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Pop Art

POP ART STYLE

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 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

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.

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Style: Pop Art
Samara II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alea Pinar Du Pre's original mixed media artworks portray human figures in a graphic pop-realist style. An enterprising autodidact merging technology and fine art, her vibrant contemporary pop-figurative artworks colorfully explore the territory between human reality and artificial reality. Her paintings portray the fact that our perceptions of solid reality are deceptively virtual. This unique collage is a part of her "Snapshot" series, as she explains: "We consist of the same atoms, created billions of years ago in a supernova. And here we are living and breathing and experiencing life, and we think we are all so different. I think we are all the same, it’s just that are masks and poses are different. I love humanity and this game we are playing. With snapshot, I am trying to capture the unawareness of the fact that we are the greatest wonder of the universe". This one-of-a-kind 47 inch high by 62 inch wide artwork depicts the portrait of a female figure. Pinar Du Pre's fusion of materials - acrylics, printed elements, and layers of gilt captured under an epoxy lens - represents the layered reality she aims to depict. The sides of this canvas are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. Pinar Du Pre has signed, titled, and dated this original artwork on the back of the canvas. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Building on the synthetic intensity of digital art, her figurative style depicts a familiar but warped daily life. Alea Pinar Du Pre has been influenced deeply by the traditional fine art and design practices of Kunstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette, two artist societies with roots in Vienna, Austria. Paying tribute to her main influences, Alea describes her style as "Jugendstil Pop-Art". But where Pop art was stimulated by the iconography of materialism and the mass culture of its time, her vision is more intimate in its subversive intent. Alea Pinar Du Pre lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her artworks are exhibited and collected in international hot spots across Europe, Asia, and North America. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA EXHIBITIONS 2021-23 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 “Voltage,” Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Artplex Gallery 2018 Singapore Artstage, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Layered Boldness,” Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Palm Beach Art Fair, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Frequencies,” Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Vue Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery Solo Show, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Ransom Gallery Artstage Singapore, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Singapore Wynwood Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Miami, FL AFF Battersea, Cube Gallery AFF Antwerp, Cube Gallery 2017 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Miami, Florida Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul “FaceTime,” Solo Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York AFF Hong Kong, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Hong Kong Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton Cube Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"City Boy" John Lennon NYC Pop Art Street Art Décollage Painting Mixed Media
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts John Lennon wearing an iconic New York City shirt. Done with beautiful expressive colors and a distinctive street art design, this piece pops with energy and roman...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Grey & KAWS Pink BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019): Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast Resin (applies to each work). Published 2017 & 2019, respectively. GONE: 14.25 x 7 i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Ada in Hat (1990), Screenprint by Alex Katz (Limited Edition of 150)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Alex Katz Ada in Hat, from Alex And Ada, The 1960's To The 1980's, 1990 Screenprint in colors, on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered "97/150" in pencil by the artist on the fro...
Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

NOMAD VIII, New York - Contemporary architectural color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
NOMAD New York by Richard Heeps featuring the iconic Empire State building in the mist. Photographed in New York City in 2017. From the series The Streets of New York, this artwork i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Pop Shop IV (1)
Located in Miami, FL
Hand numbered 198/200, signed and dated on the recto in the lower right margin. Provenance: Martin Lawrence Gallery, Los Angeles, 1993 and Private coll...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Protect Our Children Ver. II, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Protect Our Children Ver. II Year: 2002 Edition: 500/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on archival paper Size: 13.81 x 17.12 inches Condition: Excel...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Flowers, After Andy Warhol -Pop Art, Enamel on porcelain, Contemporary, Edition
Located in Zug, CH
Andy Warhol Flowers, 1980 Enamel on porcelain Edition of 49 51 x 51 x 2 cm (20 x 20 x 0.7 in) In wooden box. Screenprint on porcelain in wooden frame signed in the glazing, numbered on label verso In mind condition. The piece is offered unframed. Throughout art history, the flower and its symbolism have been a subject matter for many renowned artists. Andy Warhol explored the qualities of the flower image through his Pop Art prism in the Flower series of 1964, thus creating cartoon-like symbols that would be instantly recognised. The 1964 Flower series became one of his most iconic and successful works.
 Based on a discovered photograph of hibiscus blossoms, Warhol drenched the flowers’ floppy shapes with a variation of vibrant colours, transforming them into psychedelic indoor décor. Playing with traditional art historical themes, Andy Warhol gave a particular twist to this historically accepted symbol of life. The electric colours of his flowers, drawn from a darker and rich undergrowth background might be the indicator of an extreme vision of life, a life lived on the edge. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement. ​Using a variety of media materials from photographs up to computer-generated art, Warhol's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity, culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Emerging from the poverty and obscurity of an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Warhol became a charismatic magnet for bohemian New York. In 1960, he began to produce his first canvases depicting Popeye and Dick Tracy. After Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, he started working from snapshots of the star’s already legendary face, which had been widely distributed by the world’s press. His choice of subjects clearly relates to an obsession with demise – his Marilyns, his Ten Lizies (created when the actress Elizabeth Taylor was seriously ill), and also his Elvis. Part of the “Death and Disaster” series, Andy Warhol´s...
Category

