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Marsden Hartley ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933 Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label Sticker label, framed with Zabris...

James Rosenquist Nails, from Monochromes at the New Gallery, 1975 Limited edition lithograph and offset lithograph (pencil signed and numbered) Signed and numbered 10/100 in graphite...

Victor Vasarely Rare 1960s Victor Vasarely poster, 1967 Offset lithograph 35 × 19 1/4 inches Unframed, unsigned Published by London Arts Group Rare 1967 offset lithograph The work...

Alexander Calder Sun-Moon-Universe: Rare vintage mid century French poster, 1956 Offset lithograph Plate signed (printed signature) 20 × 17 1/2 inches Unframed Rare Mid Century mode...

Vik Muniz Paper Beads for Tanzania (Hand Signed by Vik Muniz), 2016 Color offset Lithograph (Hand signed) Boldly signed in black marker by Vik Muniz on the front. 36 × 24 inches Unfr...

John Baldessari The Sprinters, 1982 Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper Signed in graphite pencil on the front. Accompanied by letter of authenticity from the publisher 36 x 24 inches Unframed Provenance: Acquired as part of the complete SIGNED 1984 Olympic Lithographic Print Portfolio Exhibition History: Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017 (different edition) Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher on Olympic Committee letterhead. This is one of 750 hand signed lithographic posters, published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics...

