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Boot Fairy (unique) Claes Oldenburg cowgirl in copper metallic framed
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A unique, unpublished print by Claes Oldenburg. This playful, erotic print is printed in shimmering gold. A nude woman in outsized cowboy boots stands with hands on hips, an X scribb...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jim Dine Red Design for Satin Heart "The Picture of Dorian Grey" bleeding heart
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This proof depicts one of Jim Dine's signatures motifs, a deep red heart, which drips down the page. Along the right side of the heart, hand-drawn text reads: “Red design for satin h...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jim Dine Basil in Black Leather Suit from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" fashion
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Pictured in this monochromatic Jim Dine lithograph is Basil Hallward, the artist companion of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wearing a sleek black lea...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
By Francesco Clemente
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek urns, and snakes, printed in black o...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tumbleweed, James Rosenquist neon blue barbed wire sculptural lithograph drawing
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts the tangle of barbed wire encircling curling and twisting neon, with lengths of wood at the center. The dark paper sets off the electric blue, and captures the ori...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sybil in her Dressing Room Jim Dine The Picture of Dorian Gray Hollywood starlet
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Pictured in this Jim Dine lithograph is Sybil Vane, the innocent yet glamorous actress and object of Dorian Gray's affection and obsession in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Doria...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Self Portrait in a Ski Hat (surrounded by tulips) second state by Jim Dine
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine self portrait in which the artist has tulip flowers on either side. This is one of four states: for each successive print he worked int...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Shoe (third state) by Jim Dine still life of saddle shoe in black and white
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Shoe (third state) 1973
Etching from one 20 x 26 in / 51 x 66 cm copper plate
Printed in black on sheet of 22 x 30 in / 56 x 76 cm Copperplate Deluxe paper
Edition of 15 w...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Self Portrait in a Ski Hat (tulips) third state by Jim Dine painted etching
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine self portrait in which the artist's face is covered in tulip flowers. This is one of four states: for each successive print he worked i...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bronze by gold Richard Hamilton from James Joyce Ulysses barmaids
By Richard Hamilton
Located in New York, NY
"The two flirtatious Dublin barmaids are the 'Sirens' in the eleventh episode of Ulysses. They pull beer for their male clients in the bar of the Ormond Hotel late in the afternoon. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Vintage Hockney Tate Poster, Celia in Black Dress with white flowers and rainbow
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The poster features David Hockney's 1972 drawing Celia in a Black Dress. Viewed through elegantly drooping tulip stems, Celia Birtwell stares dreamily ahead. With one hand paused in ...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Enchantress with the Baby Rapunzel by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. The Enchantress with the baby Rapunzel references a Heironymus...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Catherina Dorothea Viehmann David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The frontispiece for Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio and book features Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Church Tower and the Clock by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘Fundevogel’. This etching is from the Brothers Grimm tale of ‘Fundevoge...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the princ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vintage Jim Dine Signed poster Complete Graphics Galerie Mikro 1970 rainbow pop
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This poster features one of Jim Dine’s trademark tools: a pair of scissors hangs on a long thread from Jim Dine’s name. In the original 'Scissors and Rainbow' edition, the thread spe...
Category
Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The bell tower by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its ...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Enchantress in her Garden David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. Hockney stated: “The old woman who wants the child. In one tr...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Princess after many years in the Glass Mountain by David Hockney fairy tale
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The princess searching by David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney drew this portrait for his Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations. The princess, who has stated that she will marry no one but he who can hide from her s...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Inside the castle by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image of the story ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its obscu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Home David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Clandeboye House
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The pot boiling by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘Fundevogel’. One of just a few in the series that depicts a single form with such complexity, drawn directly on the plate by Hockney. This is certainly an ode to Giorgio Morandi’s etchings...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Digging up glass by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
One of David Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations, taken from the story of ‘The Little Sea Hare’. This tower was likely inspired by Hockney’s travels throu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Old Rinkrank threatens the Princess by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The glass mountain shattered David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The older Rapunzel by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. This composition is sourced from Paolo Uccello’s St George and...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vintage David Hockney poster, XIV Olympic Winter Games 1984, The Skater
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Vintage David Hockney poster for the XIV 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo published as part of the official 1984 Olympic Fine Art Posters Series. The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 ...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney Exhibition Poster Ashmolean Museum 1981
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Poster produced for David Hockney’s 1981 exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which displayed the sets and costumes he designed for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s 1975 prod...
