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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Afternoon Tea Party, Impressionist Etching after Mary Cassatt
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Cassatt, After, American (1844 - 1926) - Afternoon Tea Party, Year: 1991; Original Published: 1890 - 1891, Medium: Color Etching on Arches Paper, Image Size: 14 x 10 inches, ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Degas, Sketch of Dancers, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1945
Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches,...
Category
1940s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Warhol, Chanel (Yellow/Blue), Chanel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel
Year: 1997
Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas
Size: 29 x 22 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed in the plate
Notes: This special ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Offset
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Safe Sex! (Döring & Osten 60), Hand Signed, Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Title: Safe Sex! (Döring & Osten 60)
Year: 1987-88
Medium: Offset lithograph on archival gloss paper, archivally mounted on r...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$7,160 Sale Price
42% Off
Robert Kushner, abstraction for the Paris Review Lithograph hand signed 142//200
By Robert Kushner
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner
Paris Review, 1982
Lithograph with Deckled Edges.
Hand signed and numbered 142/200 by the artist on the front
30 × 44 inches
Unframed
This work was part of a series o...
Category
1980s Abstract Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Star Catcher on Blue, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Star Catcher on Blue
Year: 2002
Edition: 487/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 4.87 x 4.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
I...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed Keith Haring letter 1984 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1984)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1984:
A RARE signed Keith Haring letter produced in 1984 by Haring's long-time gallerist, Tony Shafrazi in reference to Keith Haring's wood panel s...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 lithographic poster A Heart at the Opera
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 poster, 1983
Offset lithograph poster; unsigned
46 × 29 inches
Unframed
This limited edition poster was pu...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Alex Katz 'Olivia 1'
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
"Olivia 1" by Alex Katz (2025) is a striking multicolored screen print on Museum quality fine art paper, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 50, showcasing Katz's iconic styl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Beach, Signed and Framed Pop Art Screenprint by Jack Brusca
By Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993)
Title: The Beach
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Image Size: 23 x 23 inches
Size: 27.5 i...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Art Deco La Veuve Joyeuse 1936 Original French Operetta Poster by Georges Dola
By Georges Dola
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant Art Deco poster, created to promote the operetta La Veuve Joyeuse (The Merry Widow), is a striking example of 1930s graphic design and French theatrical advertising, cre...
Category
1930s Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Color
David Feinstein, Negro District, Brooklyn, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
David Feinstein's Negro District, Brooklyn, a lithograph of 1936-39, is a marvel. It's a construction of every detail the artist could think of to show the nature of the locale: The ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Heart Series I, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Heart Series I
Year: 1998
Edition: 130/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper
Size: 5 x 4 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscriptio...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$763 Sale Price
20% Off
Keith Haring 1990 memorial (Keith Haring baby)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Memorial 1990 (Keith Haring Baby, Keith Haring Barking Dog:
Original screen-printed folding invitation with double-sided artwork publish...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Lithograph
Wall to Wall Signed twice with inscription & drawing 1 of 2 Trial Proofs, Framed
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Signed, Dated, Numbered, Titled and Uniquely Inscribed front and back in pencil, with two original artist's drawings
"WALL TO WALL" FROM WALL: TWO STONE SUITE IV, WITH TWO ORIGINAL I...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Pencil
"La Danse Barbare (from Les Saltimbanques), " Pablo Picasso, Figurative Print
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
La Danse Barbare (from La Suite des Saltimbanques), 1905, printed 1913
Etching on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper
Sheet 13 x 20 inches
From the edition of 250...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Max, Summer of Love & Peace, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Statue of Liberty II
Year: 2013
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper
Size: 16 x 12 inches
Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, a...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Keith Haring Halloween 1989 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York City 1989:
RARE original 1989 Keith Haring designed Sound Factory Halloween invite featuring a dazzling array of Keith Haring Skeletons:
“Keith Haring & Sound...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Subway Drawings 1983 (exhibition catalog)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York City Subway Drawings, 1983:
Rare early exhibition catalog/pamphlet illustrated by Keith Haring on the occasion of: "Keith Haring / New-York City Subway Drawings...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
SECOND GENERATION Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Protest
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
SECOND GENERATION is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. SECOND GENERATION portrays a double portrait of a boy and girl in profile, bordered by bright yellow, orange and red flames with a row of turquoise blue silhouette figures marching in protest across the lower portion of this striking composition by Elizabeth Catlett. From the FOR MY PEOPLE suite of prints, a set of 6 lithographs illustrating the well known 1942 poem by Margaret Walker.