Charmion von Wiegand Pillar of Zen #124, 1959 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unique Provenance: Andre Zarre Gallery, with label verso (Estate of renowned gallerist Andre Zarre, ne Andre Sowulewski) Measurements: Framed 26.5 inches vertical by 25.5 horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 21 inches vertical by 22 inches horizontal Mid century modern, geometric, spiritual abstraction, mystical The Estate of the celebrated artist Charmion Von Wiegand has been represented exclusively by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery since 1998. From March 3 to August 13, 2023, Charmion Von Wiegand was the subject of an acclaimed retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and she has received major attention in the price, including a June, 2023 ArtNews feature entitled, "Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?". Her work was also featured in a solo presentation by Rosenfeld Gallery at the New York Art Show held at the Park Avenue Armory, which also received critical acclaim. Artists Biography - courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Known for her vibrant, geometric paintings that originate a deeply personal language of spiritual enlightenment expressed through a constructivist mode of abstraction, Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was born in Chicago but spent much of her childhood traveling. The daughter of a journalist for Hearst, von Wiegand eventually settled in New York in 1915 to attend Barnard College and Columbia University, where she took classes at the School of Journalism while nurturing a growing interest in art history. In 1925, von Wiegand realized that she wanted to be an artist and set up a studio in Greenwich Village, teaching herself how to paint while pursuing a career as a journalist. In 1929, she secured a position in Moscow as a foreign correspondent for Hearst, the only woman at the desk at the time. In 1932, von Wiegand returned to New York and married Russian émigré Joseph Freeman, who co-founded and edited the leftist journal New Masses. Von Wiegand began writing art criticism for New Masses as well as for other publications, including New Theatre, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine. When the Abstract American Artists (AAA) held their inaugural exhibition, von Wiegand reviewed it. An early champion of abstract art, von Wiegand became close friends with AAA founder Carl Holty. In 1941, Holty introduced von Wiegand to Piet Mondrian, who would have a profound impact on her art. Fascinated by Mondrian’s artistic philosophy, von Wiegand played a key role in the introduction of his work to American audiences, translating many of the Dutch artist’s writings into English and assisting in the composition of his influential article “Toward the True Vision of Reality” (1941). Through her friendship with Mondrian, von Wiegand re-kindled her interest in Theosophy (a religion established in the late 19th century that combines aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, occultism, and esotericism) and embarked on an extended study of neoplasticism. In her artwork, she incorporated Mondrian’s iconic grid but rejected the constraints of pure neoplasticism and embraced a wide range of influences including surrealism and German expressionism. In 1942, von Wiegand became a member of the AAA, exhibiting regularly with the group and eventually serving as its president from 1951 to 1953. In the late 1940s, sculptor and fellow AAA member Ibram Lassaw gave her a translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, which inspired von Wiegand to immerse herself in a study of Buddhist art. She began incorporating Buddhist motifs such as stupas and mandalas into her paintings, and her spiritual practice steadily intensified throughout the 1950s. In 1953, her husband gifted her a copy of the Taoist I Ching Book of Changes, a guide for divining meaning from randomly derived numbers arranged in a hexagram—a form the artist readily incorporated into her painting. Von Wiegand’s study of Theosophy also intensified over these years, bolstered by her increased access to the religion’s primary sources composed by the religion’s founders and their successors at the New York Theosophical Society’s library. Von Wiegand’s search for the sacred and transcendent ultimately led her to Tibetan Buddhism and, in 1967, von Wiegand met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a Gelugpa monk who had recently arrived in New York, who would mentor her spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism until her death. Her travels in the 1960s and 1970s took her to Tibet and India, where she had an audience with the Dalai Lama, who was living in exile in Dharamsala. Many works from these decades incorporate symbols and schematics drawn from Theosophical prismatic color charts, Chinese astrology and tantric yoga. In 1978, she was the subject of a PBS documentary titled The Circle of Charmion von Wiegand, which was scored by Philip Glass. In 1980, von Wiegand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1982, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach (FL) organized her first retrospective exhibition. She died the following year in New York, bequeathing her estate to Khyongla Rato and the Tibet Center of New York. In 1998, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the sole representative of her estate and has presented her work in four solo and multiple group exhibitions. Recent notable exhibitions that have included her work are The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2009) and Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America (Newark Museum, NJ, 2010). In March 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) opened the first comprehensive museum retrospective of von Wiegand’s work in Europe. Von Wiegand’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Arithmeum, University of Bonn (Germany); Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH); Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN); Fondazione Marguerite Arp (Locarno, Switzerland); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey); Seattle Art Museum (WA); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT). More about gallerist Andre Zarre A tribute in the New Criterion: Dispatch August 11, 2020 Andre Zarre, 1942–2020 by Dana Gordon On the late New York gallery pioneer. Art should never be aggressively explained; art should be felt. —Andre Zarre, 1977 Often, in the starlit New York cultural mecca, a longtime important figure fades away through the penumbra and dies without notice. Such was the fate of Andre Zarre, the contemporary art dealer, who passed away a few weeks ago. Andy, as he wanted friends to call him, opened his eponymous gallery in 1974 just off Madison Avenue on Sixty-ninth Street. He soon moved it to the omphalos of the art world in that era, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, the Fuller Building. Over the years he moved to SoHo and then to Chelsea, as fashion and real estate prices pushed the art souk hither and thither. To understand his importance, all you need do is take a look at a list of artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery. This includes such names, from an early generation, as Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Sari Dienes, and Perle Fine. Among a subsequent generation are Pat Lipsky, Jay Milder, Thornton Willis, and Kes Zapkus.1 And this list does not include the many knowns and unknowns who were in his lively group shows. Zarre had a real “eye” and was a champion of abstract art from the moment he founded his gallery—even among the gathering storms of conceptual and political art, which he eschewed. He showed a good deal of figurative art as well. His galleries were always spacious and unpretentious, oriented simply to show the art. In the words of Dee Shapiro, who showed with the Zarre gallery many times, “He had a photographic memory and knew a lot about art and was always interested in the artist’s life.” Reliable biographical information on Zarre is scarce, but he said of his background that he was born in Poland in 1942 and that his parents were a diplomat and a socialite. He left home for the United States at the age of fifteen. During his decades as an art dealer in New York, Zarre did not appear to accumulate wealth, though he acquired a collection and lived on Park Avenue. “He was not personally aggressive in that way. People had to come to him,” Dee Shapiro said. He was honest in his financial dealings with artists, which not all art dealers are. For a long time while running the gallery he had a second job as a supervisor in an airline office and he kept little to no additional staff in the gallery. He supported a brother who remained in Poland. Among artists, Zarre was known to be quite ornery. After my show at his gallery in 1997, I refused to enter it for seventeen years. Then I ran into him in Chelsea and he offered me another show, an opportunity I gladly accepted, but he remained just as disagreeable. He showed the work of many women, probably more than any other gallery, save those devoted to showing only women. Collectors, curators, and writers found him mostly friendly. As Peter Reginato put it, Zarre was a “strange guy but I liked him. I think he was a dealer who was more interested in the art than in making money, but somehow he lasted forty-plus years.” Zarre is not known to have kept extensive or extant records of his gallery’s long history, though these may emerge in time. Scouring the Internet, one may compile a partial list of more than eighty artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery:Nancy Azara, Ellen Banks, Mary Barnes, Tony Bechara, Juan Bernal, Stephanie Bernheim, Randy Bloom, Elena Borstein, Michael Boyd, Fritz Bultman, Ed Buonagurio, Yoan Capote, Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Cathy Diamond, Sari Dienes, Joseph Dolinsky, Beata Drozd, Ronnie Elliot, William Fares, Perle Fine, Lynne Frehm, Ben Georgia, Mikel Glass, Dana Gordon, Juanita Guccione, Fred Gutzeit, Don Hazlitt, Amy Hill, Clinton Hill, Monroe Hodder, Budd Hopkins, Arlan Huang, Richard Hunt, Rhia Hurt, Buffie Johnson, Alexander Kaletski, Robert Kaupelis...

