New York - Abstract Prints

"This work was created with two separate entities that play against each other, in real and illusionary space, thus combining two separate realms that come together and play with one...

Stanley William Hayter Big Horse (Black & Moorhead 46), 1932 Engraving & Drypoint on antique white Canson Vidalon laid paper affixed to original matting Hand signed, numbered 8/30 an...

This reproduction of Ellsworth Kelly's iconic work "Red, Yellow and Blue" (originally created in 1963) exemplifies his mastery of color, form, and minimalist abstraction. Published b...

De Beyerd Breda by Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932–2015) Date: 1986 Poster, signed Size: 33 x 23.5 in. (83.82 x 59.69 cm)

Bhavini Zaveri Tadi (b. India) is an artist and printmaker. Maharaja Sayajirao University. An Artist Proof Serigraphy by Bhavini Zaveri Tadi, Titled "Darkness Of The Spatial Memories"

ABOUT THIS PIECE: "This particular series is a an homage to photographs taken with film. They are the result of an aberration of light passing through a locked shutter and the camera...

Artist: K.B. (Kyu-Baik) Hwang, Korean (1932 - ) Title: Crowd of Shadows Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 50 Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 5...

Mihail Chemiakin (Russian b. 1943) "Untitled" Edition 195/225, Abstract Lithograph signed and numbered in pencil, 29.25 x 20.25, Late 20th Century, 1976 Colors: Teal, Maroon, Black,...

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Megapolis I Year: 1970 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Size: 20 x 20 in. ...

WENDINGEN - Number 2 of the 5th series 1923 dedicated to posters of Dutch artists author Jac.Jongert Color Lithograph after a drawing by Jan Sluijters. Dutch text cover designed by Jan Sluijters In good condition with minor wear. JAN SLUYTERS. Posters by Dutch Artists. Published March 1923. Introduction by Jac. Jongert, twenty-seven illustrations after designs by Roland Holst...

About the Series: Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...

A unique work by Typographic Artist Denis Meyers. Starting from an offset limited edition print, the artists layered blue letters writing his unmistakable personal Style. He uses o...

Jim Dine Olympian Gestures (Hand Signed by Jim Dine), 1984 Limited Edition lithograph and offset lithograph poster Hand signed on the front 38 1/5 × 25 inches The limited edition, h...

Richard Serra Early Work (Hand Signed), 2013 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed by Richard Serra) Boldly signed by Richard Serra on the front 18 × 24 inches Unframed This print was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner in 2013. It depicts Richard Serra in his studio in 1968. The print was hand signed by the artist on the occasion of his opening at Zwirner Richard Serra Biography Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco and lives and works in New York and the North Fork of Long Island. His first significant solo exhibition was held at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition took place at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970. Serra has since participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) in Kassel, Germany; the Venice Biennales of 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013; and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006. Solo exhibitions of Serra’s sculptural work have been held at numerous public institutions worldwide, including, among others, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1980; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1984; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1985; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986; Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 1987; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1987; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1988; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1990; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1990; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1992; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1992; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1997; Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1997–1998; Trajan’s Market, Rome, 2000; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2003; and Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 2004. In 2005, The Matter of Time, a series of eight large-scale works by Serra from 1994 to 2005, was installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and in 2007, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented the retrospective Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. Promenade, a major site-specific installation, was shown at the Grand Palais, Paris, for MONUMENTA 2008. In 2011, the artist’s large-scale, site-specific sculpture 7 was permanently installed opposite the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. In 2014, the Qatar Museum Authority presented a two-venue retrospective survey of Serra’s work at the QMA Gallery and the Al Riwaq exhibition space, Doha, and East-West/West-East, 2014, was permanently installed in the Brouq Nature Reserve in the Zekreet Desert, Qatar. In June 2020, a new major sculpture by Serra was installed on the West Quad of Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. In June 2022, the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, will inaugurate a new building specially conceived to house a recent large-scale forged steel sculpture by Serra. Museum exhibitions that have focused on the artist’s drawings include Richard Serra: Tekeningen/Drawings 1971–1977, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977; Richard Serra: Zeichnungen 1971–1977, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, 1978; Richard Serra: Drawings, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1986; Richard Serra: Tekeningen/Drawings, Bonnefantemuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1990; Richard Serra: Drawings, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1992; Richard Serra: Drawings and Prints, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 1994; Richard Serra: Rio Rounds, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1997–1998; and Richard Serra: Drawings: Work Comes Out of Work, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2008. A major traveling retrospective dedicated to the artist’s drawings was presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Menil Collection, Houston (which was the organizing venue), in 2011–2012. The Courtauld Gallery, London, presented Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld in 2013, and Richard Serra: desenhos na casa da Gávea was on view at Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, in 2014. Richard Serra: Drawings 2015–2017, a significant overview of the artist’s recent works on paper, was on view at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 2017. Serra/Seurat. Drawings, an exhibition pairing a selection of Serra’s recent drawings alongside those by Georges Seurat, was presented at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2022. Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, Serra’s monumental sculpture which debuted at David Zwirner in 2017, is now on long-term view at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, in a new building that was designed by Thomas Phifer in collaboration with the artist. Serra has been the recipient of many notable prizes and awards, including a J. Paul Getty Medal (2018) awarded in honor of extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding, and support of the arts; the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Republic of France (2015); Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España, Spain (2008); Orden pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Federal Republic of Germany (2002); Leone d’Oro for lifetime achievement, Venice Biennale, Italy (2001); Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association (1994); Carnegie Prize (1985); a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1974); and a Fulbright Grant (1965). In 2013 in New York, David Zwirner presented Richard Serra: Early Work, a critically acclaimed exhibition that brought together significant works from 1966 to 1971. The accompanying catalogue extensively covers this period of the artist’s career with a compendium of archival texts and photographs and an essay by Hal Foster...

