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KEITH HARING 'THE STORY OF RED AND BLUE - 1990, L. pp. 128-13, SIGNED & NUMBERED
By Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring
Title: Plate 5 from Story of Red and Blue (L. pp. 128-133)
Medium: Screen print in colors on wove paper
Sheet Size: 22 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: approx 28.5 x 22...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Man Ray 'Le Mannequin' aquatint engraving - 1975
By Man Ray
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Man Ray
'Le Mannequin'
Aquatint/Engraving
1975
Edition: From the rare limited edition of 150
Size: 50x35 CM.
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Published by Cleto Polcina E...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
$2,999 Sale Price
25% Off
"Battle Horse I" 2019 Original Signed Engraving Etching 30x47 in Mexican Art
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Miami, FL
Miguel Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1956)
'Caballo de Batalla I', 2019
Engraving on paper Intaglio 300 g.
29.8 x 47.3 in. (75.5 x 120 cm.)
Edition of 30
ID: CAM-101
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Jazz II Deluxe 1980 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Romare Bearden
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Jazz II Deluxe
Medium: Screen Print
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 178/200
Size: 31 x 41½ inches
Romare Bearden (1911–1988) was a celebrated Afri...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Fred Astaire, Pop Art Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) - Fred Astaire, Year: 1989, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 80/125, Size: 28 x 25 in. (71.12 x 63.5 cm), Frame S...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mao 97 (Feldman/Schellmann II.97), Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Title: Mao 97
Year: 1972
Medium: Silkscreen in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Size: 36 x 36 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: signed in ball-point pen...
Category
1970s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$96,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall, Sarah and Abimelech, from Drawings for the Bible, 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Sara et Abimelech (Sarah and Abimelech), from Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible (Drawings for the Bible), Verve: Revue...
Category
1950s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall, Place de la Concorde, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1953
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Place de la Concorde (Place de la Concorde), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. VII, No. 27–28, originates...
Category
1950s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Paresse, Art Nouveau Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Paresse, Year: 1925, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 15 x 18.75 inches, Size: 23.5 in. x 27.5 in. (59.69 cm x 69.85 cm)
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original World Cup USA 94 - Coca Cola Soccer poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World Cup USA ’94, Coca Cola sponsored vintage poster. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame. This World Cup ’94 poster is very rarely seen or available....
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Henri Matisse, Teeny, from XXe Siecle, 1959 (after)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite linocut after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Teeny (Teeny), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIe Annee, No. 13, Noel 1959, originates from the 1959 edition published by Societe Internationale dArt XXe Siecle, Paris, under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, editeur, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1959. Teeny reflects Matisses continuing exploration of distilled form, graphic clarity, and expressive contour during his late career.
Executed as a linocut on velin paper, this work measures 12.5 x 9.75 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the superb craftsmanship of Mourlot Freres, Paris
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Title: Teeny (Teeny)
Medium: Linocut on velin paper
Dimensions: 12.5 x 9.75 inches (31.75 x 24.77 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1959
Publisher: Societe Internationale dArt XXe Siecle, Paris, under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, editeur, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Catalogue raisonne reference: Matisse, Henri, et al. Henri Matisse: Catalogue Raisonne de Loeuvre Grave Etabli Avec La Collaboration de Francoise Garnaud. C. Duthuit, 1983, illustration 723
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIe Annee, No. 13, Noel 1959, published by Societe Internationale dArt XXe Siecle, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1959
About the Publication:
Gualtieri di San Lazzaros XXe Siecle (Twentieth Century) was one of the most influential art journals of the modern era, founded in Paris in 1938 as a platform for the greatest painters, sculptors, and writers of the 20th century. San Lazzaro, a visionary editor, critic, and champion of modernism, believed that art and literature should coexist as expressions of a shared human imagination. Under his direction, XXe Siecle became a cultural bridge between Europe and the wider world, publishing special issues devoted to leading figures such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Braque, Calder, Miro, Kandinsky, and Leger. Each edition combined essays by renowned critics and poets with original lithographs, linocuts, and woodcuts printed by the foremost ateliers of Paris, Milan, and New York, including Mourlot, Curwen, Atelier Lacouriere, and Amilcare Pizzi, creating a uniquely rich dialogue between text and image. The 1959 issue, XXIe Annee, No. 13, presented a remarkable selection of original prints that showcased the vitality of European modernism at mid century. Today, XXe Siecle remains an essential record of 20th century modernism, celebrated for its seamless integration of fine art, literature, and design.