20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Enamel

Popart, 1960s painting of Laurel and Hardy by Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jeffrey Morgan (British, b.1942) Laurel and Hardy Poster paint and pencil 22.3/4 x 15.3/4 in. (57.8 x 40 cm.) An original pop art design for a tin print...
Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Paint, Pencil

Mudd Club New York 1979 street poster (Haring Basquiat related)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Original Mudd Club poster, New York 1979: A must have for any true Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring collector - this piece is featured in the 2017 Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary, 'Boom For Real.' Promotional poster. 1979. Dimensions: 18x24 inches. Very good overall vintage condition condition; some minor fading consistent with age. Provenance: Obtained directly from the original art designer. The Mudd Club was founded by filmmaker Steve Mass, art curator Diego Cortez, and downtown punk scene figure Anya Phillips in 1978. Mudd Club featured an art gallery curated by Keith Haring on the upper floor. Live performances by New York No Wave bands such as, DNA, the Contortions, Talking Heads & Basquiat's band Gray. On the dance floor, DJs, Anita Sarko and Johnny Dynell played an eclectic mix of punk, funk and curiosities. From the start it functioned as an antidote to the uptown disco glitz of Studio 54. Six months after it opened, the Mudd Club was mentioned in People: "New York's fly-by-night crowd of punks, posers and the ultra-hip has discovered new turf on which to flaunt its manic chic. It is the Mudd Club ... . For sheer kinkiness, there has been nothing like it since the cabaret scene in 1920s Berlin". After its first few years, Studio 54 celebrities like Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and David Bowie began to show up. In 1981, the Mudd Club's Steve Mass began showing up at the more informal Club 57 on St. Mark's Place, and began hiring Club 57 regulars including Keith Haring to help attract the downtown art & music scene. The Mudd Club was frequented by many of Manhattan's emerging emerging cultural figures, such as, Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, Nico with Jim Tisdall, Lydia Lunch, X, the Cramps...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

La Isla Bonita - Textural and Sculptural Iconic Pop Art Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Playing with the interaction between positive and negative space, and strong colors on neutral backgrounds, Canadian artist Virginie Schroeder creates pop art portraits and iconic po...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Large Modernist Oil Painting Card Poker Player Aaron Fink Pop Art Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955) Hand signed and dated 1986, verso. The large canvas size measures approx: 72" x 66". This painting is part of the artist's "Images of Gambling" series, amongst his best figural work. Aaron Fink was born in Boston in 1955. He received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and Australia, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. He lives and works in the Boston area. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Figurative abstract expressionist art. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts. He was included in the show The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Danforth Museum of Art. An exhibition of Boston Expressionism, a school that embraced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary. Historical roots of this movement can be traced to European Symbolism and German Expressionism, but artists living and working in the Boston area from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, were particularly inspired by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. Artists included; Aaron Fink, Bernard Chaet, David Aronson, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jason Berger, Karl Zerbe, Lawrence Kupferman, Michael Mazur, Sigmund Abeles and Willem de Kooning. He was included in the show 40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives, along other great figural artists Gabor Peterdi, John Walker, Lester Johnson and Nell Blaine. S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S Art Institute of Chicago Bank of America Boston Public Library Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands Brooklyn Museum of Art Castelli Collection, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Chemical Bank Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT Citizens Bank, Boston Coopers & Lybrand Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Danish House of Parliament Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA Farnsworth Museum, Maine Fidelity Investments, Boston Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA G.E. Corporation Goldman Sachs & Company IBM, New York Indianapolis Museum of Art Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New York Public Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine United States Department of State University of Massachusetts, Amherst Awards Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982 Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984 American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979 Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979 Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada New England Impressions: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History, Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993 70’s and 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986-1987 Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984 The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84 Jon Abbott, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Warner Brothers Limited Edition Canvas signed by Chuck Jones: Wile E. Van Gogh
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In the world of cartoon, and animation for that matter, there are a handful of names that stand out. One that is at the top of such a list is Chuck Jones. He was an American animated filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his work with Warner Brothers on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoons shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Wile Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepe Le' Pew, Porky Pig...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Paint, Canvas