Richard Stankiewicz Study for Sculpture (Untitled), ca. 1968 Graphite on Paper Signed in graphite lower right front Frame Included: held in original vintage frame with Kulicke label ...

Joyce Kozloff Pictures and Borders II, 1977 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed, dated, titled and numbered "Artist's Proof XVI" in graphite pencil on the back of the sheet Editions AP-XVI of 50 30 × 22 inches Pencil signed, titled and annotated Artist's Proof XVI on the back; one of XX Artists' Proofs, aside from the regular edition of 50 Published by Judith Solodkin, founder of SOLO Impression, Inc Provenance: Provenance: De-accessioned from the corporate collection of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan Unframed JOYCE KOZLOFF BIOGRAPHY Joyce Kozloff was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1942. She received a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA in 1964 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1967. Kozloff was a major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the Feminist art movements of the 1970s. In 1979, she began to focus on public art, increasing the scale of her installations and expanding the accessibility of her art to reach a wider audience. Kozloff has since executed a number of major commissions in public spaces, including Dreaming: The Passage of Time for the United States Consulate, Art in Embassies Program in Istanbul, Turkey; The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles for the Los Angeles Metro’s Seventh and Flower Station, CA; Caribbean Festival Arts for P.S. 218, New York, NY; New England Decorative Arts for the Harvard Square Subway Station, Cambridge, MA; and Bay Area Victorian, Bay Area Deco, Bay Area Funk for the International Terminal, San Francisco Airport, CA. Since the early 1990s, Kozloff has utilized mapping as a device for consolidating her enduring interests in history, culture, and the decorative and popular arts. She initially concentrated on cities known to her, onto which patterns and images reflecting their colonial pasts were then overlaid. Subsequent series examined bodies of water and the inaccuracies of early maps from the so-called “Age of Discovery.” In 1999-2000, Kozloff was awarded the Jules Guerin Fellowship / Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy. During her yearlong residency abroad Kozloff conceived and completed Targets, a nine-foot walk-in globe in twenty-four sections, each of which is painted with an aerial map of a place that has been bombed by the U.S. in the years since World War II. A 2001 residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy provided the genesis for Boy's Art, a series of twenty-four collaged drawings based on maps, diagrams, and illustrations of historic battles...

Carl Andre Zinc: Historic Ace Gallery poster (Hand Signed by Carl Andre), 2007 Limited Edition Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Carl Andre) ...

Dread Scott VOTE BIDEN, 2020 Screenprint on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered 24/100 in graphite pencil on the back 26 × 26 inches Unframed The screenprint, which references And...

Ray Parker Ray Parker at Molly Barnes: Rare vintage 1960s LA exhibition poster, 1968 Offset lithograph Printed by Contemporary Art Lithographers, Minneapolis, Minnesota 36 × 24 inche...

Jeff Koons Original flower drawing on Rockefeller Center Puppy poster (Hand Signed), 2000 Drawing done in silver marker on offset lithograph Hand signed by Jeff Koons in marker on t...

