Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.
ORIGINS OF POP ART
CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART
POP ARTISTS TO KNOW
ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS
The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.
Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.
Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.
Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.
Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.
Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.
Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.
Lithograph Italian Post Modernist Figurative Pop Art
By Sandro Chia
Located in Surfside, FL
Sandro Chia was born in Florence in 1946. He has studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he h...
Lithograph
Swim-in-Pool Supply Co. Las Vegas - American Color Sign Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Swim-in-Pool Supply Co. photograph from Richard Heeps 'Dream in Color' series. This fun original artwork really shows Richard's unique eye as a photographer. Captured in Las Vegas in...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Flower Spectrum, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Flower Spectrum Year: 1990 Edition: 118/150, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 26.75 x 26 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: ...
Lithograph
Raymond Pettibon 1980s illustration art (early Raymond Pettibon)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon, "No Mag,'" 1981: A rare late 70's/early 80's Los Angeles Punk scene publication featuring several stand out illustrations by Raymond Pettibon Medium: Newspaper mag...
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
$25,000
Double Elvis Denver Museum poster, hand signed by Andy Warhol with provenance
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol (after) Exhibition Poster for Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum Double Elvis, 1977 Autographed and dedicated "to Maryanne" ...
Offset
$248Sale Price|29% Off
Alex Katz '75 Years of American Dance' 2008- Serigraph
By Alex Katz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 51.5 x 35 inches ( 130.81 x 88.9 cm ) Image Size: 50 x 33.5 inches ( 127 x 85.09 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional D...
Screen
Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio Size: 40 x 30 Inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, with full mar...
Screen
Four Framed Ghost Rider Cowboy - Pop Art Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
A set of four framed artworks, Ghost Rider Cowboy Blue, Purple Cyan and Mauve, pop art photograph by Natasha Heidler. Natasha Heidler’s seductive images are a playful collection of ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
I have A Dream by BATIK signed limited edition ABBA pop art
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
I Have A Dream - Portrait Of Agneta Fältskog by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size Oversize 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front Arc...
Color, Archival Pigment
Mr. and Mrs. Goose on a Date (Diptych)
By Iryna Kobzar
Located in Zofingen, AG
Each painting size: 70x50x1.5cm, Total: 70x100cm This diptych forms a playful and elegant duo full of humor and charm. “Mr. Goose on a Date” is a proud gentleman in a tall hat with ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Going To Kenneth Square, Pop Art Aquatint Etching by Jean Sariano
By Jean Sariano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Sariano, Algerian/American (1943 - ) - Going To Kenneth Square, Year: 1979, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 14 x 25 in. (3...
Etching, Aquatint
NAOR - 45cm Standing Picsou - Uncle Scrooge - Purple
By Naor
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited Edition of 26 only - This artwork is a striking, contemporary sculpture depicting a cartoon duck character adorned in a glossy, reflective finish. The figure wears an elegant...
Resin
$560Sale Price|20% Off
1984 Alex Katz 'American Dance Festival 1984' Hand Signed
By Alex Katz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 37.5 x 25.5 inches ( 95.25 x 64.77 cm )_x000B_Image Size: 37.5 x 25.5 inches ( 95.25 x 64.77 cm )_x000B_Framed: No_x000B_Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of han...
Lithograph
$3,200
Hands clasped. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed, numbered
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Hands clasped, 2016 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist Edition 182/300 65.7 x 87.5cm Takashi Murakami is best known for his contemporary combinatio...
Lithograph, Offset
$1,665
Inflated Pink Bubble Form Framed Oil Painting on Canvas Pop Composition
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Framed contemporary pop oil painting in polished pink tones depicting an inflated bubble-like form suspended against a white background, focused on volume, surface, and visual tensio...
Canvas, Oil
Shepard Fairey POP Wave Print 2016 & C.R. Stecyk III
Located in Draper, UT
Two artists: Shepard Fairey and C.R. Stecyk III The Pacific Ocean Park pier straddled a dividing line between the cities of Santa Monica and Los Angeles. It was in equal portions: a...
Screen
$450
Looney Tunes Original Production Cel, Bugs Bunny, Pop Art, 1990s
By Looney Tunes Studio Artists
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 12 Field PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SKU: IFA2676 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Looney Tunes is a series of animated short films b...
Paper, Pencil, Paint
$160
Keith Haring Andy Warhol record cover art (Keith Haring Andy Warhol Madonna)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
In 1985, Warhol teamed up with Keith Haring to make a wedding gift for their friend Madonna before her marriage to Sean Penn. They replaced a New York Post image on the front page wi...
Offset
"In Case of Emergency Break Glass" Aston Martin Fire Extinguisher
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Plastic Jesus is a Los Angeles based street artist that specializes in bold stencil and installation work, inspired by world news events, society, the urban environment, culture and ...
