The Most Beautiful Things
The Most Beautiful Things
Our in-house curators are delighted to share this edit of some of the most extraordinary pieces available on 1stDibs.
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Two Flags
By Jasper Johns
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Jasper Johns
Two Flags
1970-72
Lithograph
Edition of 4/36
Pencil signed and numbered
With the blindstamp of the printer and publisher, U.L.A.E., West Islip...
Category
1970s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
MUGGELTON'S STAGECOACH
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 20.5 x 16 inches. Frame size approx 32 x 27 inches. From the edition of 200.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certific...
Category
1970s American Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Alan Shepards Lunar Suit
By Albert Watson
Located in Vienna, AT
Shepard was the first American in space and wore it at his Apollo 14 travel.
PREISS FINE ARTS is one of the world’s leading galleries for fine art photograp...
Category
1990s The Most Beautiful Things
Dogs
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of two photographs by Andy Warhol. "Dogs" is a set of two gelatin silver prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FL09.00054, FL09.00055, and AWL139. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Malbacco Desiata - large format photograph of iconic Italian summer moment
By Massimo Vitali
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Malbacco Desiata, a secret swim hole in Tuscany, by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
1930s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Une Pyramide en Colère, Micro-Painting on Leather by Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Micro picture, gouache on paper mounted on black leather. Belonging to the serie “Microbes”.
Interestingly, it is unusually mounted on a black leather surface whose shape reminds th...
Category
1940s Surrealist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Leather, Gouache, Cardboard
Descending from the Cross, by Torchlight
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New York, NY
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669
The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight 1654
etching and drypoint; sheet 213 x 163 mm (8 3/8 x 6 7/16 inches)
Bart...
Category
17th Century Old Masters The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
KAWS - BFF - Pink Version _brand new
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a brand new piece in perfect condition.
Several months after releasing the KAWS Share Figure in February, the artist released his long anticipated KAWS Take Figure. The fig...
Category
2010s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS - Take Figure - Pink Version _BFF Companion
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a brand new piece in perfect condition.
Several months after releasing the KAWS Share Figure in February, the artist released his long anticipated KAWS Take Figure. The fig...
Category
2010s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Figure Study For 'Science'
By John Singer Sargent
Located in New York, NY
Image dimensions: 24 ½ x 18 ¾ inches
Framed dimensions: 34 x 28 inches
This charcoal drawing is a preliminary study for the figure of Science, the subject that comprises the far ri...
Category
1920s American Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Emperor's Heads
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Henry Moore. "Emperor's Heads" is a figurative sculpture, bronze with a brown patina by modern British artist Henry Moore. It is signed on the base, "Moore 2/7" and is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Bronze
Basket with Fruit
By Marsden Hartley
Located in Miami, FL
Bold outlines and strong weighty forms coalesce with a compositional delicacy that forms the hallmark of Hartley's work.
The work has a long and distinguished provenance and exhibit...
Category
1920s American Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure allongée devant un carrelage (Figure Lying in front of a Tiled Floor)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Title: "Figure allongée devant un carrelage (Figure Lying in front of a Tiled Floor)"
*Signed and numbered by Matisse in pencil lower right
...
Category
1920s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Zita and Teresa Jungman, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Zita and Teresa Jungman, 1927 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
Red inkwash signature
Inscribed 'the Jungman sisters' in unknown hand and stamped with Sotheby's Cecil Beaton stud...
Category
20th Century The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rare Rodin Watercolour & Pencil on Paper of a Seated Nude - The Cambodian Dancer
By Auguste Rodin
Located in London, GB
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Seated Nude, Cambodian Dancer
c. 1898 - 1900
Pencil and watercolour
11.5 x 9.3 inches;
25 x 20.5 inches, inc. frame
Provenance:
Christie's South Kensington: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
"It's very simple. My drawings are the key of my art."