Helen Frankenthaler A Paintings Retrospective: vintage LACMA Museum poster, 1990 Offset lithograph museum poster (Unsigned & Unnumbered) Limited Edition - though exact number produced unknown 37 × 25 inches Unframed This was printed in the artists lifetime - making it more collectible - on the occasion of the exhibition, "Helen Frankenthaler: A Paintings Retrospective from February to April, 1990 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Print is published by Editions Limited Galleries, San Francisco for Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), LA, CA The work depicted is Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay, 1963, acrylic on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan (Incidentally, this beautiful work is featured on the cover of the book Water and Art' by David Clarke.) Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee “What concerns me when I work is not whether a picture is a landscape… or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is, did I make a beautiful picture?” - - Helen Frankenthaler This is Frankenthaler's first silkscreen, produced for the portfolio New York Ten, which includes works by other New York-based artists at the time such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann and Claes Oldenburg. (She created her first lithograph in 1961) Other examples of this edition are found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous regional museums and institutions in the United States and worldwide. Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...

Dennis Oppenheim A Device for Converting a Chilling Underground Wind into Memory, 1986 Lithograph Hand signed, numbered 3/100 and dated on lower front 38 1/5 × 50 inches Unframed P...

Scarce framed European work by this renowned German conceptual artist - rarely found stateside Martin Kippenberger Wall Street, 1993 Color lithograph and offset lithograph on board Hand signed and dated lower right front Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A. Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A. (Note: this is designated as Epreuve D'Artiste (EA), an artist's proof aside from the regular edition of 100. It was based upon an original collage by the artist. However, it appears the only examples of this edition that have ever come to the public market are also Artist's Proofs (EA's). (The regular edition was said to be included in the European portfolio JFK.) Scarce! Published by the 'Politischer Club Colonia für Studien und Aktionen zum Frieden, e.V.', Cologne (for studies and peace activities) Provenance: The Chara Schreyer Collection (renowned philanthropist Cara Schreyer was considered on of the top art collectors in the world) Frame included: Elegantly floated and framed in a handmade wood museum frame under Optium plexiglass Measurements: Framed 24 inch vertical by 25.5 inches horizontal by 1.5 Artwork: 21.5 inches (vertical) by 23.5 inches (horizontal) Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Kippenberger's Wall Street is full of biting social commentary about American society. In addition to the brazen text references (such as "I Love Peace and Money") and the title (Wall Street), it also depicts American artist Robert Gober's famous "Hanging Man/Sleeping Man: (in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum). "Gober’s Hanging Man/Sleeping Man has become a touchstone of American art made during the political and social upheavals of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which included the AIDS epidemic, the culture wars, and the Los Angeles riots. The work features two images side by side, one of a sleeping white man in bed...

Joyce Kozloff Pictures and Borders III, 1977 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed, titled, dated and annotated "Solo Impression" in graphite pencil on the back Editions Solo-Impression of 50 30 × 22 inches Unframed Pictures and Borders III Color lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed, titled and annotated "Solo Impression" on the back; a Printers Proof, aside from the regular edition of 50 Published by Judith Solodkin, founder of SOLO Impression, Inc Unframed Provenance: Provenance: De-accessioned from the corporate collection of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan JOYCE KOZLOFF BIOGRAPHY Joyce Kozloff was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1942. She received a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA in 1964 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1967. Kozloff was a major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the Feminist art movements of the 1970s. In 1979, she began to focus on public art, increasing the scale of her installations and expanding the accessibility of her art to reach a wider audience. Kozloff has since executed a number of major commissions in public spaces, including Dreaming: The Passage of Time for the United States Consulate, Art in Embassies Program in Istanbul, Turkey; The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles for the Los Angeles Metro’s Seventh and Flower Station, CA; Caribbean Festival Arts for P.S. 218, New York, NY; New England Decorative Arts for the Harvard Square Subway Station, Cambridge, MA; and Bay Area Victorian, Bay Area Deco, Bay Area Funk for the International Terminal, San Francisco Airport, CA. Since the early 1990s, Kozloff has utilized mapping as a device for consolidating her enduring interests in history, culture, and the decorative and popular arts. She initially concentrated on cities known to her, onto which patterns and images reflecting their colonial pasts were then overlaid. Subsequent series examined bodies of water and the inaccuracies of early maps from the so-called “Age of Discovery.” In 1999-2000, Kozloff was awarded the Jules Guerin Fellowship / Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy. During her yearlong residency abroad Kozloff conceived and completed Targets, a nine-foot walk-in globe in twenty-four sections, each of which is painted with an aerial map of a place that has been bombed by the U.S. in the years since World War II. A 2001 residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy provided the genesis for Boy's Art, a series of twenty-four collaged drawings based on maps, diagrams, and illustrations of historic battles...

