C. Villot Art

Saul Steinberg Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966 Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp Unframed This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work. Commentary: "In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...

An original vintage poster featuring Hockney's iconic pool diver artwork, created for the 1972 Munich Olympics / Olympische Spiele Munchen. Hockney was one of twenty nine artists tha...

Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of ...

Lithograph, grano-lithograph, collotype, photochrome, paper collage and crayon on Rives Couronne paper, edited in 1974. Limited edition of 98 copies, numbered as 32/98 in lower left ...

"Galerie Maeght Miro" is an original color lithograph poster with art by Joan Miro. It was printed by Maeght Editeur Imprimeur in 1970. The poster showcase...

Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of ...

Ancient Ruins of Palmira is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters...

Lithograph, 1980 Publisher : Maeght (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : [Mason-Putman III n°367, p. 31] 33.00 cm. x 25.00 cm. 12.99 in. x 9.84 in. (paper) 28.00 cm. x 2...

Lithograph, 1980 Publisher : Maeght (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : [Mason-Putman III n°370, p. 32] 33.00 cm. x 25.00 cm. 12.99 in. x 9.84 in. (paper) 28.50 cm. x 2...

Lithograph, 1976 Edition : 27/100 Publisher : Maeght (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : [Mason - Putman II n°247, p. 62] 47.50 cm. x 60.00 cm. 18.7 in. x 23.62 in. (pa...

Lithograph, 1975 Edition : 74/100 Publisher : Jacques Putman (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : [Mason-Putman 170] 48.00 cm. x 65.50 cm. 18.9 in. x 25.79 in. (paper) 3...

Medium: lithograph (after the painting). Printed in Paris in 1964 at the Fernand Mourlot atelier and published in an edition of 2000. Size: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (255 x 188 mm). Signed i...