Robert Mangold 'Untitled,' 1995 Color aquatint 27 x 28 inches Edition 21 of 60 Signed recto

James Bettison Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Woodcut on paper with deckled edges. Hand signed. Numbered 38/50. Dated. Printer's and Publisher's Blind Stamp. 20...

Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Ubu aux Baleares (M.786), Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: 120, Size: 21 x 25 in. (53.34 x 63.5 cm), Frame Size: 2...

Jasper Johns Graphics and Drawings at the Louisiana Museum, Leo Castelli Collection (Hand Signed by Jasper Johns), 1992 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed and dated by Jasper Johns) Signed and dated 7 March 1997 in black ink on the front (see close up photo) Extremely rare collectible...

Myron Stout Untitled (from Rubber Stamp Portfolio), 1976 Rubber Stamp Print on Buckeye Paper 8 × 8 inches Limited Edition of 1000 Stamped with a...

Artist: Kyohei Inukai Title: Idea Year: circa 1977 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 30 Image: 32 x 24 inches Paper Size: 35 x 26 inches

Louise Bourgeois Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I and II (Literary books with 10 original etchings) Hand signed by both artist Louise Bourgeois and Pulitzer winning playwright Arthur M...

Created in 1989 as a color etching, David Shapiro's Seven Centers is signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil. Measuring 29 x 21 3/4 in. (73.6 x 55.3 cm.), unframed, this artwor...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Buste de Femme Au Foulard Mauve". The original painting was completed in 1937. In the 1970's ...

David Hockney Paintings and Drawings for Parade - Metropolitan Museum (Hand Signed by David Hockney), 1981 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed by David Hockney...

Willem de Kooning, Dutch/American (1904 - 1997) - In the Sky, Year: 1982, Medium: Offset Lithograph Poster, Size: 26 in. x 30.5 in. (66.04 cm x 77.47 cm), Frame Size: 27.5 x 30...

Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...

Medium and Large Size print edition on canvas. Framing options included in Black, White and Natural wood framing. Please contact seller for the same. Print Edition on Canvas Available Sizes: 24" x 21" - $870 48" x 42" - $1700 BIO Basmat Levin...

Richard Serra Synagoge Stommeln (German Synagogue) The Drowned and the Saved (Hand signed twice by Richard Serra), 1992 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed twice by Richard Serra) ...

Small abstract expressionist style monotype in navy blue, green, light violet, and soft yellow 'Untitled 4' by Jenny Nelson Monotype, mad...

Mart Stam, De Architekt. Offset. Unlined. Geert Paul Hendrikus Schuitema was a Dutch graphic artist. He also designed furniture and expositions and worked as photographer, film d...

