Banksy, a street artist whose identity remains unknown, is believed to have been born in Bristol, England, around 1974. He rose to prominence for his provocative stenciled pieces in the late 1990s.
Banksy’s political statements and disruptive vision have impacted cities across the globe at vital moments in modern history, provoking alternative viewpoints and encouraging revolution in the art world.
His identity remains unknown, even after more than 30 years of involvement in the global graffiti scene. He has worked in many street artmediums and in many styles, breaking down the boundaries and expectations of street art critics.
His work includes powerful, often controversial images, encouraging the rapid spread of his name and work across the internet. Today, his iconic works have been re-shared and repurposed beyond measure.
BANSKY
Monkey Queen, 2003
Screenprint Ed. 57/750
Signed on the lower left side
(the first 150 are signed)
19 x 13 inches
Accompanied by Pest Control Certificate
JAVIER CALLEJA
Javier Calleja was born in Málaga, 1971 and completed bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Granada University in 2000. Before he completed his artistic training at the age of 31 he was a gymnastics athlete training for the Olympics.
Calleja's work seems to be a simple aesthetic, but he creates surprising and humorous art-pieces through ingenious changes in everyday events. In his paintings, drawings and sculptures he deploys the aesthetic conventions of cartoons and the illustrations of children’s books, in his search for simplicity and immediacy.
In addition to the comics, pop art and surrealism both influence the work of Javier Calleja; the artist invites the viewer to form part of playful scenes, and to interact by participating in his ironies or by reacting to the disproportionate sizes that evoke the worlds of Alice.
JAVIER CALLEJA
I can not promise you, 2018
Pencil and Colored Pencil on Paper
8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches
JIM DINE
Jim Dine, by name of James Dine, (born June 16, 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), American painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and poet who emerged during the Pop art period as an innovative creator of works that combine the painted canvas with ordinary objects of daily life. His persistent themes included those of personal identity, memory, and the body.
Jim Dine painted hearts because he was a self-described romantic artist. He embraced the heart because he believed it was a shape with boundless possibilities and a complex meaning. He explored relationships of color, texture and composition through the heart.
JIM DINE
La Monarque, 2008
Acrylic on Wood
60 x 60 inches
JEAN DUBUFFET
JEAN DUBUFFET
Site avec 3 personnages (from Psycho-sites Series), 1981
Acrylic on paper laid to canvas
19¾ x 13 ½ inches
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (1901-1985) explored the possibilities of materials and surfaces in works that depict common place subjects. Throughout his career he reacted against conventional ideas of beauty and remained apart from artistic movements.
Most of Dubuffet's later works involved large painted polyester resin sculptures, which still retain his offbeat sense of humor yet also have a grotesque and violent nature to them. Some critics consider him a predecessor to later trends in Pop Art and Neo-Dada.
JEAN DUBUFFET
Dessin Bonpiet Beau Neuille, 1982
Ink on paper with collage
10 x 6 3/4 inches
HELEN
FRANKENTHALER
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting.
In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking.
Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. Her professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery.
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
London Memos
Acrylic on Paper
Signed Frankenthaler 71-75 Lower right
27 1/8 x 42 inches
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
Adolph Gottlieb began his career as an artist in New York in the 1920s, with no expectation of financial reward.
He became one of the small group of artists who initiated the movement known as Abstract Expressionism, and achieved artistic and financial success far beyond his early expectations.
The artist died on March 4, 1974 in New York, NY, and in accordance to his wishes, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation was formed in 1976, offering grants to visual artists.
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
Cadmium Red Disc, 1971
Oil on Canvas
Signed & titled (reverse)
60 x 48 inches
K E I T H
H A R I N G
Keith Haring moved to New York City in 1978 and began using the city as his canvas, making chalk drawings in subway stations. His art was eventually seen everywhere from public murals and nightclubs to galleries and museums around the world. He was also known for his activism in promoting AIDS awareness. He died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990, at age 31.
Haring’s deceptively simple imagery and text provided poignant and cutting cultural commentary on issues including AIDS, drug addiction, illicit love, and apartheid. As both an artist and an activist he established that depicting serious issues could be fun or at least lively when communicated through highly cartoony images and fresh and vivid choices of colors.