Category
1980s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Offset
Jim Dine Self Portrait in a Flat Cap (weeds) fourth state with plants flowers
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Self Portrait in a Flat Cap (weeds) fourth state 1974
Etching in black on Apta 501 paper
plate 25.4 x 31.4 cm / 10 x 12⅜ in.
paper 66.0 x 50.8 cm / 26 × 20 in.
Edition 38 with 14 Artist's Proofs
this copy an artist’s proof
Published by Petersburg Press, New York; printed by Alan Uglow and Winston Roeth
Signed, dated and annotated A/P below impression
The fourth state of a series of modifications of Jim Dine’s self portrait...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage David Hockney Poster Galerie der Spiegel 1970 (Boy in an Egg) with bird
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster reproduces The Boy Hidden in an Egg by David Hockney from his Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969. A shirtless young man curls up inside a d...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney portrait Exhibition poster Graves Art Gallery '80
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The portrait of the David Hockney’s mother featured on this vintage David Hockney poster is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery’s e...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Sculpture R.B. Kitaj drawing of nude woman on handmade orange paper print
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Here Kitaj depicts a sculpture of a nude woman, shaded delicately in black, printed on wonderfully textured handmade muted orange paper. The woman’s hand reaches to the inside of her...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ritual Mark Tobey abstract black tan and white lithograph
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
This delicate composition in black and tan features layers of sheer brushwork, inky daubs, and thin lines. Mark Tobey, one of the founders of the American Mystical school of painting...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style, 1965, ball-point pen on paper, 20 x 40 in. / 60 x 101.6 cm.
*This print was etched in six gorgeous inks, each in an edition of ten: take your pick of color!*
Oldenburg had an interest in imaginary monuments: he famously conceptualized works such as “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 which imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jim Dine New York SIGNED poster "Gilbert and Sullivan" hand painted pink copper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This radiant purple pink poster was designed by Jim Dine for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan at New York City Center in 1968. The stripe down...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache, Offset
Adjustable Spanner Wrench from Ten Winter Tools
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Classic Jim Dine tool iconography from Ten Winter Tools, 1973, this black and white lithograph pictures an adjustable spanner wrench sketched in outline...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray's Hand from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts a hand adorned with ornate jeweled rings, printed in teal turquoise. Underneath the hand is written “Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand”. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage Hockney poster Kammer 1981 Celia in a Black Dress and Red Stockings
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Printed for Galerie Kammer’s 1981 David Hockney exhibition “Drawings and Prints”, this beautiful poster reproduces Hockney’s drawing Celia in a Black Dress and Red Stockings 1973. Fa...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Hockney poster Celia Wearing Checkered Sleeves 1981 Chicago Art Fair
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Printed by Petersburg Press for their exhibition of David Hockney prints and drawings at the 1981 Chicago Art Fair, this beautiful poster reproduces Hockney’s drawing Celia Wearing Checkered Sleeves, 1973...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Hockney Tate Poster, Celia in Black Dress with white flowers and rainbow
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The poster reproduces David Hockney's 1972 drawing Celia in a Black Dress. Viewed through elegantly drooping tulip stems, Celia Birtwell stares dreamily ahead. With one hand paused i...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney poster Andre Emmerich Gallery 1982 (Gregory photo montage)
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Original exhibition poster commemorating David Hockney's 1982 show at Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. This poster reproduces Hockney's 1982 photo montage Gregory, Los Angeles March...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
R.B. Kitaj Orgasm: drawing of woman in ecstasy with pale pink and clay red
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Printed in a rich terra cotta red on pale pink paper, Orgasm depicts a woman’s head in profile with a dark background. Kitaj was fascinated with the female form, often producing edgy...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Baseball Game: realist large-scale black and white drawing of sports game
By Michele Zalopany
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts a baseball game mid-play. An umpire crouches with his hand up, and the batter stands poised. In the lower right, spectators peer onto ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney Poster Miami New World Festival of Arts 1982 palm trees
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage David Hockney poster features whimsical imagery and rich, bright color. Palm trees, boats in the ocean, a cafe, and a bodega with an elaborate iron-wrought balcony sit a...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dressed Lobster by Patrick Caulfield red British pop art still life
By Patrick Caulfield
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Caulfield's cheeky, Pop Art take on a seaside favorite, dressed lobster, abstracted in graphic black strokes atop a field of red decorated with tiny sprigs. Signed by the art...
