Original - Boogie Dudley and Blue - Acrylic on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Boogie, Dudley and Blue” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Date: 1995 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 36” X 24” Description: Signed & Framed (orig...
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Dog "Original - Almost Primary Dog, Tiffany" Signed Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Almost Primary Dog, Tiffany” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1993 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 16” X 24” Description: Signed & Framed.
Canvas, Oil
$2,625Sale Price|25% Off
Sweet Like You
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
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H 34 in W 24 in D 1 in
GEORGE RODRIGUE SPACE CHAIR - 1992, SIGNED & NUMBERED SILKSCREEN
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Space Chair” Medium: Silkscreen Date: 1992 Edition: 13/90 Dimensions: 34 X 24” Description: Signed & Unframed Condition: Excellent GEORGE RO...
Screen
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H 34 in W 24 in D 1 in
GEORGE RODRIGUE - SPACE CHAIR 1992, SIGNED & NUMBERED UNIQUE SILKSCREEN
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: "Blue Dog Space Chair" Medium: Unique Silkscreen, each piece in the edition as a different color with makes a Unique one of a kind there are 90 numbere...
Screen
Original - Vote For Me - Acrylic on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This pop art animal original silkscreen on paper is hand-signed by the artist. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original – Vote for Me – Acrylic on Canvas” Medium: Acrylic...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 22 in W 26 in D 1 in
Original Untitled Landscape - Oil on Canvas Signed - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original Untitled Landscape” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1993 Edition: 1 Dimensions: 20 X 24” Description: Signed & Unframed.
Canvas, Oil
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H 24 in W 20 in D 3 in
Blue Dog "Original - Twilight" - Signed Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original - Twilight” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1993 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 24” X 20” Description: Signed & Framed Condition: ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 36 in W 24 in D 1 in
Original - Split Personality - Signed Oil on Canvas Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original – Split Personality” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1991 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 36” X 24” Description: Signed & Unframed co...
Canvas, Oil
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H 18 in W 14 in D 1 in
Original - Fire Wall - Signed Acrylic on Canvas - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original - Fire Wall” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Date: 2003 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 16” X 12" Description: Signed & Unframed with ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Dog "I Remember This" Original Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original – I Remember This” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1992 Edition: 1 Dimensions: 36” X 48” Description: Signed & Framed with an FTI...
Canvas, Oil
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H 16 in W 20 in D 1 in
Original - Happy Flowers for Good Luck - Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Happy Flowers for Good Luck” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1997 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 16” X 20” Description: Signed & Unframed Co...
Canvas, Oil
Blue Dog "Kiss Me I'm Cajun" Original Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “ Original - Kiss Me I'm Cajun” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1992 Edition: 1 Dimensions: 24” X 18” Description: Signed & Framed with an ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 32 in W 23 in D 3 in
A Midnight Drink on Canvas - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “A Midnight Drink on Canvas” Medium: Silkscreen Date: 1999 Edition: 1 Dimensions: 30 X 21” Description: Signed & Unframed on stretche...
Canvas, Screen
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H 14 in W 11 in D 3 in
Blue Dog "Original Untitled MM II" Silkscreen and Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This pop art animal original mixed media silkscreen and oil on canvas is guaranteed authentic and hand signed. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original - Untitled - MM II...
Canvas, Oil
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H 14 in W 11 in D 3 in
Blue Dog "Original Untitled MM I" Silkscreen and Oil on Canvas
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This pop art animal original silkscreen and oil on canvas is guaranteed authentic and hand signed. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original - Untitled - MM I” Medium: Mi...
Canvas, Oil
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H 42 in W 32 in D 1 in
Aioli Dinner Dog - Signed MM Canvas Board/Giclee Print with Painted Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Aioli Dinner Dog" Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Board/Giclee Print and Acrylic Hand Painted Dog Date: 1995 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Giclée
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H 14 in W 11 in D 3 in
Blue Dog "Original - Untitled - MM III" Tribute to Ukraine On Canvas Board
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original -Untitled - MM III” Medium: Silkscreen and Oil on Canvas Date: Cira 1992 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 14” X 11” Description: O...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Screen
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H 42 in W 38 in D 3 in
It's Tiffany - Giclee on Canvas Board - Signed - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “It's Tiffany” Medium: Giclee Print on Canvas Board Date: 1995 Edition: One of a kind Dimensions: 40" X 36” Description: Signed & Fram...