KEITH HARING
Untitled , 1983
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity its issued by the
Authentication Committee of the Estate of Keith Haring and number
111799A8
Enamel Spray Paint, Latex on Plywood
96 x 48 inches
KEITH HARING
Untitled
Executed in 1987-1988
lacquered steel
57 ½ x 51 x 50 ⅛ in. (146.1 x 129.5 x 127.3 cm.)
This work is from an edition of three and is registered with The Estate of Keith Haring under identification number 062195A12.
KEITH HARING
Busted Head, 1984
Signed and dated 'K. Haring Nov. 21 1984' (on the reverse)
Sumi ink on paper
22 7/8 x 28 ¾in / 58 x 73cm
P A U L J E N K I N S
Paul Jenkins’s intuitive, chance-based painting techniques helped pioneer new approaches to Abstract Expressionism.
Jenkins made his vibrant compositions by pouring paint directly onto the canvas, then tilting it so the paint dripped, bled, and pooled into fluid, diaphanous washes that resembled ceramic glazes. His palettes and methodologies can evoke the experiments of fellow abstract titan Helen Frankenthaler.
Jenkins has been the subject of retrospectives at the Musée Picasso in Antibes, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His works belong in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
PAUL JENKINS
Phenomena Lifting off
Acrylic on canvas
Signed 'Paul Jenkins' (lower left);
Signed again, titled and dated 'Paul Jenkins "Phenomena Lifting Off" 1972' (on the overlap)
44 x 85 in. (111.8 x 215.9 cm.)
KAWS’s career began as a graffiti artist in New York, NY, in the early 1990s.
His images were seen on billboards, bus stops, and in phone booths. He began working as a freelance artist for Disney, creating animated backgrounds.
He is also a world-renowned artist who exhibits in museums and galleries internationally.
KAWS
NYT, 2012
Acrylic on canvas
60-inch diameter
Some of his most popular works include his contributions to 101 Dalmations, Daria, and Doug. Once KAWS began to gain popularity, his graffiti advertisements became highly sought after.
He traveled extensively to work in Paris, London, Germany, and Japan. In 1998, he received the Pernod Liquid Art Award, which offers a grant to new artists.
His art stands somewhere between fine art and global commerce.
Roy Lichtenstein is the most famous artists in the history of Pop Art, and was noted for his contributions to this art genre, particularly with his graphic works known for their bright and catchy colors and images.
Roy Lichtenstein was born and raised in New York City on October 27, 1923. His parents were Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Throughout his childhood, he spent most of his time in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As a young boy, he developed an interest in two things - comic books and science.
During his teenage years, he became more passionate in art. In 1937, he took his fascination in art to a higher level when he decided to take up watercolor classes at the Parsons School of Design. Aside from this course, he also attended the Art Students League to take classes. It was in this school that he studied with Reginald Marsh, a famous realist painter. Lichtenstein's early artistic idols were Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica, then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Entablature VIII (C. 145), 1976
Color screenprint, lithograph and collage with embossing on Rives BFK
Signed, dated, and numbered 29/30 in pencil
Image: 21 7/8 x 38 in. Sheet: 29 1/8 x 45 in
R I C H A R D P R I N C E
Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned.
Richard Prince has blazed new trails for photography with his explorations of appropriation, identity, and the meaning of images in a mass-media culture. Throughout his career, he has photographed and cropped published advertisements and exhibited them as his own works, turned screenshots from women’s Instagram accounts into inkjet-printed-on-canvas pieces that sell for six-figure prices, and shown innumerable compositions that touch on sexual taboos.
His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie's New York in 2005.
He is regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to the New York Times.
RICHARD PRINCE
Untitled, 1984-90
Silkscreen, graphite, and spray paint on paper
37 1/4 x 24 3/4 in
L A R R Y R I V E R S
Larry Rivers was a painter, sculptor, poet, musician, and an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large paintings merging abstract and narrative elements, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953), where the general leads his men through a space defined by murky oil washes and broad gestural brushwork.
Rivers studied in the late 1940s under Hans Hofmann, the artist often regarded as the grandfather of Abstract Expressionism, but he never abandoned figuration, his compositions often including human subjects and text, as in Vocabulary Lesson (Polish) (1964).
Rivers’ work is often compared to that of postmodern artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and is considered an important precursor to Pop art. As Andy Warhol once said, “Larry’s painting style was unique—it wasn’t Abstract Expressionism and it wasn’t Pop, it fell into the period in between. But his personality was very Pop.”