"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a
bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second
generation full of courage issue forth; let a people
loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of
healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing
in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs
be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now
rise and take control." stanza from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Signed Limited Edition Feminist Contemporary Art Print - Eleanor Roosevelt 785
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Eleanor Roosevelt 785 - Signed Limited Edition Feminist Contemporary Art Print
Linda Stein considers her Women of Courage Mood Portraits series a feminist labor of lov...
Category
2010s Feminist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
2779494: The Olympic Runner (Limited Ed. Hand Signed with Olympic Committee COA)
By Jonathan Borofsky
Located in New York, NY
Jonathan Borofsky
2779494: The Olympic Runner
Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (Hand Signed with Olympic Committee COA), 1982
Offset Lithograph on Parson'...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Kenny Scharf at Gagosian Gallery 1984 (Kenny Scharf 1984)
By Kenny Scharf
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Kenny Scharf at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984:
Offset printed announcement card.
Dimensions: approx 4 x 5 inches.
Good overall vintage condition.
Features Scharf printed si...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
SPOTLIGHT Signed Lithograph, Man in Tux Playing Grand Piano, Art Deco
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
SPOTLIGHT by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival...
Category
1980s Art Deco Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Four Facets of Esther (I) Silkscreen Rare signed Printers Proof, Judaica
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana
Purim: The Four Facets of Esther (I) Sheehan, 36, 1966
Color silkscreen on off white wove paper
Printed by Stephen Poleskie, Chiro...
Category
1960s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Mr. & Mrs. Choke Cherries, Signed Serigraph by Kevin Red Star
By Kevin Red Star
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kevin Red Star, American (1942 - )
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Choke Cherries
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, AP
Size: 22.5 in. x 30.5 i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Show is Over, Guggenheim Museum offset lithograph SIGNED by Christopher Wool
By Christopher Wool
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Wool
The Show is Over Poster (Hand Signed by Christopher Wool), 2013-
Offset lithograph poster
Hand signed and dated 2017 on lower front.
This work was uniquely signed i...
Category
2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Bouquet
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Salvador Dali, American Trotting Horses No. 2, Lithograph with collage
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: American Trotting Horses No. 2
Date: 1971
Portfolio: Currier & Ives as Interpreted by Salvador Dali
Medium: Litho...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Soeur III
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
United We Stand, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: United We Stand
Year: 2002
Edition: 107/300, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 12.5 x 9 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscript...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,531 Sale Price
20% Off
Equis Allegory, Surrealist Hand-Colored Lithograph by Alvin Carl Hollingsworth
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth, American (1928 - 2000) - Equis Allegory, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Hand painted Lithograph on paper, signed in the plate lower right, Size: 11 x 15.5 in....
Category
1960s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jim Dine, I Love Public Television, deluxe hand signed/N 1966 Pop Art Lithograph
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1960s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
Blindman's Bluff, Framed Surrealist Lithograph by Leonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonor Fini (Argentine / French, 1908-1996)
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil
Edition: EA 35
Image Size: 10 x 7 inches
Frame Size...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Signed Limited Edition Feminist Contemporary Print - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 800
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Elizabeth Cady Stanton 800 - Signed Limited Edition Feminist Contemporary Art Print
Linda Stein considers her Women of Courage Moo...
Category
2010s Feminist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rockwell, Snow Sculpture Snowman
By After Norman Rockwell
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Title: Snow Sculpture Snowman
Year: 1985
Edition: 350/350, plus proofs.
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper
Size: 24.5 x 18.5 inches
Condition...
Category
1980s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 39/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Bacchanale, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Bacchanale". The original painting was completed circa 1922. In the 1970's after Picasso's d...