Rodin was an extraordinary creative artist and a prolific worker. After attending the “Petite École”, he worked in the studio of the ornamentalist Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, first in Paris, then in Brussels, where his skill in handling decorative subjects fashionable in the 18th century became apparent. His discovery of Michelangelo, during a visit to Italy in 1875-76, was a decisive moment in his career. Rodin would, in turn, break new ground in sculpture, paving the way for 20th-century art, by introducing methods and techniques that were central to his own artistic aesthetics.
In 1906, King Sisowath of Cambodia visited France on an official state visit. It was on this visit that Rodin discovered the dancers of the Cambodian Royal Ballet and was inspired to draw and paint them over 150 times.
They made a deep impression on the artist, as he confided to Georges Bourdon, in an article for the newspaper Le Figaro on 1 August 1906: “There is an extraordinary beauty, a perfect beauty, about these slow, monotonous dances, which follow the pulsating rhythm of the music… [The Cambodians] have taught me movements I had never come across anywhere before…”
Originally seeing them in Paris he left everything suddenly to follow the dancers of the royal ballet to Marseille, from where they would embark on their return to Cambodia.
In just one week, he made about one hundred and fifty drawings, re-transcribing or interpreting the ballet poses, with an obvious fascination for the arms and hands of the dancers. These drawings were later highlighted with watercolour, creating coloured harmonies of a rare refinement.
The first performance of the Cambodian Royal Ballet took place in the context of the Colonial Exhibition in Marseille. Sisowath 1st had just been crowned King of Cambodia when he undertook the first trip ever to be made by a Cambodian sovereign to France, which had controlled Cambodia since June 1884. This official visit occurred at the height of French colonial expansion. Previously, the Universal Exhibition of 1900 had attracted 48 million visitors! The organisers realised what a tremendous impact this event made on the public, and it was soon adopted as the main tool for colonial propaganda. At the exhibition in Marseilles, the area devoted to Indochina was the largest of the seven sections.
When Auguste Rodin met the troupe of dancers for the first time in July 1906, during their brief visit to Paris for an exceptional performance at the Pré Catalan...
Category
19th Century Realist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Watercolor
Evening - Post Impressionist Divisionist Oil Figures in Landscape - Henri Martin
By Henri Martin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning divisionist oil on panel circa 1895 by sought after French post impressionist painter Henri Martin. The work depicts a worker in a field re...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Louise and Else Heyerdahl /// Expressionism Edvard Munch Portrait Figurative Art
By Edvard Munch
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)
Title: "Louise and Else Heyerdahl"
*Signed by Munch in pencil lower right
Year: 1920
Medium: Original Lithograph on heavy cream wove paper...
Category
1920s Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Gold Leaf
Committee 2000 Champagne Glasses
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of two photographs by Andy Warhol. "Committee 2000 Champagne Glasses" is a set of two Polaroids on board by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Polaroid
Still Lives Triptych - Oil on Canvas attr. to F. Guardi - Late 18th Century
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Roma, IT
This is a wonderful Guardi's Triptyc, composed by three oval oil painted panels attributed by some of most reputable scholars to the Venetian old master Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)....
Category
Late 18th Century The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
Category
1880s Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
L'Oiseau
By Joan Miró
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"L'Oiseau" is a sculpture by Surrealist Joan Miró. The bronze sculpture is signed verso, "Miro" and inscribed 'N.3', and with foundry stamp 'Clementi cire perdue (Paris).
André Bret...
Category
1970s Surrealist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Bronze
White Seaform with Black Lip Wraps
By Dale Chihuly
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Dale Chihuly. "White Seaform with Black Lip Wraps" is a contemporary blown glass piece in a black and white palette by American artist Dale C...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Girl Reading a Book
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Pissarro
French, 1863-1944
Girl Reading a Book
Oil on canvas
18 ¼ by 15 in. W/frame 24 ¼ by 21 in.
