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Untitled, Two Women
By Mario Cespedes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Two Women" c.1990 in a mixed media (Acrylic paint on off set lithograph) by Bolivian artist Marion Ferrer (Mario) Cespedes, b1942It is hand signed and numbere...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media
Still Life with Vase and Lemons
By Claude Gaveau
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Vase and Lemons" c.1980, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted French artist Claude Gaveau, b.1940. It is hand signed and numbered 64/1...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Seventh Day
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Seventh day" c.1990 is an original color lithograph by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, and numbered 80/300 in pencil by th...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Theo Tobiasse "Woman" Original Color Lithograph Signed / Numbered c.1960s
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Theo Tobiasse (1927-2012) "Woman" Original Color Lithograph Signed / Numbered c.1960s
Titled "Woman"
Dimensions 27" x 20.5". The frame measures 36.5" x 30.25".
Signed and numbered...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Centre Noeuds" planche #1
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #1, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #5
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #5, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) "Anais" Pencil Signed Etching c.1930
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) Etching "Anais" c.1930
Very fine etching by listed English / American artist Gerald Brockhurst.
Title "Anais" Pencil signed - From an edition of 55.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
London Tower Bridge
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "London Tower Bridge" 1924 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 12.15 x 17.25 inches, framed size is 21 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with beige matting and gold color bevel. 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...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Beetles II (With Electric Lamp)
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Beetles II (with electric lamp)" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences" 1968 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown British surrea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Rathaus in Vienna
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Rathaus in Vienna" c. 1960 is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
East Cove
By Virgil Trasher
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "East Cove" 1987 in an original color serigraph by American artist Virgil Trasher b.1943. It is hand signed, inscribed A.P and titl...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Portrait of a Young Boy
By Cuno Amiet 1
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Portrait of a Young Boy" 1949 is an original lithograph by Swiss artist Cuno Amiet, 1868-1961. It is hand signed and numbered 12/200 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Innsbruck
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Innsbruck" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed dated and dedicated in pencil. The plate mark (image) siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Nouvelles En Trois Lignes I
By Roland Topor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roland Topor (French, 1938-1997)
Title: Nouvelles En Trois Lignes I
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph with pochoir hand coloring
Edition: Inscribed A.P (Artist Proof)
Paper: Wove
Image size: 21 x 15 inches
paper size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Editions Sauret, Paris, Monaco
Condition: Excellent
Description: From the suite"Nouvelles En Trois Lignes"
About the artist.
Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 – April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer, filmmaker and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1955-1964).
He publishes his first drawings in the review « Bizarre », his first short stories appear in the review « Fiction » in 1958. His corrosive humor leads him to collaborate with the satirical newspaper « Hari-Kiri » (1961-1965). « Masochists » his first book is edited by Losfeld in 1961. Totally tragic, absurd and grotesque , the humor he disseminates evokes more the one of Central Europe. All his creations from the beginning till the end remain provocative and bizarre.
He is mainly known as an illustrator and graphic artist and famous for combining surrealism with black humor.
Abram Topor, father of the artist came to settle in Paris in 1930 thanks to a grant from the Warsow Arts Academy. In his young age during the war, he and his family will stay for a while in Savoie trying to escape Nazis.
In 1962 he created the Panic Movement (mouvement panique), together with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal. Topor wrote the novel "The Tenant" (1964), which was filmed by Roman Polanski as The Tenant
Topor was responsible for the odd visual style of the Czech/French animated sci-fi feature La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
La Plage Normande
By Maurice Brianchon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Plage Normande" c.1950 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Maurice Brianchon, 1899-1979. It is hand signed and numbered XV/XX in pencil by the artist. The image size is 18.5 x 15.5 inches, framed size is 30.5 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Maurice Brianchon was born in 1899, in the town of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe. Very early on, he showed many plastic predispositions. As a result, he was accepted in 1917 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and joined the studio of Fernand Cormon, renowned for his history painting. A year later, he moved to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. There he followed the education of Paul Renouard - a painter and engraver renowned for his portraits and figures of dancers - and that of Eugène Edouard Morand, a teacher since 1908. In this context, he frequented artists such as Joseph Inguimberty...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Payaso, Blue, Red and Yellow, 1980.
By Alejandro Colunga
Located in San Francisco, CA
These artwork title "Payaso blue, Red and Yellow" 1980 are the complete suite of three original lithographs by noted Mexican artist Alejandro Colunga, b.1948. They are hand signed, d...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Counterpoint Gothic VI
Located in San Francisco, CA
This work on paper is by Donald Farnsworth (1952-). It is titled Counterpoint Gothic VI. It measures 29.5 x 21 inches the sheet, 38.5 x 29.75 inches ...
Category
1980s Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Monotype
Constance Fletcher
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Constance Fletcher"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
La Lettre du Fils (The Son's Letter)
By Paul Jacoulet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Lettre du Fils" (The Son's Letter) 1938 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Happy Sisters
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Happy Sisters" 1977 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 29 x 19 inches, sheet size is 36 x 25 inches, framed size is 42.25 x 31 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf rubbed, scratched style frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Dream
By Pudlo Pudlat
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Winter Dream" 1989 is an original stonecut on thin tissue paper by noted Canadian/Inuit artist Pudlo Pudlat, 1916-1992. It is hand signed, titled, dated. describ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Other Medium
Le Basileus Chasse
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: lLe Basileus Chasse
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Light and Two Branches
By Kaoru Mansour
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Light and Two Branches" c.2010 is an offset lithograph on paper by Japanese artist Kaoru Mansour, b.1956. It is hand signed and numbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Charles Arnoldi (American, born 1931)
Title: Untitled
Year: 2001
Medium: Off set lithograph
Edition: Numbered VI 6/6 in pencil
Image size: 17 x 17 inches
Signature:...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
"Moses Strikes the Rock" Louvre Museum Etching Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Moses Strikes the Rock Louvre Museum Etching Late 19th Century
Remarkable detail in this fine etching done by the Louvre in Paris. The Louvre has the largest collection of original ...
