Unknown

French Geometric Technical Drawing

Circa 1980

Beautifully detailed pencil drawing of an ear by Tuscan artist Floriana Belluardo. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fi...

Beautifully detailed pencil drawing of a foot by Tuscan artist Floriana Belluardo. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fi...

ink and pencil drawing on transfer paper of two couple enjoying an amorous evening out by Irmgard von Reppert, circa 1960. Initialed lower right. Artist title and comment pasted lowe...

Skillfully rendered pencil drawing of various 19th century era figures at work, circa 1850. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic ...

Kohinoor pencil on white Bristol. These works are currently unframed. These rock portraits were drawn in Wyoming while the artist was at The Ucross Foundation in 2018 and depict gi...

Kohinoor pencil on white Bristol. These works are currently unframed. These rock portraits were drawn in Wyoming while the artist was at The Ucross Foundation in 2018 and depict gi...

Kohinoor pencil on white Bristol. These works are currently unframed. These rock portraits were drawn in Wyoming while the artist was at The Ucross Foundation in 2018 and depict gi...

Ken Aptekar American (b. 1950) Go Know (Study) 1996 Graphite, white pigment, transparency film, and staples on paper Hand signed lower right sheet: 18 x 18 inches frame dimensions: 21 x 21 x 1 3/4 inches, wood frame with acrylic glazing Ken Aptekar is an artist who combines painting with text. He paints new versions of historical paintings and frames, bolting glass with sandblasted words to his painted panels. Aptekar’s work belongs to the tradition of painting, yet he brings to that tradition a recognition that paintings produce meaning only through their interaction with viewers. He investigates the nature of spectatorship. By “recreating” works of art in a painterly but utilitarian manner, Aptekar promotes viewers’ own narratives prompted by the image-text combinations. Born in Detroit, Aptekar received his BFA at the University of Michigan, then moved to Brooklyn to complete an MFA at Pratt Institute. Most recently, his work was featured at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria, and in the Biennale Internationale d’Autun, in Autun, France. A major commissioned solo exhibition, NACHBARN (“NEIGHBORS”), 2016, was on view at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck, Germany, including paintings with text, silverpoint drawings, and video all based upon medieval altarpieces in the St. Annen Museum’s collection. Previously, his work has been seen in solo exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), Centro da Cultura Judaica (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau (Brunoy, France), the New Museum (New York, NY), Douglas Cooley Gallery at Reed College (Portland, OR), Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State (State College, PA), Cummer Museum (Jacksonville, FL), and the Elaine Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). In 2012 Aptekar’s work was the subject of a survey exhibition, ​“Ken Aptekar: Look Again,” at the Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was in the show Words & Music with John Giorno, Cheonae Kim...