Giclée
Louisiana Landscape with Two Oak Trees
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
The Oak Tree defined Rodrigue’s early and beloved works, and this piece represented a return to his roots to create a stunning work in the color palate of the artist’s iconic Blue Do...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Angel Baby
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
Ho Ho Ho
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
Soldier Boy
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
Truly Rudy
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
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H 40 in W 29.25 in D 0.75 in
"Texas Ranger" Contemporary Blue Dog in Cowboy Hat Silkscreen Ed. 391/800
By George Rodrigue
Located in Houston, TX
Rodrigue’s gallery biography states: “Born and raised in Cajun country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was the dying heritage - incl...
Screen
A Garden Party Black
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Certificate of Authenticity included. GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared ...
Screen
Daisies For You
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
Almost from the beginning I recognized the image’s conduciveness to silkscreen design. ABOUT GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist ...
Archival Paper, Screen
Flower Child: Black
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
Almost from the beginning I recognized the image’s conduciveness to silkscreen design. ABOUT GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist ...
Archival Paper, Screen
A Number One Tiger Fan (LSU Blue Dog)
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
Almost from the beginning I recognized the image’s conduciveness to silkscreen design. ABOUT GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist ...
Archival Paper, Screen
Blue Dog "Original - Blue Mood - Oil on Canvas"
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original - Blue mood” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 2001 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 14” X 11” Description: Signed & Framed Condition: ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 36 in W 24 in D 1 in
Original - Split Personality - Signed Oil on Canvas Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Original – Split Personality” Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1991 Edition: 1 of 1 Dimensions: 36” X 24” Description: Signed & Unframed co...
Canvas, Oil
Midnight Surprise
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
Midnight Surprise
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage—-including its l...
Screen
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H 31 in W 43.5 in D 1 in
"Butterflies Are Free" Contemporary Colorful Blue Dog Silkscreen Ed. 134 / 1000
By George Rodrigue
Located in Houston, TX
Rodrigue’s gallery biography states: “Born and raised in Cajun country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared was the dying heritage - incl...
Screen
Red Moon
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Certificate of Authenticity included. GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared ...
Screen
Mardi Gras Cats Black
By George Rodrigue
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Certificate of Authenticity included. GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist George Rodrigue portrayed on his canvas what he feared ...
Screen
The Devil in Me
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
Almost from the beginning I recognized the image’s conduciveness to silkscreen design. ABOUT GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist ...
Archival Paper, Screen
A Number One Tiger Fan (LSU Blue Dog) Estate
By George Rodrigue
Located in Metairie, LA
Almost from the beginning I recognized the image’s conduciveness to silkscreen design. ABOUT GEORGE RODRIGUE (1944-2013) Born and raised in Cajun Country, Louisiana, U.S.A., artist ...
Archival Paper, Screen
$5,495
H 29 in W 23 in D 1 in
Boogie Bear - Black - Signed Silkscreen Print - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a single blue bear with a red nose on a black background. The bear has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on paper is ...
Screen
Absolut Dog - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of the dog sitting on a red background with a frame of blue. The dogs ears are in the shape of Absolut Vodka bottles. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. ...
Screen
Stripes - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog sporting a tie with the appearance of an American flag of stars and stripes. The background is alternating red and white stripes as on an A...
Screen
$6,995
H 21 in W 34 in D 1 in
Butterflies Are Free - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 2 dogs; one with a brown vest sitting on a blue rug with a tan border and decorated with blue butterflies. One butterfly has released itself from the ...
Screen
Top Dog - White - Blue Dog Silkscreen Print
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of one blue dog sitting on a white background with a blue frame line around the dog. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silksc...