Colin Latter, Lipstick Red, Pop Art
Located in Harkstead, GB
Colin Latter (born 1961) Lipstick Latter Signed Acrylic on canvas 30 x 18 inches Unframed A really eye catching image that "pops" out at you. This looks stunning against a white w...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Snoopy Kingdom" Acrylic and Collage on Los Angeles newsprint
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Newsprint, Acrylic

Sky Blue Excess (thick impasto painting square monochrome pop design)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Chloe Hedden’s Sky Blue Excess from her Excess series captures the interplay between material abundance and emotional depth through thick, sculptural layers of paint. The sky blue hu...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Phallic Florals
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Ryan Wilks Title : Phallic Florals Materials : Oil on Stretched Circle Canvas Date : 01-01-2021 Dimensions : 35" x 35" Description : Florals taken ...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Rona Lisa - Cyberpunk Edition, ' Paint and Oil Stick on Canvas by XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
From the Pandemic Collection: Series #3 This painting by XVALA is a futuristic and dystopian twist on the classic masterpiece, Mona Lisa, with his take on what da Vinci's mind might...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic

"EROTIC II"
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof Silkscreen print on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Paper

"SHADOWS DEEPEN SOFTLY" Wall Sculpture 16" x 8" x 16" in by Shawn Kolodny
Located in Culver City, CA
"SHADOWS DEEPEN SOFTLY" Wall Sculpture 16" x 8" x 16" in by Shawn Kolodny Medium: Stainless Steel & Automotive Paint Creating art to reflect the times we live in, Kolodny creates a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Steel

"Sensory Release" Pop Art Figurative in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sensory Release" Pop Art Figurative in Acrylic on Canvas Bold pop art portrait by Hilary Druley (American, b. 1982). A person is depicted in a hard-edg...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Other Medium

Dancer Christine Klepal performing, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Christine Klepal performing, 1983. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives wit...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Big Blonde (huge hand signed screen print) 1989
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on museum board. Hand signed and dated on front by Tom Wesselmann. Hand numbered 69/100 on front. Artwork size: 55 x 74 inches. Published by International ...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Board, Screen

Oscar the Robot, Pop Art Print by Van Hoeydonck
Located in Long Island City, NY
This is an original silkscreen from the Licht Calendar portfolio by Paul van Hoeydonck, unsigned from the edition of 3000. Oscar the Robot by Paul van Hoeydonck, Belgian (1925) Port...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Gold Seahorse on Blue
Located in New York, NY
Joss Parker Gold Seahorse on Blue in pop art style. Spraypaint on canvas. Colors: Blue, White, Pink, Red, Yellow
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint

