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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Woman From Paris
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Woman From Paris" 1979 (State I) is an original lithograph on creme Arches paper by renowned Navajo artist Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 129/150 in pencil by the artist. The sheet size is 21.75 x 29 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Flying Head
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Flying Head" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 173/260 in pencil by the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
Category
1710s Academic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
1640s Academic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tiger Lily
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tiger Lily" 1998 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 96/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10 x 9.75 inches, sheet size is 14.75 x 13.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed.
About the artist.
Born and educated in Cleveland Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for over 25 years. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik creating colorful floral images of great depth and intensity.
Bukovnik collaborates with Trillium Press, whose owner and master printer, David Salgado, studied at the Tamarind Workshop, formerly in Los Angeles.
In 2003, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to attend the academy as a Visiting Artist for six weeks. He was asked to attend a second session in February 2005. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan. The work of Gary Bukovnik is held in public and private collections worldwide.
Selected Museums
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Atlanta Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Dallas Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis, California The New York Public Library
Oakland Museum of California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
Selected public collections
ALZA Corporation, Mountain View
ART In Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State
AT&T, New York
Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles
BankAmerica Corporation, Charlotte
Citigroup, New York
Cleveland Institute of Music
Clorox Company, Oakland
Comerica Bank, Costa Mesa & San Jose
H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh
Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago
IBM, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco
KPMG LLP, Atlanta
Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York
Macy's California, San Francisco
MetLife, New York
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
MGM Mirage Hotel...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers Market
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 8.5 x 6.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Juges" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Juges" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal" created in 1937/38, is an original color aquatint on Montval paper by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958....
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Dancing Ducks in Magenta, Forest Green, Brown, Slate Gray
By George Chemeche
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: George Chemeche – Iraqi/American (1934-2022)
Title: Dancing Ducks in Magenta, Forest Green, Brown, Slate Gray
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Screen Print
Image size: 19 x 27 inches.
Sheet size: 22 x 29 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 260 This one: 109/260
Condition: Very good
Unframed
This exceptional geometric abstract serigraph is by the noted Iraqi/American artist George Chemeche (1934-2022 ). He is a master of serigraph printing, but this print has more than technical excellence. It is a wonderful, rhythmic abstract composition. I believe Chemeche might have been a proponent of and/or influenced by the Pattern and Decoration Movement which was happening in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The print has never been framed and is in very good condition. I will ship the print rolled in a heavyweight tube.
George Chemeche was born in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Tel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style with which he is intimately associated, pattern painting, The most serviceable definition is that pattern is the systematic repetition of a motif or motifs used to cover a surface uniformly. The spaces between motifs are either other motifs or are an integral part of the repeat. Usually, patterning intentionally acknowledges the decorative function of art, reconciling both the decorative and the meaningful.
George Chemeche’s work hangs in the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea where many have admired it for years. Please search online for more biographical information by this fine artist.
Selected Biography
1934 Born in Basra, Iraq
1947 Fled Iraq with his family
1947-49 Lives and attends school in Tehran
1949 Immigrates to Israel
1956-59 Studies art in Avni Art School, Tel-Aviv
1959 Gets American-Israeli Culture Foundation grant to study art in Paris
1959-1962 Studies at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1961- Gets two years grant from Lady Francis Fergusson, Scotland
1962 Gets one year grant from Alex de Rothschild, Paris First man show at Gallery Transposition, Paris
1965-72 Exhibits his work in numerous art galleries in Israel including one man show at Haifa Museum
1972 Travels to New York, checks in the Hotel Chelsea
1977-- First one-man show in USA at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, followed by other shows around the country and Europe.
1995 Travels to Iceland to publish the Aya Series book. Text by Donald Kuspit; Art Resourses & Technologies, New York, NY
2002 Publishes, Ibejis: “The Cult of Yoruba Twins” 5 Continents Edition, Milan, Italy
2003 Curates a show at Museum of African Art, NYC Ibejis: The Doubly Blessed Twins
2005 Reads his poems at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York
2010 Lectures about Ibeji art and cult at Iowa University
2011 Lectures about Ibeji Art and cult at Neuberger Museum
2011 Publishes, The Horse Rider in African Art” ACC, UK
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1978 Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
1977 Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels
1977 Givon Art GaJIery, Tel Aviv
1974 South Houston Gallery, New York
1974 Ray Landis Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey
1973 Gala Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida
1973 Art Asia Gallery...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Cul de Sac
By Alexandre Minguet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cul de Sac" is an original color lithograph by French artist Alexandre Minguet, 1937-1996. The image size is 7 x 11 inches, framed size is 17.35 x 21.5 inches. I...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mono distraído (Distracted Monkey) (28/100)
By Rafael Coronel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. Edition 28 of 100. Certificate of authenticity included.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Dancing Ducks in Red, Green, Blue, Purple
By George Chemeche
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: George Chemeche – Iraqi/American (1934-2022)
Title: Dancing Ducks in Red, Green, Blue, Purple
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Screen Print
Image size: 19 x 27 inches.