Category
1980s Fauvist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cleopatra (Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor), Al Hirschfeld
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
Title: Cleopatra (Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor)
Year: 2000
Edition: 217/300, plus proofs.
Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper
Size: 23 x 24 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist.
AL HIRSCHFELD (1903-2003) An American caricaturist best known for his black & white portraits of famous celebrities and Broadway stars...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
The glass mountain shattered David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pieta, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pieta, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 70/100, Size: 19 x 13 in. (48.26 x 33.02 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Historic invitation poster for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition Minimalist light art
By Dan Flavin
Located in New York, NY
Dan Flavin
Rare invitation poster for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition, 1970
Letterpress and stencil on colored paper
Not signed
Frame included
Floated in the original ACE gallery vintage wood frame.
Measurements:
Framed:
17.75" x 17.75" x 1.6 inches
Poster:
16 inches x 16 inches
Extremely uncommon letterpress and stencil poster designed by Dan Flavin on the occasion of his 1970 exhibition “Two Cornered Installations in Colored Fluorescent Light from Dan Flavin” at the legendary Ace Gallery in Los Angeles. The poster, like most exhibition invitations of that era (including those from the Leo Castelli gallery in New York) was undated, as these works were so much of the moment. This work was acquired directly from the collection of the ACE Gallery.
Other than the present work, we've never seen another example of this collectors item anywhere in the world, on or off the market (If anyone is aware of others, we'd love to see!)
More about the legendary ACE gallery, and the sale of some of its art collection from the bankruptcy estate, from where the present work was acquired:
ACE Gallery founder Douglas Chrismas opened his own frame shop and gallery in Vancouver at the age of 17. His gallery became known as a venue where Vancouver artists could show alongside major New Yorkers, and get the feeling of belonging to a bigger scene. In the 60s and early 70s he brought artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Donald Judd to Vancouver, Canada.
The gallery expanded to Los Angeles in 1967 at the former Virginia Dwan Gallery space in Westwood, and then further expanded to New York in 1994. The galleries were noted for doing museum-level exhibitions by up and coming and internationally renowned artists. While in New York the gallery’s presence was amplified by doing exhibitions in conjunction with cultural institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Cartier Foundation (Paris). Under Chrismas' directorship, ACE Gallery has had either offices or galleries in art centers outside of the United States, such as Mexico City, Paris, Berlin. and Beijing.
In 1972, Chrismas mounted Robert Irwin’s installation Room Angle Light Volume at the first ACE/Venice, which opened at 72 Market Street in 1971. In 1977, ACE mounted exhibitions of work by Frank Stella and Robert Motherwell, along with Michael Heizer’s Displaced/Replaced Mass. Installed at ACE/Venice, the Heizer piece required that huge chunks be gouged out of the gallery floor to create recessed areas able to accommodate boulders.
In April 2016, ACE Gallery emerged from a three-year bankruptcy proceeding under the leadership of Sam S. Leslie. In May 2016, founder Douglas Chrismas was terminated from all roles at the gallery.
In July 2021, Douglas Chrismas was arrested by the FBI and charged with embezzlement.
In May 2022, Douglas Chrismas was ordered to repay 14.2 million in ACE art sale profits, which were diverted to personal accounts.
Chrismas is awaiting criminal trial in January, 2023. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Controversies
In a 1983 lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court, Rauschenberg sought $500,000 from Chrismas' Flow ACE Gallery; the artist won a $140,000 judgment in the suit in 1984. Eventually the two reconciled their differences and in 1997 Robert Rauschenberg insisted that ACE Gallery New York (in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum) host his Retrospective.
In 1986, Chrismas pleaded no contest after Canadian real estate developer C. Frederick Stimpson alleged that he had improperly sold work belonging to the collector, among them pieces by Andy Warhol and Rauschenberg. Under the terms of the settlement, Chrismas agreed to pay Stimpson $650,000 over a period of five years. He continues to work with the Stimpson family in handling their art interests.
