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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Roy Ahlgren "Concantenation" Signed Limited Edition Print Op-Art
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in San Rafael, CA
Roy Ahlgren (American, 1927 - 2011)
Concatenation, 1970
Silkscreen (Print), signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition 31/100
Image Size: 18 x 18 inches
Sheet 20.5 in H x 20 in L ...
Category
20th Century Op Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
$413 Sale Price
24% Off
19th Century Etching "Master of Flutes" Etching After Robert Boissard
By Robert Boissard
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Etching "Master of Flutes" Etching After Robert Boissard
Framed etching with neoclassical elements
After Robert Boissard (1570-160...
Category
Mid-19th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
1974 Picasso Style Woodcut "Young Woman with Cat"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Truly one of the finest prints we have ever owned. It has been my favorite for years hanging on my wall. Signed Barnhart and dated 74. The artist obviously greatly influenced by Pica...
Category
1970s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Vilag, 1978
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This original color serigraph is hand signed by Victor Vasarely (Pécs, 1906 - Paris, 1997) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered from the edition of 275, this piece was publi...
Category
1970s Op Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Ture Bengtz "Family Scene" Original Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1940
By Ture Bengtz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ture Bengtz "Family Scene" Original Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1940
Lithograph dimensions 15.25" wide x 10.5" high
Frame dimensions 21.5" wide x 17" high
Pencil signed in the lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Beatificación (Beatification) (A/P)
By Rafael Coronel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. Edition of 100. Certificate of authenticity included.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Leaning Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 16 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process and very big negatives the same size as the final print. These iconic Monterey pines can be found a...
Category
2010s Realist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogram
Elizabeth Quandt 'Aries I' Limited Edition, Signed Etching of Ram's Head
By Elizabeth Quandt
Located in San Rafael, CA
Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994)
Aries I, 1978
Etching on Arches paper
Singed and dated in pencil, lower right
Edition IX/L (9/50)
With artist's embossed stamp to lower center
Image 5in x 11in: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed.
The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard.
The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
DNA: Etching: III
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint and softground etching.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse), 1959
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Considered to be one of Picasso’s monumental linoleum prints, Pablo Picasso Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse), 1959 is a large-scale artwork that captures the essence of this artist’s innovation and minimalist creativity. His simple lines curve and undulated together to form the characters of the piece: the woman – feminine and robust, the horse – whimsical and characteristic, and the picador – strong and masculine. All three subjects create a triad composition making way for a harmonious and balanced piece. The entire work exudes an air of femininity and mystery, all set against a backdrop of a misty grey helping to create Picasso’s sensual environment of intrigue.
Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse) is a color linocut on Arches paper hand-signed by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered 21/50 in pencil in the lower left margin, this work was printed by Arnéra, Vallauris and published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Pablo Picasso Picador, Woman, and Horse (Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme), 1959 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work):
1. Baer, Bridgette. Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Tome V – Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre grave et des monotypes, Berne: Editions Kornfeld, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 1238.
2. Bloch, Georges. Picasso Catalogue de l'ouvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I. Kornfeld et Cie: Switzerland, 1968. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 913.
3. Boeck, W., intr. Pablo Picasso Linoleum...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
$34,000 Sale Price
24% Off
A Pair of Woodpeckers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of male and female woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Male de la Encenada, 2. Petit Pic des Moluques (Woodpeckers)"...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Victor Brauner Exhibition Poster Framed C.1972
By Victor Brauner
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Brauner Exhibition Poster Framed C.1972
Poster dimensions 19.5" wide x 33.5" high
The frame measures 21.5" wide x 35.5" high
The poster shows minor staining at the extreme lower edge. See images.
Good vintage condition.
Victor Brauner (June 15, 1903 - March 12, 1966) was a Romanian Jewish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Elizabeth Quandt 'Aries II' Limited Edition, Signed Etching of Ram's Head
By Elizabeth Quandt
Located in San Rafael, CA
Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994)
Aries II, 1978
Etching on Arches paper. Deckled edges.
Singed and dated in pencil, lower right
Edition IX/L (9/50)
With artist's embossed stamp to lower center
Image 8in H x 10 1/2in L: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed.
The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard.
The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
18th Century Engraving "Birdseye View of New Park in Surrey" c.1724
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th Century Engraving "Birdseye View of New Park in Surrey" c.1724
Bird's eye view of the the New Park in Surrey, the Seat of the Honorable Earle of Rochester
From the 1724 editio...
Category
Early 18th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Turtledove: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a turtledove entitled "Tourterelle du Senegal (Turtledove of Senegal)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 160 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseau...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Side (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER
IMAGE SIZE: 24” x 24”; PAPER SIZE: 35” x 34”
EDITION OF 40
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Z
By Alicia McCarthy
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color sugarlift aquatint and drypoint.
Edition of 35
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
$4,000
Golden Parachute
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Golden Parachute
Color aquatint and gold leaf.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Elizabeth Quandt 'Aries IV' Limited Edition, Signed Etching of Ram's Head
By Elizabeth Quandt
Located in San Rafael, CA
Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994)
Aries IV: Ram in a Thicket, 1978
Etching on Arches paper
Singed and dated in pencil, lower right
Edition IX/L (9/50)
With artist's embossed stamp to lower center
Image 5 1/4in H x 5in L: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed.
The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard.
