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Art Subject: Car
Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster
Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster

Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Porsche 928 German factory poster. Archival linen-backed and presents in Grade A condition. The white area was cleaned up during linen backing. This should be the lowes...

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Late 20th Century American Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Offset

"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor
"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor

"Beach Scene at Dieppe" James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Tonalist Watercolor

By James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Located in New York, NY

James Abbott McNeill Whistler Beach Scene at Dieppe, 1885-86 Watercolor on paper, mounted on board 8 1/2 x 5 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Miss Annie Burr Jennings Mrs. ...

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1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting
Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting

Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting

By Yangzi Xu

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Yangzi captures a rainy evening on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Streetlamps glow warmly against the cool reflections of the wet pavement. Figures with umbr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

LAURENT M - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise
LAURENT M - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise

LAURENT M - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise

Located in PARIS, FR

Edition: limited edition 11/24 Information: Laurent combines a robust background in mechanical engineering with a profound passion for cars and arts. From a young age, Laurent spen...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Carmen Console 'Chevy Camaro Tech Data 1967-1993' 1993- Offset Lithograph
Carmen Console 'Chevy Camaro Tech Data 1967-1993' 1993- Offset Lithograph

Carmen Console 'Chevy Camaro Tech Data 1967-1993' 1993- Offset Lithograph

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 23 x 35 inches ( 58.42 x 88.9 cm ) Image Size: 22 x 34 inches ( 55.88 x 86.36 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Deta...

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1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed
Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed

Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Moonlight Schooner by Chris Golds (British, 1936-1924) signed and dated 78 titled/ inscribed verso oil on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 33 inches canvas: 16 x 30 inches Provenance:...

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Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, " Julius Montalant, Maritime Port Trade
"Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, " Julius Montalant, Maritime Port Trade

"Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, " Julius Montalant, Maritime Port Trade

Located in New York, NY

Julius Montalant (1823 - 1898) Harbour of Rio Janeiro, 1843-1850 Oil on canvas 17 x 24 inches Signed and dated lower right; conservator's inscription on the reverse Born in Virginia, probably Norfolk, Julius Montalant is known for his drawings and paintings inspired by his travels on board navy ships. Attached to the USS St. Louis around 1844-45, he sketched ports of call he visited, including Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and China. Many of his works are held in the Museum of the U.S. Naval Academy. Navy records indicate his rank as 'C. Clerk', which may mean that he held a civilian position. During the 1850s he lived in Philadelphia, and in 1851-61 he exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Union and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Included were paintings of North America, Greece...

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1850s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On Broadway, New York, 1955 Framed Edition Contemporary Black & White Photograph
On Broadway, New York, 1955 Framed Edition Contemporary Black & White Photograph

On Broadway, New York, 1955 Framed Edition Contemporary Black & White Photograph

Located in Brussels, BE

Artwork #1 / 5 sold in perfect condition printed on baryta heavyweight paper & framed (black metal border) From the collection called "Art 2014", format 30x42 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP Artwork printed later on fine art papers later (2014) from black & white negatives processed in 1962 During the 15 year period in which Fabrizio La Torre...

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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism
'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism

'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism

By Howard Norton Cook

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed. Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker. Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest. Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937. He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...

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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Set of Four 1930's Motor Car Racing Original Drawings
Set of Four 1930's Motor Car Racing Original Drawings

Set of Four 1930's Motor Car Racing Original Drawings

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Wonderful set of four original pencil drawings depicting vintage motor cars from the 1930's. They are an ideal gift or interior furnishing for any 'man cave' or 'boys room...

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Early 20th Century Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Jeanty J N Robert Vintage Haitian Painting on Board of a Village Scene
Jeanty J N Robert Vintage Haitian Painting on Board of a Village Scene

Jeanty J N Robert Vintage Haitian Painting on Board of a Village Scene

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Striking Haitian acrylic painting on board depicting a busy street scene executed in a distinctive naive style with bold colors and plenty of action. Signed J N Robert and presented ...

Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Paint, Acrylic

The harbor
The harbor

The harbor

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "The Harbor" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on canvas by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Logrippo, 1947-2021. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 24 x 36 inches, framed size is 31 x 43 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold color bevel. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Bob LoGrippo's paintings have appeared on magazine, book and album covers, as well as calendars, greeting cards and puzzles. The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Readers Digest, Six Flags...

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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Italian Contemporary Art by Riccardo Mayr - Après Ski

Italian Contemporary Art by Riccardo Mayr - Après Ski

By Riccardo Mayr

Located in Paris, IDF

Mixed media on paper, Riccardo Mayr is an Italian self-taught painter born in 1970 who lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. From the very beginning during the nineties, he focuse...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern

By Max Arthur Cohn

Located in New York, NY

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue Elevated 19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Watercolor on paper Signed an...

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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas
"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas

"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas

By Georges Gerbier

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil painting on canvas by the French artist Georges Gerbier, depicting a tremendously vivid and alive street scene from Paris in the 20th Century with a view of "Palais G...

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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Come Rain - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Neo-Expression, Car, Umbrella
Come Rain - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Neo-Expression, Car, Umbrella

Come Rain - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Neo-Expression, Car, Umbrella

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist May...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm

Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm

By Lucien Adrion

Located in Riga, LV

Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Period 1920-1940s. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm Lucien Adrion (1889-1953) was a French painter known for his depictions of the countryside and bustling street sce...