In 1989, ACE Gallery wanted to borrow a work by Judd along with Carl Andre's 1968 Fall, both owned by Count Giuseppe Panza, for an exhibition devoted to minimal art called The Innovators Entering into the Sculpture. Rather than shipping the two large scale works from Italy, Panza authorized ACE Gallery to refabricate the pieces in Los Angeles. In Panza's collection archives, there is a series of signed certificates signed by Judd that granted Panza broad authority over the works by Judd in his collection. These certificates "authorized Panza and followers to reconstruct work for a variety of reasons," as long as instructions and documentation provided by Judd were followed and either he or his estate was notified. This even included the right to make "temporary exhibition copies, as long as the temporary copy was destroyed after the exhibition; and the right to recreate the work to save expense and difficulty in transportation as long as the original was then destroyed." Miwon Kwon, in her account of site specificity: "One Place After Another," presents the account of ACE Gallery recreating artworks by Donald Judd and Carl Andre without the artist's permission. Andre and Judd both publicly denounced these recreations as "a gross falsification" and a "forgery," in letters to Art in America, however, the fabrication of the pieces were permitted by Panza Collection in Italy, the owner of the works. Despite the confusion surrounding the Panza refabrications, both Carl Andre and Donald Judd maintained a professional relationship with Douglas Chrismas and ACE Gallery. Andre showcased works at ACE Gallery in 1997, 2002, 2007, 2011 and present day. In 2007, Carl Andre's show entitled "Zinc" was exhibited at ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills. Donald Judd paid a visit to The Innovators Entering into the Sculpture exhibition at ACE Gallery and agreed to keep his sculpture in the exhibition. After the exhibition was over, Chrismas planned to sell the metal used for the re-fabrication of Judd's work for scrap metal but Judd wanted to own the re-fabrication for himself. ACE Gallery then sold the re-fabrication of Donald Judd's work to Donald Judd.
After having consigned more than $4 million worth of art to ACE Gallery to sell in 1997 and 1998, the sculptor Jannis Kounellis filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2006, accusing Chrismas of keeping most of the profits of artworks and refusing to return the pieces that did not sell. According to the lawsuit, the primary agreement between Kounellis and Chrismas was oral. Chrismas returned all of Kouenllis' artwork, and did a full accounting of the proceeds from Kounellis' work—minus the expense of exhibiting it. The matter was resolved between the two of them and ACE Gallery still sells and exhibits Kounellis' work today.
By 2006, Chrismas had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at least six times since 1982, barring most of his creditors from collecting the money immediately owed to them. Chrismas filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect the gallery's extensive real estate holdings from the problematic landlord. The landlord of the Wilshire Boulevard space, Wilshire Dunsmuir Company, claimed that ACE owed back rent and penalties however, the claim was disputed by Douglas Chrismas. In court papers, Chrismas Fine Art claimed that it would cure "the pre-petition" debt by Feb. 1, 2000, and was asking the court to protect its right to remain in the property. A declaration filed by Douglas Chrismas characterized this leasehold as the business' primary asset.
-Courtesy Wikipedia
About Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) was a pioneer of Minimal Art. He rose to fame in the 1960s with his work with industrially manufactured fluorescent tubes, inventing a new art form and securing his place in art history. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel focuses on his works that are dedicated to other artists or make reference to certain events.
Back in 1963 Dan Flavin mounted a single, industrial fluorescent light tube at a 45-degree angle to the wall of his studio declaring it art; the act was radical, and it still is. Indeed, it was owing to this action that standard commercial products would be introduced into art: The nascent Minimal Art of the era emphasised seriality, reduction and matter-of-factness. Somewhat ironically, while the autodidact Flavin never himself sought membership to this movement in art, he would, and quite literally, go on to become one of its most illustrious exponents.
Flavin began work with fluorescent light tubes from the early 1960s on; arranged in so-called ‘situations’, he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. The colours and dimensions of the materials he used were prescribed by industrial production. Flooded in light, viewers themselves become part of the works: The space, along with the objects within it, are set in relation to each other and thus become immersive experiences of art triggering sensual, almost spiritual experiences.
