Alexander Calder

1970s Alexander Calder poster (Calder Braniff Airlines 1976)

1976

Milton Glaser Sony Tape, Full Color Sound poster 1980: Vintage original 1980s Milton Glaser poster designed by Glaser for the world-recognized brand Sony. A classic Milton Glaser advertising design featuring the profile of a 19th-century music listener silhouetted against music liner paper. Offset lithographic poster in colors. 30 x 45 inches. Very good overall vintage condition with the exception of perhaps some minor signs of handling. Vintage original print. Milton Glaser printed signature upper left; from an edition of unknown. Literature: Milton Glaser Posters, Glaser, pg. 251. Legendary graphic designer, illustrator, and art director Milton Glaser created some of the most recognizable iconography in America today —including the iconic I ♥ N Y logo —and countless posters and ad campaigns. Glaser changed the face of commercial art in the 1960s and ’70s, breaking with the conventions of modernism and drawing inspiration from a wide variety of art-historical and pop-cultural sources, from Art Nouveau to comic illustration...

1980s Milton Glaser Poster Art: San Diego Jazz Festival: Vintage original Milton Glaser poster c.1983. Designed by Milton Glaser on the occasion of the San Diego Jazz Festival, a Pacific Coast event depicted with a suit-and-sandal clad bear at dusk. Several favorite Glaserisms show up here: the swirling contours, the loose cross-hatching and the saxophone. Offset lithograph poster in colors. 24x36 inches. Very good overall vintage condition with the exception of perhaps some minor signs of handling. A suit-and-sandal bear heralds this Pacific Coast event with a serenade with a beautiful sunset. Several favorite Glaserisms show up here: the swirling contours, the loose cross-hatching and the sax. Literature: Milton Glaser Posters Legendary graphic designer, illustrator, and art director Milton Glaser created some of the most recognizable iconography in America today —including the iconic I ♥ N Y logo —and countless posters and ad campaigns. Glaser changed the face of commercial art in the 1960s and ’70s, breaking with the conventions of modernism and drawing inspiration from a wide variety of art-historical and pop-cultural sources, from Art Nouveau to comic illustration...

1990s Milton Glaser Poster Art: Juilliard: Vintage original Milton Glaser poster c.1990. Designed by Milton Glaser on the occasion of Juilliard School of Music at New York’s at the Lincoln Center. Beginning in 1987, the audio-tape manufacturer TDK underwrote a series of annual posters for Juilliard at New York’s Lincoln Center. Glaser has designed all the posters. Here, in the fourth, the lightning power of music brings a carefully-painted Dutch floral still life...

Original 1989 Keith Haring, Ignorance = Fear Silence = Death poster: On behalf of the New York-based AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Keith Haring design...

Richard Lindner Adults-Only, 1979 Offset lithograph poster Plate signature with date, right front Limite Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Frame Included: held in vintage 1970s metal perio...

Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Jim Dine, Roberto Matta, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, John Hultberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Paul Jenkins, Hassel Smith, Jack Youngerman, Ray Parker, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Mark Tobey, David Budd, Hans Hofmann, Various Artists, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky. La Grande Occassione Della Pittura Americana Milano (Hand Signed by Jim Dine), 1963 Offset Lithograph invitation poster (hand signed by Jim Dine) Hand signed by Jim Dine on the front -signed in person for the present owner, so provenance is direct. 12 1/4 × 16 3/4 inches Unframed Uniquely signed. The gallery acquired this historic 1963 invitation and then Jim Dine graciously signed it years later in black marker - as he was/is the only artist of the entire group who was still alive. We know of no other one in the entire world with any hand signature by any of the artists exhibited. This very rare invitation/poster was published on the occasion of this important 1963 exhibition of American painting at the Galleria Ariete, Mostra n. 94, in Milan, Italy. The roster of artists represented is literally a Who's Who of American Abstract Expressionists of the era. The Galleria dell'Ariete in Milan, Italy, opened in 1955, and ran an active exhibition until its closing in the mid-1980s. It was among the most important galleries in Italy for contemporary art, and had extensive connections with dealers, collectors, artists, and critics in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Beatrice Monti della Corte opened the Galleria dell'Ariete at Via San Andrea, 5, Milan, Italy in 1955, when she was twenty-five years old, principally as a showplace for modern art; Galleria dell'Ariete rapidly became one of the foremost Italian galleries...

After Andy Warhol Chanel No. 5 (Suite of Four Individual (Separate) Prints on Linen Canvas), 1996 Suite of Four (4) Separate Individual Limited Edition Offset lithographs in colors on wove paper affixed to elegant thin linen canvas backing, Each plate signed Andy Warhol 29 inches (vertical) × 22 inches horizontal (measurements here and above are for each print) Limited, special edition printing, exact number is undisclosed Unframed Dimensions apply to each of the four (4) prints in this one lot. “Chanel N˚5,” A special edition, printed under the auspices of the Warhol Foundation...

Gilbert & George Gilbert and George Major Exhibition, Tate Modern (Hand Signed), 2007 Offset Lithograph Poster Hand signed by Gilbert & George on the front 30 x 20 inches Unframed E...