Robert Bob Stanley "I'M GOING TO WORK ON MY TAN" 1978
Located in New York, US
Lithograph print + artist's hand additions, Signet by artist, Working Proof, stamp Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his grit...
Lithograph
"BRIAN JONES"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Robert Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs.
Paper, Color, Screen
$1,000
Bob Stanley - Tree Branches, Etching on wove paper with deckled edges, Signed/N
By Bob Stanley
Located in New York, NY
BOB STANLEY BIOGRAPHY Bob Robert Stanley was a painter whose early work was figurative painting about contemporary American life.
Etching
"PAUL'S MUD"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
signed by artist, signature 'KOLN', A.E, 33 of 55 Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which i...
Paper, Screen
"CELERY & TOMATO"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Silk, Paper
"MELANIE"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Canvas, Oil
"EROTIC III"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Silk, Paper
"MICK JAGGER"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Cardboard, Screen
"EROTIC I"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Silk, Paper
"ROMAN PASSES"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Paper, Pencil
"PETE ROSE IN PRACTICE BATTING LEFTY"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"A VERY LARGE FLYING BOAT TAKING OFF"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof Lithograph print and color pencil on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depi...
Paper
"BOSTON BEANS"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof, stamped Silkscreen print on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions o...
Paper
"A VERY LARGE FLYING BOAT TAKING OFF"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof Lithograph print and color pencil on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depi...
Paper
"A VERY LARGE FLYING BOAT TAKING OFF"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof Lithograph print and color pencil on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depi...
Paper
"BOSTON BEANS"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Silkscreen print on paper Signed by artist, Artist's Proof, stamped Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions o...
Paper
"A VERY LARGE FLYING BOAT TAKING OFF"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof Lithograph print and pencil on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depiction...
Paper
"ROMAN PASSES"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Pencil on paper Stamped Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated pho...
Paper
"PETE ROSE IN PRACTICE BATTING LEFTY"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Watercolor print and pencil on paper Signed by artist Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, whic...
Paper
"Conversation at the stadium"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist Watercolor paint on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingenious...
Paper
"DRUMMER MAJORETTE"
By Robert Bob Stanley
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,...
Paper
"Cake"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof, stamped Lithograph print on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions o...
Paper
"Cake"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof, stamped Lithograph print on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions o...
Paper
"NY-BOST"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist Photo print on cardboard Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniousl...
Paper
"MONICA VITTI"
Located in New York, US
Signed by artist, Artist's Proof VIII, signature "For the beautiful M" Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depiction...
Paper
"EROTIC II"
By Robert Bob Stanley
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...
Paper
"SHOE"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Edition 15/80 Signed by artist Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorpor...
Screen
"ECSTASY HEDY LAMAR"
Located in New York, US
Edition 23/195 Signet by artist Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorp...
Paper
"NECKTIES"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Edition 1/20 Signed by artist, Artist's Proof, stamped Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, whi...
Screen
"TREE BRANCHES"
Located in New York, US
Signet by artist; Edition 3/300. Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorpo...
Paper, Black and White, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Rooster Pop Art Triptych Lithograph Suite Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Unavailable
H 29.5 in W 22.25 in
Bob Stanley - "Miss Louisiana", 1969 (from the Six New York Artists portfolio)
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stanley, Bob Miss Louisiana, 1969 Screenprint in Colors on Arches Satine 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. From the Six New York Artists portfolio Artist's Proof 3 out of 40 apart from the limit...
Lithograph
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Rooster Pop Art Triptych Lithograph Suite Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Rooster Pop Art Triptych Lithograph Suite Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative paint...
Lithograph, Screen
"LARGE BLUE CAR"
By Robert Bob Stanley
Located in New York, US
Silkscreen print on paper Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated p...
Paper
$1,298
H 12.01 in W 8.67 in D 0.79 in
Mick Jagger IV - Andy Warhol (after), Announcement card
By Andy Warhol
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Mick Jagger IV - After Andy Warhol. In this print, the portrait is mostly black and white, with gleaming hair and an orange overlay on one side of his face. Mick Jagger is an iconic ...
Offset
$2,650
H 6 in W 4 in
Andy Warhol Mick Jagger (portfolio of 10 Warhol Leo Castelli announcements)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Mick Jagger, Leo Castelli gallery 1975: A stunning set of ten announcement cards published by Castelli Graphics in 1975 to advertise the forthcoming portfolio of ten silk...