Category
Late 19th Century San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Monet
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Portrait of Monet" c.1989 is an original lithograph by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, and numbered 129/400 in white pencil by...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Danzig
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danzig" c.1920, 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 16 x 20 inches, framed size is 26.5 x 30 inches. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with light brown matting and dark brown 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...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Drypoint Lambda II
By Ron Davis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Drypoint Lambda II" 1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Ronald Davis, b.1937. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 9/25 in pencil by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Three Questions #XII
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Three Questions #XII" 2003 is an original soft ground etching on Somerset paper by American artist Mary Esch, b.1965. It is Hand signed, dated, titled and number...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Leo, from the Zodiac suite
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990)
Title: Leo
Year: 1982
Medium: Color serigraph
Edition: Numbered 281/350 in pencil
Image size: 17 x 12.75 inches
Framed s...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
David Roberts "Approach to Alexandria" Original Lithograph w/Hand Coloring
By David Roberts
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Roberts "Approach to Alexandria" Original Lithograph w/ Hand Coloring c.1848
Published by F.G. Moon in London, 1848 with Colour Accentuation by D. Leslie, 1976.
Dimensions 20...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Observer
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Observer" c.1970 is an original color lithograph by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 55/300 in pencil by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Finger Print
By Tom Marioni
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Tom Marioni – American (1937- )
Title: Finger Print
Year: 1991
Medium: Color soft ground etching with sugar lift aquatint, drypoint, fingerprint ...
Category
1990s Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching, Mixed Media
Knight Running After a Girl
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Knight Running After a Girl" c.1980 is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 56/300 in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas V
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas V" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered XLII/C in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.5 x 18 inches, framed size is 36 x 30.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1935, Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in an artistic environment. Her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur, nurtured her talents. She studied the piano and at age 11 enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. At 17 she went to Vienna to study both art and music, and at 22 shetravelled to Argentina for the stimulating artistic environment of Buenos Aires. Continuing to study both piano and painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
La Tauromaquia, Plate #31
By Francisco Goya
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Banderillas de Fuego" from the suite "La Tauromaquia" engraved between 1815 and 1816, is a photogravure on creme wove paper after renown Spanish artist Francisco Jose De Goya...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Aero
By Bruce Weinberg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aero" 1990 is a color etching, with embossing and gold addition on handmade paper, with deckle edge, by noted artist Bruce Weinberg, 1942-1994 It is hand signed,...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media
Anthony Comstock
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Anthony Comstock"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Venice
By Kaiko Moti
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Venice" 1965 is an original color aquatint on Arches paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered 42/100 in pencil by the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
The Curiosity Shop
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The curiosity Shop" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Horses #II
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "titled "Horses #II" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 32/275 in p...
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Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sleeping Faun
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sleeping Faun" c.1970 is an original etching on creme wove paper by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numberedLXXIV/LXXV in pencil ...
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Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano "Tete d' Infant" Lithograph c.1970
By Beniamino Bufano
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano (1898-1970) "Tete d' Infant" Lithograph c.1970
Fine signed lithograph by noted American artist Beniamino Bufano.
From a limited edition of 145.
Dimensio...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Centre Noeuds" planche #7
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #7, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Swing Screen
By James Rosenquist
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "SWing Screen" 1979 is an original colors etching with aquatint on Pescia Italia paper by renown American artist James Rosenquist, 1933-2017. It is hand signed, d...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #4
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #4, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Weinstube Street, Urbani Keller
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Weinstube Street, Urbani Keller" c.1920, is an etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner and inscribed on the left. The plate mark (image) size is 14 x 9.5 inches, framed size is 26.35 x 21.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black/silver frame, with off white matting and black color 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 San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Early 20th Century European Architecture Drypoint Etching c.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century European Architecture Drypoint Etching c.1930
This fine etching is pencil signed in the lower right corner (illegible - see i...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Kimi Fuji
By Johnny Friedlaender
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kimi Fuji" c.1975 in an original color aquatint by noted Polish artist Johnny Friedlaender, 1912-1992. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The image (plat...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Rabbi In His Study
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine "The Rabbi in His Study" original etching circa 1961
A Fine original pencil signed etching by listed American artist Jack Levine (1915-2010)
Pl...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Seikichi Takara "Nightscape" Limited Edition Serigraph C.1989
Located in San Francisco, CA
Seikichi Takara "Nightscape" Limited Edition Serigraph c.1989
Artist Proof Edition 75.
Brilliant color serigraph by listed artist Seikichi Takara (Hawaii, 20th c.)
Serigraph dimensio...
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1980s Abstract San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled II
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled II" is an original color lithograph with embossing by noted Spanish artist Alvar Sunol Munoz Ramos, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 101/260 in pencil by...
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Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Gertrude S.
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Gertrude S."
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
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1970s Pop Art San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Three Standing Figures
By Henry Moore
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Three Standing Figures," 1976, in an original color lithograph on Arches paper by British artist Henry Moore, 1898-1986. It is hand signed with initials in pencil. It was published by Association de Bibliophiles Art et Poesie, and printed by Curwen Studio, London. From the suite, La Poesie, Les Poetes. From the edition of 110. Catalogue raisonne by Cramer, plate #323. In excellent condition. It is beautifully framed in a custom wooden gold frame with gold color bevel and fabric matting.
Henry Spencer Moore...
Category
1970s Abstract San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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