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Figurative Photography For Sale
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957 Fiber print 40x30 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Ev...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Dapper Lord Snowdon Photo Suit & Tie
Located in Surfside, FL
Lord Snowdon Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agi...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: A Cadillac with Florida plates p...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Darryl Zanuck In Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Darryl Zanuck In Cannes 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: 1957: Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Cannes Cannes Girls' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Dancers (Diptych)
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 6/25, includes two 11" x 14" prints with black frames. A Long Island native, von Hohenberg has always been a world traveler and took an interest in photography at the young age ...
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2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Liam Hopkins, Flying Shark 02
Located in Manchester, GB
Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Liam Hopkins, Flying Shark 01
Located in Manchester, GB
Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Harriet De Rosiere At Mougins' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Hotel Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Guests at the entrance to the Carlton' Mid-century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Guests a...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Spectre HQ Bond Set limited edition silver gelatine print
Located in London, GB
Bond Set The massive purpose-built set of SPECTRE's extinct volcano headquarters, designed by Ken Adam for the new James Bond 007 film, You Only Live Twice at Pinewood Studios, Bucki...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Desert House Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party 1970 A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Liam Hopkins, Mancunian Way Gorilla
Located in Manchester, GB
Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Liam Hopkins, Castlefield Gorilla
Located in Manchester, GB
Liam Hopkins, Castlefield Gorilla Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20 of each print
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Liam Hopkins, Industry Shark Chair
Located in Manchester, GB
Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964. This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe in Red), Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been released. This exquisite p...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Liam Hopkins, Industry Shark 01
Located in Manchester, GB
Photographic print 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23.39 x 33.11 in), unframed Each print is numbered and signed by the artist Limited edition of 20
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Rue Muller Willy Ronis Twentieth Century Humanist photography Paris black white
Located in Paris, FR
One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
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1930s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

'Scottsdale Home' Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Scottsdale Home' by Slim Aarons Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. You cannot almost feel the heat! Guests relax around the beautif...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Carrefour Sèvres-Babylone Willy Ronis Twentieth Century Humanist photography art
Located in Paris, FR
One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

"Spontaneous Creation (part 2)" Photography 40"x32" inch Ed of 24 by Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Spontaneous Creation (part 2)" Photography 40"x32" inch Ed of 24 by Rob Woodcox Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival) 2018 ABOUT Rob Woodcox Rob Woodcox is a fine a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Cortina d'Ampezzo - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only Skiers at Cortina D’Ampezzo in Italy, 1962 (Photo by Slim Aarons). This photograph epitomises the tr...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print, Color

Vanessa into the Blue- Fine art print, Color underwater photography with a model
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Vanessa into the Blue - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2022 - Edition of 5 Underwater photography of a woman This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based pape...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment

'Lounging In Verbier' ( Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964. This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

William S. Burroughs (Stamped) (~30% OFF LIST PRICE, LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Mapplethorpe William S. Burroughs Photograph, Silver Gelatin Print Year: 1982 Size: 9.8 × 7.8 inches Stamped verso Accompanied by Radar, Basel, Edition C.L.A.G., 1982; Text in German Gallery COA provided Robert Mapplethorpe was born November 4, 1946, in Floral Park...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Motorboot by Gerhard Richter
Located in London, GB
By Gerhard Richter Hybrid raster dissolved offset/digital high quality art print on Rives 260 gsm paper 70 x 70 cm Edition of 500
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Screen

Sarah's BBQ, Fourth of July, Albuquerque, NM, 1995
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph. Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones. With Robin’s extensive ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

La Concha Beach Club (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
La Concha Beach Club, 1975 Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Winter Suntans
Located in New York, NY
Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. Circa 1960's Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aaro...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

The Wind II. From the Desert Flower series .
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Wind II by Guilherme Licurgo From the series Desert Flower Archival pigment print Image size: 60 in. H x 40 in. W Edition of 5 + 2AP _____________________ Guilherme Licurgo was...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

'Tania Mallet In Mme Paulette Hat' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition print
Located in London, GB
'Tania Mallet In Mme Paulette Hat' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition print A model wearing a Nina Ricci dress, John French (1907-66), London, 1963 © Victor...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Panther by Patty Carroll, 2020, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Panther by Patty Carroll is a staged photograph of a mannequin, representing a woman, laying on a couch in a panther themed room. This photograph is listed as a 22 x 22 inch archiv...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. Slim Aarons ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

She Sees Everything (Voyeur Series)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“I’m continuously creating imagery that questions our perceptions and our ingrained desire to observe the forbidden, to find beauty where we shouldn’t and to glamorize violence.” - M...
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2010s Post-Modern Figurative Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Pigment

The Stalker (Voyeur Series)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“I’m continuously creating imagery that questions our perceptions and our ingrained desire to observe the forbidden, to find beauty where we shouldn’t and to glamorize violence.” - M...
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2010s Post-Modern Figurative Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Watcher, in Red (Voyeur Series)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“I’m continuously creating imagery that questions our perceptions and our ingrained desire to observe the forbidden, to find beauty where we shouldn’t and to glamorize violence.” - M...
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2010s Post-Modern Figurative Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Janis, Female Head Down Lying On Sofa
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Edition of 25 Matted on archival mat board.
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Early 2000s Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Elsa Martinelli - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Elsa Martinelli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s. Good conditions.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Young Velvets Vogue 1949 Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Young Velvets, Young Prices photoshoot, 1949 Limited Edition Print by Norman Parkinson Three velvet-capped women huddle in gossip as another looks on during an October 1949 Vogue ...
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1940s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Danae and Zeus - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 27x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman wrapped in golden tulle. Her body position, her beautiful face, and golden reflection remind Ancient Greek myth of Zeus and Danae. O...
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Drive-in Dreams (Bombay Beach) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Drive-In Dreams (Bombay Beach) - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and certificate. Artist ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

New York City Parade by Karl Struss, 1910, Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Located in Dallas, TX
New York City Parade by Karl Struss is a vintage photograph documenting a crowd of people in the streets of New York City during a parade. This photograph is a vintage gelatin silve...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

June 19th by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
June 19th by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., is a black and white photograph documenting a family's celebration of Juneteenth, the day in which the last of the enslaved people in Texas were tol...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Robert Longo, Untitled (Men in the Cities) - Set of 2 Photographs, Signed
Located in Hamburg, DE
Robert Longo (American, born 1953) Untitled (Men in the Cities), 1976/2009 Medium: Set of two gelatin silver prints Dimensions: each 50.8 x 40.64 cm (20 x 16 in); overall 50.8 x 81.2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab women or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab women or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jean-Luc Mylayne, N°476, Décembre 2006 – Mars 2007 - Contemporary Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jean-Luc Mylayne (French, b. 1946) N°476, Décembre 2006 – Mars 2007, 2020 Medium: Inkjet print on paper Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm Edition of 25: Hand-signed and numbered, verso Conditio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Plastic Head: 35th Anniversary Barbie Doll, rare, vintage, collectable, comic
Located in London, GB
My first female Plastic Head, I didn't want just any Barbie doll. After conducting some research, I stumbled upon the 35th anniversary Barbie, which is a reproduction of the original Barbie...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Photography

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Plastic, Archival Ink

'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956. The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Unzippin' Gold
Located in New York, NY
Nicole Furman is a multimedia artist, body painter and photographer from Bogotá, Colombia. Having studied a range of art practices from body painting and performance to art history a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print, Plexiglass

Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool, 1978 Chromogenic Lambda print 40 x 60 inches Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity. Carmen Alvarez enjoying a...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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