Sheet size: 22 x 29 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 260 This one: 77/260
Condition: Very good
Unframed
This exceptional geometric abstract serigraph is by the noted Iraqi/American artist George Chemeche (1934-2022 ). He is a master of serigraph printing, but this print has more than technical excellence. It is a wonderful, rhythmic abstract composition. I believe Chemeche might have been a proponent of and/or influenced by the Pattern and Decoration Movement which was happening in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The print has never been framed and is in very good condition. I will ship the print rolled in a heavyweight tube.
George Chemeche was born in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Tel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style with which he is intimately associated, pattern painting, The most serviceable definition is that pattern is the systematic repetition of a motif or motifs used to cover a surface uniformly. The spaces between motifs are either other motifs or are an integral part of the repeat. Usually, patterning intentionally acknowledges the decorative function of art, reconciling both the decorative and the meaningful.
George Chemeche’s work hangs in the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea where many have admired it for years. Please search online for more biographical information by this fine artist.
Selected Biography
1934 Born in Basra, Iraq
1947 Fled Iraq with his family
1947-49 Lives and attends school in Tehran
1949 Immigrates to Israel
1956-59 Studies art in Avni Art School, Tel-Aviv
1959 Gets American-Israeli Culture Foundation grant to study art in Paris
1959-1962 Studies at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1961- Gets two years grant from Lady Francis Fergusson, Scotland
1962 Gets one year grant from Alex de Rothschild, Paris First man show at Gallery Transposition, Paris
1965-72 Exhibits his work in numerous art galleries in Israel including one man show at Haifa Museum
1972 Travels to New York, checks in the Hotel Chelsea
1977-- First one-man show in USA at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, followed by other shows around the country and Europe.
1995 Travels to Iceland to publish the Aya Series book. Text by Donald Kuspit; Art Resourses & Technologies, New York, NY
2002 Publishes, Ibejis: “The Cult of Yoruba Twins” 5 Continents Edition, Milan, Italy
2003 Curates a show at Museum of African Art, NYC Ibejis: The Doubly Blessed Twins
2005 Reads his poems at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York
2010 Lectures about Ibeji art and cult at Iowa University
2011 Lectures about Ibeji Art and cult at Neuberger Museum
2011 Publishes, The Horse Rider in African Art” ACC, UK
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1978 Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
1977 Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels
1977 Givon Art GaJIery, Tel Aviv
1974 South Houston Gallery, New York
1974 Ray Landis Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey
1973 Gala Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida
1973 Art Asia Gallery...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Indian Mother and Child
By Max Pollak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This color etching is titled "Indian Mother and Child" (c. 1950) by Czech/American artist Max Pollak (1886 - 1970) is an original etching on wove paper. It is hand signed and numbered 37/100 in pencil by the artist. It is framed in its original frame and is in excellent condition. Image (plate mark) size is 5.65 in. x 5.25 in.
Max Pollak, painter and printmaker, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on February 2, 1886, but his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was raised in Vienna and, in 1902, he entered the Vienna Academy of Art. He studied painting and printmaking under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer. In 1912, he traveled to Italy, France, and Holland to study and paint. During the First World War, he was appointed painter of the Austrian Army.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1927. His first exhibition at the 57th Street Art Gallery in New York was a commercial success and he was commissioned by Theodore Dreiser...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Springtime in the North
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Springtime in the North" c.1980, published 1996, is a color offset lithograph by renown western artist Arnold Friberg, 1913-2010. I...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Aaron and Moses
By Amos Yaskil
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aaron and Moses" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on paper by Israeli artist Amos Yaskil, b.1935. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) in w...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rothenburg, Germany
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Rothenburg, Germany
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Printed on silk
Plate mark ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alex Katz 'Vincent' Limited Edition Signed Lithograph Print
By Alex Katz
Located in San Rafael, CA
Alex Katz (born 1927)
Vincent, 1972
From the Prints for Phoenix House portfolio
Chalk lithograph in two gray colors on Arches paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 93/120
Printed by Pa...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 3
By Roger Chapelain Midy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Chapelain Midy (French, 1904-1992)
Title: Untitled 3
Year : Circa 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Silk paper
Image size: 18 x 25.25 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Temple Architecture: An 18th Century Framed Etching by Piranesi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta del Tempio detto della Tosse su la Via Tiburtina, un miglio vicino a Tivoli" (View of the so-called Tem...