Category
1970s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Vintage Jim Dine Green Bathrobe exhibition poster, 1970s retro pop art font
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This original, vintage poster on poster stock features one of Jim Dine's most iconic motifs: the bathrobe. In 1964, Dine saw an ad in the New York Times: “The ad shows a robe with the man airbrushed out of it. There was nobody in the bathrobe, but when I saw it, it looked like me.” Standing in for the artist's own body and rife with personal meaning, it provides a framework for limitless formal and stylistic experimentation. Here, the garment is colored bright green and defined by variegated black lines. Numbers label each part of the robe as in an anatomical chart. Bold black lettering reads Jim Dine, Petersburg Press...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Fjord by Henry Moore drawing of Scottish landscape for W.H. Auden poetry book
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
One of a series of 18 lithographs drawn by the artist for the Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs 1974 book and portfolio. This work is from an edition of 25 printed on vellum aside from the portfolio (edition of 75) and the book. Signed by the artist lower right in pencil; numbered 8/25 lower left in pencil.
Printed in inky black, Fjord features a close-up view of the water as it meets the shore. Yorkshire is famous for its rocky coastline, where fishing villages cling to cliffs, windswept abbeys peak above the skyline, and sand beaches attract families on vacation. Moore’s scene is dark and even sinister – the shore’s narrow inlets reaching into the water like gnarled fingers.
Fjord displays Moore’s fascination with light and dark – what he called a “…bias towards the blackness and mysterious depths.” Moore was inspired by the prints of Rembrandt and the drawings of Seurat, and even drew on his memories of viewing the Altamira cave paintings, recalling how some of the images used the shadow of candlelight on the rough surface of the rock to model light. Shortly before starting work on this series of lithographs, Moore had fallen ill, leaving him aware of his own mortality. His mood pervaded these prints with a sense of danger and foreboding.
Fjord is one of a group of lithographs...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dorian Gray at Opium Den from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" surreal portrait
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This surreal etching portrait of Dorian Gray by Jim Dine in blue ink features the literary protagonist dressed in a white suit. His face is obscured by a mass of hair, tangles of which seem to grow from the sleeves, pant legs, and from beneath the jacket. Dine's notes are written on the image: at his feet reading "WHITE BOOTS" and "White Vinyl Suit" alongside the jacket. On the left edge of the image handwritten text reads "DORIAN GRAY AT OPIUM DEN". In Oscar Wilde's novel Dorian Gray keeps opium in an ornate box in his home, and frequents sites of consumption on the East side of London: “There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new”. An opium den is where Sybil's brother James discovers Dorian. The brother attempts to capture the man he believes is responsible for the death of his sister. Dorian flees to his home, ultimately slashing the portrait that has kept him young for so long.
