Post-Modern Art

Photograph from the "Swimming" series by renowned Spanish photographer Vari Caramés. It is one of his most iconic series, capturing different people bathing in pools, both in and out...

Shore Sentry, is an original color, limited edition lithograph on handmade German black etching paper; printed by Topaz Editions in 1977. Artist proofs 10. Edition size 100. Provenance:: A Sarasota, Florida collector Signed: Artist signed lower left with edition size Image size: 22 by 30 inches Sheet size: 30 by 38 inches Edition 38/100 Condition: Excellent Overall framed size: 30.25 by 38.25 inches Framed under plexiglass in chrome colored metal gallery frame SYD SOLOMON BIOGRAPHY Written by Dr. Lisa Peters/Berry Campbell Gallery “Here, in simple English, is what Syd Solomon does: He meditates. He connects his hand and paintbrush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind- and he paints pictures of what he sees and feels down there.” --Kurt Vonnegut Jr. from Palm Sunday, 1981 Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow...

“Man and the Machines #4”, 70x50cm, 31.5x19.5in, acrylic on canvas from the same series of Neo-Mythology paintings. Young male deity placed in an industrial modern space. It reflect...

Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957). She continued her stu...

This unique cyanotype monotype transforms organic, river-like forms into a serene field of flowing blues. Soft, undulating shapes echo water, canyon horizons, and desert calm, giving...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

Large scale French still life of a vase with flowers by André Vagh Weinmann. The painting is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a very fine patinated wood frame. An imposin...

This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alfredo Cifani. Title "EOS" Alfredo Cifani was born in 1939 in Fermo, the Southern part of Italy, lives and works in Milan. He is a pai...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that he is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. ...

This intense bronze sculpture was made by the well known Italian artist, Aron Demetz, in 2004, Italy. This is a lost wax bronze hand painted. The title is "Guardando" translated in ...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

The very first of the migratory birds that flies to us and notifies us of the coming of spring. Marina Skvortsova lives and works between Norway and Estonia. Born in Siberia with As...

In this expressive piece, I've layered acrylics to capture the delicate interplay of light and color among the blooms. My emotions flow through the brushstrokes, evoking growth and r...

This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his studies at the Flo...

"Passion #2". Composition with two female nudes, oil on canvas, 35.5x19.5in / 90x50cm Part of "Wings of Gods", solo show. Shipped as it is, stretched. Free shipping with 1stDibs code...

This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in which the artist works with ti...

Brittany Coastal Painting France by Modern French Impressionist Landscape Artist. Douarnenez, Brittany, France, is a rare original Oil Painting by Award Winning French Post-Impressionist Artist, George Charles Robin. Art measures 21.5 x 18 inches Frame measures 27 x 23 inches (approx.) Born in Paris in 1903, Robin was a student of Paul Michel Dupuy...

Alex Colville (1920-2013) is one of the titans of Canadian art. Working across mediums, Colville is a revered painter, draughtsman, engraver, and muralist. He is one of the few Canad...

Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on canvas, 2025 Signed Verso Bunnies by Hunt Slonem When Hunt Slonem enters his studio each morning, he warms up by painting bunnie...

This is an interesting bronze sculpture multiple art work signed by the Italian artist Filippo Panseca. Title The secret of the Pharaoh This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1...

This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Maurizio Bonora, a talented artist of years 80' in Italy. The other side of the moon. This is a multiple of a numbered ed...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

Antique American modernist sailor portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Unsigned. Measuring: 9 by 14 inches overall, and 7.5 by 13 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready ...

Original acrylic on canvas painting by the well known Saint Tropez artist, Michel Guy Nochet. Signed lower left “Guy Nochet. Dated in pencil on fra...

"Promenade sous les Arbres (Walk under the Trees)" is an original color lithograph by Francois Batet, signed in the lower right and numbered in the lower left. At the center of the p...