LARRY RIVERS
Girlie, 1970
Color screenprint and collage
Signed and inscribed artist's proof VIII/XVIII in pencil
30 1/2 x 18 5/8 in
Kenny Scharf is an American painter and iconic street artist. His inimitable graffiti paintings gained him notoriety and fame in the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s, with his work regularly featuring stylized aliens and popular culture icons in tessellated, colorful patterns.
Scharf's fun, colorful work is both a nod to the future and a reference to past art historical movements such as Pop and Surrealism.
"One very important and guiding principle to my work is to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture through my art," says Scharf.
KENNY SCHARF
Lamp, c. 1980
Acrylic, tinsel and plastic toys on lamp
37 x 13 x 13 in
94 x 33 x 33 cm
KENNY SCHARF
Stellar, 1992
Acrylic on canvas and board
Signed, titled and dated on verso
17 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches
KENNY SCHARF
Perfecta Moodsky, 1986
Incised with the artist's signature, numbered and dated 'Kenny Scharf 86 2/6' (lower edge)
Oil on bronze, in two parts
23 x 19 1/2 x 12 in
58.4 x 49.5 x 30.5 cm
Executed in 1986.
This work is number two from an edition of six.
KENNY SCHARF
Untitled, 1985
Felt-tip pen on paper
Sheet: 10 x 7⅝ in.
Framed: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.
KENNY SCHARF
Perfecta Moodsky, 1986
Incised with the artist's signature, numbered and dated 'Kenny Scharf 86 2/6' (lower edge)
Oil on bronze, in two parts
23 x 19 1/2 x 12 in
58.4 x 49.5 x 30.5 cm
Executed in 1986. This work is number two from an edition of six.
ANDY WARHOL
Andy Warhol is the leading figure in Pop Art, viewed as a the most prolific American artists of all times. Warhol was a multi media artist he explored silkscreen, film making, producing, designing and photographer.
Warhol created the universally recognizable portraits of well-known pop culture figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, and more. It was during the 1960s when Warhol created some of his most unique works through the method of stenciled silkscreen prints, including his infamous “Campbell’s Soup Cans” and “Brillo Box” works.
Warhol’s legacy continues to inspire today, as an integral, permanent figure within the art world, and its culture; whose work is still among some of the most distinguished and highest-grossing in history. In 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia to honor his legacy and his works are frequently exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
ANDY WARHOL
Jacqueline Kennedy II (Jackie II), 1966
Color Silkscreen
Stamped Andy Warhol on verso
Edition of 200
24 x 30 in
JOHN WESLEY
John Wesley is a contemporary American painter. Characterized by his uniquely graphic, flattened Pop paintings, Wesley’s work addresses themes of sexuality and erotica through stylized and symmetrically composed images. Rendered in distinctive pink and blue pastel hues, Wesley repeats the same graphic symbolic images in tessellation-like patterns on his large canvases, and regularly employs leitmotifs like pornography and avian fowl—often to humorous effect—throughout his oeuvre.
Though his paintings are reminiscent of his contemporary, his personal associations were with peers Dan Flavinand Donald Judd, and he was inspired by both the Minimalist and Surrealist movements.
That being said, “I didn’t go out and try to be a Surrealist,” Wesley explained of his ambiguous imagery. “It was just fun doing what I was doing.”
JOHN WESLEY
Police Officers, Off Duty , 1994
Signed, titled and dated upper right
Gouache on paper
8 x 13 ¼
TOM WESSELMANN
Wesselmann became one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s, rejecting abstract expressionism in favor of the classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape. He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera in an effort to make images as powerful as the abstract expressionism he admired. He is perhaps best known for his Great American Nude series with their fat forms and intense colors.
Wesselmann never liked his inclusion in American Pop Art, pointing out how he made an aesthetic use of everyday objects and not a reference to them as consumer objects.
In the 1970's Wesselmann continued to work with canvas and began exploring metal with the development of laser-cutting application. The 1990's and 2000's the artist expanded on his early themes of bold compositions and abstract imagery.
Dying of heart disease in 2004, Wesselmann is regarded as one of the leading figures in the vanguard of American Pop Art.
TOM WESSELMANN
Wildflower Bouquet (One-Handled Vase), 1988
Oil on laser-cut steel
61 x 86 inches