The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Succoth" From the suite "The Seven Festivals"
By David Sharir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Succoth" from the suite "The Seven Festivals" 1981, is an original colors serigraph on Arches paper by noted Israeli artist David Sharir,b. 1938. It is hand sign...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Cantique du Singulier
By Aristide Caillaud
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cantique du Singulier" 1977, is an original colors lithograph on Japan paper by noted French artist Aristide Caillaud, 1902-1990. It is hand signed and numbered ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Those From Away, plate II
By Steven Sorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Those From Away, plate II" 1989, is an original hand colored linocut with collage on Fuji Handmade paper by noted American artist Steven Sorman, b.1948. It is ha...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Nude II
By Charles Eckart
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude II" 1982, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. The plate mark...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Torero
By Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Toreros seek to elicit inspiration and art from their work. Their intentions are not to deliberately cause harm the bull, but create an emotional connection with the crowd through th...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$6,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Secrets Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Secrets Series" c.1980, is an original woodcut monoprint with embossing on thick Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Secrets Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Secrets Series" c.1980, is an original woodcut monoprint with embossing on thick Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Red-breasted Rail: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Great Red-breasted Rail or Fresh Water Marsh Hen, 1. Male Adult, 2. Young", No. 62, Plate 309 fr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
About That Time
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and softground etching with drypoint.
Paper Size: 29.5” x 22.75”
Edition of 30
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Mountain Stream
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Mountain Stream
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
LYAM 3D
By Kota Ezawa
Located in Berkeley, CA
Kota Ezawa recreates animated sequences from television, cinema, and art history. He uses basic digital drawing and animation software to create slide projections, light boxes, collages, and prints. In the vein of Warhol, his highly stylized facsimiles of familiar and often infamous images emphasize the distance between the viewer and the depicted figures that feature so prominently in America’s collective memory. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art, California among others. The artist is represented by the Cheryl Haines Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$1,500
Sunrise Clearing (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Red Valerian - print on paper
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon archival pigment print featuring minimal pink flower (a Red Valerian flower) in a glass vase. The image is from a still life painting created is 2020. A work on paper i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antherium - ltd. ed print on paper
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon archival pigment print featuring minimal flora (two Antherium flowers) in a glass vase. The image is from a still life painting created is 2020. A work on paper in an e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Cue Ball - ltd. ed. print on paper
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon archival pigment print featuring minimal flora in a gold vase with cue ball. The image is from a still life painting created is 2020. A work on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Wildwood Etchings
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
The Wildwood Etchings (set of 3)
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition 35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Rainbow
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint on airbrushed paper
Image Size: 40”x 29”; Paper Size: 40” x 29”
Edition of 25
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
#7 With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#7, With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise . Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
Somatic
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint with chine collé gampi.
Image Size: 40”x 29”; Paper Size: 40” x 29”
Edition of 25
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
End (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER
IMAGE SIZE: 24” x 18”; PAPER SIZE: 35” x 28”
EDITION OF 40
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Don't Get Skeered
By William T. Wiley
Located in San Francisco, CA
woodcut with unique drawing, acrylic, graphite and collage on paper sheet 21 x 54 inches/53.3 x 137.2 cm
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Two Tall Pines (11 x 7.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Slender Pines (11 x 8 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Silver Beach
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Silver Beach
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Plain Weave Grid (Emerald Green, Spring Green, Ruby Red, Primrose Yellow)
By Ruth Laskey
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching.
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
An Icelandic GyrFalcon: An 18th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Martinet
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of an Icelandic Ger Falcon entitled "Gerfault d''Islande" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 210 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Paysage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paysage" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. It ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Jewel" - Small Color Woodcut Print of Faceted Jewel
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Jewel" is a color woodcut print by Pittsburgh artist Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop. Valerie has hand-carved three different woodblocks to create a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Blue Nocturne / archival pigment print
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Nature and Oceanic inspired blue archival digital print 1/9. The image is from the artist's 'Blue Nocturne' series. A beautiful sea or ocean blue abstract image. Signed and editioned...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper
Souliers No 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype EV edition variée 1/4, with heavy hand coloring: mixed media, featuring satin wedding shoes. Signed front in pencil by Kim Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Big Candy Grid
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Big Candy Grid' features abstracted candy shapes with vivid and florescent colors within a dazzling contemporary "pop art" composition. Monotype ev edition...
Category
1990s Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Bottles No 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 5/6 with hand coloring. the overall paper size is 23 1/2 x 23 inches. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years making monotype ev's, and works from this series are included in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel
Vivien in White Coat, 2021
By Alex Katz
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Alex Katz Vivien in White Coat, 2021 is a work of subtle admiration that the artist holds for her daughter-in-law, Vivien Bittencourt. The gentle hues...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Gone, from Taxa portfolio
Located in San Francisco, CA
color inkjet print on wove paper, published by Feature Inc., New York, printed by Electric Works, San Francisco
35 x 26 1/2 in
; 88.9 x 67.3 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Inkjet
Utrecht, Netherlands: A Large 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Sanson & Jaillot
By Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville
Located in Alamo, CA
This large hand-colored map entitled "La Seigneurie d'Utrecht. Dressé sur les memoires les plus nouveaux par le Sr. Sanson" was originally created by Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville. Thi...
Category
1690s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Coot Bird, "Wasserhuhn": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
By Johann Leonhard Frisch 1
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Wasserhuhn" (Coot) by Johann Leonhard Frisch , which is plate 208 from ...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"Centre Noeuds" planche #8
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #8 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #4
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #4, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Jenny Reefer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jenny Reefer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jo the Loiterer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jo the Loiterer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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