Peter Shire (American, b. 1947) "Naked Lady," Painted metal, wire, and found industrial objects sculpture Dimensions: overall: 72"h x 30"w x 24"d Peter Shire (born 1947) is a Los Angeles, California artist. Shire was born in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. His sculpture, furniture, painting, prints and ceramics have been exhibited in the United States, Italy, France, Japan and Poland; Shire has been associated with the Memphis Group of designers, has worked on the Design Team for the XXIII Olympiad with the American Institute of Architects, and has designed public sculptures in Los Angeles and other California cities. Shire has been honored by awards for his contribution to the cultural life of the City of Los Angeles. He is an influential LA ceramicist along with and influenced by Ken Price and ceramic master Peter Voulkos. Of a similar mod vibe to Charlie Hewitt and Brad Howe. The Memphis Milano Group was an Italian design and architecture group founded in Milan by Ettore Sottsass in 1982 that designed Post modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass, and welded, painted, metal objects from 1981 to 1988. The Memphis group's work often incorporated plastic laminate and was characterized by ephemeral design featuring colorful and abstract decoration as well as asymmetrical shapes, sometimes arbitrarily alluding to exotic or earlier styles. They drew inspiration from such movements as Art Deco and Pop Art, including styles such as the 1950s Kitsch and futuristic themes. Other members included Martine Bedin Michael Graves, Javier Mariscal, Nathalie du Pasquier, Matteo Thun and Marco Zanuso. He was included in the Sullivan Goss show L.A. in S.B. of Postwar and Contemporary California artists including Emerson Woelffer, Ynez Johnston, Peter Krasnow, Edgar Ewing. Their styles ran the gamut from Post Cubist Abstraction to Abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. In the rich soil of their efforts was grown the next generation of some of L.A.’s art superstars. As well as contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Charles Arnoldi, Betye Saar, Frank Gehry, Kenton Nelson, Peter Shire, Patssi Valdez, and Dave Lefner. Further reading A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft. New York, New York: American Craft Museum, 1990. Clark, Garth. American Ceramics 1907–Present. New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Fiell, Charlotte and Peter. 1000 Chairs. Italy: Taschen, 2000. Herman, Lloyd E. Art that Works. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1990. Horn, Richard. Memphis: Objects, Furniture, and Patterns. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 1983. Radice, Barbara. Memphis. New York, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. Taragin, Davara S. Contemporary Crafts and Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art. New York, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993. Tempest in a Teapot: The Ceramic Art of Peter Shire. New York, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1991. Select Museum Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York Berkeley Museum, Berkeley, California Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Jewish Museum, New york city Judisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina Museum of Arts and Design, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Sak’s Fifth Avenue, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, California Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Selected Solo Exhibition venues Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Chouinard Gallery, South Pasadena, California Antonia Jannone Gallery, Milan, Italy Teapots and Drawings, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, California S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, Oregon 20th Century Collage...

This engaging bronze artwork was created by the Italian artist Cristiana Isoleri. This is a multiple of 1.000 specimens, numbered and signed. The title is "Reperto" translated in "Fr...

This intense bronze sculpture was made by the well known Italian artist, Aron Demetz, in 2004, Italy. This is a lost wax bronze hand painted. The title is "Il grande freddo" translat...

Original colored lithograph of a seaside village done in a post modernist style. Edition 46/175 in pencil lower left margin. Signed in pencil by the artist lower right margin. Circa...

This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Annie Lambert, a talented young artist of years 80' in Italy. This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000 pieces; ...

This is an engaging bronze sculpture create by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in the 1986. The piece is a multiple of 5000 specimen on a green painted wooden base. The title of this artwork is " Afrodite" translate in Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty...

"Hypnos 2", oil on canvas, 15.74x23.6in / 40x60cm Hypnos is the personification of sleep, the god who touches humans with his wings. His mission is to help people sleep. Part of New...

This piece is a passionate amalgamation of vibrant life and tranquil stillness, captured through acrylic and ink. My brushstrokes dance between figurative grace and impressionistic v...

"Etch A Sketch Sampler" - 1989 Multimedia on Paper Lithograph titled "Etch A Sketch Sampler" by Lilya Vorobey. From a suite of prints from College of San Mateo class of 1989, instru...

Guerrilla Girls Geroge Bush 1991: Rare vintage original early 90s Guerrilla Girls poster published as a political statement in reaction to the Gulf War. Classic Guerilla Girls statem...

Dances. Paper, watercolor, 59x83.5 cm "Dances" is a watercolor artwork that portrays colorful figures dancing in nature. The medium used is paper, and the dimensions of the artwork ...

This intense and engaging abstract sculpture was create in 1980 by the Italian artist Lino Tinè. This is a multiple of 300 specimens, numbered and signed by the artist. The title is ...

Artist Name: Philippe Noyer Title: Le Singe: Medium Type: Lithograph Size-Width Size-Height: 35" x 25" Signed Edition Size: signed in pencil and marked EA XVII/XXX Unframed in...

'New Orleans Streetscape" is an original watercolor painting by William Collins. It features a view of a street in New Orleans,. Tall houses with large...

Reiner Schwarz "Reiner Schwarz" (III) From Portfolio "Portrait #11 - Reiner Schwarz" with Karin Szekessy Year: 1972 Medium: Phototype (Lichtdruck) Edition: 100 Size: 26.4 x 20.1 in. ...