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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, A City Street Scene
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, A City Street Scene

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, A City Street Scene

By Henri Miloch

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Paris, France: A City Street Scene by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) unsigned watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed sheet 9.75 x 12.25 inches Very nicely execu...

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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Resilience -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait, Woman against Nature
Resilience -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait, Woman against Nature

Resilience -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait, Woman against Nature

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Ogu...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial

"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial

Located in New York, NY

"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000) "Streetscape" 14 x 20 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1939 Signed l...

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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

“Pennsylvania Beauty”
“Pennsylvania Beauty”

“Pennsylvania Beauty”

By Edmund Darch Lewis

Located in Southampton, NY

Here for your consideration is an outstanding example of the landscape mastery of American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Fabulous light and clarity of the bucolic scene. Signed lower right and dated 1870. Recently cleaned. Several old patches verso with corresponding in paint. Condition is very good The painting is framed in its original gold leaf period frame which is in fine condition. Overall measurements are 35 by 46.5 inches. Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition he was educated at a private school...

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1870s Academic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cuauhtémoc, signed oil painting
Cuauhtémoc, signed oil painting

Cuauhtémoc, signed oil painting

By Louis Letouche

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Cuauhtémoc, 1982 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays the 20th Century ship titled: Cuauhtemoc, 1982. ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc who was captured and executed in 1525. She is the last of four sister...

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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mezzogiorno al Pantheon, Rome, 1958 - Limited Edition Black & White Photography
Mezzogiorno al Pantheon, Rome, 1958 - Limited Edition Black & White Photography

Mezzogiorno al Pantheon, Rome, 1958 - Limited Edition Black & White Photography

Located in Brussels, BE

Artwork sold in perfect condition Double frame under American box presenting the two sides of the obelisk fountain on the Place du Panthéon. This work by Giacomo della Porta, (and li...

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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Foggy Night, Land's End, San Francisco, CA

Foggy Night, Land's End, San Francisco, CA

By Fred Lyon

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Lyon has been called "San Francisco's Brassaï," and has also been compared to Cartier-Bresson, Atget, and Andre Kertesz, but with a San Francisco twist. The lifelong San Francisco Native happily admits his debt to those icons.

 Now at eighty-eight years old, his nonstop career reaches back to the early 1940s and embracing news, fashion, architecture, advertising, and food. In the golden years of magazines, his picture credits were everywhere from LIFE to VOGUE. He is now combining his extensive picture files for galleries, publishers, and print collectors. c) The Estate of Fred Lyon Courtesy. Peter Fetterman Gallery

Category

1950s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated
Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated

Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Wonderful original pencil drawing depicting a vintage motor car racing scene from the 1930's. The drawing is by - "K. B. White" - a British illustrator and motoring artist who was ...

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Early 20th Century Art Deco Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

French River Seine Barge Harbor Landscape Watercolor Conflans Sainte Honorine
French River Seine Barge Harbor Landscape Watercolor Conflans Sainte Honorine

French River Seine Barge Harbor Landscape Watercolor Conflans Sainte Honorine

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French River Seine Barge Harbor Landscape Watercolor Conflans Sainte Honorine Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 19.75 x...

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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Hollywood

Hollywood

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape
"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape

"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape

By Christopher Clark

Located in Denver, CO

Christopher Clark's "Paris Rainy Cafe" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a night scene of a bustling cityscape in France. Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars. Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money...

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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"
"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"

"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"

Located in Portland, ME

Canot, P.C. (French, worked in England, 1710-1777), after Willem van de Velde and Ludolph Bakhuizen. "A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE," engravings, ...

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Mid-18th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

By Charles Lutz

Located in Brooklyn, NY

"Triple Elvis" (Denied) Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel paint on canvas with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82 x 72" inches 2010 This important example was shown alongside works by Warhol in a two-person show "Warhol Revisited (Charles Lutz / Andy Warhol)" at UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts in 2024. Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Circumstance, America #331
Circumstance, America #331

Circumstance, America #331

By Formento + Formento

Located in New York City, NY

In Circumstance, Formento + Formento examine the human figure as a site of vulnerability shaped by social, economic, and emotional forces. The series emerged from an extended journey...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Hundred Acre Wood

The Hundred Acre Wood

By Ken Ragsdale

Located in New York, NY

20"x30" available unframed, edition of 5 Signed and editioned From the series: "The Hundred Acre Wood" Ragsdale’s process begins with rough sketch...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

New York Skyline
New York Skyline

New York Skyline

By Louis H. Ruyl

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...

Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint

Porte Saint Denis, Paris
Porte Saint Denis, Paris

Porte Saint Denis, Paris

By Francois Gerome

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Porte Saint Denis, Paris" c.1935 in an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Francois Gerome, born 1895 (The year of his death...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Absolutely Nothing Painting, Surreal Desert Scene, Signed, 70x95 cm
Absolutely Nothing Painting, Surreal Desert Scene, Signed, 70x95 cm

Absolutely Nothing Painting, Surreal Desert Scene, Signed, 70x95 cm

Located in Zofingen, AG

This surreal artwork captures a stark desert crossroads under a vivid blue sky, where a vintage white convertible takes center stage. Two figures add intrigue: one stands beside the ...

Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic