Contemporary Art
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Period: 1960s
Period: 1910s
Style: Contemporary
The Family - Oil Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Martin Bradley in 1974.
Hand signed and dated in top right corner; hand signed and titled on rear.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Cannes AM After Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Cannes AM
After Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and co-founder of the Cubist movement, which revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the earl...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone
Jason and the Argonauts - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Mercury Messenger of the Gods- Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
The Metamorphosis of Arachne - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
The Muses - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Girl at the Morning Toilet - Oil on hardboard by Francisco Ribera Gomez - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Girl at the morning toilet is a contemporary artwork realzied in 1962 by Francisco Ribera Gomez (1907-1990)
Mixed colored oil on hardboard.
Ha...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Marlon Brando: The Chase
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white scene from The Chase starring Marlon Brando and Angie Dickinson, circa 1966.
The Chase is a 1966 American drama film, directed by Arthur Penn, written by Lillian Hel...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Pop Artists - Andy Warhol with Portraits
Located in Toronto, ON
In 1964, Heyman was invited by Basic Books Publishing to collaborate on the subject of Pop art. In the fall of 1964, Heyman spent three days photographing such artists as Andy Warhol...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Francis Bacon, 'Henrietta Moraes' original color lithograph, 1966
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 162. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Children in Mexico Village
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Limited Edition of ? ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Francis Bacon, 'Portrait of Isabel Rawthorne' original color lithograph, 1966
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 162. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marilyn Monroe in Something's Got to Give
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lawrence Schiller, American (1936 - )
Title:Marilyn Monroe in Something's Got to Give - 7
Year: 1962 (printed 2007)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Signed in ink
Edition: AP 3/...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Colère de Violon
Located in Malmo, SE
Unique.
Signed and dated -66 on the right side.
Provenance: Galerie Bonnier, Genève
Size with socle: 74x38x17 cm
Arman explores reality. He strives to transform and sublimate art...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin, Plexiglass, Polyester
Firefighters - Historical Vintage Photo
Located in Roma, IT
Firefighters - Historical Vintage Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical albumen including photo reportages of historical event...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Figure in a Wide-brimmed Red Hat
By René Gruau
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant and graphic study of a figure of undetermined gender. It's executed with quick and confident brush strokes in the artist's signature color scheme of black and red. It's a fla...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache, Board
Cassius Clay in Louisville, Pink Cadillac - Photograph by Howard Bingham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Howard Bingham, American (b. 1939)
Title: Cassius Clay in Louisville, Pink Cadillac
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Photograph, signed by Bingham and autographed by Ali in marke...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lucille Ball Smoking
By Jay Thompson
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white vintage image features American actress and slapstick comedian Lucille Ball sitting outdoors in the sunlight, smoking a cigarette.
Lucille Ball was best known...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Omar Sivori - Vintage Photo - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1968.
Copyright by Keystone.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ellsworth Kelly - Abstract Geometric IX, 1964 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
Title: Abstract Geometric IX
Year: 1964
Dimensions: 15in. by 11in.
Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches
Mount Board Color: White/Black
Print Border: No ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Natalie Wood in Coat for "The Great Race"
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning black and white portrait features Natalie Wood smiling in a heavy coat for her role in "The Great Race".
Natalie Wood was an American-Russian actress. She began her ca...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Francis Bacon, 'Portrait of George Dyer Talking' color lithograph, 1966 (After)
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 162. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alberto Giacometti 'Nu Assis' original lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: 'Nu Assis'
Year: 1961
Medium: Original Lithograph on vélin paper
Dimensions: 15in. by 11in.
Edition: From the rare limited edition
Reference : Lust,...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hommage a Jean Cocteau for the Ville de Nantes 1964 (after) Cocteau, Jean
By Jean Cocteau
Located in London, GB
Hommage a Jean Cocteau for the Ville de Nantes 1964
By (after) Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was a versatile French artist whose influence spanned across literature, film, ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alberto Giacometti 'Nu Assis' original lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Title: 'Nu Assis'
Year: 1961
Medium: Original Lithograph on vélin paper
Dimensions: 15in. by 11in.
Edition: From the rare limited edition
Reference : Lust,...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Artists- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Artists- Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
James Earl Ray - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
James Earl Ray - Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in 1968.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
NASA, Landscape Photography of Gemini 2 Space Rodeo above Atlantic Ocean
By Nasa
Located in New york, NY
Space "Rodeo" of American NASA astronaut Richard F. Gordon above the Atlantic Ocean in September 1966.
This is an 8" x 10" vintage chromogenic print on fiber paper, numbered in red ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Ellsworth Kelly - Abstract Geometric IIX, 1964 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
Title: Abstract Geometric IIX
Year: 1964
Dimensions: 15in. by 11in.
Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches
Mount Board Color: White/Black
Print Border: No...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
LES EROPHAGES X
By André Masson
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size: 13 x 10 in. Frame size approx 27 x 24 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 1...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Prague - Vintage Poster After Franco Fontana - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Coloured poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the italian most famous contemporary photographers. Titled at the bottom. Very good conditions.
Limited ed...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Les Mariés - 1968 - Hans Bellmer - Etching - Contemporary
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mariés is an important colored etching made by the artist Hans Bellmer, after a tempera of 1941.