Claes Oldenburg (after) Stars : A Farce for Objects (Cat. Raisonne Ref: 29, Axsom & Platzker, 1997), 1963 Letterpress poster in 1 colour over stock offset lithograph "rainbow roll" in 3 colours on paper, mounted on wood board Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Published in an unknown edition size 28 × 22 inches x 1 inch Published by Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Printed by Globe Poster...

Robert Indiana ERR (Sheehan 29), 1963 Photoengraving and Etching on off-white Rives BFK paper Hand signed, dated and annotated on lower front with artist's blind stamp from Coenties ...

Robert Indiana "My portrait was taken on Coenties Slip"...., 1993 Handwritten letter on an offset lithograph postcard Boldly signed in black marker under the letter 4 2/5 × 7 3/5 inches Unframed Unique one-of-a-kind hand written, hand signed note from Robert Indiana, dated 23 VII '93, written on the postcard depicting Robert Indiana's work "Mother and Father", published by the Farnsworth Museum in Maine. The note, done in black marker, is addressed to Don Allan II of Barrington, N.H. and reads" "DON - MY PORTRAIT IF YOU DO NOT KNOW, WAS TAKEN ON COENTIES SLIP IN NYC". Robert Indiana then signs the note.. (Presumably, the reply is in response to a letter or question this fan sent to the artist asking where Indiana's portrait was taken). Makes a great gift for Robert Indiana fans! Coenties Slip is a historic artist's address in the New York art scene - there was even a book written about it! Coenties Slip is a street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. It runs southeast for two blocks in Lower Manhattan from Pearl Street to South Street. A walkway runs an additional block north from Pearl Street to Stone Street Here's an excerpt from Art in America reviewing the book: "How does specificity of place play a role in art, enough to become more figure than ground, less a context than a character? This is one of the larger questions framing art historian Prudence Peiffer’s momentous new survey The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever. The book vividly documents a moment in the 1950s and ’60s when a cast of artists settled, at staggered intervals, in a three-block area around Coenties Slip, a street on Manhattan’s lower tip. Coenties Slip borrowed its name from one of the “slips”—inlets for the docking and repairing of boats—that once cut sharply into New York’s downtown waterfront, facilitating the busy circulation of fish, freight, and sailors between land and sea. While New York’s status as a maritime trading hub lured fleets of boats, it was the skeletal remains of that activity, by then sharply diminished, that drew artists to Coenties Slip. In place of industry, they found vast and vacant loft spaces, cheap to rent, in which they could both work and live (illegally, owing to zoning laws)....Peiffer’s book arrives nearly 50 years after the earliest attempt to honor the Slip: the 1974 exhibition “Nine Artists/Coenties Slip,” organized for an old downtown branch of the Whitney Museum on Water Street nearby. The exhibition showcased lesser-known inhabitants of the Slip, including Fred Mitchell (the first to settle there), Ann Wilson...

Note: This is a unique text variant which Albers titled in pencil "Blue Reminder" instead of "Blue Reminding". The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by Brenda Danil...

Damien Hirst Happiness, from The Secrets, 2024 Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed, titled, dated and numbered 247/327 on the authentication label on the back ...

Frank Stella Sharpesville, from Multicolored Squares I (Axsom 79), 1972 Lithograph on J. Green mould-made paper Signed in graphite pencil, dated and numbered 31/100 (there were also ...

Willem de Kooning Annual Spring Invitational Art Exhibition (limited edition, hand signed & numbered by Willem de Kooning), 1979 Offset lithograph (hand signed and numbered) Signed a...

William Waitzman July (from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection), 2016 Hand made color silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered 6/14 on the front Frame included: M...

Zhang Hui (b. 1969) Untitled Calligraphy Drawing (from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection), 2007 India ink on hand made fine art paper Signed and dated in graphite pencil on...

Linda Stein Soft Curve 312 (from the Estate of artist Will Barnet), 1998 Mixed media sculpture of wood, metal and stone Signed, titled and dated with additional sculpted text Unique ...

Scott Reeder Artists to Watch, 2015 Screenprint on Coventry Rag paper Signed and numbered in 40/100 in graphite pencil on the back of the sheet Frame included Pencil signed and numb...