Majestic Manner, Pop Art Screenprint by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Majestic Manner Year: 1986 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 32/68 Image Size: 20.25 x...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Continuous Entertainment, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
16" x 22" monoprint on 300lb Arches watercolor paper, based on an old matchbook cover. :: Mixed Media :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sign...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Jasper Johns at Leo Castelli offset lithograph poster (Hand signed & inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns Jasper Johns at Leo Castelli (Hand signed and inscribed), 1976 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and warmly inscribed by Jasper Johns) Signed and inscribed "for Cord...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, unique acetate positive of British socialite provenance
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, ca. 1976 Acetate positive, acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp Unique Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass: Measurements: Frame: 18 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches Acetate: 11 x 8 inches This is the original, unique photographic acetate positive taken by Andy Warhol as the basis for his portrait of Nicky Weymouth, that came from Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory to his printer. It was acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. It is accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp. This is one of the images used by Andy Warhol to create his iconic portrait of the socialite Nicola Samuel Weymouth, also called Nicky Weymouth, Nicky Waymouth, Nicky Lane Weymouth or Nicky Samuel. Weymouth (nee Samuel) was a British socialite, who went on to briefly marry the jewelry designer Kenneth Lane, whom she met through Warhol. This acetate positive is unique, and was sent to Chromacomp because Warhol was considering making a silkscreen out of this portrait. As Bob Colacello, former Editor in Chief of Interview magazine (and right hand man to Andy Warhol), explained, "many hands were involved in the rather mechanical silkscreening process... but only Andy in all the years I knew him, worked on the acetates." An acetate is a photographic negative or positive transferred to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. As only Andy worked on the acetates, it was the last original step prior to the screenprinting of an image, and the most important element in Warhol's creative process for silkscreening. Warhol realized the value of his unique original acetates like this one, and is known to have traded the acetates for valuable services. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp, a fine art printing studio in NYC, and was acquired directly from the Lowell's private collection. During the 1970s and 80s, Chromacomp was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Famed printer Alexander Heinrici worked for Eunice & Jackson Lowell at Chromacomp and brought Andy Warhol in as an account. Shortly after, Warhol or his workers brought in several boxes of photographs, paper and/or acetates and asked Jackson Lowell to use his equipment to enlarge certain images or portions of images. Warhol made comments and or changes and asked the Lowells to print some editions; others were printed elsewhere. Chromacomp Inc. ended up printing Warhol's Mick Jagger Suite and the Ladies & Gentlemen Suite, as well as other works, based on the box of photographic acetates that Warhol brought to them. The Lowell's allowed the printer to be named as Alexander Heinrici rather than Chromacomp, since Heinrici was the one who brought the account in. Other images were never printed by Chromacomp- they were simply being considered by Warhol. Warhol left the remaining acetates with Eunice and Jackson Lowell. After the Lowells closed the shop, the photographs were packed away where they remained for nearly a quarter of a century. This work is exactly as it was delivered from the factory. Unevenly cut by Warhol himself. This work is accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer for many of his works in the 1970s. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee labels...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Photographic Film

Indiana, Nine (Sheehan 46-55), Numbers (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Numbers, 1968. Published by the Edition Domberger, Stuttgart, and G...
Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Grace Jones
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Grace Jones began her career as a model, working for fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She began her music career as ...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Polaroid

Japanese beauty , 50x50cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Japanese beauty , 50x50cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Color

Grammy Day (huge original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand-signed and dated in acrylic on front by Peter Max. Canvas size 60 x 45 inches. Peter Max studio catalog number and date on verso. Dated, ...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vinyl Collection, POP! (Lilac) - Conceptual, Pop Art, Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

In my room , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Color

Rock N' Roll Guitar III, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Rock N' Roll Guitar III Year: 2003 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 4.12 x 2.43 inches Condition: Excelle...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Farmland in Autumn - Contemporary Pop Art Pastoral Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Farmland in Autumn - Contemporary Pop Art Pastoral Landscape Vivid landscape of farmland in highly saturated autumnal hues by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (Americ...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Laid Paper

Andy Warhol (after) Chanel N5 Original posters Perfume Complete Set of 4 posters
Located in London, GB
Andy Warhol created this image for Chanel in the 1980's but it was not until 1997 that Chanel decided to use it as a publicity in their add campaigns. They printed the different colo...
Category

20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Linen, Offset

Twin Mirrors (C.102), 1970
Located in Greenwich, CT
Twin Mirrors (C.102) is a screenprint on paper created for the Guggenheim Museum in 1970, 35 x 21 inches image size, signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '70' lower right and numbered 94/250 lower left (from the edition of 250 plus an unknown number of artist proofs). Framed in a contemporary white frame. Catalog - Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein - A Catalogue Raisonne 1948 - 1997, Hudson Hills Press, NY and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pg.118, #102. About Lichtenstein’s Mirror...
Category

20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

In Arms - Original Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Vibrant Spontaneous Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish artist Jonas Fisch’s imagery is vibrantly buzzing with colorful commentary on society - past and present - morphed into figures, words, and shapes. His heavily layered canvas...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Spray Paint, Board

Untitled, from 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph, circa 1954, on wove paper, with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Warhol Foundation ink stamps on the reverse, 49.1 x 34.2 cm. (19¼ x 13½ in.) From the '25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy' series. 25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy, circa 1954, was one of Warhol’s first illustrated bound books. Produced with Seymour Berlin of Record Offset Corporation in New York, and written by Charles Lionsby, Warhol illustrated 25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy with sixteen drawings of cats...
Category

