Claes Oldenburg

Ray Gun by Claes Oldenburg: screen print with raw black grey industrial texture

1972

This abstract composition features a cropped view of the words SIGHT SEEING, in bold all-capital lettering. Roses fill the top line of text, and the bottom line of text in white is s...

A dynamic neon-yellow and black Mark Lancaster screen print combining calligraphic paint strokes, paint drips, and smooth, graphic yellow gradients characteristic of the artist's mos...

Ray gun is one of Oldenburg’s most iconic motifs, and the artist’s tongue-in-cheek alter ego. Oldenburg took the name from a weapon used in the show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ...

Printed in glossy purple, lavender, and bright yellow, I'll take my life monotonous by Patrick Caulfield depicts a lattice outlined in black, with three small dots of yellow. A garden lattice...

This large Allen Jones lithograph is printed exuberantly in primary colors. A swath of bright red brushstrokes represents the side of a bus. In the upper left, small windows reveal the passengers: a woman’s face is cut off above her vampy red lips, and a blue-haired man’s face is hidden. Royal blue fills the upper right corner of the composition, giving the impression of looking up at a passing bus against the cloudless sky. One can imagine Jones was thinking of the iconic red double decker bus the AEC Routemaster, first introduced in London in 1954. In the 1960s buses were a living symbol of familiar and new technology coexisting: as David Bucken put it, “In and around London a midpoint change on a journey might involve alighting from an RT bus, of which production had started just prior to World War II, and getting on one of the sexy new Routemasters.” In the artist’s words: “The whole problem as a figurative artist was that it was going against the main march of modernism, which was towards abstraction. But here was a way of making the subject you were painting the same as the object you were painting on. By making the canvas a rhomboid, and putting little wheels on it, you have a schematic version of a vehicle, in this case a London bus.” Jones plays with the space between abstraction and figuration: windowed passengers, elaborated with just a few lines and placed adjacent to a weighty red ground of brushstrokes, easily convey the form of a bus, yet the print also conveys Jones’ visceral, painterly delight in color play. Four color lithograph on wove paper Paper 28.5 x 42.5 / 72.4 X 108 cm Wood frame 31 x 46 x 2 in. / 78.75 x 117 x 5 cm with 1 in. moulding Signed by the artist lower right in pencil, labeled Trial Proof lower left in pencil. Edition 20. Printed at Tamarind Los Angeles with Clifford Smith...

An inverted car, gleaming in chrome, speeds through sumptuous layers of pink, translucent yellow, and a veil of lacy, flower-like shapes. Across the top, the artist’s name is splashe...

"Moi je veux vivre monotone" is from the series "Some poems by Jules Laforgue". Patrick Caulfied was deeply inspired by these poems and found to his very own depiction of these poems...

Balls 1990. Original color silkscreen, 1990. Edition of 130 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. James Rosenquist is one of the biggest American artist of second part of ...

Original silkscreen printed in colors, 1983. Edition of 150 signed and numbered impressions on Arches 88 paper. Art and Sport portfolio: The Yugoslav Olympic Committee of the Winter ...

The work of Luis Gordillo spans more than five decades. He began his career by developing a new pictorial language that became a point of reference for an entire generation of artist...

The work of Luis Gordillo spans more than five decades. He began his career by developing a new pictorial language that became a point of reference for an entire generation of artist...

Robert Indiana "New York City Center 25th Anniversary" New York City Center, 1968 Silkscreen Poster 35 x 25 inches Unsigned This poster is printed on...