Signed lower right and dated 1907
Born in Pa...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Oil
Lee Radziwill
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of four photographs by Andy Warhol. "Lee Radziwill" is four Polaroids, Polacolor by pop artist Andy Warhol. It is signed FA04.10715, FA04.10719, FA...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Polaroid
Le Soleil Rouge (1950) [Green] Limited Edition of 60 by Zao Wou-ki (AGE 41)
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Le Soleil Rouge, color Lithograph on Arches paper
1950 by Zao Wou-ki
Printed by E. and J. Desjobert Paris
signed and numbered
image 48 x 34 cm; sheet 56 x 38 cm
image 18 ⁵⁷/₆₄ x 13 ²...
Category
1950s French School The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
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UNTITLED (MASKED FIGURE)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.13.84" central quadrant. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches....
Category
1980s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Ceramic, Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile,Ceramic,Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Tête de faune
Unique work
circa 1968
Painted and partially glazed ceramic, square tile
15.2 x 15.2 cm
C...
Category
1960s Post-War The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Earthenware
UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.84" lower margin. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fram...
Category
1980s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Crayon, Paper
'Survivor' — Elizabeth Catlett
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Elizabeth Catlett, 'Survivor', linocut, 1983, edition 1000. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '914/1000' in pencil. A fine impression, on...
Category
1980s American Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Linocut
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Color Lithograph, Lawyer and Clients, Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. THE DOOR OF JUSTICE was printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printers chop mark on lower corner, print documentation provided. THE DOOR OF JUSTICE was created as a tribute to civil rights lawyers and the people they counsel depicted as a figurative portrait drawing of two lawyer figures, male and female opening "The Door of Justice" to a gathering of everyday people awaiting outside the doorway. Printed in primary color shades of yellow, blue, red, green, brown, gray and black.
Print size - 24.25 x 27.5 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett
Image size - 18 x 22.5 inches
Year published - 2000
Edition size - 100
"The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis."
-Thurgood...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
GLORY Signed Linocut, Poetic Female Portrait, Black Woman, White Line Drawing
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
GLORY is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print by the American and Mexican woman artist, printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett. GLORY was created using linocut printmaking techniques on cream colored archival Pescia paper, made in Italy, 100% acid free. GLORY is a poetic female portrait expressed as a white line drawing depicting a upright postured black woman standing in profile view, her arm resting on a chair back, framed by plants and foliage in the background. Printed from Catlett's masterly carved linoleum block; a very strong impression printed by hand in a taupe brown ink on warm buff color printmaking paper.
GLORY is unframed, in mint condition, pencil signed, titled, dated on the lower margin by Elizabeth Catlett, embossed with printers chop mark lower left, print documentation will be provided.
Print size - 23.5" x 15" unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett
Edition size - 60
Year printed - 2008
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co.
Elizabeth Catlett (born April 15, 1915, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 2, 2012, Cuernavaca, Mexico), American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her intensely political art.
Catlett, a granddaughter of enslaved people, was born into a middle-class Washington family; her father was a professor of mathematics at Tuskegee Institute. After being disallowed entrance into the Carnegie Institute of Technology because she was Black, Catlett enrolled at Howard University...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Linocut
DANCING II, Signed Lithograph, Men Women Dance Portrait, Black Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
DANCING II is an original limited edition lithograph printed in black ink on white archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, using hand lithography tec...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
ALL THE PEOPLE Signed Lithograph, For My People-Margaret Walker, Rainbow Faces
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
ALL THE PEOPLE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. ALL THE PEOPLE is graphic composition comprised of a brilliant multi color rainbow across the bottom of the image with a centered, rose beige textured circle filled with simple black line drawings of men, women, and children's faces, a blue sky like area on top consists of textural effects obtained from Japanese rice paper. This impressive composition by the master print maker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett is from the FOR MY PEOPLE suite of prints, a set of 6 lithographs illustrating the well known 1942 poem by Margaret Walker.
