bold Art
Through collage, painting and printmaking, the artist foregrounded Black life in America in revolutionary new ways.
Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt’s ‘Wild Raspberries’ Cookbook Is an Artful, Fanciful Delight
This set of recipes and original prints might not make you a better chef. But it will make you smile.
Art Brings the Drama in These Intriguing 1stDibs 50 Spaces
The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.
Welcome (Back) to the Wild, Wonderful World of Walasse Ting
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
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