Flavin liberated color from the two-dimensionality of painting. The prevalent perception of his light works has, to date, largely centred on their minimalist, industrial aspect, and thus on the inherent simplicity of their beauty. The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel, by contrast, places emphasis on looking at Flavin’s oeuvre in a less familiar setting: His pieces, although initially without clearly recognisable signature, frequently make reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police violence, or are dedicated to other artists—as in the work untitled (in memory of Urs Graf...
Category
1970s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Stencil
Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite [Intended for a James Bond Movie]
Year: 1978
Medium: ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leaving Home (97-301), 5 color lithograph on Rives BFK paper, Signed/N Tamarind
By DeLoss McGraw
Located in New York, NY
DeLoss McGraw
Leaving Home (97-301), 1997
Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges
Signed and numbered 3/75 in graphite pencil on the front
17 × 24 3/25 inches...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SERENATA DE GUITARRA Signed Lithograph, Cubist Style Woman, Music, Latin Art
By Jorge Dumas
Located in Union City, NJ
SERENATA DE GUITARRA by the South American artist Jorge Dumas(1928-1985), is an original hand drawn lithograph hand proofed and printed using traditional lithography techniques on ar...
Category
1970s Cubist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
YOUNG BARMAN Signed Lithograph, Man Making Drinks, Nostalgic Paris Bar Scene
By David Azuz
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist - David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - 2014)
Medium - Lithograph
Print size - 28.5 x 21.5 in.
Image size - 25.25 x 19 in.
Edition size - 200, plus proofs
Year published - 1979
P...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harold E. Keeler, Water Fall
Located in New York, NY
Harold E. Keeler worked in Hollywood as a set designer. That seems especially important here because the Water Fall looks a little as though it could be a w...
Category
1930s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
SHARING THE CHORES Signed Lithograph Black Women, Farm Chickens, Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
SHARING THE CHORES is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Attente, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 4.875 x 6.625 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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The Circus, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithogr...
Category
1960s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Egyptian Theme 2, Folk Art Aquatint Etching by Mireille Kramer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mireille Kramer, Egyptian/American (1932 - ) - Egyptian Theme 2, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 150, Image Size: 6 x 3.5 inch...
Category
1980s Folk Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Casablanca, Vintage Three Sheets Lithograph Movie Poster by Bill Gold
Located in Long Island City, NY
Casablanca
Bill Gold, American (1921–2018)
Date: of Original: 1942
Reproduction Three Sheets Poster, numbered in pencil bottom left
Edition of 199
Size: 86 x 46.5 in. (218.44 x 118.1...
Category
1940s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Light Up Gold
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surreal Grail VII (nude with cape, radiating halo)
By Deming King Harriman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Surreal Grail VII (nude with cape, radiating halo) 2019, digital collage, print, framed and matted, figurative, Digital Print / Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Surrealistic ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, Color photorealist lithograph Signed/N
By Robert Cottingham
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham
Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, 1975
Color Lithograph
23 × 18 inches
Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil on the front; Bears Artist's cop...
Category
1970s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Protect Our Planet Ver. II, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Protect Our Planet Ver. II
Year: 2002
Edition: 500/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on archival paper
Size: 13.81 x 17.12 inches
Condition: Excelle...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,640 Sale Price
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Some Los Angeles Apartments - True, Stated 1st Edition of only 700 Artist Book
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
Some Los Angeles Apartments (Unsigned), 1965
True First Edition Artist Book: Stated Limited Edition of only 700
7 × 5 1/2 inches
Unframed
A rare and elusive 1960s Artist Bo...
Category
1960s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Global Man, Pop Art Screenprint Poster by Keith Haring 1990
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition silkscreen poster Keith Haring designed for Playboy. This limited edition run of 1000 was published in 1990 by Special Editions Ltd. The signature and date is in th...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag poster (Raymond Pettibon punk)
By Raymond Pettibon
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag poster circa 1983:
Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist once said of Pettibon's Black Flag illustrations and iconic l...
Category
1980s Street Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$500 Sale Price
20% Off