Category
1760s Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alvar Sunol Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1970s
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alvar Sunol Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1970s
Three women around a table
Dimensions 21.5" wide x 12.5" high
The frame measures 32.75" wide x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
European Village
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: European Village
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Einstein Love is the Answer
By Mr. Brainwash
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Mr. Brainwash Einstein Love is the Answer 2023, is a vibrant and stimulating work featuring Albert Einstein, a pillar of history and modern...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen
Amaranthus tricolor: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Amaranthus Tricolor", depicting a flowering Amaranthus Tricolor plant from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. Amaranthus tricolor, known as edible amaranth, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Amaranthus. The plant is often cultivated for ornamental and culinary purposes. Cultivars have a striking yellow, red, and green foliage. It is known as Joseph's coat in some areas, after the biblical figure Joseph, who is said to have worn a coat of many colors. Amaranthus tricolor is one of several species of amaranth cultivated in warm regions across the world.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with very wide margins. There is a short crease in the upper right corner, mild irregularity of the left, right and lower edges and some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.13" high and 17.13" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
'The Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree' from '36 Ghost Stories' Woodblock Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839 - 1892)
'The Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree', or 'Komachi-Zakura no Sei' 1889
From the series '36 Supernatural Beings in New Forms' or 'Shinga...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Femme en Rose Avec un Arbre
By André Brasilier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Andre Brasilier (French, born 1929)
Title: Femme en Rose Avec un Arbre
Year: c.1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Inscribed "Bien Amicalement" (With Friendship) in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Architecture: Original Framed 18th C. Etching by G. Piranesi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Drypoint
Sunday, Central Park
By Harold Altman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003)
Title: Sunday, Central Park
Year: c. 1985
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 56/285 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image size: 17.5...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rufino Tamayo 'Deux Tetes' from Mujeres Suite, Limited Edition, Signed Print
By Rufino Tamayo
Located in San Rafael, CA
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991).
Deux Tetes, from Mujeres Suite (P. 107), 1969.
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 27/150 (there was also an edition...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cirque (The Circus) III
By Camille Hilaire
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Cirque (The Circus) III" is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Camille Hilaire, 1916-2004. It is hand signed and inscribed I...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Framed Rubbing of 1550 Brass Monument in Grote Kerk Church, Breda, Netherlands
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an engraving of a tomb monument rubbing that has been highlighted with gold color on a dark grey to black background. The rubbing is of a brass plaque on a stone slab. It has...
Category
16th Century Northern Renaissance Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
El hilo del escarabajo, The Beetle Thread (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 - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Desert Series B
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Desert Series B" c.1990, is an original colors monoprint aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numb...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Monoprint
Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back.
About the artist:
Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes.
Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions.
When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union.
In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars.
Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out."
His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995.
LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather.
He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess.
As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid."
After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war.
On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s.
When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint.
While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine.
In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician.
Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation.
In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter.
Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world.
"Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962.
Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him.
A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters.
Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS.
Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
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Screen
"Femme Fiere" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Femme Fiere" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal" created in 1937/38, is an original color aquatint on Montval paper by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Winter Landscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Winter Landscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 17.25 x 13.75 inches
Framed size: 23 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: very good
Frame: Custom framed in a silver and gold frame
About the artist.
Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) was a noted painter and etcher, who was well known for his aquatint etchings on paper or satin of European and American landscape and cityscape scenes, as well as paintings of landscape and cityscape scenes, Tyrolean Alp scenes of villages and chalets, street scenes, harbor and marine scenes.
