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Raymond Pettibon: Rare early Black Flag punk flyer: Black Flag Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Jun 11, 1983. Santa Monica, CA. Flyer / handbill for gig by Black Flag, Misfits, Vandals featuring artwork by Pettibon. Post-marked 1983 on verso; rare as such given the SST stamp on verso (Black Flag's record label). Offset Print; 8.5 x 11 inches. Features Pettibon printed signure on the lower right. Condition: Minor signs of handling and fading or yellowing; fold-lines and staple marks to upper & lower center (these were originally stapled together and mailed); in otherwise very good overall condition given age & medium. Post-marked 1983 and hand addressed on verso. Rare. Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist once said of Pettibon's Black Flag illustrations and iconic logo: "Before I knew what Black Flag was I remember walking around Hollywood and seeing Raymond's flyers and being like, 'What the fuck is that?'… Those flyers made me feel like something is going on and it's romantic and it's mysterious and it's heavy and I don't know what it is but I wanna know." About Raymond Pettibon (Americanb. 1957) Raymond Pettibon is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by William Blake, Edward Hopper, Francisco Goya, and John Sloan as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen...

Jane Hading Lithograph, 1898 Monogramed in the stone upper left corner (see photo) From the First Edition, printed posthumously before 1906 c. 400 impressions (per Wittrock) The sitt...

A bucolic late 19th century image of upper Manhattan. New York: 1898. Lithograph on tissue-thin Japon paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 10 inches (357 x 252 mm), the full sheet. Tit...

Chuck Close Untitled Daguerreotypes, 2001 Two (2) pigmented digital output iris prints from daguerroeotype printed in a single sheet of wove paper 22 × 29 1/4 inches Signed in pencil...

This rare 1933 lithograph by renowned modernist artist Arnold Rönnebeck depicts a striking winter scene of a Colorado mountain mine blanketed in snow. Rendered in dramatic black-and-...

Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi/Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1985: Rare original 1980s Keith Haring announcement published on the occasion of: Keith Haring at Tony Shafrazi Gallery,...

Artist: George Deem Title: Sebastian in the Kitchen Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: 19 x 23 inches Paper Size: 22 in. x ...

Jean Jansem (1920-2013) Lydia au coussin indien, 1993 Lithographie sur papier Arches Signée et justifiée 49 x 64,5 cm / 56 x 76 cm Imprimeur: Arts-Litho, Paris Editeur: Jansem, Pari...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, After, French (1864 - 1901) - Reine de Joie, Year: 1982, Medium: Lithograph, numbered in pencil, Edition: 10/500, Size: 12 x 9 in. (30.48 x 22.86 cm), ...

Alexander Calder Lithographic cover: Derrière le miroir 1973: Lithographic cover sheet; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Por...

PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881 - 1973 La Répétition (B. 756; M. 252) signed in black ink "Picasso" (lower left) numbered in pencil "11/50" (lower right) lithograph on Arches S. 19-2/3 x...

Auguste Chabaud was born in Nimes, France and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon and Paris.He lived in the area of Montmarte where he had a studio and painted various scene...