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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Untitled (Cross Hatch) /// Abstract Geometric Jasper Johns Minimal Screenprint
By Jasper Johns
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jasper Johns (American, 1930-)
Title: "Untitled (Cross Hatch)"
Series: Jasper Johns Screenprints
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1977
Medium: Original Scre...
Category
1970s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen, Parchment Paper
THERE IS A WOMAN IN EVERY COLOR Signed Relief Print, Black Woman Rainbow Figures
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
THERE IS A WOMAN IN EVERY COLOR is a hand pulled limited edition relief print created using linocut, woodcut, and silkscreen printmaking techniques on white archival printmaking pape...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Linocut
Marilyn
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This Cindy Sherman Marilyn print was included in a jubilee anniversary portfolio by Schirmer Mossel and features the artist representing the cultural icon Marilyn Monroe. It is in ex...
Category
1990s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Hands)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Ya...
Category
1980s Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN(Turban), Hand Drawn Lithograph, Black Female Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned African American woman artist Elizabeth Catl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Inflammatory Essays -- Sculpture, Pewter, Text Art by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
Inflammatory Essays: Shriek When the Pain Hits During Interrogation, 1996
Jenny Holzer
Pewter multiple with engraved text
With the artist's incised signature and numbering verso
Fr...
Category
1990s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Metal
These Feelings Were True -Emin, Contemporary, YBAs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait
By Tracey Emin
Located in Zug, CH
These Feelings Were True - Tracey Emin, Contemporary, Young British Artiststs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait, Limited Edition
2 colour lithographs on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm (Poprtfolio of 8)
Edition 25 of 50, the full Set is offered in matching edition numbers
Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher with the original cardboard portfolio
Published by Counter Editions
Please note: images are for illustrative purposes only, the edition number offered is 25 of 50
Tracey Emin's new set of 8 lithographs depicting herself are incredibly personal auto portraits and revelatory. Viewed almost as an intimate tiny sketchbook of herself, a visual diary. These editions are great examples of Emin's radical painting style which has been influenced by Expressionism. These works showcase universal feelings, raw and bittersweet emotions, which are Emin’s constant subject surrounded around the idea of love, loss, intimacy, and longing.
In making herself the subject of her work, and concentrating intensely on figuration, Emin creates bridges with the rich art-historical tradition of the female figure and female nudes. She shows strong emotive force in these pictures, as seen for example in the work of male painters Munch and Schiele, which Emin admires and studied throughout her artistic oeuvre.
Emin has said that “when I saw that these portraits did not look like me, I then realized I was actually drawing how I felt inside my head. An expression of myself in different moments, and this idea doing a few of them would be very honest and will be really free… the idea is how I am feeling.”
When referencing her previous portraiture practice, Emin said “I would put my face in the work and then I would black it out, it is too much for me to have me in the work, and now it is so weird, I am thinking that it is time for me to start having an entrance to my work. Because I have a good reason to do it. I should be celebrating me as a person and things that make me, me.”
TRACEY EMIN
A prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Tracey Emin´s production encompasses different mediums including film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, writing, installation and sculpture. Her work is intensely personal, revealing intimate details of her life with honesty and humour.
"There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences."—Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin uses all aspects of her life in her art, turning her autobiography into broader statements about sex, love, death, freedom, and everyday life. This audacious and confessional approach earned her a nomination for the Turner Prize in 1999. The artist received notable acclaim, among others, for her installation My Bed, featuring her unmade bed surrounded...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Spring Run XVI
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in New York, NY
Vivid color monotype by American Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. Printed and published in collaboration with Tyler Graphics...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Monotype
Champs (Fields); from the Carnegie Hall Centennial Fine Art portfolio
By Joan Mitchell
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Title: Champs (Fields); from the Carnegie Hall Centennial Fine Art portfolio
Year: 1990
Edition: 60, plus 13 artist’s p...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Metamorfosis
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
Portfolio with complete text, 5 drypoint prints with etching and aquatint and numerous illustrations on Rives BFK. The sheets are loose as issued and in superb condition. One from a ...
Category
1990s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
Madder-Colored Cloud
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1997
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 20 3/10 x 14 3/10 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
KEISHA M. Hand Drawn Lithograph, Young Black Female Portrait, Afro Hairstyle
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
KEISHA M. is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned African-American woman sculptor, printmaker and painter Elizabeth Catlett (191...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Michel Leiris - British Abstract Art
By Francis Bacon
Located in London, GB
FRANCIS BACON 1909-1992
Dublin 1909-1992 Madrid (Irish / British)
Title: Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976/78
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on ...
Category
1970s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Gazing Ball (Manet Olympia)
By Jeff Koons
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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Ed. of 20
Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’ work has been shown in major galleries and institutions throughout the world. His work was the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (June 27 – October 19, 2014), which traveled to the Centre Pompidou Paris (November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015) and the Guggenheim Bilbao (June 9 – September 27, 2015). A solo exhibition of recent and new work was recently on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills (April 27 – August 18, 2017).
Koons is widely known for his iconic sculptures Rabbit and Balloon Dog as well as the monumental floral...