Robert Indiana Decade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), 1973 Color lithograph on off white wove paper Signed and numbered 84/125 in pencil on the front Frame included: This work is...

ROY DE FOREST Untitled, 1981 Lithograph on Arches paper with four deckled edges. 22 1/2 × 30 inches Hand signed and annotated Trial Proof, aside from the regular edition of 60 Unfra...

Artist: Jon D'Orazio, American (1942 - ) Title: Dusty Miller Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 45 Image Size: 23 x 28 inches Size: 26 in. x...

Sterling Ruby Poster "Was War Won", 2017 Offset lithograph poster on card paper 27 x 21.5 Unframed This bold and dramatic poster on card was distr...

Jim Dine Love for Channel 13 Lithograph. Hand signed and numbered recto 27 × 21 1/2 inches Edition 185/200 Signed and numbered 185/200 in graphite pencil on the recto Unframed Rarel...

Joyce Kozloff Pictures and Borders III, 1977 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed, titled, dated and annotated "Solo Impression" in graphite pencil on the back Editions Solo-Impression of 50 30 × 22 inches Unframed Pictures and Borders III Color lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed, titled and annotated "Solo Impression" on the back; a Printers Proof, aside from the regular edition of 50 Published by Judith Solodkin, founder of SOLO Impression, Inc Unframed Provenance: Provenance: De-accessioned from the corporate collection of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan JOYCE KOZLOFF BIOGRAPHY Joyce Kozloff was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1942. She received a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA in 1964 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1967. Kozloff was a major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the Feminist art movements of the 1970s. In 1979, she began to focus on public art, increasing the scale of her installations and expanding the accessibility of her art to reach a wider audience. Kozloff has since executed a number of major commissions in public spaces, including Dreaming: The Passage of Time for the United States Consulate, Art in Embassies Program in Istanbul, Turkey; The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles for the Los Angeles Metro’s Seventh and Flower Station, CA; Caribbean Festival Arts for P.S. 218, New York, NY; New England Decorative Arts for the Harvard Square Subway Station, Cambridge, MA; and Bay Area Victorian, Bay Area Deco, Bay Area Funk for the International Terminal, San Francisco Airport, CA. Since the early 1990s, Kozloff has utilized mapping as a device for consolidating her enduring interests in history, culture, and the decorative and popular arts. She initially concentrated on cities known to her, onto which patterns and images reflecting their colonial pasts were then overlaid. Subsequent series examined bodies of water and the inaccuracies of early maps from the so-called “Age of Discovery.” In 1999-2000, Kozloff was awarded the Jules Guerin Fellowship / Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy. During her yearlong residency abroad Kozloff conceived and completed Targets, a nine-foot walk-in globe in twenty-four sections, each of which is painted with an aerial map of a place that has been bombed by the U.S. in the years since World War II. A 2001 residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy provided the genesis for Boy's Art, a series of twenty-four collaged drawings based on maps, diagrams, and illustrations of historic battles...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 89 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)

Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: Morketiden II Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 10/175 Image Size: 15 x 17.5 inches Paper Size...

Artist: Liu Jian, Chinese (1961 - ) Title: LI Year: 1999 Medium: Monoprint, signed and dated in pencil Size: 25 x 19 inches [63.5 x 48.26 cm]

Moshe Givati (Israeli 1934-2012), "Untitled" Edition 1/20 Artist Proof, Abstract Serigraph Screen Print, 39 x 27, Mid 20th Century Colors: Brown, Yellow, Blue, Orange, Red, Pink, Gr...

Sarah Morris November 2021, 2021 Lithograph on wove paper Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity - hand signed by Sarah Morris (the artist) as well as the head of ICA Editions...

John Tandy, painter and stage designer, studied at the Architectural Association before becoming a student at Leon Underwood's Brook Green school and later studying at the Grosvenor ...

