Alfonso Ossorio Art

Baby, Baby Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1991 Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 35 (4/35) plus 10 AP Condition: Excellent, colors fresh Image/...

"Insignia" #1 Hand Made Paper Aquatint Abstract Tactile Abstract on handmade paper by David Dodsworth (English, b-1952) David’s work is typified by his...

This artwork "Untitled" 1997, is an original color etching on wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed, dated and inscribed "Proof for Steve Head...

A beautiful abstracted landscape, mixed media print and painting, in soft pastel hues by California artist Katherine Chang Liu (American, 20th-century). Signed and dated "Katherine C...

Stanley William Hayter, 'Feu sous L'eau (Fire Under Water)', color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with yellow silkscreen, 1955, edition 50 plus 10 artist proofs, Black & Moorhead 221. Signed, titled 'Fire Under Water', dated and annotated 'Essai' in pencil. Dedicated in the artist’s hand 'for Adja & Dove WH Bill 17–5–55' in the top margin. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; wide margins (2 1/2 to 3 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. One of 10 artist’s proofs. Image size 10 3/16 x 7 inches; sheet size 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THIS WORK In 1950 Hayter returned to Paris and reopened Atelier 17. Works such as 'Fire Under Water' reveal newfound influences, such as that of the Ardèche area of southern France, where he acquired a house in 1951 and frequently visited. Hayter took great interest in the flowing Escoutay River, an experience that parallels the artist and co-director of Atelier 17 Krishna Reddy’s interest in depicting water. While some forms in this print evoke the natural world, the palette of contrasting tones of purple, yellow, black, and white reflects Hayter’s belief in using color intuitively to express emotions and evoke feelings. The sharp white relief lines from the paper and the textural effects realized through soft-ground etching operate in tandem with the sweeping curves and bold colors to give the composition a sense of vitality and dynamism. —edited from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Published by 'La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine', Paris. Impressions of this work are in the following collections: British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall. The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet. Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen Phillips...

Abstract portrait of a Woman Finely Detailed Collotype on paper Finely detailed abstract collotype of a woman by Heather Speck a San Francisco. Californi...

This artwork titled "Tapestry" c.1990, is an original colors etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 8/15 in penci...

Untitled. SFE-080RC. Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm. Frame size : 75 x 97 x 4 cm Museum glass anti-reflective. Signed and numbered 46/75 ex. Sam Francis Archive Number : SF-353. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...