Offset
$240
H 19 in W 16 in D 0.75 in
Roy Lichtenstein 'Nude with Blue Hair, State 1' 1997 Vintage Pop Art
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Nude with Blue Hair” by Roy Lichtenstein, from the Nudes series published by Tyler Graphics in 1994. A striking late-period work showcasing Lichtenstein’s signature Pop language — b...
Offset
$1,500
H 6 in W 4 in D 1 in
Andy Warhol "Mick Jagger-F&S. II.142" Framed Announcement card, Hand signed
By Andy Warhol
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol. Title: Mick Jagger F&S II.142 Framed Announcement card. Medium: Lithograph Hand Signed Size: Image size: 6" x 4", Framed: 10" x 8 Year: 1975 Edition: Limite...
Offset
Vintage 1960s Andy Warhol Photo Silkscreen Serigraph Pop Art
By John Brower
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for a Photo Silkscreen Serigraph it is Titled Andy Warhol :Pop Artist American. light creasing to paper outside of image John Brower worked in Chicago as a billboard designe...
Screen
$230,000
H 43.5 in W 29 in
Mick Jagger F&S 143 Iconic Pop Art Screenprint in colors Vintage Print
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
This portrait is on of a series of portraits done of Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol in 1975. Each print in the series has a unique photograph taken by Warhol himself and varies in the un...
Color, Archival Pigment, Screen
Rolling Stones 1972 Tour Music Poster, John Pasche
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic original Rolling Stones 1972 American Tour poster featuring a wonderful design by John Pasche. Having designed the Rolling Stones 1970 European Tour poster while a student ...
Paper
$995
H 20.75 in W 28.5 in
Tom Wesselmann 1964 American Nude Lithograph, from 1¢ Life
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Tom Wesselmann Title: American Nude Portfolio: 1¢ Life Medium: Lithograph in colors Date: 1964 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 20 3/4" x 28 1/2" Sheet Size: 16 1/4" x 22 3/4" Image...
Lithograph
$1,298
H 12.01 in W 8.67 in D 0.79 in
Mick Jagger X - Andy Warhol, Announcement card, Rolling Stones, Musician, Pop
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Mick Jagger X - After Andy Warhol. This black and white colour scheme lithographic print features - Mick Jagger - an iconic rock legend who was the frontman and one of the founders ...
Lithograph
$1,200
H 10 in W 8 in D 2 in
Andy Warhol, 'Mick Jagger FSII.139', Framed Announcement-card, 1975
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol. Title: 'Mick Jagger' FS II.139 Framed Announcement card. Medium: Lithograph Size: Image size: 6" x 4" Framed: 10" x 8" Year: 1975 Description: Signed and numbere...
Offset
$341
H 13.86 in W 11.03 in D 0.4 in
Trees Study Etching, Contemporary, AP 1/3, Mounted, 1980s
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
British printmaker and artist Wendy Jean Holt (1948–2025) was known for her distinctive etchings and aquatints, produced primarily during the late 1970s and 1980s. Her work combined ...
Etching
$1,298
H 12.01 in W 8.67 in D 0.79 in
Mick Jagger V - Andy Warhol, Announcement card, Rolling Stones, Musician, Pop
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Mick Jagger V - After Andy Warhol. The light green background contrasts with the abstract pink slashes on the image of this lithographic print. Mick Jagger is an iconic rock legend ...
Lithograph
$1,285
H 13.75 in W 14.75 in
"Trees, " Landscape Wood Engraving by Betsy Ritz Friebert
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Trees" is an original wood engraving print by Betsy Ritz Friebert. It features a man walking down a large path underneath tall barren trees. Unsigned, as issued. Image: 6" x 5" Fr...
Woodcut
$1,500
H 28 in W 28 in
Swimming Pool /// Jack Graves Summer Sun Tan David Hockney Contemporary Painting
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Swimming Pool" Series: Americana *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2026 Medium: Ori...
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
$560Sale Price|50% Off
H 29.53 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Apple tree. 1976, linocut, print size 65x50 cm; total 75x60 cm
By Dainis Rozkalns
Located in Riga, LV
Apple tree. 1976, linocut, print size 65x50 cm; total 75x60 cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publications. The main dire...