This engaging bronze sculpture on black wooden base, well represents a human bust, but for its expressive force, the bust turns into an abstract shape of it. The artist who created t...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950's, signed by F. Bellenot Title: The Green Village Medium: oil on canvas Painting: 18.5 x 21.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Fra...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

48 × 60 in. (120 × 150 cm) Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist Framing options are available upon request. Other available size...

This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Rosone cometa" translated in Comet. Mirella Forlivesi was born in Pisa, Italy. She studied arts in P...

This is an engaging bronze sculpture created by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in 1986. The piece is a multiple of 1000 specimens on a green-painted wooden base. This artwork ...

Bernard Berthois-Rigal (French, b. 1927) La Nef de Lysimaque, c. 1970s/80s Aquatint Sight: 22 1/4 x 32 in. Framed: 32 x 41 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. Edition 36 of 95 Numbered lower left, signe...

This artwork was created by the Italian artist Piero Perin. Piero Perin was born in 1924, in Cervarese, near Padua Italy. He lived and worked in Padova where he teached at the School...

Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on canvas, 2025 Signed Verso Bunnies by Hunt Slonem When Hunt Slonem enters his studio each morning, he warms up by painting bunnie...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is an oil pastel painting and a collage w...

Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...

New Mexico Mountain Scene by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953) Watercolor on paper 15 ¾ x 19 ½ inches unframed (40.005 x 49.53 cm) 23 x 26 ¾ inches framed...

Museum quality painting of Sagg Pond in Sagaponack, New York by the well known American artist, Robert Dash. Longview of Sagg Pond, farmland, dunes and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Signed lower right. Condition is very good. Overall framed in custom brown/black floating frame 61.5 by 74 inches. Born in downtown Manhattan in 1934 Robert Dash was home schooled for most of his young life due to ongoing illnesses. Never formally studying painting, he developed a strong interest in the abstract expressionists, particularly De Kooning, in college. He attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, in part to escape the city. After college he spent a year in Italy and upon returning to New York City worked for Arts and then Art News, while painting at night. He had his first show in 1960. Since then, he has painted, written and gardened near Sagg Pond on eastern Long Island, at residence among the changeable celebration of plantings, paths, views and architectural expressions of Madoo, a much-admired garden conservatory of his own making. A longtime Hamptons...

The Woodstock Poster was originally commissioned by the Woodstock Book Shop and Woodstock Chamber of Commerce. It was subsequently purchased from the ...

An oil on canvas by HENRI MAIK (French) titled "Les trois freres" depicts a Lion, Lion Cubs, Birds & Flowers. Painted in 1982. Signed and dated lower right Signed and titled verso ...

This is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, and 70's, explore ab...

This romantic and lovely Alabaster marble is classic Jose De Creeft who was a world recognized stone sculptor carver. He has a remarkable career and story. And this work is what he is best known to do. Female form that has face and form emerging from rougher hewn areas of the stone. This was a technique that Rodin used as well and was popular around the turn of the century. Size is attractive as it can go on a well balanced table or a pedestal of easy size! Provenance: The Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof Collection, New York* *Ecstasy was originally a part of the Schulhof Collection, founded by the couple Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof and begun a few years into their marriage in the 1950s. The established collection is known for exceptional Postwar works including pieces by Johns, Rothko, and Twombly, to name a few. As Hannelore Schulhof stated in 2011, “Art is almost like a religion. It is what I believe in… it is what gives my life dimension beyond the material world.” Signed: J. De Creeft in the rear The stylized, placid face of Ecstasy, as well as the contrast between smooth and rough-hewn stone, are typical of de Creeft’s hand and instantly recognizable. Its natural alabaster inclusions and the generally fragmentized feel of the piece are both essential to its aesthetic and classic de Creeft. The Guadalajara-born sculptor studied alongside Rodin at the Académie Julian starting in 1905 and would eventually become Alexander Calder’s tutor in direct carving. Ecstasy was undoubtedly inspired by a wide variety of influences that had a profound effect on his work, including his early employment at the young age of six earning pennies by carrying stones to aid the construction of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia, and an inspiring encounter with Inuit sculptors in Madrid’s El Retiro Park during the nascency of his career. Towards the mid-20th century, de Creeft was working within a group of Spanish expatriate artists in New York, including Vicente and Dalí. 1956, the year he carved Ecstasy—using the method of direct carving of which he was a firm proponent—marked the year he gained representation at the Contemporary Galleries in New York City. He would exhibit biannually there until 1966. In the 1950s de Creeft received numerous public commissions, including an eight-foot granite Poetess for the city of Philadelphia in 1951 and his famous 16-foot Alice in Wonderland climbing sculpture...

This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in which the artist works with ti...