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John Baldessari Portrait Prints

American, 1931-2020

Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.

Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.

In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”

From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.

The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.

Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.

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Artist: John Baldessari
Fate: Blue [Woman with Man Gazing at Sphere] -- Offset Lithograph by Baldessari
By John Baldessari
Located in London, GB
Fate: Blue [Woman with Man Gazing at Sphere], 1995 John Baldessari Offset lithograph in colours, on card stock Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100 Printed by SoHo Ser...
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1990s Contemporary John Baldessari Portrait Prints

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Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads / Figure with Globe -- Print by Baldessari
By John Baldessari
Located in London, GB
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads / Figure with Globe, 2009 John Baldessari Screenprint in colours, on Fabriano paper Signed, dated, and numbered from the edition of 70 Printed a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baldessari Portrait Prints

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Karl Lagerfeld
By John Baldessari
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2015, this color screenprint is hand signed by John Baldessari (National City, 1931- Los Angeles, 2020) in pencil in the lower right margin and is from the edition of 50. ...
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2010s Conceptual John Baldessari Portrait Prints

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Cavalry from Hegel's Cellar portfolio
By John Baldessari
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Etching with aquatint on Rives B.F.K paper 29 3/4 × 22 in 75.6 × 55.9 cm Edition of 35 Impeccably framed! (frame value is $800) Provenance- The Nevica Project
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1980s Contemporary John Baldessari Portrait Prints

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Kiss, Hair, Hands (from Hegel's Cellar)
By John Baldessari
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Sugar-lift aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, photogravure and drypoint with embossing on Rives BFK paper Image: 28.5 x 19.5 in. (72.39 x 49.53 cm.) Sheet: 29 x 20 in. (73.66 x 50.8 cm.) ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baldessari Portrait Prints

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John Baldessari portrait prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic John Baldessari portrait prints available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Baldessari in etching, screen print, aquatint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large John Baldessari portrait prints, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Chris Levine, Bert Stern, and Francesco Clemente. John Baldessari portrait prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $5,265 and tops out at $5,946, while the average work can sell for $5,606.

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