1980s Prints and Multiples

Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-) Title: "Westhampton" Portfolio: The Hamptons *Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right Year: 1987 Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white Somerset paper Limited edition: 143/175, (there were also 40 artist's proofs) Printer: Willco Fine Art, New York, NY Publisher: Chalk & Vermilion, New York, NY Sheet size: 21" x 23" Image size: 16" x 18.13" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away in its original green silk boxed portfolio for decades. In mint condition Notes: Numbered by McKnight in pencil lower left. Comes from McKnight's 1987 "The Hamptons" portfolio of twelve screenprints. Artist's copyright stamp lower right on verso. Biography: Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist. He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea. In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Dogs and Bones" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1986 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limited edition: 15/25 Printer: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Publisher: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Sheet size: 34.13" x 29.88" Image size: 25.88" x 24" Condition: Some moderate edge wear around, and heavy wear with a repaired tear at lower right corner. In otherwise good condition with strong colors and clean paper. Will look great once framed and with its marginal imperfections covered Notes: Titled and dated by May in pencil lower right. Biography: Dan May is an American painter and printmaker born on March 11, 1955 in San Francisco, CA. Raised in aesthetic surroundings heavily influenced by his architect father, May grew up learning to view all things with an eye for design, color, and shape. At age 5, he remembers his father cutting up a book of drawings by Henri Matisse and hanging them on the walls of their home. The French master Matisse as well as Richard Diebenkorn and David Hockney are his favorite art influences. He began his first attempts at painting at age 15, and later began to experiment with printmaking, teaching himself various techniques such as woodblock printing, etching, silkscreen printing, and monoprinting. Monoprinting soon became May's medium of choice due to its wide range of expression and spontaneity that he felt other techniques lacked. May - "With monoprinting, you can only work a piece for as a long as the paint stays wet, so the resulting print has a feeling of movement and immediacy. I also like how monoprinting allows the brush strokes to transfer a transparent light quality to the print. For me, this is a technique that bridges drawing...

'Drowning Girl' after Roy Lichtenstein, Very Large, Artist Signed, NYMoMA Pop Art Exhibition Poster, Guggenheim --- Vintage, 1989, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, full-size exhib...

Striking and instantly recognizable, Gretchen is an original poster designed and created by Robert Longo as part of his iconic Men in the Cities series. Published in 1991 in collabor...

Roy Lichtenstein Handwritten note on card ink on paper hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein The card reads "Thank you so much for the wonderful prints Very kind of you to send them to me ...

Original Andy Warhol Poster, Perrier sparkling water, 1983 (horizontal format). Pop Art. Description: The poster features three Perrier bottles seemingly floating in the air. The de...

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.

This whimsical and surreal etching by Mexican artist Maximino Javier, dated 1984, embodies his unique visual language that blends fantasy, folklore, and satire. Medium: Lithograph ...

Sky and Water by Roy Lichtenstein is a vintage blank greeting card, originally printed for the Guggenheim Museum in 1980. The card is framed in a white wood frame with a front profil...

This striking vintage poster, titled Verticality, is a classic example of Elba Alvarez's distinctive style that gained her prominence as one of the top artists of the 1990s. Known fo...

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...

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...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1981 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 247) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 22 inches (380 x 560 mm). There is a...

Fernando Botero's painting titled National Holiday was created in 1987. This work exemplifies Botero's distinctive style, often referred to as "Boterismo," characterized by the depic...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the atelier Mourlot in 1987 for the "Bernard Buffet Lithographe II" catalogue raisonne. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (...

Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after) Title: Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78) Year: 1987 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches cotton rag paper Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 70/80, a...

Keith Haring & Andy Warhol, Montreux Jazz Festival 1986 Screenprint in colours on half-matte coated 250 gsm paper Printed by Albin Uldry Plate signed by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol...

Colorful dots, lines and squares in bright blue, pink, green, lilac and yellow in wood grain form a totem against a lavender purple background. This jubilant take on Cubism features ...

Walasse Ting Grasshoppers - 1981 Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   22'' x 30'' Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 170/200 Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN) (October 13, 19...

This original exhibition poster was created for Drawings 1980–1985, an early showcase of Fernando Botero’s works on paper, held at the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art in 1986. The...

Jim Dine, 1985 Color Lithograph on wove paper with deckled edges 38 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches Edition of 300 Unframed Signed in plate, unnumbered; bears museum copyright on the lower front...

A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek urns, and snakes, printed in black o...

This is an original offset lithograph poster created for the 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, featuring the haunting and visceral work Figure in Movement. Kno...

Keith Haring & Andy Warhol, Montreux Jazz Festival 1986 Screenprint in colours on half-matte coated 250 gsm paper Printed by Albin Uldry Plate signed by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol...

Julio LE PARC (1928-) Diffraction (Transformation), 1988 Original lithograph, airbrush and stencil Signed in ink Numbered / 100 copies On black wove paper, 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 in...

Etching and aquatint realized by Sandro Chia in 1983. Includes a wooden frame cm. 75x61. Artist proof and signed and dedicated, out of an edition of 50. Very good condition.