Hans Figura was born January 22, 1898, in the small town of Nagy-Kikinda near the Austro-Hungarian border, to Austrian parents. His father was a railway official and he spent his childhood in various small villages along the railway line between Vienna and Hungary. He graduated from the highschool in Vienna and also studied at the Higher Graphical Federal Education and Research Institute, a vocational school there (Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr und Versuchsanstalt)
As a young man, he served as an officer in the Austrian Army during WWI from 1916-18 on the Russian and Italian fronts. After the war he attended medical school at the University of Vienna for several years beginning in 1918, and seven semesters later, he passed his first state exam, but eventually decided that he preferred the arts to medicine. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) and by 1922 he had devoted himself to painting and etching, while also working in other artistic printing mediums, batik, illustration, bookbinding and working with leather.
From 1923-28, Figura made numerous art study trips throughout Europe including; Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. His first major success came in 1924, when he won acclaim for his etchings exhibited in Italy and the United States. In 1929, he visited the United States and in 1930, he traveled back to France, Holland and also Switzerland. During this time, Figura maintained studios in both New York City and Vienna, Austria. Throughout the course of his career, he exhibited his paintings and prints in many of the large cities throughout Europe and the United States and many of his etchings and paintings were acquired by museums and galleries, including The Kulturamt, Vienna, Austria; the Landesmuseum of Lower Austria; as well as The Society of Art Lovers, Berlin and Munich.
Select Exhibitions:
1924- Exhibitions in Italy and the United States.
Circa Mid 1920's-1939- All the exhibitions at the Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
1926- "Secession...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Framed Contemporary Serigraph "Eucalyptus Forest" by Eyvind Earle
By Eyvind Earle
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking contemporary abstract serigraph by Eyvind Earle (1916-2000) is entitled "Eucalyptus Forest". It depicts a stylized scene of cloud like trees with a radiating pattern in the foreground, possibly tilled fields. It is signed in pencil in the lower right and numbered in pencil 119/267 in the lower left.
This colorful print is presented in a glossy black wood frame with a French mat...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
II Cup of Joe
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "II Cup of Joe" c.1990, is an original color serigraph by American artist Rickey Jewell Hohimer, 1946-2021. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 250/300 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 19.5 x 23.5 inches, framed size is 26.75 x 30 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is slightly damaged at the top, and will be replaced by a new similar black frame when sold. This will bring the over all condition to excellent.
About the artist:
Although formally trained with a MFA in painting, Rickey Jewell Hohimer has used the styles of Van Gogh and Gaughin to reach for the spontaneity and simplicity of today's folk art. Hohimer creates figures which are not photos of reality; they are romantically stylized to encourage straightforward emotional responses both to the colorful images and to the situations in which they find themselves. Each of Hohimer's paintings lays out a basic story line to which viewers add their own details. "I want the viewer to become personally involved. My paintings offer a change from those which encourage extensive intellectualizing about what the artist is trying to convey. I want viewers to smile -- to enjoy the whimsical nature of what they are experiencing -- to feel it, not to analyze it!. His jazz paintings are stories on canvas of inspired musicians spontaneously making music of the moment. Life in the jazz age is clubs and nightlife beckoning to musicians to produce jazz art...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman with Birds
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alvar
Title: Woman with Birds
Year: c.1980
Medium: Color lithograph
Paper: Wove
Image size: 18.5 x 24.5 inches
Framed size: 26.5 x 32.65 inc...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Casual Dinning" From the suite "Memories Retrospective"
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Casual Dinning" from the suite "Memories Retrospective" c.1990 is an original color serigraph on paper by Israeli artist Itzchac Tarkay 1935-2012. It is hand si...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam)
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam)
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tulips in a Vase
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tulips in a Vase" 1995 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 169/200 in...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
By Jules Pascin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
Plate dimensions 9" wide x 12" high
Frame dimensions 19.5" wide x 26.5" high
Plate signed
The etchi...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cafe Life
By Michael Bowen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cafe Life" 1982 is a offset lithograph with a color crayon and oil pastel drawing on wove paper by American artist Michael Bowen, 1937-2009. It is hand signed and inscribed "Image" in color crayon. The image size is 27. 75 x 18 inches, the drawing is 9.25 x 7.25 inches, sheet size is 30.75 x 21.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been fram...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Horses #IV
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "titled "Horses #IV" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand sig...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Susan Dysinger New Orleans Jazz Monoprint
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed and colorful mono print from the American artist Susan Dysinger. She studied art at the university of California at Santa Barbara. Known for these New Orleans jaz...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint
"New Mackrel": An Engraving From the 18th Century Series 'The Cries of London'
By Francis Wheatley
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a beautifully framed engraving, printed in colors with additional hand coloring, from the famous "Cries of London" series, depicting the lives and professions of the common p...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Basilica of St. Paul in Rome, Early 19th Century Etching by Luigi Rossini
By Luigi Rossini
Located in Alamo, CA
"Rovina della gran Basilica di S. Paolo fueri le mura accaduta" (View of the Ruins of the Great Triumphal Arch of S. Paolo Fuori le Mura) from "Le Antichita Romane" (Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1823. It depicts the destruction of the Basilica of St. Paul after the fire of 1823. People stand in the road and on the right observing the damage amid debris, which includes many fragments of columns.