Louise Bourgeois Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I and II (Literary books with 10 original etchings) Hand signed by both artist Louise Bourgeois and Pulitzer winning playwright Arthur M...

Thelma Appel Rescued Doll, with Flower Vase, 2016 Pastel on paper drawing Signed on the back of the artwork; also signed and titled by artist on the back of the accompanying board; u...

William Waitzman August Lake (from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection), 2016 Hand printed color silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered 4/14 on the front Frame i...

Cindy Sherman Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper 33 × 23 1/4 inches Edition of 200 Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper Hand signed in re...

Sean Scully Roland Garros French Open tennis tournament, Paris, France (Hand signed by Sean Scully), 2001 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Sean Scully) 29 3/4 inches (vertica...

Robert Indiana Vintage Stable Gallery exhibition poster (hand signed), 1962 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed in the artist's shorthand signature with a love doodle on the back Unnumbe...

Tom Wesselmann Bedroom painting #7 (detail), 1976 Offset lithograph poster 32 × 22 inches Unsigned, Unframed Limited Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Rarely seen on the market place Offs...

Richard Prince It's a Free Concert (Hand Signed by Richard Prince), 2014 Offset Lithograph (hand signed by Richard Prince) Hand signed by the artist on the front Unnumbered 33 × 23 3...

Yoshitomo Nara Midnight Truth, 2017 Offset lithographic poster Stamped with title, artist's name, copyright and year Unnumbered 20 1/2 × 14 1/4 inches Unframed published by N's Yard,...

Lawrence Weiner Jonathan Richman Live on stage at The Kitchen, non-profit artist's space (Hand signed by Lawrence Weiner), 2017 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Lawrence Wein...

Moshekwa Langa Sweetness Flying, 2000 Original Acrylic, enamel, and India ink painting on paper Signed and dated 2000 in marker on the back Unique Frame included Provenance: The Good...

Ed Ruscha America Needs Hart (Hand Signed), 1983 Offset lithograph (Hand signed by Ed Ruscha) 36 inches (vertical) x 24 inches (horizontal) Boldly signed in marker by Ed Ruscha on th...

Richard Prince It's a Free Concert Now (Artist Edition), 2015 12 inch 180 g heavyweight picture vinyl, 2-track one-sided LP with an interview and music by Richard Prince, exclusively...

Jasper Johns Painting with Two Balls, Kunsthalle, Berlin, hand signed poster (Field 132), 1971 Offset lithograph (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns) Signed and inscribed in m...

Thelma Appel French Hill Spring, 2010 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas painting Hand signed and titled on the back Frame included This unique painting is signed, titled and dated on the bac...

WALASSE TING Untitled (from Carnegie Museum of Art Portfolio), 1972 Original Limited Edition Vintage Lithograph 15 × 22 inches Limited Edition of 1000 Catalogue Raisonné: 155, Lembar...

James Rosenquist Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art 1968-1983 Offset Lithograph Poster on White Wove Paper Plate (printed) signature Limited Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Unframed A...

Red Grooms Nassau Red poster (hand signed in red marker by Red Grooms), 2005 Offset lithograph poster Hand signed by the artist with red marker on the front 32 × 22 inches Unframed T...

Ed Baynard Blue Vase on Antique Paper, 2002 Pochoir and relief in colors on vintage handmade paper Signed, dated and numbered lower right ‘AP 3/4 Ed Baynard 02’. This work is artist'...

DOROTHY DEHNER Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1970 Silkscreen on wove paper Plate signed on the front; bears Academy Arts label on the back Published by: Academy Arts...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy poster, with Friendship Quote, 1987 "Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - it is so small - we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a fr...

Ernest Tino Trova Limited Edition of 2000 Silkscreen on heavy art paper Unframed This exclusive poster, created by renowned American artist Ernest Trova as an edition for Pace Columbus, is a testament to his profound influence in contemporary art and his longstanding association with Pace Gallery...

Alexander Calder (after) Paper Ball, 2001 100% silkscreen on silk scarf 33 inches × 35 inches - fully opened (unfolded) Unframed Published by Powerball, with special authorization from the Estate of Alexander Calder In 1949 Calder was commissioned by the New York firm Laverne Originals to create two designs for use as fabric and wallpaper. This design - Paint Ball, a beautiful silk scarf...

