Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

American, b. 1957

Inspired by Abstract Expressionism and driven by deep curiosity, artist Michael Pauker has created an expansive oeuvre that is inclusive of abstract and figurative paintings, landscapes, sculptures, prints and collages constructed with scraps of aging historical documents, watercolor paints and found objects.

“As an artist, I am not a one-trick pony,” he has said. “Some artists find success doing one thing and stick just with it. But my curiosity is omnivorous. I’m driven by images I’ve never seen before, both abstract and figurative.”

Born in 1957 in New York, Pauker knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned his BFA from the State University of New York (SUNY), then in 1989, completed his MFA at Mills College (now Mills College at Northeastern University) in Oakland where he was awarded the City of Oakland Fellowship in Painting.

Since 1988, Pauker has lived and worked in the Bay Area, teaching art in various venues such as schools, colleges and institutions including the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, the state’s prison hospital, for several years. When he isn’t teaching, Pauker focuses on creating art — the mediums of which can change by the moment.

While he works in oil on canvas for most of his paintings, Pauker is also known for his “Miniature Collage” series. He has worked on this series for more than a decade. Other works include abstract drawings and figurative watercolors blended with collages of vintage paper, stamps and found objects — his Oesterreich II is an example of the latter.

Pauker has exhibited widely across the United States, Japan and Costa Rica, and his works are held in the public collections of many institutions including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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Artist: Michael Pauker

Brainiac Silkscreen Abstract -- "Sesos" - Rauschenberg Style

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Unique silkscreen of Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957) "brainiac" series titled "Sesos." Circa 2010. Upside down verbiage/script adds mystery to an already interesting piece. This piece is an artist's test, and is labeled "Trial Proof" and signed along the bottom edge. Piece was acquired with a collection of his work. Presented under plexiglass in light wood frame. Image size: 39"H x 29"W. born in New York in 1957 Michael Pauker studied at the New York Suny Purchase school of art and design, was working in the style of Robert Rauschenberg and other New York School Abstract Expressionists. "Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines, a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Michael Pauker
Brainiac Silkscreen Abstract -- "Sesos" - Rauschenberg Style, c. 2010

"Jerry" - Caricature Portrait Etching 1977

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

"Jerry" - Caricature Portrait Etching A dual portrait in an illustrative, cartoon style by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Two men are portraye...

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1970s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Michael Pauker
"Jerry" - Caricature Portrait Etching 1977, 1977

"State 2B", Artist in the Studio Figural Etching, 1974

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

A wonderful small-scale etching of an artist in the studio by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). The artist uses fine line work to highlight this finely detailed interior figural sc...

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1970s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Ink, Paper, Etching

Michael Pauker
"State 2B", Artist in the Studio Figural Etching, 1974, 1974

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2010s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

David Salle
HOW TO SEE Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art (hand signed by David Salle), 2016

H 9 in W 6 in D 1 in

The Sun - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s

By Franco Gentilini

Located in Roma, IT

The Sun is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. Hand...

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1970s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Franco Gentilini
The Sun - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s, 1970s

H 28.75 in W 21.07 in D 0.08 in

Spanish 1996 Las Segovias signed limited edition original art print silkscreen

By Antoni Tàpies

Located in Miami, FL

Antoni Tapies (Spain, 1923-2012) 'Las segovias', 1996 silkscreen on paper 14.2 x 10.2 in. (36 x 26 cm.) Edition of 150 Ref: TAP1205-005-150 Hand-signed by author ____________________...

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1990s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen, Ink

Antoni Tàpies
Spanish 1996 Las Segovias signed limited edition original art print silkscreen, 1996

H 14.2 in W 10.2 in

Peter Doig, Fisherman (from Black Palms) - 2004, Etching, Signed Print

By Peter Doig

Located in Hamburg, DE

Peter Doig (born 1959 in Edinburgh) Fisherman, 2004 Series: From the “Black Palms” portfolio Medium: Etching in colors, on 250g/qm Zerkall paper Medium: 53.5 × 38 cm (21 1/10 × 15 in...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Etching

Peter Doig
Peter Doig, Fisherman (from Black Palms) - 2004, Etching, Signed Print, 2004

H 21.07 in W 14.97 in

Monograph, Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing

By Francesco Clemente

Located in New York, NY

Francesco Clemente Clemente (Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing), 1998 Large Illustrated Softback Exhibition Catalogue. (Hand signed and inscribed t...