The etching is presented in a silver-color wood frame with an off-white double mat with a black inner mat. There are a few small spots, but it is otherwise in very good condition. See item # LU117324669722 for another Rossini etching...
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1820s Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Paintings: Dagwood
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Roy Lichtenstein Two Paintings: Dagwood, 1984 is a vivid, colorful piece that demonstrates the clever work of Lichtenstein’s varied oeuvre. The work is c...
Category
1980s Pop Art Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Caimanes I, (Caymans I) (Estado III, VII/XIV)
By Francisco Toledo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Francisco Toledo
Caimanes I (Caymans I), not dated
Lithograph
Unframed dimensions: 17 x 20.5 inches
Framed dimensions: 26.5 x 33 inches
Edition: Estado III, VII/XIV
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Crucifixion: 18th Century Etching by Conrad Metz after Daniele da Volterra
Located in Alamo, CA
"Crucifixion" is an etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink by Conrad M. Metz after a painting by Daniele da Volterra. It was published in London in 1789 in 'Imitations Of Ancient...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Beginning of the End
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Beginning of the end" c.1990 is a color lithograph by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 49/300 in pencil by the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerald Gooch (American, 20th c.) "Bedside Manner" Original Lithograph c.1963
By Gerald Gooch
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage lithograph by Gerald Gooch c.1965.
Signed and dated lower right.
Limited edition. This is number 15/20.
Dimensions 25 1/2" x 19". Frame dimensions 33" x 27".
Very good...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Trees
By Robert Kipniss
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" c.1980 is an original lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wien
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Wien" c.1930, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 18 x 12.65 inches, framed size is 28 x 22.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold stressed frame, with off white/green matting and green and black fillets It is in Excellent condition.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ruins of the Roman Baths of Belisarius: A 19th C. Etching by Luigi Rossini
By Luigi Rossini
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...
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1820s Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Piazza Navona in Rome: A Framed Original 18th Century Etching by Barbault
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo" was created by Jean Barbault (1718-1762) after a painting by...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Metropolitan Opera, New York City Premiere" Large serigraph.
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Metropolitan Opera, New York City, Premiere" 1980 is an original colors serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbere...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Mujere
By Raul Soldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Mujere" c.1960 is an original color silkscreen by noted Argentinian artist Raul Soldi, 1905-1994. It is hand signed and numbered 12/15 P.A in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.75 x 17 inches, sheet size is 26.65 x 21.5 inches. It is in very good condition, colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Raúl Soldi was born in Buenos Aire in 1905.
He was an argentine plastic artist of recognized international experience.
In 1920 he began drawing and painting. He makes reproductions of Quinquela Martín...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Prelude
By Valerio Adami
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Valerio Adami – Italian (1935- )
Title: Prelude
Year: 1979
Medium: serigraph
Sight size: 29.75 x39.5 inches.
Sheet size: 29.75 x 39.5 inches
Signature: Signed lower right
Ed...
Category
1970s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Pomegranates
By Kaiko Moti
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pomegranates" c.1970 is an original color aquatint on Japan paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered XXII/LXXV in White pencil by the artist. The Size is 22 x 29.25 inches. Printed to the edge. It is in excellent condition, some hanging tape remaining on the back from a previous framing.
About the artist:
Born (Kaikobad Motiwalla) in Bombay, India on December 15, 1921, Moti was first educated at the Bombay School of Fine Arts but his talent led him onwards to study at the University College in London (on scholarship) and at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, where he received a Master's degree in Painting and Sculpture. While still in London he studied under MacWilliam and Reginald Butler.
Eventually moving to Paris in 1950, Moti attended the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Atelier Zadkine, to pursue his love of sculpture but lack of space soon compelled him to turn his attention to working on copper plates and he studied engraving with William Stanley Hayter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
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