Category
2010s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Archival Pigment
Views of Hotel Well I, from Moving Focus series
By David Hockney
Located in Aventura, FL
Views of Hotel Well I, from Moving Focus series (T. 280; DH. 67). Lithograph printed in colors on TGL handmade paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. original Artist's...
Category
1980s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Jacqueline au Bandeau de Face (Grand Tête de Femme)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Stunning and iconic portrait of Picasso's wife, Jacqueline Roque, signed in pencil by Picasso and numbered in pencil from the limited edition of 50.
Category
20th Century Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Linocut
Head
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
1983 / 2001
Screenprint in colors, on heavy wove paper, the full sheet
S. 40 x 40 in.
Edition of 85
Numbered in pencil, signed and dated '11-19-01' by Gerard Basquiat (Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat) in pencil with the Estate stamp on the reverse, published by De Sanctis...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Screen
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Judith I" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
Judith I, no. 9 from the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Much like his treatment of the Classical personage, Danae, from Greek mythology, Klimt’s depiction of Judith takes an Old Testament character, a heroine who avenges the death of her husband by killing an Assyrian king, and firmly positions her in his present-day Vienna. His multicolored collotype rips the canvas from its gilded frame which directly references the subject with its title: “Judith und Holofernes”. Now in print form, Judith, holding the severed head of a male in murky shadow, is the ultimate Viennese femme fatale. Her likeness is unmistakably similar to a former lover of Klimt’s and famous Viennese soprano, Anna von Mildenburg. Though his allusion to ancient Assyria is apt, Klimt literally lifted the gold patterned background’s design motif from a relief detail from Sennacherib’s Palace displayed in a London museum. His context then is contemporary. In a sensual and sexually powerful tour de force, Klimt’s Judith...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Ink
Trittico Forum (2011) - large format triptych photograph of iconic Roman site
By Massimo Vitali
Located in San Francisco, CA
original large format photography triptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Trittico Forum (2011)
three individually framed original archival photography prints, each with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary light grey lacquered gallery frames
76.7 in x 61.25 in (194.8cm x 156cm) / each
4,6m / 183.75" / 15' 4" installation width
limited edition of 6 + 2AP
signed, titled and dated verso
'Roman Forum' was installed at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy, as part of 2014 'Art in Embassies' exhibition curated by Virginia Shore and Claire D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
$ (1) FS II.274-279
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
The portfolio consists of six screenprints. Each hand-signed and numbered. Each print is unique. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Published by Andy Warhol, New York. The artwork is in excellent condition.
The Dollar Sign series from 1982 was the ultimate manifestation of Andy Warhol’s love...
Category
1980s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Board, Screen
La Persane
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
La Persane
1929
Lithograph on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 63 x 44.5 cms (24 3/4 x 17 1/2 ins)
Image size: 44.8 x 29 cms (1...
Category
1920s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso 'Vase deux anses hautes' A. R. 213
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Vase deux anses hautes (A. R. 213)
Terre de faïence vase, 1953, from the edition of 400, inscribed 'Edition Picasso'...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Two Nudes, State I (Corlett 285), Roy Lichtenstein
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Title: Two Nudes, State I (Corlett 285)
Year: 1994
Edition: 10, plus proofs
Medium: Relief print in colors on Rives BFK mold-made paper
Size: 48 ...
Category
1990s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen
DUMBO
By Banksy
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print & hand-finished watercolor on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Pest Control included.
Banksy’s Dumbo is an extremely rare Ban...
Category
2010s Street Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen, Watercolor, Paper
L'Univers est créé
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Gauguin came back to Paris in August 1893 from his first stay in Tahiti, In the luggage numerous drawings and preparatory work for a book designed by him. In collaboration with the writer Charles Morice, parts of the text "NOA NOA" were created in Paris in the winter of 1893-1894. The plan was for a preferred edition with 10 almost identical woodcuts, all of which were made in the winter of 1893-1894. According to the individual proto-prints by Gauguin, the artist left the artist to Louis Roy...
Category
1890s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Woodcut
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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'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
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
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
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
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
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
Out Chorus, Jazz Etching by Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Out Chorus
Year: 1979-80
Medium: Photoetching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 12 x 16 inches
Paper Size: 22 x 30 inche...
Category
1980s American Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching, Photogravure
Edmund from Men in the Cities
By Robert Longo
Located in Miami, FL
Hand signed in pencil and dated '85 lower right corner with edition number in lower left corner. Published by Brooke Alexander Editions, New York. This is AP 2/10 and the edition is 38.
Category
1980s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
REFLECTIONS ON SODA FOUNTAIN
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated in pencil. Screenprint in colors, on Rives BFK. (C. 257; G. 1498). Co-published by the artist and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps a...
Category
1990s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Screen, Paper
Joan Miro, "Le Pitre Rose", etching, aquatint, hand signed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miró
"Le Pitre Rose", 1974
Original etching and aquatint
From the edition of 50 on arches paper, hand signed and numbered 9/50.
Sheet measures: 55 x...
Category
1970s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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