Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
American, 1913-2000
Conrad Marca-Relli, son of Italian parents was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1913 and is considered the father of the New York abstract expressionism.
In 1930 he studied design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940. Conrad Marca-Relli served for the U.S. Army during World War II for four years, from 1941 to 1945. Till then, the work of Mark-Relli was characterized by his depictions of circus-themed or urban and architectural landscapes, the result of the influence of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico.
During the latest years of the 40’s, he returned to Manhattan and took part along with other artists, most of them war veterans, the "Downtown group" whose workshop was in Greenwich Village. In 1949 this group formed the New York School, in which artists like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg were also part of, and who dedicated its existence to explore the avant-garde of the moment. In 1948, Conrad Marca-Relli showed his work to the public for the first time in an exhibition organized by Leo Castelli called "Ninth Street Show”, considered as the first exhibition of abstract expressionism.
During the era of the 50s, Marca-Relli definitely explores abstraction and combines it with elaborated collages. It is said that Mark-Relli began working the art of collage due to lack of paint, and then discovered how to represent some light effects like the reflection in certain surfaces such as adobe. As he was investigating this technique, his works were became increasingly complex, in the use of colors, shapes and textures. In these years, Marca-Relli taught at Yale University and bought a house at the Springs, in the vicinity of East Hampton, a community that began to develop as an artist colony. Interestingly, the home of Marca-Relli was beside Pollock’s, with whom he became close friends. It would be Marca-Relli himself who identified the body of his friend to the police the day of his death.
In the 60s, Marca-Relli uses industrial vinyl to give texture to his works and shapes are outlined with painted, or real nails, emphasizing the three dimensional plasticity. In 1967 he received his first retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art.
Conrad Marca-Relli died in 2000 after living in cities like London, Paris, Ibiza and Parma.(Biography provided by Artetrama)
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Artist: Conrad Marca-Relli
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition VI
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
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1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition VIII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions an...
Category
1970s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Composition IV
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Observations: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper hand sign...
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1970s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition VII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 35/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Composition XII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 46/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Observations: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper hand sig...
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1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XI
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 57/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
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1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Etching American Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 51/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition III
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 51/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition X
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition XV
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 47/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition XIII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions an...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
VILLA NEUVE Signed Lithograph, Modernist Abstract, City Landscape, Collage, Flag
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Union City, NJ
VILLA NEUVE is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper 100% acid free. VILLA NEUVE is an imaginative modernist ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition V
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Conrad Marca-Relli - Etching & Aquatint American Modern Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XI
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: H.C.
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition IX
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 66/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition I
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition II
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 59/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Conrad Marca-Relli, "Drummer and Nude, " 1982, signed lithograph
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Conrad Marca-Relli
Drummer and Nude
1982
Original lithograph, hand signed by the artist
numbered 41/150 from the edition of 150
Unframed
Category
1980s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Conrad Marca-Relli, "The Meeting Place, " 1982, signed lithograph
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Conrad Marca-Relli
Drummer and Nude
1982
Original lithograph, hand signed by the artist
numbered 41/150 from the edition of 150
Unframed
*Condition note: slight crease on right hand ...
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1980s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Summer Suite B
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1970s Contemporary Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Paper, Oil
Composition
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 23/90 in pencil.
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1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Color, Lithograph
Paris Review Silkscreen by Conrad Marca-Relli 1968
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Long Island City, NY
Paris Review
Conrad Marca-Relli, American (1913–2000)
Date: 1968
Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition of 150
Size: 40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66.04 cm)
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Ibiza
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Long Island City, NY
A collage by Conrad Marca-Relli from 1968. An iconic piece of 1960's minimalist multi-media art.
Artist: Conrad Marca-Relli, American (1913 - 2000)
Title: Ibiza
Year: 1968
Medium:...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
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Paper, Mixed Media, Newsprint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition VIII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions an...
Category
1970s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Composition XII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 46/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Observations: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper hand sig...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Composition IV
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Observations: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper hand signed and numbered in pencil of an edition of 75 by Conrad Marca-Relli. Published in 1977 by Polígrafa Editions, Barcelona...
Category
1970s Abstract Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition VII
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 35/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XI
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 57/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Etching American Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition number: 51/75
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition VI
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and ...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition X
Date of creation: 1977
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper
Edition: 75 + AP + HC
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Category
1970s Modern Conrad Marca-Relli Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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