About the Artist:
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and printmaker whose revolutionary vision redefined modern art through his daring use of color, line, and form. Celebrated as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Matisse led the Fauvist movement and devoted his life to the pursuit of balance, beauty, and emotional expression in visual art. His early works burst with vibrant hues and liberated brushwork, while his later cut out compositions achieved a poetic simplicity that transformed the relationship between color and space. Deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, as well as by the rhythmic patterns of Islamic art, Byzantine mosaics, and Japanese prints, Matisse forged a new visual language that celebrated joy, movement, and serenity. He was part of an extraordinary generation of artists who shaped the evolution of modernism, maintaining lifelong dialogue and friendly rivalry with contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Andre Derain, Albert Marquet, and Raoul Dufy peers who, like him, sought to expand the expressive potential of color and composition. Matisses influence extended across generations, inspiring modern and contemporary masters including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, each of whom drew upon his fearless experimentation and refined visual harmony. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are held in the most prestigious museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and the Hermitage Museum, where his art continues to symbolize the essence of creativity and human emotion. The highest price ever paid for a Henri Matisse artwork is approximately 80.8 million USD, achieved in 2018 at Christies New York for Odalisque couchee aux magnolias (1923).
Henri Matisse linocut...
Category
1950s Fauvist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
$956 Sale Price
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Keith Haring lithographic insert 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Lithograph 1982:
Double-sided lithographic insert from the seminal spiral bound, 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalog published on the occasion of Haring's first gallery solo exhi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall, Tribe of Judah, from The Jerusalem Windows, 1962 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tribe of Judah, from the album Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, originates from the 1962 edition published by And...
Category
1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre..
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Storrs, CT
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre. (En regardant les Watteau de Louvre). c. 1895. Drypoint printed in 2 colors - black and sepia. 11 3/4 x 15 7/8. Goncourt 3, d...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Color
$6,500 Sale Price
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Argentinean signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 27x19 in. n9
Located in Miami, FL
Justo Barboza (Argentina, 1938)
'17 huellas', 1995
silkscreen on paper Guarro Geler
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: BAR1437-009-025
Hand-signed by author
Category
20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Screen
Yovani Bauta, ¨Untitled¨, 2003, Engraving, 14x11.8 in
Located in Miami, FL
Yovani Bauta (Cuba, 1957)
'Untitled 2 (pareja)', 2003
engraving on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g.
14 x 11.9 in. (35.5 x 30 cm.)
Edition of 7
ID: BAU-316
Unframed
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
LA PARADE
By Georges Rouault
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958)
La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. Signed in plate as i...
Category
1930s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,100 Sale Price
43% Off
Cecilia Arrospide - Perspectivas, Collage 2019
By Cecilia Arrospide
Located in Stamford, CT
Perspectivas
Collage
13 x 9
My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other mediums...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Bateau-Mouche au Bouquet (Mourlot 352; Cramer 53), Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 180, plus proofs. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Regar...
Category
1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
20% Off
France via Bicycle and French Bread serigraph
Located in Spokane, WA
Original France travel by bicycle (and French bread) vintage serigraph poster, excellent condition, ready to frame. These images are of the exact rare poster you will receive. Ar...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$398 Sale Price
20% Off
THE CONVERSATION Signed Lithograph, Black Women, Train, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
THE CONVERSATION is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. THE CONVERSATION...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
U. S. Census Saturday Evening Post original 1940 vintage poster
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: THE SAURDAY EVENING POST. Artist: Noman Rockwell. Size: 21.75" x 28". Archival linen backed in very fine condition. The painting for this original poster ...