This artwork titled "Landscape XI' c.2000 is an original color etching with aquatint by Hungarian/American artist Theodora Varnay Jones, b.1942. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 18/50 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 14.75 x 17.65 inches, framed size is 28.25 x 30 inches. Custom framed in a silver and brown patina frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Theodora Varnay Jones, printmaker, sculptor, installation and digital artist, lecturer, and teacher, was born in Budapest, Hungary on 26 February 1942. She graduated from the Hámán Kató Leány Gimnázium before beginning her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest where she earned her B.F.A. and, in 1971, her M.F.A. She moved to the United States in the early 1970s and married Monty Jones on 9 September 1972 in Reno. On 27 September 1984 she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her creativity seems unlimited and her work has been featured in exhibitions too numerous to enumerate. She is a member of the KALA Art Gallery in Berkeley, California and teaches classes there. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 "Dialectics:angles of cognition, in the orbit of photography" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 "Fugue" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 "Resonances" Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, CA "Appearances" Lena & Roselli Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 2011 "Theodora Varnay Jones: Prints & Drawings: Selected Archival Work” Baczek Gallery, Berkeley, CA 09/10 "Manifold", (survey) ICA, San Jose, CA 2009 "Reflections", (survey) Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 "Translucent Phenomena", Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA 2007 "Structures" Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Galerie Reinfeld, Bremen, G e r m a n y "Undercurrents", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Gallery Hirawata, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, J a p a n "Theodora Varnay Jones", Gallery Naufu, Gifu City, J a p a n "Dialectica", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 "Transparentia", Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA " Theodora Varnay Jones", Galerie Reinfeld, Bremen, G e r m a n y "Mixed Media Works", Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 " Microcosmos" invited to represent the US, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bad Segeberg, G e r m a n y "Microcosmos" Kieler Kloster, Kiel, G e r m a n y 1999 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, J a p a n 1996 "Theodora Varnay Jones" (survey), Vasarely Museum, Budapest, H u n g a r y 1995 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Shirakawa Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n 1994 Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, CA 1993 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Shirakawa Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n "Theodora Varnay Jones", Chicashige Gallery, Okayama, J a p a n 1991 Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum, CA 1990 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Theodora Varnay Jones", Art Forum Yanaka, Tokyo, J a p a n Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, J a p a n Gallery 88, Sendai, J a p a n Heian Gallery, Kyoto, J a p a n 1989 Richard Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, CA 1988 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, S p a i n 1984 Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 "Theodora Varnay Jones", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA TWO AND THRE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2010 "Interdepencia/Interdependence; Theodora Varnay Jones, Francesca Pastine and Marta Sanchez-Vasquez" Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA 2007 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Tom Bills", Pacifica Center for the Arts, CA 2004 "Between"; Theodora Varnay Jones and Dee Hibbert-Jones Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis 2002 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Lee Imonen", Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University 2001 "Traces" ; Theodora Varnay Jones, Christel Dillbohner and Mary Ijichi, Palo Alto Art Center, CA 2000 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Hoh Yin Ping", Kassenarztliche Vereinigung, Bremen, G e r m a n y 1988 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Kazuko Watanabe", Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA 1985 "From a Different Perspective"; Theodora Varnay Jones and Peter Baczek, The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA 1981 "Theodora Varnay Jones and Vicki Ann Scuri", Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 "50th Anniversary Survey Exhibition" Don Soker Gallery at Carriage House Annex, San Francisco, CA "Art in the Time of Corona" NUMU New Museum Los Gatos, CA 2020 "Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows" curated by Hanna Regev, Ruth's Table Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 "Hardly Strictly Mini" Bolinas Art Museum, CA "The Artists' Annual" Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA "Annual Members Exhibition" Berkeley Art Center, CA 2018 "Surprise: New Acquisitions" The Janet Turner...

Period mixed media print and painting by California artist Katherine Chang Liu (American, 20th-century). Signed "Fireworks Series #39" Katherine Chang Liu '87. Presented with a white...

Sigismond Kolos-Vari, 'Nets', color etching with soft-ground and aquatint, edition 200 (1 of 60 artist's proofs), 1952. Signed and dated in pencil. Numbered L/LX in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white, Arches wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Published by the Guide de la Gravure, Switzerland, with their blindstamp in the bottom left sheet corner. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (298 x 397 mm); sheet size 15 x 22 1/4 inches (381 x 565 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Sigismund Kolos-Vari was born in Hungary and attended the School of Applied Arts in Budapest from 1915 to 1918 and then the School of Decorative Arts until 1925. The artist settled in Paris, and his first one-person show in 1928 at Galerie Miromesnil, which was highly successful, led to numerous subsequent exhibitions, including with the prestigious Galerie Bonaparte in 1929 and Galerie Povolosky in 1930. Kolos-Vari’s early success was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of WWII when he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp. During this period, he created a sketchbook for a little girl, which is now preserved at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris. He managed to escape after two years, crossing the border into Switzerland. After the war, he returned to Paris with a renewed dedication to his painting, producing increasingly powerful compositions. His work was highly acclaimed when shown at an important 1946 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris, organized by Jean Cassou. The artist was then approached by the eminent art dealer Jean Bucher, who gave Kolos-Vary a major one-person show at his gallery in 1948. During this post-war period, Kolos-Vary participated in the radical Salon de Mai, 1949-1958, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 1956-1961, and the Salon des Comparaisons, 1960-1962. Supported by his association with Stanley William Hayter and the landmark printmaking workshop Atelier 17...

This original etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed by the artist in pencil "Sam Francis" at the lower right margin. It is also hand inscribed in pencil “CTP” [Colour Trial ...