Metal
Roy's Motel Route 66, Amboy, California - Landscape Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Roy's Motel Route 66', from Richard Heeps Dream in Color series. This view of Roy's Motel emphasises the space age Googie style of both the building and the iconic Motel sign. Take...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Mango Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey - Doo Wop America Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 2013 'Wildwood Days' series, this captures one of the iconic Motel signs in the historic Doo-Wop town of Wildwood. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, glo...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$4,500
Large Trompe L'oeil Oil Painting Rene Chavelle Belgian Photo Realist Peppers
Located in Surfside, FL
Monumental Hyper Realist Still Life Painting Of Peppers, Hand Signed Oil on canvas 48 x 48 in, 58 x 58 in (framed) Perfect for a ki...
Canvas, Oil
ICES Yellow Set of Four Framed Artworks - Pop Art Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Set of four ready to hang framed pop art photography, featuring Richard Heeps 'ICES' Mustard, Lemon, Honey and Sherbet Yellow. ICES, is a bestselling artwork by Richard Heeps, photo...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$850
Blue Swimming Pool AP 5/20 - Iconic 1970s Photograph Behind Beverly Hills Hotel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marco Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970s Hollywood. By using lic...
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Digital
$200Sale Price|20% Off
Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman with Hat' 1983
By Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait of Ingrid Bergman from "Casablanca" rendered in Warhol's signature style published by Galerie Borjeson. Known for his bold, repetitive portrait style, Warhol transformed Ber...
Offset
$1,125Sale Price|25% Off
Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer Paul Russell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer Paul Russell, photographed in New York City, 1975. Comes directly ...
Silver Gelatin
Keith Haring Skateboard Deck (Keith Haring skate deck)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Skateboard Deck 2019: Sold out, limited edition; estate trademarked Keith Haring Skateboard Deck featuring the artist's iconic imagery. This work is from a sold out coll...
Wood, Screen
"Love Stacked" Robert Indiana, Drawing, Pop Art, Preparatory Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana Love Stacked , 2014 Signed lower left, dated lower right Artist's marker on ruled paper 10 x 8 inches Provenance Gifted by the artist, Vinalhaven, Maine Private colle...
Paper, Permanent Marker
$925
Untitled (Fire III) - Figurative Portrait Red and Yellow Woman Pop Art Painting
By Hilary Bond
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In bold, acrylic line paintings, US artist Hilary Bond depicts the heads and torsos of women, often repeating the image in overlapping compositions. Her contemporary groups of pop c...
Canvas, Acrylic
Forest Abstractions - Dance of Nature, Original Painting
By John Jaster
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster offers a playfully rendered forest filled with tall trees in vibrant hues of red, green, and blue. In his process, John creates stunning co...
Acrylic
$950Sale Price|31% Off
Cosmic Holiday Hand Drawn Lithograph, Pop Art Portrait, 1981 Edition
By Peter Max
Located in Union City, NJ
COSMIC HOLIDAY is an original hand drawn lithograph by Peter Max printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset printmakin...
Lithograph
$375
Quality Time #7 - Original Abstract Figurative Color Drenched Mixed Media Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gel Pen, Graphite
Two Floating, Pop Art Lithograph by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Max, German/American (1937 - ) - Two Floating, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 165, HC, Dedicated, Image Size: 23.5 x 19 inches, Siz...
Lithograph
$761Sale Price|20% Off
The Red Chair, Pop Art, Circle of David Hockney. Oil Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pastel and crayon on paper interior scene by Eileen Gore Sellon. The painting is signed bottom left and attributed and dated to the backboard. Presented in gilt wood frame with mount...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
$4,500
Jim Dine, I Love Public Television, deluxe hand signed/N 1966 Pop Art Lithograph
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine Love for Channel 13 Lithograph. Hand signed and numbered recto 27 × 21 1/2 inches Edition 185/200 Signed and numbered 185/200 in graphite pencil on the recto Unframed Rarel...
Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
$340Sale Price|20% Off
"Schnitzel Please!, " Dresden Germany 1999 (dog photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Schnitzel Please!" This timeless, charming photo of a town favorite Dresden Dog, was captured by New York based photographer Fernando Natalici in Germany in 1999. Archival Inkjet ...
Inkjet
$110Sale Price|20% Off
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration by Roz Jennings, British watercolor and ink on card, unframed size: 12 x 8.25 inches condition: very good A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Ink, Watercolor
$225Sale Price|55% Off
Lonely at the window , 50x50cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
By Nina Tsoriti
Located in Yerevan, AM
50x50cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs. A different print size can be made upon request.
Canvas, Color
Keith Haring Handwritten letter 1989 (Keith Haring letter)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring handwritten letter 1989: A rare 1989 handwritten letter by Keith Haring executed on the artist's personal stationary. An endearing personal response by Haring to a young...