Category
1940s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Fernand Leger, Still Life with Newspaper, from Contrastes, 1959 (after)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Nature Morte au Journal (Still Life with Newspaper), from the folio Contrastes, 13 Aquarelles, Gouache, ...
Category
1950s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Historic Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples poster - rarely found collectors item
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Lucio Amelio Napoli poster, 1987
Offset lithograph poster
Plate signed
39 × 21 inches
Unframed
This poster was published for the exh...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Le Pieton de Paris
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: "Le Pieton de Paris"
Year: c.1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 42/175 in pencil
Paper: Japan paper
Image ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
Category
1960s Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bird
By Amanda Pratt
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Amanda Pratt is known and admired for the energetic, inspiring brand of whimsy she brings to photography. Countless clients have benefitted from her technical preci...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
$900
Brooklyn Bridge
By Richard Bosman
Located in New York, NY
An exquisitely printed image created by Richard Bosman in 1996, the artist’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge is a woodcut on Japan paper. Measuring 18 x 24 1/2 in. (45.7 x 62.2 cm), unframed,...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Joan Miro, Untitled, from Joan Miro, 1956
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1956 publication Joan Miro. Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, and printed by M...
Category
1950s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Statue of Liberty, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Robert Rauschenberg is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B...
Category
1980s Conceptual Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
YOUNG DOUGLASS Signed Linocut, Black Portrait Head African American Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG DOUGLASS is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print created using linoleum cut printmaking techniques on white archival Somerset White paper, 100% acid free. Hand signed in pencil by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printer's chop mark on lower left, print documentation provided.
YOUNG DOUGLASS is an impactful graphic statement by the renowned African-American and Mexican woman sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett, created as a tribute to Frederick Douglass, the most distinguished black American human rights leader of the 19th century. Strong impression printed in rich black ink on white wove paper, a powerful portrait of Douglass as a young man, with his distinct facial features, thick black hair, well-dressed in a formal high collar shirt...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
An Engraving from the Series 'The Cries of London': "Turnips & Carrots"
By Francis Wheatley
Located in Alamo, CA
A beautifully framed hand-colored engraving from the famous "Cries of London" series, depicting the lives and professions of the common people of 18th ...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Picasso, La Petite Colombe (Mourlot 174; Cramer 55) (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the Picasso Lithograph...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
58% Off
Max Ernst, The Wheel of Light, from Natural History, 1972 (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite collotype after Max Ernst (1891–1976), titled La Roue de la lumiere (The Wheel of Light), from the album Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), originates fr...
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Church of St. Costanza, Rome: An 18th Century Piranesi Architectural Etching
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century Giovanni Battista Piranesi etching entitled: "Veduta interna del Sepocro di Santa Costanza, fabbricat...
Category
1770s Old Masters Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
Category
1940s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...
Category
1930s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
58% Off
"Mother" 2004 original signed engraving etching limited edition print Cuban art
Located in Miami, FL
Eduardo ¨Choco¨ Roca Salazar (Cuba, 1949)
'Mother II ', 2004
dry point on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g.
19.3 x 15.4 in. (49 x 39 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: CHO-112_1
Hand-sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Engraving, Etching
"I Love You" Limited Edition towel/wall hanging (LARGE: 60 inches x 70 inches)
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
I Love You/I Love Your Soul/I Love Your Smile, ca. 2010
100% Cotton Beach Towel
60 × 70 inches (folded it's 25 x 30 inches)
Signed in plate, authorized printed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Cotton, Screen, Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Delassement (Relaxation)
By Louis Legrand
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Delassement (Relaxation)" 1901, is an original etching and aquatint by renown French artist Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, 1863-1951. The plate mark (Image) size...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Max, Blushing Beauty, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Blushing Beauty
Year: 1999
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as iss...