"For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way
from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,
trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,
all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;"
- Stanza from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker
Print size 23” x 19”, Edition size 99, unframed color lithograph on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free,
Edition printed using traditional hand lithography methods by J.K. Fine Art Editions Co, NJ.
Published in 1992 by the Limited Editions Club, NY.
About the artist -
Elizabeth Catlett (born April 15, 1915, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 2, 2012, Cuernavaca, Mexico), American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her intensely political art.
Catlett, a granddaughter of enslaved people, was born into a middle-class Washington family; her father was a professor of mathematics at Tuskegee Institute. After being disallowed entrance into the Carnegie Institute of Technology because she was Black, Catlett enrolled at Howard University (B.S., 1935), where she studied design, printmaking, and drawing and was influenced by the art theories of Alain Locke and James A...
Category
1990s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Pomme Bouche, Brooch, Claude Lalanne, French, Design, 1990's, Bronze, Jewels
By Claude Lalanne
Located in Geneva, CH
Pomme Bouche, Brooch, Claude Lalanne, French, Design, 1990's, Bronze, Jewels
Brooch Pomme Bouche
1990
Edition Arthus-bertrand, Paris
Bronze with a golden...
Category
1990s Art Nouveau The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Bronze
Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama - Abstract contemporary work on paper
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Gouache and pastel on paper
27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 8 inches)
Signed, ...
Category
1950s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Standing in the Visionary Field Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 002)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama
Standing in the Visionary Field (1979). Edition 46/100
Screenprint
[13 screens, 13 colors, 13 runs]
40.8 x 52.2 cm (image)
50.8x 65 cm (sheet)
Edition of 100 + 10 Artist Proofs
Published in 1979 on Hakou-shi paper by Ishida Ryoichi (printer)
Provenance:
Art Factory Gallery, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Shinwa Art Auction, Tokyo
Publications:
A specimen of the same edition is represented in full page at plate 2, page 12 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kusama's prints:
"Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979...
Category
1970s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen
Anatomy (4), from Anatomy (Wye and Smith 100)
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
BOURGEOIS, Louise
Anatomy (4), from Anatomy (Wye and Smith 100), 1989-90
Etching on wove paper, edition 2 of 2 PP
Image: 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Framed: 24 3/16 x 18 3/8 inches
Signed ...
Category
1980s Feminist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching
Embracing the Tree
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
Louise BOURGEOIS
"Embracing the Tree" (2000)
Drypoint, edition 14 of 25
Image: 11 13/16 x 19 15/16 in.
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 16 in.
Framed: 21 1/2 x 18 x 1 1/2 in. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Drypoint
Coffee Cup
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1985
Screenprint in colors, on Izumi paper
Sheet: 61 x 53.3 cm
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, excellent condition
Category
1980s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Screen
By The Lake
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Collage was an important part of Louise Nevelson's practice. The process mirrored her approach to sculpture; taking disparate elements and assembling or uniting them into a complex whole.
Similar to many of her American contemporaries, Nevelson delved into printmaking. She worked with the leading printing studios in America adopting new techniques while expanding her aesthetic and oeuvre considerably.
This collage was the final maquette or design, that would be screen printed becoming "By the Lake" (from "Façade: In Homage to Edith Sitwell"). Nevelson worked with Chiron Press in New York, which had opened in 1962 and was just a stone's throw from her 11th Street home studio.
The works in this series were dedicated to the British poet Edith Sitwell who passed away in 1964. Sitwell had published a book of abstract poems titled Façade, the poems' rhythms were counterparts to music set by the famed English composer, William Walton...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen
Where I Live
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois
Where I Live, 2001-2007
drypoint on hemmed cloth, edition of 2 PP aside from the numbered edition of 12
20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. / 51.4 x 41.3 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Drypoint
Inner Life
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This work is included in the collection of MoMA NY which was donated by the artist. From a limited edition of 2000
Artist’s Remarks:"This is like a snake plant...