This is an artist proof. The state of preservation is excellent. Signed on the l...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching
Algiers Uprising - offset after Renato Guttuso - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Algiers Uprising is an artwork realized after the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1960.
Phototype print..
Good condition.
Italian title on the bac...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
"Untitled" 1963 pre-Star Wars Space Ship Cast Bronze Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
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This Pre-Star Wars Space Ship captures the magic, power and volume of unidentified objects that pass through our solar system and within viewing site of spaceship Earth. Titled "Untitled" this piece has the monumental quality and style of a spaceship that has been circling the universe forever. Constructed in 1963, prior to film industry creatives scaring viewers with visions of unimaginable spacecraft come to destroy earth, Julius Schmidt's imagination was unstoppable with his numerous and unique cast bronze sculptures. This extraordinary piece is a heart stopping example of what a genius creative can produce.
It was exhibited in March 9 - 31, 1963 at the Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, NY. A Catalog of the show accompanies this piece.
Julius Schmidt is an American sculptor who earned his B.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1953 and for the next two years studied sculpture under Ossip Zadkine in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. He returned to Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1955 for his M.F.A. in sculpture. Cranbrook was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs), Paul Evans (Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings), Eugene Caples (small bronze images/abstract), Morris Brose (bronze sculptures), Herb Babcock...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Muhammad Ali at the London Airport
Located in Austin, TX
Muhammad Ali captured waving at the London Airport, circa 1963.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kneeling, Sandcastles
Located in New York, NY
Kneeling, Sandcastles
(Bobby Kendall and Jay Garvin),
early-1960s
Signed, verso
Vintage C-print
3.5 x 3.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Portrait of Ferdinand Marcos - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ferdinand Marcos is a black-and-white photograph, realized in the 1960s.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Walter Matthau - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Walter Matthau-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rita Hayworth Dancing in Gown
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of actress Rita Hayworth dancing in a gown outdoors.
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Protests and Disorder after the Murder of Martin Luther King -Vintage Photo-1968
Located in Roma, IT
Protests and Disorder after the Murder of Martin Luther King is a historical photograph realized in the 1968.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Black and White Vintage 1960s Photography, Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh Hefner
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
By photographer Burt Glinn a black-and-white 12" x 8" vintage gelatin silver photograph of Editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner who founded, edited, and wrote for Playboy.
An historical photo...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Vintage Chemistry Set
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1960s photograph featuring an abstract shot of scientific apparatus in a chemistry lab.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
Wh...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
"Head of Woman with Stars, " Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Head of Woman with Stars" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features the profile of a woman's head with various ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Johnny Cash Smoking and Playing at Folsom Prison
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of singer Johnny Cash smoking while visiting Folsom Prison circa 1968.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited Edi...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Calze Ortalion original Italian vintage fashion poster
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Calze Ortalion, artist Rene Gruau, Italian fashion poster.. Size 39" x 55". Archival linen backed in excellent condition; ready to frame.
Calze Ortalion is an original Italian fashion poster created by the artist Rene Gruau (1910 - 2004). Italian vintage poster...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
John Wayne and Elizabeth Allen in Donovan's Reef
Located in Austin, TX
John Wayne and Elizabeth Allen in Donovan's Reef, circa 1963.
Donovan's Reef is a 1963 American adventure comedy film starring John Wayne and Lee Marv...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jean Rene Bazaine 'DLM No.170' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a lithograph featured on the back cover of Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170, created by the French artist René Bazaine. The artwork is exclusive to the back cover of this iss...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bust of Nude Woman - Lithograph by Alberto Giacometti - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin realized by Giacometti for Derrière le Miroir n. 127, in 1961.
Ref. lust 160; ADG (Alberto Giacometti's Database) 342.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Grace Kelly at the London Airport
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Grace Kelly posed waving and smiling out the window of a car, circa 1965.
Grace Kelly also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Underwater with Jellyfish
Located in New York, NY
Underwater with Jellyfish
1960s/2022
Estate stamped and numbered on label, verso
Digital C-print
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
$4,500
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Audrey Hepburn in Pool, 1966 by Terry O'Neill
Located in Chicago, IL
Audrey Hepburn having a swim during a break from filming Stanley Donen’s 1967 work ‘Two for the Road’ in St Tropez.
Limited edition silver gelatin print
Paper size: 16 H x 20 W inc...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude - Watercolor Painting by Leo Guida - 1961
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor realized by Leo Guida in 1961.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical te...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Jayne Mansfield in Garden - Photograph and Vintage Large Format Negative
Located in Austin, TX
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Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition II' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page from Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170, created by René Bazaine, exemplifies his mastery in abstract art. The piece, presented in the renowned French art magazine...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth II in Rome - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
The Queen Elizabeth II in Rome is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1962.
The photo depicts a official moment of the English Crown. Queen Elizabeth II visiting in Ro...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Still Life with Palette and Books - Oil on Canvas - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with palette and books is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in 1969.
Oil on canvas.
Handisgned and dated in the lower right margin.
47 x 66,5 cm ; 58,5 x 78 cm ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda
Aributed to Peter Beard/Unsigned
The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
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