Paper, Ink
$250Sale Price|50% Off
Summer time , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
By Nina Tsoriti
Located in Yerevan, AM
70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
Canvas, Color
Vinyl Collection 16 Piece Multicolor Square Installation - Pop Art Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection Sixteen Piece Multi-color Square Installation. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Original Kalaidoscopic Lips #6 Psychedelic Pop Art, 1967 vintage poster
By Peter Max
Located in Spokane, WA
Kalaidoscopic Lips #6 original 1967 vintage Peter Max poster. Grade A- condition. The bottom right corner was bent over, but there is no pa...
Offset
$840Sale Price|72% Off
After Keith Haring "BEST BUDDIES" Beaded Wall Sculp by CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
Signed and dated 2025. OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!!! ALTERTATION ART . . . is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fine artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and ...
Glass, Resin, Mixed Media
Charles Lutz, OLYMPUS LV Stack 4 Part Warhol Louis Vuitton Box Sculpture
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charles Lutz Olympus, Set of 4 Louis Vuitton Stacked Boxes Wood, canvas, leather, and brass Dimensions (stacked): 25.5 x 21.5 x 69.75 inches Unique Co...
Brass
Stay On Target - limited edition - Pop Art Print Oversize
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Stay On Target- archival pigment print by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures 60 x 40" inches / 151 x 101 cm paper size limited to 3 only this size. signed and numbered by the artist. certificate of authenticity provided. unframed. (Framing available - please enquire) This piece is a modern reworking of the infamous scene in North By North West by Alfred Hitchcock where Cary Grant is hounded by an aeroplane, in this case, a Star Wars Tie Fighter...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
$2,500
Marilyn Monroe An Appreciation original vintage Leo Castelli Gallery print Lt Ed
By Eve Arnold
Located in New York, NY
This gorgeous offset lithograph poster was created on the occasion of the Eva Arnold exhibition, Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, at the famed Leo Castelli Gallery in 1987 - Castelli...
Offset, Lithograph
Coca-Cola, Phoenix, Arizona - American pop art color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This artwork is one of Richard's many iconic Coca-Cola signs; this one captured in the So-Cal Speed Shop in Phoenix, Arizona has an interesting raw distressed quality. The typical Co...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$1,775
Treasure
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
$3,400Sale Price|20% Off
Umbrella Man, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Umbrella Man Year: 2015 Medium: Watercolor and silkscreen on Fabriano paper Size: 9 x 12 inches Inscription: Signed in ink Notes: Published, printed, ...
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Screen
Art Card: Wrapped Portrait of Jeanne-Claude, 1963 (Hand Signed by Christo)
Located in New York, NY
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Portrait of Jeanne-Claude, 1963 (Hand Signed), 1988 Offset lithograph postcard Boldly signed by Christo on blue crayon Provenance: Gifted by the art...
Postcard
Tape Collection Set of Three Large Framed Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal past and their personalities. Tapes are significant in both their live...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Hearts, Pop Art Poster by Paul Giovanopoulos
By Paul Giovanopoulos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Paul Giovanopoulos, Greek (1939 - ) - Hearts, Year: 1991, Medium: Poster, Size: 28 x 22 in. (71.12 x 55.88 cm)
Offset
$5,000
Liberty Head II
By Peter Max
Located in Missouri, MO
Peter Max (German, b. 1937) Liberty Head II Signed Lower Right 9.5 x 7.25 inches 23.5 x 21.5 inches with frame Peter Max, born Peter Max Finkelstein, is a multi-dimensional artist ...
Acrylic, Lithograph
"In Case of Emergency Break Glass" Ferrari Fire Extinguisher
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Plastic Jesus is a Los Angeles based street artist that specializes in bold stencil and installation work, inspired by world news events, society, the urban environment, culture and ...
Metal
Bronx Zoo, Pop Art Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Larry Rivers 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. Kitaj...
Lithograph
$110Sale Price|20% Off
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration by Roz Jennings, British watercolor and ink on card, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good A beautifully colorful and characte...
Ink, Watercolor
$1,000
Large illustrated Carnaval gift book in bespoke box (Hand Signed and Numbered)
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New York, NY
LeRoy Neiman Carnaval gift book in bespoke box (Hand Signed and Numbered), 1981 Hardback Monograph with Vinyl Dust Jacket. Hand Signed by Artist on Colophon on Vellum parchment pape...
Ink, Mixed Media, Offset
$951
Blue Balloon Dog Sculpture L ( After Jeff Koons ) - Limited Edition Pop Art
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
This Blue Balloon Dog sculpture is a limited edition of 300 pieces inspired by the iconic Balloon Dog works made famous by Jeff Koons. A contemporary Pop Art collectible, the sculptu...
Ceramic, Resin
Eye of the Storm, Surrealist Screenprint by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Eye of the Storm Year: 1971 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 136/200 ...
Screen
$2,800
Global Warning - Global Warming (Andy Warhol museum Edition) - Signed/N politics
Located in New York, NY
SHEPARD FAIREY Global Warning - Global Warming (Andy Warhol Edition), 2009 Silkscreen on wove paper 24 × 18 inches Pencil signed and numbered 264/450 on the front Unframed Global War...
Screen