Original, Linen backed New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival poster from 1983. A fun image with a crawfish holding an umbrella with streamers. 1983 JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL PRO-MO ...

After Marc CHAGALL Circus Offset vintage poster, 1982 On heavy paper 66 x 46 cm / 26 x 18" INFORMATION : Vintage poster for the exhibition "25 livres illustres" at Patrick Cramer Ga...

Margo Humphrey, 'The Garden (Adam and Eve)', reductive color woodcut, 1989. Signed, dated, and annotated 'A/P' in pencil. Signed and dated in the image, lower right. A fine, richly-inked, artist's proof impression, with fresh, vivid colors, on BFK Rives, heavy, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Scarce. Image size 27 1/4 x 39 1/8 inches (692 x 994 mm); sheet size 29 1/2 x 42 inches (749 x 1,067 mm). ABOUT THIS WORK "Humphrey continued to reinterpret stories from the Bible with African American figures. In 1989 she published the woodcut print 'The Garden' at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA. For this rare foray into relief printmaking, she employed the reductive method, which uses only one block that is successively carved for each color segment, reducing the block with each cutting. Technically challenging, this lush and elaborate print is a testament to Humphrey’s skills as a printmaker. A youthful Adam and Eve are depicted in a luxuriant tropical landscape. Here, Humphrey chooses not to include the traditional symbols of humanity’s downfall but instead portrays them as being protected by angels in an atmosphere of idyllic bounty. ...Although Humphrey challenges traditional representation of Christian themes, her images are not iconoclastic but present a broader, more inclusive engagement with religious spirituality." — Adrienne L. Childs, 'Margo Humphrey, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VII,' Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009, page 71. ABOUT THE ARTIST American printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher Margo Humphrey was born in Oakland, California, in 1942. She earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Stanford University. Humphrey began teaching in 1973 at the University of California Santa Cruz and has since taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; Yaba Technological Institute of Fine Art, Ekoi Island, Nigeria; the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria; the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art in Kampala, Uganda, and the Fine Art School of the National Gallery of Art, Harare, Zimbabwe. In 1989, she was appointed Department Head of Printmaking at the University of Maryland in College Park. Humphrey has worked in lithography, monoprint, and woodcut with significant printmaking ateliers, including the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico. She was one of the earliest African-American woman artists to distinguish herself as a lithographer in a highly technical, male-dominated profession and was the first to have her prints published by Tamarind in 1974. Humphrey’s imagery combines historical perspective, autobiography, and fantasy to illuminate her experience as an African American woman. Bold, saturated color, animated figures, and syncopated rhythmic arrangements are hallmarks of Humphrey's oeuvre. Though Humphrey labels her distinctive style "sophisticated naive," the narrative complexity and technical skill of her works attest to her artistic virtuosity. Joyful, expressive, and at times humorous, her works offer engaging commentary on the presumptions of American culture and myth while embracing her personal vision of authenticity and spirituality. She developed her 1987 work The Last Bar-B-Que, a vividly colored transformation of the Last Supper, following a three-year period during which she examined portrayals of the iconic subject by artists from Pietro Lorenzetti to Emil Nolde. Her narrative work The Garden, a monumentally scaled reductive woodcut, is a further example of an archetypal subject—Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden—debunked and rendered with fresh, life-affirming vibrancy. Since her first solo exhibition in 1965, Humphrey’s works have been exhibited internationally. They are held in major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. In 1996, she was invited to be part of the World Printmaking Survey at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2011, Hampton University Museum mounted a 45-year retrospective of Humphrey’s work Her Story: Margo Humphrey Lithographs and Works on Paper, jointly curated by Robert E. Steele, executive director of the David Driskell...

Keith Haring's art vibrantly portrays themes of love, unity, and movement. This reproduction features three iconic images that encapsulate these themes: Two Men in Love: Depicts two...

La melodie acide. original lithograph painting. signed on the stone and numbered 384/1500

Serge LASSUS (1933-) Horses : Riders in Autumn, 1983 Original Lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 600 (the number you can see can be different) On Coated paper 56 x 76 cm (c....

Original Vintage 1981 Cappiello Exhibition Poster held at the Paris Grand Palais. Celebrating the Iconic Artwork of Leonetto Cappiello. Linen backed in very good condition without an...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Circus: Lovers with a Rooster and a Donkey (Pirouette), 1961 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Signed and numbered ‘III/XX’ in pencil. There was an edition of 50 in Arabic numerals On Arches vellum, 76 x 58 cm REFERENCE: Mourlot Catalogue Raisonné...

This original exhibition poster for Romare Bearden's work titled The Woodshed refers to a piece he created in 1967. The Woodshed depicts a scene filled with rich, layered imagery tha...

JACOB LAWRENCE THE BUILDERS 1985 Commemorative Poster - National Urban League 75th Anniversary 1910-1985 Vintage original 1985 printing Poster size - 35.25 x 22 inches, unframed, u...

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...

