Salvador Dalí­

Le Nu à la Guitarre (The Nude on the Guitar) (Serenade) /// Salvador Dali Modern

1970

Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987) Title: "Le Fil d'Ariane (Ariadne's Clew)" Portfolio: For Meyer Schapiro *Signed by Masson in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Etching with Aquatint on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 15/100 Printer: Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, France Publisher: The Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York, NY Sheet size: 18" x 13.5" Image size: 11.5" x 8.5" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition Rare Notes: Numbered by Masson in pencil lower left. Comes from the 1974 "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio of twelve print editions by various artists. The "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio consisted of four lithographs (one with embossing), three screenprints (one with stamp additions), two lithographs and screenprints (one with embossing), two etching and aquatints, and one duplicated drawing. Various printers were used. In addition to Masson, the following artists also contributed to the portfolio: Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Biography: André Masson (b. Balagny-sur-Thérain 1896 - Paris 1987) was a French artist. He was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. He fought for France during World War I and was seriously injured. His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding automatic drawing rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War. Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island...

Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965) Title: "Unité, Planche 10" (Set of 2) Portfolio: Unité *Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is...

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)" Portfolio: Hommage à Albrecht Durer (Suite Mythologique Nouvel...

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "(Mort de Cleopatre) (The Death of) Cleopatra" *Signed by Dali in pencil lower right Year: 1972 Medium: Original Engraving on Arches paper Limited edition: 197/325 Printer: Ateliers Rigal, Paris, France Publisher: EUKA, Paris, France and Roten Gallery, Baltimore, MD Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 72-14, page 73; "Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980" - Michler/Löpsinger No. 820, page 247 Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.13" Image size: 16.38" x 20.38" Condition: Toning to sheet. Faint stain line at right edge and a few soft handling creases in right margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Los Angeles, CA. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. Arches watermark lower right. We are specialists in Salvador Dali's printmaking oeuvre, having personally worked with his cataloger Albert Field in the 1980's, we unconditionally guarantee all of our examples to be authentic. Biography: Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes...

Artist: Dagmar Mezricky (Czech, 1944-) Title: "Tenderness Gives Rise to Harmony" *Signed, numbered, and dated by Mezricky in pencil lower left Year: 1988 Medium: Original Lithograph...

Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004) Title: "Nude (Lithograph)" *Signed, dated, and numbered by Wesselmann in pencil lower right Year: 1976 Medium: Original Lithograph and Screenprint with Embossing on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 49/75, (there were also 12 artist's proofs) Printer: Styria Studio, New York, NY Publisher: Multiples Inc., New York, NY Reference: "Tom Wesselmann" - Stealingworth page 285; "Synthesis and Tension: Tom Wesselmann's Editions" - Cristea Roberts Gallery No. 9, page 36-37 Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.13" Image size: 13.5" x 23.63" Condition: A superior example in mint condition Rare Notes: Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Chicago, IL; acquired from van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL in 1979, retaining their original gallery label. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Nude with Rose". Printed in thirty-four colors. Styria Studio chop mark/blind stamp lower right. Multiples Inc. chop mark/blind stamp lower left. Rives BFK watermark lower left. Some pencil inscribed reference numbers on verso. Our example here is in mint condition with strong colors as the day it was printed having been previously archivally framed and properly stored. For reasons unknown, most all examples of "Nude (Lithograph)" that appear today, their colors have greatly attenuated (faded) over the past 45 years. Also, the printer and publisher of this edition are almost always incorrectly defined backwards, as Styria Studios as the publisher and Multiples Inc. as the printer. William (Bill) van Straaten (1937-2013) founded van Straaten Gallery in Chicago in 1969, a contemporary art gallery with an international reputation. He served as president of the Chicago Art Dealers Association. He ran the gallery at 646 North Michigan Avenue for 33 years until 2002. In 2003, van Straaten moved his operations to Steamboat Springs, Colorado establishing Riverhouse Editions, a fine art publisher. In 2008, van Straaten moved to Denver and acquired the Sandy Carson Gallery on Santa Fe Drive, which operated as the van Straaten Gallery for five final years before closing in 2012. Biography: Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, Ohio, cartoonist and collagist Tom Wesselmann eventually moved to New York City to become one of the founding figures of the Pop Art movement, making waves with his "Great American Nude" series. He later became well known for his huge canvas...

Nude is an original lithograph realized by Sergio Barletta. With a poem written on the lower center in blue. Hand-signed on the lower right. Artist's proof. In very good condition...

Corneille Dreaming Nude and Blue Bird, 1998 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered EA / 20 On vellum 52 x 66 cm (c. 21 x 26 inch) Excellent condition

This dramatic lithograph in limited edition of 16/24 portrays an erotic image of man with testicles and no penis. It is in white and verdi gris and printed on heavy paper: C.M.Fabria...

Title: Mujer en Azul Date: 1980 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Dimensions: 30 x 22 inches

Title: Mujer en Rojo Date: 1980 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Dimensions: 30 x 22 inches

La Voyante is an original contemporary artwork realized by Paul Delvaux in 1974. Color Lithograph on Arches Paper. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 25/75. ...