Original Modern Expressionist Portrait "Clown - Andy Warhol" by Peter Keil

A very cool expressionist figural painting by German artist Peter Keil, circa 1989. The painting is signed and dated; oil on canvas and measures 37" x 35" in a black wooden double ed...

Querelle A27 (white) screen print by Andy Warhol, circa 1982. The print is in very good vintage condition and measures 27.5"W x 39.25"H. Very impressive piece in person, sorry about the glare in the photos. #2631 This rare print of two young men in a rather provocative pose, Andy Warhol used a photograph taken in preparation of his poster for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Querelle. In 1982, Warhol was commissioned by the German film director Rainer Fassbinder, to design a poster for his adaptation of Jean Genet’s classic novel, ‘Querelle’. The story of a sailor’s journey into the sexual underworld of a French port appealed to Warhol’s cinematic sensibilities and could easily have been one of his own productions (he had started making films in the 1960s). This design is based on a photograph by Warhol of two young men with bare shoulders. It is characteristic of his work in the 1980s, incorporating elements of both hand-drawn and photographic screen printing. He focuses attention on the suggestively licking tongue by splashing it with a vibrant red. The film is based on Jean Genet’s scandalous novel Querelle de Brest, written in 1947 and published only six years later. It is not difficult to imagine that both Fassbinder and Warhol where fascinated by Genet’s violent and explicitly homoerotic story of the sailor, opium dealer and murderer Georges Querelle. The film’s notoriety was further heightened by Fassbinder’s death of drug overdose and its posthumous release in 1982. Warhol’s screen prints...

Pop Art influenced abstract portrait of a young boy by Berlin artist Peter Keil. The artist is known for expressionistic works using vivid colors and absence of realism. His works fr...

Red Period Expressionism Portrait by Peter Keil Peter Keil, Berlin, 1970s. Oil on Canvas, unframed A striking portrait by Keil displaying I...