Artist: LeRoy Neiman Title: Nantucket Sailing Medium: Serigraph Year: 1980 Edition: 168/300 Sheet Size: 25 5/8" x 30 7/8" Image Size: 20" x 24" Signed: Hand signed in pencil

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 th...

Andy WARHOL and Keith HARING Jazz, Dancing on Music Sheet, 1986 Screenprint Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in) Created by Haring for the Montr...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Axsom, Richard H., and Ellsworth Kelly. The Pri...

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...

Keith Haring Swing Guy (Yellow), 1983 Screenprint Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in) Created by Haring for the Montreux Jazz Festival Excelle...

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...

THE FAMILY is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist James Denmark, printed using hand lithography on Arches paper 100% acid free. Rich, vi...

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" ...

Raquel Forner (1902-1988) Argentine woman painter and printmaker born in Buenos Aires in 1902 and died in the same city in 1988, regarded as one of the best Argentine female painters...

Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940 - ) - At the Bar, Year: 1987, Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: 45/300, Size: 30.25 x 28 in. (76.84 ...

Roy De Forest Untitled (Dog), 1981 Color lithograph with deckled edges. Floated and framed. Pencil signed and numbered from the edition of 125 Frame Included: held in original vintage white frame Wonderful whimsical rare 1981 lithograph by the incredibly popular and beloved Roy de Forest, famous for his paintings and prints of dogs...

Original "I LOVE LIBERTY"; Artist: Roy Lichtenstein. Size: 24" x 39" Roy Lichtenstein, I Love Liberty is an original vintage authentic 1982 poster. Ready to frame. Printe...

Stephen Sondheim Tony Awards Broadway Musical Theatre NYT Published Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Stephen Sondheim Lithograph on paper Sight 21 x 15 inches Signed lower right, numbere...

"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...

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...

Original off set lithograph in black and white with hand colored tinting by the artist. Artist signed, titled and numbered by the artist 47/250. Condition is excellent. Under glass...

SUPER RARE! Invitation Card to private Andy Warhol Memorial Lunch, from the Estate of Tim Hunt, 1987 Offset lithograph card 6 1/2 × 3 3/5 inches Unframed This exclusive invitation to the private memorial lunch for Andy Warhol is an historic collectors item. Few people in the world own this card other than those who were invited to the event and/or their heirs, though it has occasionally appeared at public auction now that another generation has passed. This offset lithograph invitation card to Andy Warhol's Memorial Lunch at the Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel bears an image of Andy Warhol's iconic 1967 Marilyn on one side, and on the other side is an announcement that reads as follows: ANDY WARHOL A Memorial Lunch Wednesday, April 1, 1987 The Diamond Horseshoe 235 West 46th Street New York City Special thanks to: Carillon Importers Caffe Condotti Glorious Food All leftover food and flowers will be donated to the homeless program at Church of the Heavenly Rest. Marilyn - Andy Warhol 1967 The provenance of this card is impressive as it comes from the estate of Warhol Foundation curator and sales agent Tim Hunt, who was married to bestselling author Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York". Tama would describe how she met Tim Hunt as follows:  "Andy Warhol died in 1987. In the long hot summer after, I bought a tiny basement apartment on West 70th Street over by West End Ave. That’s when I met Tim Hunt. A model for Werther’s Caramel and Ralph Lauren who’d gone to Oxford and had a brother who was a famous race car driver, he’d been with Christie’s a few years and had come over from England to work on the Warhol estate. He would later become my husband. Andy would have loved Tim. But the two had never met..." The event in this invitation is the more exclusive Memorial Lunch on April 1st 1987, held prior to Warhol's Memorial Mass at St. John the Divine, later that evening, the latter of which was attended by thousands of people. The press referred to this earlier event as a "Special Memorial Lunch Party" - using the vernacular of the day, as everything in the mid to late 1980s seemed like a party - until it was not. Interestingly, no start time, or even time range, is mentioned on this invitation - something that is rarely if ever missing from such an item; further evidence that it wasn't enough just to get this card; one had to already be in the know to be able to attend. Either that, or the lunch party was going on all day - so invitees could show up whenever they wanted. Or, alternatively, it was simply an accidental omission with no hidden message. And another side note: one of the sponsors of this Memorial luncheon, Carillon Importers, is the holding company or importer for Absolut Vodka, which commissioned Andy Warhol to create a series of advertising ads that would comprise one of the most successful, award-winning advertising campaigns of the era - and the most successful of the company's history. Who attended this event? Probably everybody who was anybody in the nexis of art, celebrity, high fashion and big business. Getty images features photographs by celebrity paparazzo Ron Galella of some of Warhol pals entering or leaving the Diamond Horseshoe for this exclusive event including Dianne Brill...

Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Gallery 1986: Original 1980’s Basquiat exhibition poster, published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat at Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 North Robert...

This original exhibition poster was created for Ed Baynard: Watercolors, a 1980 solo show at the Alexander F. Milliken Gallery in New York City. Known for his elegantly stylized flor...

Peter Max, German/American (1937 -) - Statue of Liberty, Year: circa 1986, Medium: Poster, Image Size: 30.5 x 15 inches, Frame Size: 44.25 x 28.25 inches

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 ...