Al Held Art

Title: Portrait of a Poet Etching and soft-ground etching, in colors, 2017. Edtion of 30 printed on hand-made 100% cotton paper. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. In excellent ...

Title: Portrait of a Painter Etching and soft-ground etching, in colors, 2017. Edtion of 30 printed on 100% cotton paper. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. In excellent condit...

Serigraphy on Fabriano paper, edited in 1983 limited edition, numbered in lower left corner as pda ( artist proof ) signed in pencil by artist paper size: 68 x 68 cm excellent condit...

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

Falling Shape is an original Contemporary Artwork realized by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - Venice, 1990) in 1976. Original etching and aquatint on copper plate printed in 4 colors on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Edition of 80 and XV artist proofs. Printed by Stamperia 2RC, Rome and published by 2RC Editrice, Rome. Mint conditions. Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - Venice, 1990), an Italian painter. In Paris he visits the great international exhibitions: in front of the works of Matisse, Braque, Pierre Bonnard and Picasso exhibited in the artistic capital of France he remains both admired and irritated. The first solo show of him takes place in Paris in 1939 (Galerie Rive Gauche).

Joan Miro Barcelona III (from Barcelona Suite) Etching and Aquatint and Carborundum in Colors on Guarro Wove paper Year: 1972 Edition: 50 Signed and ...

No 8.69 Ian Fraser Medium - Screen print Edition - 4/12 Signed - Yes Size - 780mm x 585mm Date - 1969 Provenance - From the Andrew Purches collection Condition - Very good. 9...

Lago Verde is a unique silkscreen print by artist, Jonathan Lawes. The combination of bright and muted tones gives the work a layered effect to make an impactful statement piece. Jo...

Period mixed media print and painting by California artist Katherine Chang Liu (American, 20th-century). Signed "Fireworks Series #39" Katherine Chang Liu '87. Presented with a white...

Abstract composition is an artwork realized by Mark Tobey in 1970. Mixed colored aquatint and etching on paper paper. Hand signed and dated on the Lower right Numbered on the lowe...

Clare Halifax Living and Learning in London Limited Edition 9 Colour Silkscreen Print Edition of 75 Sheet Size: H 37cm x W 38cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ image...

Etching on paper, épreuve d'artiste, 1973 LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015). He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art...