Category
1980s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Red River Inside my Eyelids by Yayoi Kusama - Contemporary art, female artist
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Red River Inside my Eyelids by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Ink, pastel, felt pen on paper
55 x 39.8 cm (21 ⁵/₈ ...
Category
1970s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Felt Pen, Paper
Altitudes /// Abstract Expressionism Helen Frankenthaler Female Post-War Modern
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Title: "Altitudes"
*Signed, dated, and numbered by Frankenthaler in pencil lower right
Year: 1978
Medium: Original Lithograph on light yellow-pink J.B. Green Hayle Mill Bodleian handmade paper
Limited edition: 29/42
Printer: Bill Goldston and John A. Lund of Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY
Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY
Reference: "Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné - Prints 1961-1994" - Harrison No. 72, page 264, 268-270; "ULAE" - Sparks No. 33, page 88, 323; Clark No. 67; Williams No. 67
Sheet size (irregular margins): 22.25" x 30.88"
Condition: Remnants of previous mounting tape on verso. In excellent condition with strong colors
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - New York, NY; private collection - notable fashion illustrator Jay Hyde, Crawford, New York, NY; acquired from an art gallery in New York, NY; likely acquired directly from the publisher Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY. Lithograph drawn with tusche wash. Printed in two colors from two stones: red and green. Universal Limited Art Editions chop mark/blind stamp lower right.
"Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné - Prints 1961-1994" - Harrison - "Frankenthaler carefully chose a European handmade paper that would add another color and texture to the print" ... "By contrast, in "Altitudes", the artist created a bleed image so that the sheet of paper is smaller than the stone's image and the large red tusche wash sweeps across the surface of the yellow-pink J.B. Green Hayle Mill Bodleian paper, becoming warmed and enhanced by its color and texture."
"Universal Limited Art Editions - A History and Catalogue: The First Twenty-Five Years" - Sparks - "In "Bronze Smoke" (cat. no. 32), "Altitudes" (cat. no. 33), and "Door" (cat. no. 34), minimal compositions were replaced by fields of drifting, multilayered color, as rich and satisfying as her work on a much grander scale."
Biography:
Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Louise Nevelson - Hand-Signed Silk-Screen on Hand-Made Paper, 1975
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Varese, IT
Louise Nevelson ( 1899 - 1988 ) - hand-signed Silk-screen on hand-made paper, 1975
Additional information:
Material: Silk-screen on hand-made paper
Edited in 1975
Limited edition in...
Category
20th Century The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Silk, Handmade Paper
Louise Nevelson - Winter Chord - Hand-Signed Black Painted Wood Sculpture, 1974
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Varese, IT
Louise Nevelson ( 1899 - 1988 ) - Winter Chord - hand-signed black painted wood sculpture, 1974
Additional information:
Material: Black p...
Category
20th Century The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Wood
Joey with Her New Breasts (NYC)
By Nan Goldin
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Nan Goldin (b. 1953) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Beginning in the 1970's Goldin took candid shots of her lovers and friends - especially drag queens and trans women, characters often living on the margins of society, in New York City and beyond.
"Cody in the Dressing Room at the Boy Bar, NYC” is a paradigm of Goldin's work from the early 1990’s celebrating both nightlife and its beautiful denizens.
The photograph shows Cody, semi-nude and confidently posing for Goldin, as they either unwind after or are preparing for a performance. Situated in a dressing room signalled by the mirror, makeup and clothes strewn around. Behind Cody is a silver grid of black and white portraits taped to the wall, reminiscent of Warhol’s famous screen tests, and a reminder of Goldin's exceptional composition. Furthermore, the image is cropped right above the subject's waist leaving their actual gender ambiguous if not irrelevant.
Today, images of drag queens and glamorous trans woman are increasingly common in Western culture, considering the success of TV shows such as Rupaul's Drag Race...
