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With roots in sculpture, contemporary artist Robert Longo is best known for his charcoal and graphite drawings, which showcased men and women in mid-movement. You can shop a selection of Robert Longo pieces from some of the world’s top dealers on 1stDibs.
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Ellen from Men in the Cities
By Robert Longo
Located in Miami, FL
Lithograph on wove paper. Hand signed and dated recto lower right corner. Numbered from the edition of 42/50 recto lower left corner. Published by Wolfryd-Selway Fine Art, Los A...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Gretchen & Eric from Men in the Cities
By Robert Longo
Located in Miami, FL
Each piece hand signed in pencil and dated '85 lower right corner with matching edition numbers in lower left corner.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Longo, Black Palms - Lithograph from 1989, Signed Print
By Robert Longo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Robert Longo (American, born 1953)
Black Palms, 1989
Medium: Lithograph on rag paper
Dimensions: 169 x 127 cm (66½ x 50 in)
Edition of 35: Hand-signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Essentials (from the Forty Are Better Than One series), 2009
By Robert Longo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robert Longo
Essentials (from the Forty Are Better Than One series), 2009
Seven-part leporello pigment print on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Rag
68 × 12 3/4 in 172.7 × 32.4 cm
Edition of 75
M...
Category
Early 2000s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pigment
Three Strikes You're Out (Limited Edition Triptych)
By Robert Longo
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo
Three Strikes, You're Out (Triptych), 1990
Silkscreen and Color Photograph (C-Print) on Aluminum and Lead Plates
9 4/5 × 23 3/5 inches
Edition 120/200
Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's and publishers printed name & copyright
Unframed
Three Strikes You're Out was created in 1990 by Robert Longo exclusively for the mixed-media box-edition Contemporary Archeology, Pandora Part Three. The works were executed by jennifer Cox for Publishing House Bebert in an edition of 200, numbered and signed copies. This work is assembled as triptych and consists of two aluminium plates. Both aluminium plates show a color photograph of a cloud with silkscreened red X, the lead plate only showing the red X
Total size is: 9.8 inches by 23.6 inches
Individual Metal Plate Sizes: 9.8 x 9.1 in (2) / 9.8 x 5.1 (1)
Unframed
Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's printed name and copyright mark, along with the publisher - Publishing House Bebert, Rotterdam.
Robert Longo Biography:
Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, New York. He graduated high school in 1970, weeks after the Ohio National Guard massacred several students at Kent State University who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
One of those killed was a former classmate of Longo’s, and his body was shown in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that was seen across the world. The event shocked Longo, triggering his interest in political activism and media imagery.
In 1972, Longo received a grant to study restoration and art history in Florence. While touring the museums of Europe, he realized he wanted to make, rather than restore art. In 1973, Longo enrolled at Buffalo State College, where he worked for artists Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton, who introduced him to structuralist filmmaking. Along with Charles Clough, Longo also co-founded Hallwalls (1974–ongoing), an alternative non-profit art exhibition space where he organized shows and talks with artists such as John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Robert Irwin, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Serra.
At Buffalo State, Longo started a friendship–that still exists to this day–with Cindy Sherman, and in 1977 the two moved to New York together, where Longo began working as a studio assistant to Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. That year he was included in the exhibition Pictures at Artist’s Space, curated by Douglas Crimp, which showcased work by a group of five young artists who were engaged with the politics of image-making, drawing from advertisements, newspapers, film, and television. The “Pictures Generation,” as they became known, included artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, David Salle, and drew from semiotics and poststructuralist theory to investigate the way meaning is made and circulated in modern society. Their work often critiqued the anaesthetizing power of consumer capitalism and the indoctrinating effects of mass media. At his first solo show at Metro Pictures in 1981, Longo presented his charcoal and graphite Men in the Cities drawings, which instantly became icons of the “Pictures Generation,” and some of the most recognizable artworks of the 1980s.
Longo performed in New York rock clubs with the band Menthol Wars with Richard Prince, throughout the 1980s. During that period, he also designed numerous album covers, including Glenn Branca’s The Ascension (1981) and The Replacements’ Tim (1985). In 1986, he directed his first music video for New Order’s chart-topping song Bizarre Love Triangle, and the following year directed The One I Love, a video for R.E.M.’s first hit single.
Longo began working with diverse materials at increasingly ambitious scales. His Combines series, first exhibited in 1983, incorporated materials such as paint, graphite, wood, plaster, cast bronze, and steel in works that were part-painting, part-sculptural reliefs. Using Sergei Eisenstein...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Metal
Robert Longo - Untitled, 2021
By Robert Longo
Located in Central, HK
Robert Longo
Untitled, 2021
Moab Entrada Natural paper
9 3/5 × 12 2/5 in | 24.5 × 31.5 cm
Edition of 150 + 5AP
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper
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