Category
1990s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$475 Sale Price
20% Off
Andrew Wyeth, Teel’s Island, from The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), titled Teel’s Island, originates from the distinguished 1962 folio The Four Seasons: Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth....
Category
1960s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
GIRLS WITH LOTS OF QUAILS
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996)
GIRLS WITH LOTS OF QUAILS, 1965
鶉と少女
Hand colored stencil print on momigami textured paper. Signed and numbered in white. Edition 50, Image 17 x 2...
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
$1,150 Sale Price
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Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games w/COA from Olympic Committee offset lithograph
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Star In Motion, 1982
for the Los Angeles Summer 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee)
Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper
Stamp signed (aut...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Marc Chagall, Nocturne in Vence, from The Lithographs of Chagall, 1963
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Nocturne a Vence (Nocturne in Vence), from the album The Lithographs of Chagall, Volume II, originates from the 1963 edi...
Category
1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Henri Matisse, Frontispiece, Vence 1944–1948, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1948
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Frontispice, Vence 1944–1948 (Frontispiece, Vence 1944–1948), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. VI, No. ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Temptation of St. Anthony
By Hendrik Goltzius
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Temptation of Saint Anthony an etching in the manner of Hendrik Goltzius.
Goltzius was born near Viersen in Bracht or Millebrecht, a village then in the Duchy of Julich, now in the ...
Category
16th Century Baroque Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Untitled, from Derriere le Miroir, 1966 (after)
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1966 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 158–159, published by Maeg...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
"Madre Juchiteca" Large original color lithograph.
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Madre Juchiteca" 1973 is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by renown Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'At the Fun Gallery', Hand Signed by Haring, Subway Drawings, New York, Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Hand signed by Keith Haring in felt pen, upper center, 'K. Haring' for Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) and dated 1983. A trimmed, print magazine advertisement for the artist's ina...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
Louise Bourgeois "Be Calm" Limited Edition Ceramic Dish MOMA
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois
Be Calm Butter or Trinket Dish, 2017
Screenprint on Ceramic
6 × 4 × 1 inches
Unframed
Stamped by artist's estate, bears printed copyright and name stamp of The Easto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ceramic, Screen
Henri Matisse, Series D, Var. 3, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 3 (Series D, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Andries Stilte oversized Towel Wall Hanging (limited edition sold out) 70" x 60"
By Kehinde Wiley
Located in New York, NY
Kehinde Wiley
Andries Stilte oversized beach towel, 2008
Silkscreen on 100% Cotton Large Beach Towel or hanging tapestry
70 × 60 inches
Edition of 2000
In original packaging with ta...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Cotton, Mixed Media, Screen
Marc Chagall, The Flying Fish, from Color of Love, 1958 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Le Poisson Volant (The Flying Fish), from the folio Couleur amour, 13 Aquarelles, Gouaches, Lavis (Color ...
Category
1950s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Wassily Kandinsky, Tableau avec formes blanches, L'édition de tête (after)
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré au Blau...
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Bicentennial Bandwagon, Pop Art Lithograph by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bicentennial Bandwagon by Red Grooms, American (1937)
Date: 1975
Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued)
Image Size: 10 x 13 inches
Size: 14 in. x 17 in. (35.56 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame S...
Category
1970s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY 1986 Lithograph, African American History, Black Culture
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Union City, NJ
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Bauhaus) (20% OFF + Free Shipping)
By Herbert Bayer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Herbert Bayer
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Verkauf- und Werbekiosk, Zigarettenmarke P ), 1924
Offset Lithograph
Year: 1994
Size: 33.2 × 23.2 inches
Publisher: Bauhaus A...
Category
1920s Bauhaus Continental US - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$120 Sale Price
20% Off