Jennifer Hilton Interstate 2 (Reader's Digest Association Art Collection), 1988 Monotype on paper Signed and titled in pencil by the artist on lower right front. Reader's Digest Association (RDA) corporate art collection label with inventory number on the back This is a unique work Frame Included - original wood frame with plexiglass Jennifer Hilton is a master printmaker, lithographer and longtime art professor at various museums and universities including: Assistant Professor, Montserrat College of Art Faculty, Danforth Museum of Art Faculty, Worcester Art Museum Department of Visual and Performing Art Clark University This impressive, monotype features overlapping geometric shapes of varying opacity, creating a beautiful depth and intrigue of pictorial elements. An excellent work to have for any collector of geometric abstraction. This work was de-accessioned from the prestigious Reader's Digest Art Collection, who originally acquired it from the Bess Cutler...

PETER HALLEY Nobody, 1997 Silkscreen with Embossing on Arches Cover Paper (Framed) Signed dated and numbered in pencil by Peter Halley from the edition of 60 on the front Published b...

Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....

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...

WALASSE TING Untitled (from Carnegie Museum of Art Portfolio), 1972 Original Limited Edition Vintage Lithograph 15 × 22 inches Limited Edition of 1000 Catalogue Raisonné: 155, Lembar...

Bright with pastel colors Live Composition I, 2024 by African American artist Bai is a 30” x 22” abstract acrylic and oil pastel work on paper. Rendered in a primitive art style that...

Shirai Akiko, Japanese (1935 - 2001) - Orange Clouds, Year: 1969, Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 11.75 x 16.75 inches...

Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, 1973 Signed in pencil, numbered 16/30 Published by The Litho Shop, Inc. California with their blindstamp Very good condition Sam Francis w...

In this vibrant print, Pablo Picasso creates a likeness of his daughter Paloma as a young child. Fusing together, the sharp angles and varied perspectives in this piece merge with th...

Patricia De Gogorza, American (1937 - ) - Midland, Year: 1969, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 8.75 x 5.75 in...

Kiki Smith 'Untitled,' 1995 Woodcut with color additions by hand 31 x 21 inches Edition 43 of 47 Signed In 1995 five well-known American artists - Donald Baechler, Julian Lethbridge...

Burton Wasserman Peace, Dedicated to art writer Eleanor Marko and her husband Ted, 1969-1970 Silkscreen Signed, titled, dated, AP inscribed "For Eleanor and Ted Marko/Cordial Greeti...

Artist: Alexander Calder, (American, 1898-1976) Title: Flying Colors for Braniff Airlines Year: 1974 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50.8 cm x 66.04 cm...

Donald Baechler The Accordion Player #1, 1995 Lithograph with silkscreen 30 x 22 1/4 inches Edition 32 of 49 Signed In 1995 five well-known Ameri...

Robert Motherwell Pull Out All Flags (Engberg, Banach 263), 1980 Aquatint and etching in colors, on German Etching paper, with full margins Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed and n...