Category
1990s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Dye Transfer
Fireflies
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1999
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 30 x 22 2/5 in.
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, excellent condition
Category
1990s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin 2000 (Green)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2000
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 18 1/4 x 24 in.
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Screen
My Bed, Hotel La Louisiane, Paris
By Nan Goldin
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Nan Goldin (b. 1953) is one of the most influential, yet arguably underrated, photographers of the 20th century. Beginning in the 1970's Goldin took candid shots of her friends and lovers, characters often living on the margins of society. Following William Eggleston, Nan Goldin made an significant contribution to the evolution of color photography.
"My Bed...
Category
1990s Post-Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Dye Transfer
Snow Pines
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in New York, NY
2004
Thirty-four color Ukiyo-e woodcut printed from 16 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico paper
Image/sheet: 37 1/2 x 26 inches
Edition of 65
Signed and ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Tavern, Abstract (1960)
By Chuck Close
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Tavern
Year of Work: 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed & Dated Upper Left
Dimensions: framed 31 x 25 unframed 30 x 24
Provenance: Chuck Close, Marjorie Dalton (Dear friend of Chuck), Private Collection.
Tavern, is truly a rare find, an original oil on canvas, in compelling blues and grays with a touch of gold and orange. This work reveals more imagery and detail the longer one enjoys it. This painting was created during his years studying in Yale Art School, and draws different qualities to each new viewer similar to a Rorschach. Close's work is in the collections of most of the great international museums of contemporary art, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City. and the Tate Modern in London.
Artist Bio:
Chuck Close – (1940-2021) an American painter, artist and photographer born in Monroe, Washington. Early childhood illnesses including a neuromuscular condition, nephritis and dyslexia were compounded later in life by a condition known as prosopagnosia (face blindness), which may have inspired him to do portraits. Most of his early, large-format portraits are based on photographs, using photorealism or hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. Close often painted abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he continued to paint inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Close's first solo exhibition, held in 1967 at the University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, featured paintings, painted reliefs, and drawings based on photographs of record covers. Being much in the mainstream of pop art, a fragment of Close's portrait of singer-songwriter Paul Simon...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Oil
Grace Kelly, 1984
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1984, Grace Kelly is a color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board hand-signed by Andy Warhol (Pennsylvania, 1928 - New York, 1987) in pencil in lower right. This work is numbered from the edition of 225 in pencil in lower right apart from the edition of: 30 Artist's Proofs, 8 Printer's Proofs, 2 Hors Commerce, 50 numbered in Roman numerals, 20 Trial Proofs; printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York; and published by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the consent of the Princess Grace Foundation.
Andy Warhol Grace Kelly...
Category
1980s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen, Board
Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. ‘Flag on the Moon’ Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium
By Buzz Aldrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
110 hours, 10 minutes, and 33 seconds into the mission: Buzz Aldrin takes a moment from the busy timeline to salute the American flag, a familiar splash of...
Category
1960s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Dye Transfer
Pablo Picasso "Grand Tête" (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Grand Tête (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses)
linocut in colors, on Arches paper, 1962,
signed in pencil, numbered 12/50,
with full margins, pale ...
Category
20th Century Cubist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Linocut
Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1964, this red earthenware clay big rectangular plaque printed with engobe pad is #15 from the edition of 50. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU’ and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ stamps on the reverse.
Pablo Picasso Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat), 1964 A.R. 518 is a remarkable and beautiful work. It represents Picasso’s most important relationships at the time, namely his artistic partnership with the Ramiés and his romance with Jacqueline Roque. It is also notably one of two ceramic works Picasso has ever made of this scale. Picasso takes immense care in depicting this portrait of his greatest muse Jacqueline; its wonderful texture and delicate variations in line weight are testaments to the artist’s innate creative skill.
Composed of a simple linear carved design in an earth tone clay plaque...
Category
1960s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ceramic