Etching by Jim Dine from one of his most important artist’s books – completely designed and illustrated by Dine. Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand from “The Picture of Dorian Gray...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Clarté I Mark Tobey abstract green turquoise and black lithograph
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
Clarté by Mark Tobey is a characteristically delicate, abstract composition of swirling green and black curls. The gentle movement of his mark-making suggests a natural form such as ...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman Entwined in Giant Electric Cord Claes Oldenburg Laocoon style pop art nude
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a woman peeks out from loops and knots of thick cord, a modern-day Laocoön and His Sons. She seem...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Claes Oldenburg mythological Erotic Fantasy Suite print set of 6 medusa mermaid
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
These erotic etchings depict mythological and fantasy creatures as striking nudes. A host of sensuous and shocking figures include a mermaid, Medusa, and women in both jubilant and p...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dialogue Between Ancients Mark Tobey black and white greek roman philosophers
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
This portrait of two philosophers in conversation is a rare figurative work from Mark Tobey, one of the founders of the American Mystical school of pa...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Teatro Junín, Caracas, Venezuela: black white city neon lights night landscape
By Michele Zalopany
Located in New York, NY
Striking, large, black and white city landscape in South America at night. A couple strolls towards the neon lights of a vintage 1950's theater, reflected in the wet sidewalk, with palm trees and tropical plants. Hand painted monotype ink creates a dramatic, film noir painting...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype
Figure and Phallus: erotic nude drawing of woman in heels in rainbow of colors
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This etching features a nude woman in high heels. Whipping her head to the left, she gazes intently past the viewer through a wild tangle of tresses. A sunhat with a bow nearly floats off her head, a tongue-in-cheek nod to modesty. Taking a wide stance, she straddles a comically large phallus, which springs up eagerly from the ground like a plant. Unusually, this etching was drawn directly onto the plate from the artist’s imagination and not from a life model. This spontaneity is visible around the woman’s bust and arms, where Oldenburg sketched several variations of her anatomy, giving the impression of a figure in movement. Beside her left breast, Oldenburg extends this halo of lines by cheekily doodling a small, floating phallus.
Paper 36 x 27.5 in. / 91.4 x 69.2 cm. Plate 23.5 x 17.7 in. / 59.7 x 45.1 cm.
Etching in one color on white, thick, slightly textured Wookey Hole handmade paper watermarked with the artist’s signature. Signed by the artist and dated 1975 lower right in pencil. The edition of 60 includes ten prints in each of six different ink colors: Indigo blue, vermilion, mauve, burnt sienna, astral blue, and yellow-ochre. A copy of each color is available: this listing is for one copy in the color of your choice.
As recorded in the artist’s unpublished notes: “In 1974 an ambitious project for a suite of large-scale etchings was hatched with Paul Cornwall-Jones, for production by Maurice Payne in Petersburg Press’s new Pembroke studios in London. The project would consist of meticulous transcriptions of a certain group of drawings...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Scotland Yard (Oo La La) Jim Dine pale pink erotic hairstyles Ron Padgett poetry
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This cheeky, pastel pink print depicts a range of intimate styles, a tongue-in-cheek recollection of the gridded haircuts displayed outside barber shops. It is from the Oo La La portfolio of 15 lithographs printed offset from zinc plates, drawn by both artists. Produced in collaboration with Ron Padgett...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lullaby Henry Moore portrait black white drawing woman Auden poetry illustration
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
One of a series of 18 lithographs drawn by the artist for the Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs 1974 book and portfolio. This work is from an edition of 25 printed on vellum aside from the portfolio (edition of 75) and the book. Signed by the artist lower right in pencil; numbered lower left in pencil.
Lullaby features a male figure standing behind a woman sleeping with her head down. This shadowy figure recurs throughout Moore’s Auden lithographs, an ambiguous presence who exists between menace and comfort. The imagery for Lullaby was inspired by Auden’s poem Lullaby. Lullaby was the first poem Moore read for this project, which begins:
“Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm; / Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from / Thoughtful children, and the grave / Proves the child ephemeral: / But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie, / Mortal, guilty, but to me / The entirely beautiful.”
Lullaby is one of a group of lithographs...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