Richard Pettibone The Appropriation Print Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, 1970 Silkscreen in colors on masonite board (unique variant on sculpted board) Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated on the front (see close up image) Bespoke frame Included This example of Pettibone's iconic Appropriation Print is silkscreened on masonite board rather than paper, giving it a different background hue, and enabling it work to be framed so uniquely. The Appropriation print is one of the most coveted prints Pettibone ever created ; the regular edition is on a full sheet with white background; the present example was silkscreened on board, allowing it to be framed in 3-D. While we do not know how many examples of this graphic work Pettibone created, so far the present work is the only one example we have ever seen on the public market since 1970. (Other editions of The Appropriation Print have been printed on vellum, wove paper and pink and yellow paper.) This 1970 homage to Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Roy Lichtenstein exemplifies the type of artistic appropriation he was engaging in early on during the height of the Pop Art movement - long before more contemporary artists like Deborah Kass, Louise Lawler, etc. followed suit. This silkscreen was in its original 1970 vintage period frame; a bespoke custom hand cut black wood outer frame was subsequently created especially to house the work, giving it a distinctive sculptural aesthetic. Measurements: Framed 14.5 inches vertical by 18 inches horizontal by 2 inches Work 13 inches vertical by 16.5 inches horizontal Richard Pettibone biography: Richard Pettibone (American, b.1938) is one of the pioneering artists to use appropriation techniques. Pettibone was born in Los Angeles, and first worked with shadow boxes and assemblages, illustrating his interest in craft, construction, and working in miniature scales. In 1964, he created the first of his appropriated pieces, two tiny painted “replicas” of the iconic Campbell’s soup cans by Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). By 1965, he had created several “replicas” of paintings by American artists, such as Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), Ed Ruscha (b.1937), and others, among them some of the biggest names in Pop Art. Pettibone chose to recreate the work of leading avant-garde artists whose careers were often centered on themes of replication themselves, further lending irony to his work. Pettibone also created both miniature and life-sized sculptural works, including an exact copy of Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968), and in the 1980s, an entire series of sculptures of varying sizes replicating the most famous works of Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876–1957). In more recent years, Pettibone has created paintings based on the covers of poetry books by Ezra Pound, as well as sculptures drawn from the grid compositions of Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944). Pettibone straddles the lines of appropriation, Pop, and Conceptual Art, and has received critical attention for decades for the important questions his work raises about authorship, craftsmanship, and the original in art. His work has been exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Pettibone is currently based in New York. "I wished I had stuck with the idea of just painting the same painting like the soup can and never painting another painting. When someone wanted one, you would just do another one. Does anybody do that now?" Andy Warhol, 1981 Since the mid-1960s, Richard Pettibone has been making hand-painted, small-scale copies of works by other artists — a practice due to which he is best known as a precursor of appropriation art — and for a decade now, he has been revisiting subjects from across his career. In his latest exhibitions at Castelli Gallery, Pettibone has been showing more of the “same” paintings that had already been part of his 2005–6 museum retrospective,1 and also including “new” subject matter drawn from his usual roster of European modernists and American postwar artists. Art critic Kim Levin laid out some phases of the intricate spectrum from copies to repetitions in her review of the Warhol-de Chirico showdown, a joint exhibition at the heyday of appropriation art in the mid-1980s when Warhol’s appropriations of de Chirico’s work effectively revaluated “the grand old auto-appropriator”. Upon having counted well over a dozen Disquieting Muses by de Chirico, Levin speculated: “Maybe he kept doing them because no one got the point. Maybe he needed the money. Maybe he meant it when he said his technique had improved, and traditional skills were what mattered.” On the other side, Warhol, in her eyes, was the “latter-day exemplar of museless creativity”. To Pettibone, traditional skills certainly still matter, as he practices his contemporary version of museless creativity. He paints the same painting again and again, no matter whether anybody shows an interest in it or not. His work, of course, takes place well outside the historical framework of what Levin aptly referred to as the “modern/postmodern wrestling match”, but neither was this exactly his match to begin with. Pettibone is one of appropriation art’s trailblazers, but his diverse selection of sources removes from his work the critique of the modernist myth of originality most commonly associated with appropriation art in a narrow sense, as we see, for example, in Sherrie Levine’s practice of re-photographing the work of Walker Evans and Edward Weston. In particular, during his photorealist phase of the 1970s, Pettibone’s sources ranged widely across several art-historical periods. His appropriations of the 1980s and 1990s spanned from Picasso etchings and Brancusi sculptures to Shaker furniture and even included Ezra Pound’s poetry. Pettibone has professed outright admiration for his source artists, whose work he shrinks and tweaks to comic effect but, nevertheless, always treats with reverence and care. His response to these artists is primarily on an aesthetic level, owing much to the fact that his process relies on photographs. By the same token, the aesthetic that attracts him is a graphic one that lends itself to reproduction. Painstakingly copying other artists’ work by hand has been a way of making it his own, yet each source is acknowledged in his titles and, occasionally, in captions on white margins that he leaves around the image as an indication that the actual source is a photographic image. The enjoyment he receives in copying is part of the motivation behind doing it, as is the pleasure he receives from actually being with the finished painting — a considerable private dimension of his work. His copies are “handmade readymades” that he meticulously paints in great quantities in his studio upstate in New York; the commitment to manual labor and the time spent at material production has become an increasingly important dimension of his recent work. Pettibone operates at some remove from the contemporary art scene, not only by staying put geographically, but also by refusing to recoup the simulated lack of originality through the creation of a public persona. In so doing, Pettibone takes a real risk. He places himself in opposition to conceptualism, and he is apprehensive of an understanding of art as the mere illustration of an idea. His reading of Marcel Duchamp’s works as beautiful is revealing about Pettibone’s priorities in this respect. When Pettibone, for aesthetic pleasure, paints Duchamp’s Poster for the Third French Chess...