David Hockney Hand made Fine Bone China Jewelry/Trinket Box for The Rake's Progress Drop Curtain, 2019 Fine bone china finished with platinum gilding in presentation gift box David H...

Chris Vasell Untitled (Sky, Faces), 2004 Watercolor, Gouache, Acrylic on Paper, Framed with Blum & Poe label verso Hand signed on the back, bears Blum & Poe Gallery label Unique Fram...

Mike Bidlo Not Warhol (Pappa Al Pomodoro - Il Toscanaccio - NYC), 2000 Limited Edition Ceramic Plate. Artist Signature Fired into Plate. Artist signature fi...

Tom Holland (b. 1936) Violet, 1971 Watercolor and Mixed Media on Paper. Hand Signed. Framed with Charles Cowles Gallery, Albright Knox Gallery and Baltimore Museum of Art labels. Han...

Various artists We Love You...So Love Us, 2000 We Love You – AMOUR 1 LP Cover art credit: Banksy Album cover with vinyl record inside Vinyl record held silkscreened album cover 12 1/...

Yayoi Kusama Offset lithograph poster, 2017 Published by David Zwirner Unframed, with original folds as issued (see photo) Gorgeous Yayoi Kusama offset lithograph poster published b...

Thelma Appel Meeting Plaza, 2018 25 Color Silkscreen on 320 Gram Coventry paper with full margins and deckled edges. Accompanied by ARTIST SIGNED, gallery issued Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - hand signed by BOTH the artist and gallery director 23.5" (vertical) x 29.25" (horizontal) Hand signed, titled, annotated & dated on the lower right front - a rare Artists Proof, aside from the limited edition of 75 Unframed This magnificent silkscreen, Meeting Plaza is signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil on the front from the limited edition of 75. Other examples of this work were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and it was also featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. "Meeting Plaza" is a place where people from all over the world are always welcome to meet in peace and enjoyment; an exquisite 25-color limited edition silkscreen done in collaboration with master printer Gary Lichtenstein. The work is evocative of New York's Rockefeller Center and the United Nations, but the flags are abstracted, to emphasize international unity, rather than single out any individual country. The artist explained: "I wanted to convey a city that welcomed all nationalities and all people… The flags for me are a counterpoint to the city’s geometric architecture, and their suggested movement and irregular shapes echo the organic morphology of the people below. I painted an evening sky. It is dusk. Nobody is rushing. People are conversing with each other, walking slowly or gathering in small groups enjoying a calm evening in the New York City…I, too, am one of the people converging at the 'Meeting Plaza' ...” Other examples of "Meeting Plaza" were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and the print was featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Thelma Appel biography A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than six decades. Most recently, she was subject of a 50-year career survey (October, 2019 -February 2020) at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, entitled Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed curated by Mara Williams, and she exhibited at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut which acquired one of her fabric collages for their permanent collection. Thelma Appel was raised in Darjeeling, India and educated in London, England, at St. Martin's School of Art (now Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Bennington Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, Mass., the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975, Thelma Appel, along with the painter Carol Haerer, co-founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes. Among them were Neil Welliver, John Button, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, Stanley Boxer, Elizabeth Murray and Doug Ohlson – a program that continued until 1980. She has also taught drawing at Parsons School of Design, painting at Southern Vermont College and at the University of Connecticut. Appel’s work has been presented at Art on Paper, Texas Contemporary, Market Art & Design and Art New York art fairs and has been exhibited at Alpha 137...

David Hockney The Prisoner, for Amnesty International, 1977 Color Offset Lithograph Hand signed, numbered 17/100 and inscribed by the artist on the lower right front Elegant hand made frame with UV plexiglass included This color offset vintage lithograph by David Hockney is from the Deluxe hand signed and numbered edition of only 100, originally sold by Amnesty International to raise funds for their international human rights efforts. The present work is one of a series of art prints created by 15 artists to focus on Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience Year 1977. Other examples of these works were exhibited between February and March of 1977 in the Washington Place windows of New York University...

David Salle Hand Signed Poster by David Salle upper left, 2000 Offset Lithograph Signed by the artist and dedicated to Nadine 25 × 30 inches Unframed This is a uniquely signed David...