Paper, Linocut
untitled
By Stephen Procuniar
Located in New York, NY
Gestural screenprint, number 12 from an edition of 20
Screen
$3,000
H 12 in W 12 in
Rare original Keith Haring Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring Crack Is Wack)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare Keith Haring “Life is Fresh! Crack Is Wack!” 1987 sealed/unopened in its original shrink wrapping: A highly sought-after 1980s record album featuring original artwork by Keith H...
Offset, Lithograph
Growing Tall, Pop Art Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Growing Tall Max Epstein, Canadian (1932–2002) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 295 Image Size: 28 x 18.5 inches Size: 35 in. x 23 in. (88.9 cm x 58.4...
Screen
Andy Warhol Keith Haring photograph by Ricky Powell
By Ricky Powell
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Signed Ricky Powell Photo of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol: Medium: C print. 1986. Dimensions: 8x10 inches. Good overall vintage condition. Minor signs of handling. Small corner loss...
C Print
WOODED LANDSCAPE AT DUSK
By Ryohei Tanaka
Located in Portland, ME
Ryohei, Tanaka (Japanese, 1933- 2019). WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH TREES AT DUSK. Etching and aquatint, 1986. Signed and numbered 76/150 in pencil, 5 ½ x 9 ¼ inches (plate), plus full marg...
Etching
$6,000
H 16 in W 20 in D 1.38 in
Signed Georges Braque Etching 1950, Le Nid Vert 'The Green Nest' Maeght 1028
By Georges Braque
Located in St. Louis, MO
Artist Georges Braque 1882-1963, etching and aquatint Le Nid Vert (The Green Nest) M.1028 on Rives BFK paper, circa 1950. Signed and dated to lower edge 'G. Braque 157/300'. This wor...
Paper
$675
H 30 in W 40 in
Exotischer Klang Exotic Sound, 1930 Oversize Archival Pigment print
By (after) Paul Klee
Located in London, GB
Exotischer Klang (Exotic Sound), 1930 (after) Paul Klee (Original work) is Pen and ink, pencil, and watercolour on paper, mounted on card, 47 × 61.3/62.3cm. Dusseldorf, North Rhine-...
Archival Pigment
$4,110
H 48 in W 60 in
Floating - Large Color Drenched Impasto Mixed Media Textural Abstract Painting
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Acrylic
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century Italian School Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Bronze with black-green patination 24 x 10 x 10 inches Dionysus, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature ...
Bronze
(after) Edgard Pillet - pochoir, 1952
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir. Printed in 1952 for the Temoignages pour l'art abstrait portfolio (Witnesses for Abstract Art) and published by Editions d'Art d'Aujourd'hui in an edition of 1500. S...
Lithograph, Stencil
Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...
Paper, Pastel, Board
$31,525Sale Price|35% Off
H 49 in W 59 in D 1.75 in
"The Golden Hour, " Monumental Painting with Utopian Scene, Multiple Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Monumental and quite extraordinary, this utopian scene -- all cast in a lovely, warm glow -- depicts a wide range of nude figures, mostly male, in a grassy river valley between mount...
Paint
Garden Flowers, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 347/350, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Somerset paper Size: 30 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Si...
Lithograph
$960Sale Price|20% Off
H 1 in W 10.25 in Dm 10.25 in
Lichtenstein Paper Plate — Pop Art Icon, 1969 Original Serigraph
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Roy Lichtenstein, 'Paper Plate', serigraph, 1969, edition unknown, Corlett III.45. Printed in dark blue ink verso, 'Roy Lichtenstein © On 1st Inc. 1969'. A fine impression, on white ...
Screen
$1,200
H 27 in W 40 in
"The Italian Poppies" by Ed Baynard (Flowers, White, Abstract, Still life)
By Ed Baynard
Located in New York, NY
This is a 20 color screen print on Sommerset paper. The edition was printed at Brand X Editions in 1997. Ed Baynard’s paintings and graphic prints blend the contemporary and the cla...
Screen
Water Lilies
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Published in 1990 by Rosenthal, Germany, Roy Lichtenstein’s, Water Lilies is an exquisite glazed porcelain charger, brilliantly colored, accompanied by signed certification. Stamp si...
Porcelain, Screen
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
Lithograph
Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.
ORIGINS OF POP ART
CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART
POP ARTISTS TO KNOW
ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS
The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.
Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.
Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.
Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.
Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.
Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.
Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.
More than three decades after his death, the prolific Pop artist and cultural icon's body of work continues to captivate. Here's a primer of some of his most notable motifs and mediums.
A new exhibition in Philadelphia stars a complex decade that continues to inspire.