1950s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Andy Warhol – LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ( Ref II.126 ) – Hand-signed screenprint 1975
Located in Varese, IT
Screenprint on paper , edited in 1975 Limited edition of 150 copies Current copy numbered: 143/150 on the verso Initialed in pencil by artist lower right Blindstamp on the verso: spe...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Column Study7 from Capital Ideas, Pop Art Screenprint by Clayton Pond
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clayton Pond, American (1941 - ) Title: Column Study from Capital Ideas Portfolio Year: 1974 Medium: Serigraph on Museum Board, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Ima...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Roy Lichtenstein-That My Ship Was Below Them Panel C
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: AW1114-3 Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Title: That My Ship Was Below Them (Panel 3) Year: 1997 Signed: No Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 25 x 20 inches ( 63.5 x 50.8 cm ) Imag...
Category

20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Offset

New York City Ballet Dancer Wendy Whelan in 'Swan Lake' signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
New York City Ballet dancer Wendy Whelan in ‘Swan Lake’, 1993. Vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph made by Jack Mitchell. Signed by Jack Mitchel...
Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Keith Haring photograph 1984 (1980s Keith Haring darkroom photo)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1980s Keith Haring photograph: Rare vintage original Keith Haring darkroom photograph by New York underground photographer Lawrence Horn. Signed & d...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Peter Saul, Politics Pop Art Color lithograph 1980s Reagan era Signed X/X Framed
Located in New York, NY
Peter Saul Politics, 1985 Color lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, numbered X/X (apart from the regular edition of 25), and dated on the front Frame Included: matted and framed in...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Boom Boom (Guns) mid century print, New York International portfolio S/N 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Arman Boom Boom (unique variation from New York International Portfolio), 1965 Screenprint with pencil additions. Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Chiron ...
Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

1997 After Andy Warhol 'Ten Marilyns" First Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.5 x 54.75 inches ( 80.01 x 139.065 cm ) Image Size: 19.75 x 50.5 inches ( 50.165 x 128.27 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: This grouping of...
Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

Rancillac, Composition, Suites nº8, Rencontres (after)
By Bernard Rancillac
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Suites nº8, Rencontres, 1964. Published...
Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS: HOLIDAY SPACE: Complete Set of 3 (Silver, Black & Gold), is a celebration of 20 years of the KAWS COMPANION. Using a sounding balloon, the KAWS: HOLIDAY SPACE was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere before retuning to Earth. Reminiscent of KAWS’ MTV VMA Moonman trophy (2013), the individual sculptures feature a derailed space suit complete with hoses, valves and more. A standout KAWS display set constructed with a bright metallic mirrored feel as well as a significantly heavier body compared to the artist’s traditional vinyl figures. New/never displayed & accompanied by original packaging. Medium: Polyurethane Figure. Set of 3 individual works. Year: 2020. Dimensions: 11.5 inches in height. Each new & accompanied by their original box; never displayed; excellent condition. Stamped on the underside of each foot. Published by All Rights Reserved from a sold out edition of unknown. KAWS SPACE...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Polyurethane

Rare 1980s Basquiat exhibition catalog (Basquiat Dau al Set Barcelona)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage Jean-Michel Basquiat Spain Exhibition Catalog, Barcelona, Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, 1989: Beautifully illustrated rare catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 Barcelon...
Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Paper

Andy Warhol & Jane Forth Buying Cosmetics in a New York City Drug Store
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol & Jane Forth Buying Cosmetics in a New York City Drug Store, 1970. This is a print that was published by After Dark Magazine ...
Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Museo D'Arte Moderna, Ca' Pesaro Venezia Rare, Collectible Italian museum poster
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Museo D'Arte Moderna, Ca' Pesaro Venezia, 1975 Extremely rare vintage offset lithograph poster 39 4/5 × 27 3/5 inches Unframed Accompanied by Certificate of Guara...
Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Pink Marilyn - Signed limited edition Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe
Located in London, GB
Pink Marilyn Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures approximately 20 x 16" ...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Vinyl Collection Fifteen Piece B Side Installation - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps B Side Vinyl Collection Fifteen Piece Installation. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler ha...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Keith Haring "Against all odds" 1990
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled Year: 1990 Dimensions: 8.75in. by 10.25in. Framed: 18.75in. x 20.25in. Edition: From the rare limited edition of 500 Publisher: Bebert Publishing...
Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Lithograph

Versace (Medusa) V /// Jack Graves Greek Mythology Italian Luxury Fashion Paint
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Versace (Medusa) V" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2025 Medium: Ori...
Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Pop Art art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Pop art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jack Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Peter Max, and Heidler & Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Pop Art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.

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