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1990s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Francesco Clemente
Monograph, Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing, 1998

H 11.7 in W 10 in D 2 in

Synagogue Duke's Palace Houndsditch by Th. Sunderland after Pugin & Rowlandson

By Thomas Rowlandson

Located in Middletown, NY

A faithful architectural rendering of the earliest Ashkenazi synagogue constructed in London; built about 1690, and subsequently destroyed in the Blitz, 1941. London: Rudolph Ackerm...

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Early 19th Century English School Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Aquatint

Synagogue Duke's Palace Houndsditch by Th. Sunderland after Pugin & Rowlandson, 1809

H 9.25 in W 11 in

"Open Wide" 1972 original signed engraving lithograph limited edition American

Located in Miami, FL

Robert Smith (United States, 1944) 'Open wide', 1972 lithograph in color on paper 21.7 x 29.6 in. (55 x 75 cm.) Edition of 75 Unframed ID: SMI1158-001-075 Hand-signed by author

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1970s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Robert Smith
"Open Wide" 1972 original signed engraving lithograph limited edition American, 1972

H 21.7 in W 29.5 in

Mexican Japanese woman artist 1998 signed original engraving art proof 21x25in

Located in Miami, FL

Namiko Prado Arai (Mexico, 1963) 'Untitled 3 (Buril)', 1998 etching, aquatint on paper Deponte 400g. 20.9 x 24.5 in. (53 x 62 cm.) Unframed ID: PRA-305 Hand-signed by author

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1990s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Ink, Etching

Namiko Prado Arai
Mexican Japanese woman artist 1998 signed original engraving art proof 21x25in, 1998

H 20.9 in W 24.5 in

Stanwick Churchyard

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on cream wove paper, 2 3/8 x 3/14 inches (61 x 83), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "IV" in the artist's hand. In very good condition. Fletcher states only two tria...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

John Taylor Arms
Stanwick Churchyard, 1939

H 2.41 in W 3.27 in

Jewish Shtetl Shabbat Candles Russian Judaica Etching w Hand Watercolor Painting

By Eugene Abeshaus

Located in Surfside, FL

EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, (1939-2008) Hand-Colored, with watercolor painting, Etching hand signed in pencil in English and Hebrew Numbered 47/110 Framed 21.5 x 16. image 13.5 x 9 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений Абезгауз in Russian; 1939–2008) was a Jewish artist who worked in Russia (then USSR) and Israel. Born in Leningrad to a typical intelligentsia family, Abeshaus was educated as an electrical engineer but soon abandoned this career and enrolled in the Mukhina School for Applied Art. By the time of his graduation from the famous “Mukha” (Fly in Russian), he had already developed a critical stance towards the official Soviet art dominated by the Communist ideology and began exhibiting at semi-underground exhibitions. This was culminated by his taking part in a famous 1975 exhibition at the Nevsky Palace of Culture. Abeshaus was fired from his job and censured by the official press – which however admitted his "artistic taste, a good sense of color and form". Soon afterwards, Abeshaus set up, together with several Jewish artists, the Alef Group and became its leader. The group’s first exhibition in November 1975 was held at Abeshauses’ small apartment. According to the Alef Manifesto written by Alek Rapoport, “We are trying to conquer the influence of small-town Jewish art and find sources for our work in deeper, wiser, and more spiritual European culture, and from it build a bridge to today and tomorrow". He was part of a generation of Russian, mostly Jewish artist's that included Oskar Rabin, Evgeny Rukhin...

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20th Century Modern Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Etching, Paper

Eugene Abeshaus
Jewish Shtetl Shabbat Candles Russian Judaica Etching w Hand Watercolor Painting, c.1970's

H 21.5 in W 16 in

Fritz William Scholder American artist 1982 original signed engraving mask

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Miami, FL

Fritz Scholder (American, 1937-2005) 'Mask of the artist', 1982 Engraving, aquatint and resin 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-005 Unframed

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1980s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Fritz Scholder
Fritz William Scholder American artist 1982 original signed engraving mask, 1982

H 30 in W 22 in

Text - Solid Bass - 10/35 - colorful, calligraphic gestures, serigraph on paper

By Alice Teichert

Located in Bloomfield, ON

In a symphony of colour and form, Alice Teichert created more than 40 black ink and acrylic drawings on mylar which she transferred to silk screens. ‘The Text is Still Unwritten’ is ...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Michael Pauker Figurative Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Alice Teichert
Text - Solid Bass - 10/35 - colorful, calligraphic gestures, serigraph on paper, 2008

H 30 in W 22 in