Screen
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 12 in
Purity of Soul (Blue Dog Series), George Rodrigue
By George Rodrigue
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: George Rodrigue (1944-2013) Title: Purity of Soul (Blue Dog Series) Year: 2005 Edition: 142/190, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on archival paper Size: 15 x 12 inches Conditi...
Screen
$4,400Sale Price|64% Off
H 22 in W 17.5 in
Midnight Surprise (Blue Dog Series), George Rodrigue
By George Rodrigue
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: George Rodrigue (1944-2013) Title: Midnight Surprise (Blue Dog Series) Year: 2000 Edition: 62/150, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on archival paper Size: 22 x 17.5 inches Con...
Screen
Blue Dog "Hawaiian Blues" Signed Print
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog on a tropical background of mountains, sea, sand, and palm trees. There are various colors of butterflies and a single dragonfly. The dog i...
Screen
$5,895
H 18 in W 25 in D 1 in
I See You, You See Me - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a single pale blue dog on a purple background. There are soulful yellow eyes on the dog and scattered on the background in various sizes. This pop ar...
Screen
George Rodrigue -- Sunshine on My Shoulder
By George Rodrigue
Located in BRUCE, ACT
George Rodrigue Sunshine on My Shoulder, 2005 Screenprint Hand signed in silver ink lower right Numbered 61/190 Sheet size 38 x 30.5 cm Frame size 61 x 51.5 x 2.5 cm Beautifu...
Screen
$14,995
H 17 in W 13 in D 1 in
La Petite Femme Chere - Signed Silkscreen Print - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a single dog sitting in the middle of a pure white background. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on pape...
Screen
$6,995
H 23 in W 31 in D 3 in
Oh Say Can You See - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a dark blue background with various sizes of Blue Dog soulful yellow eyes and 3 dogs; 1 white & black, 1 red and one blue. All dogs have soulful yello...
Screen
Untitled First Edition Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of the Blue Dog on a white background. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on paper is hand signed by the artis...
Screen
$4,895
H 32 in W 24 in D 1 in
Jingle My Bells At Night - Gold - Signed Silkscreen Print - Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a single dog sitting in a pink box with a blue bow and a lit candle next to the box. The background is gold with gold stars and thin blue border. The...
Screen
$7,495
H 36 in W 26 in D 1 in
Mischief On My Mind - Silkscreen Signed Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a red dog head atop of a blue dog on a solid black background. The dogs have soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on pape...
Screen
Hiding My Blues from You - White
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of the dog donning a red cape. The dog is sitting on a white background. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on...
Screen
Allegory of Abundance
Located in New York, NY
Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Breughel the Elder, Jan the...
Copper
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
Oil, Canvas
Bullseye Yellow - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
By George Rodrigue
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog in the center of a red circle on a yellow background. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on pa...
Screen
$160,340
H 74.81 in W 23.63 in D 19.69 in
ANTINOUS Magnificent Italian Neoclassical Carrara Marble Sculpture
Located in Rome, IT
Outstanding 19th century Italian finely carved Carrara "Statuario" marble sculpture of Antinoo , after the Antique The Capitoline 'Antinous'. Antinous, a young Bithinius favorite...
Marble
La Carmencita by John Singer Sargent
By John Singer Sargent
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 American Stamped by artist's estate (en verso) Oil on canvas John Singer Sargent, widely regarded as one of history's most distinguished portraitists...
Canvas, Oil
$159,195
H 23.63 in W 28.75 in
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. Signed.
By Armand Guillaumin
Located in Paris, FR
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. +/- 1922 Signed lower right Measurements : 60 x 73 cm. This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...
Oil
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 12 in
Blue Skies Shinning on Me (Blue Dog Series), George Rodrigue
By George Rodrigue
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: George Rodrigue (1944-2013) Title: Blue Skies Shinning on Me (Blue Dog Series) Year: 2005 Edition: 172/190, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on archival paper Size: 15 x 12 inc...
Screen
20th Century Italian Rococo Bird Cage, Hand-Painted Metal & Wood
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian style (20th Cent) octagonal shaped painted and decorated metal and wood bird cage with 8 upholstered seat and back cushions around base. (Franco Zefferelli Collection)
Metal
$1,250,000
H 36.5 in W 32.5 in
"The Coward" Original cover for Life magazine, Woman Kissing World War I Soldier
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"The Coward" (Woman Kissing Soldier). Original cover illustration for Life Magazine, published April 1919. Norman Rockwell’s The Coward (or, Woman Kissing Soldier) was published on...
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Webb & Sons Two-Color Cameo Vase
By Thomas Webb & Sons
Located in New Orleans, LA
Of all the glassworks produced in the late 19th century, cameo glass was the most challenging to perfect. Only a handful of artisans succeeded in mastering this intricate craft, with...
Glass
$1,900,000
H 9 in W 2 in D 2 in
"Pearl Royale" Platinum Sculpture 9' x 2' in Edition of 3 by Colin Burn
By Colin Burn
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pearl Royale" Platinum Sculpture 9' x 2' in Edition of 3 by Colin Burn Pure Platinum, Diamond & Pearl Sculpture Limited Edition - 3 Only Edition: Artist Proof 1/1 NOTE: pr...
Platinum
$240,000
H 17 in W 13 in
Study for Butterfly Couple, Study for Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A stunning study for a 1920s Kuppenheimer clothing advertisement featuring a fashionably-dressed couple kneeling in an embrace before a pair of colorful butterfly wings. The prolific...
Canvas, Oil
$125,000
H 42.52 in W 27.56 in D 22.84 in
Purple Museum Quality Amethyst Centerpiece Mineral Masterpiece Decorative Object
Located in London, GB
A very large, one of a kind epimorph amethyst. This piece is a visual spectacle with the natural sculptural formations of amethyst in a different variety of purple tones. Also disp...
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Victorian Nécessaire de Voyage
Located in New Orleans, LA
A work of extraordinary craftsmanship, this exquisite English vanity case is as much an item of luxury as it is of necessity. Known as a nécessaire de voyage, the case features a lux...
Velvet, Glass, Wood
$275,000
H 52 in W 39.5 in D 1.5 in
Portrait de Jacqueline Linocut Print, Surrealist, Signed, 1959, Framed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Portrait de Jacqueline" 1959 (Baer 1245; Bloch 923) ...
Linocut
$1,100,000
H 30 in W 34 in D 97 in
One of a Kind Solid Zinc and Petrified Wood Waterfall Sculptural Dining Table
By John Brevard
Located in Coral Gables, FL
The “Decay of Time” functional sculpture series by John Brevard celebrates the natural beauty of our world by using ancient, timeless materials from sustainable sources. Each piece i...
Zinc
From New Iberia, Louisiana, George Rodrigue is known for his Blue Dog series, inspired by his long-deceased childhood pet, Tiffany, whom he posed with other animals and people for his popular paintings and prints.
Rodrigue had early art talent, and while ill for nearly a year, he used watercolors and crayons to pass the time, and this activity set his future. He studied at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and in Los Angeles at the Art Center College of Design. For a while, Rodrigue painted Abstract Expressionist works but then went back to creating paintings that reflected his own Cajun culture, including folk tales and bayou and swamp landscapes.
Gradually a black and white spaniel, based on his childhood companion, Tiffany, increasingly appeared in Rodgrigue's paintings and became the Blue Dog, now a compelling and humorous Pop figure in his original works and silkscreen reproductions. In 2000, representatives of the Xerox corporation commissioned Rodrigue with a multi-million dollar contract to do a series of Blue Dog paintings to promote their printers.
Rodrigue was also the artist for the Absolut Vodka ads and created the artwork for three New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival posters. The 1995 poster, with the portrait of Louis Armstrong, as well as the one created in 1996 that featured Pete Fountain, have become collector's items.
Rodrigue and his wife, Wendy, created the House of Blues Foundation Room to support arts and cultural programs for youth. Money is raised through the sale of his paintings. A George Rodrigue museum is in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Find original George Rodrigue posters and Blue Dog paintings on 1stDibs.
(Biography provided by Louisiana Art, LLC)
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.
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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.