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Philip Pearlstein Art

American, 1924-2022

Philip Pearlstein was a key figure in the sharp-focus realist movement. A leader in the early 1960s of the revival of figure painting in America, Pearlstein experimented briefly with landscapes and then concentrated on the realistic depiction of the nude figure, a traditional subject that had almost vanished from the contemporary art world. 

Pearlstein’s paintings, prints and drawings are characterized by a non-traditional informality, unexpected postures, and unusual perspectives including the radical cropping of figures. In his later works, he introduced rather elaborate backdrops including richly patterned fabrics and decorative floor patterns.

Pearlstein was born and grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to school, graduating in 1949 with a BFA. Pearlstein pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a master's degree in 1955. Although he briefly pursued Abstract Expressionism, he found his mature subject matter during the 1960s when he evolved his signature highly finished-hard edged, objective studies of the nude figure. Pearlstein earned awards from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Artist: Philip Pearlstein
Small Nude /// Philip Pearlstein Etching Figurative Female Post-War New York Art
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"The Lithographs and Etchings of Philip Pearlstein"
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein "The Lithographs and Etchings of Philip Pearlstein" Boston University Art Gallery, 1979 Exhibition poster 25 x 32.5 inches Signed recto
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1970s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Large American Modern Stonehenge Landscape Aquatint Etching Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022) Stonehenge Landscape Sugar Lift Aquatint Etching with Roulette on Rives BFK Paper, 1979 Series: Ruins and Landscapes Printer: Orlando Condesso Printer: Nancy Brokopp Medium: Sugar-lift aquatint with roulette Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog...
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1970s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Paper, Aquatint

Philip Pearlstein 'View Over Soho, Lower Manhattan' NYC signed, print
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in San Rafael, CA
Philip Pearlstein (1924-2022) View Over Soho, Lower Manhattan, 1977 Aquatint in colors on wove paper Edition 7/41 Signed, editioned and titled in pencil lower left Printed by the Orl...
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Aquatint

Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa /// Philip Pearlstein Pencil Drawing Figurative
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022) Title: "Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa" *Signed and dated by Pearlstein in pencil lower left Year: 1970 Medium: Original Graphite Pen...
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Pencil, Graphite, Board, Illustration Board

Italian Still Life, Early Painting by Philip Pearlstein 1940
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein, American (1924 - ) Title: Italian Still Life Year: 1940 Medium: Oil on Board, signed Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 22 x 18 inches
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1940s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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"Two Reclining Nudes" Lithograph on Paper, Figurative, Female Nudes
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Detroit, MI
"Two Reclining Nudes" is an exceptional Lithograph of Pearlstein's Realistic style. The nudes are posed reclining, neither engaged with either each other or the viewer, and give the atmosphere of being in a dream state. It is an intimate scene without intimacy. Their full-figured bodies exude power and strength which is reinforced by not fitting within the frame. This Lithograph is #42 of an edition of 100 with one blind stamp, and signed by the artist all located in the upper left corner. Philip Pearlstein is an American painter born in Pittsburgh, PA, and best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine’s 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he received his BFA in 1949. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he pursued work in graphic design and received a Master’s degree in art history from New York University in 1955. Pearlstein worked as a graphic designer for Life Magazine before becoming an instructor at the Pratt Institute, and then a professor at Brooklyn College; he has also served as a visiting artist at several prestigious institutions throughout the country. His work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions throughout the United States with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Pearlstein served as a President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 2003-2006 and currently lives and works in New York. “It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.” —Philip Pearlstein In spring of 1946 he becomes assistant to Robert Lepper, head of the Design Program at Carnegie Institute of Technology, at the firm of Altenhof and Bown, Architects, and designs catalogs for building products through 1949. Meanwhile he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology and studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green, and Samuel Rosenberg. Meets Dorothy Cantor, George Klauber, and Andy Warhol (Warhola), fellow students at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Serves as art editor of the Carnegie Technical, the student publication of the Engineering School, through 1949 when he received his BFA and moved to New York to live with Andy Warhol. A few months later he worked with graphic designer Ladislav Sutnar in design and production of catalogs of plumbing fixtures and ventilators for the next eight years. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University where he studied with Karl Lehmann, Craig Smith and Jose Lopez-Rey. In 1954 Clement Greenberg selectd Pearlstein to be in “Emerging Talent” show at Kootz Gallery, New York. Torso is shown. Show includes Herman Cherry, Paul Freeley, Paul Georges, Cornelia Langer, Saul Leiter, Morris Louis, Anthony Louvis, Sue Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, and Theophil Groell. He received his M.A. in Art History from Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His thesis on Francis Picabia with Jose Lopez-Rey and H.W. Janson as advisors. In September of 1958 he received a Fulbright Grant for Painting in Italy and traveled to Rome, Florence, Venice, Amalfi Coast and Sicily. Back in New York his drawing group includes at various times during the following thirteen years: Ann Arnold, Rudolph Burkhardt, Charles Cajori, Gretna Campbell, Lois Dodd, Louis Finkelstein, Joe Fiore, Sideo and Nora Fromboluti, Mary Frank, Stephen Greene, Theophil Groell (Repke), Philip Guston, Yvonne Jacquette, Diana Kurtz, Alex Katz, Gabriel Laberman, Mercedes Matter, George McNeil, Sidney Tillim, Jack Tworkov and William White. Meets initially in Mercedes Matter’s studio. Continues to meet with group at various locations, including his own studio through 1972. In 1969 and 1971 he received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant. In 1982 he served as the Artist in Residence at the American Academy of Art, Rome. In addition to other numerous awards and honors he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Center for Creative Studies and the College of Art & Design, Detroit, Michigan in 2000. Other known CCS faculty and graduates are Susan Aaron-Taylor, Richard Jerzy, Harry Bertoia, Doug Chaing, Stephen Dinehart, Tyree Guyton, Renee Radell, Herb Babcock, Jerome Ferretti...
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

NUDE
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Portland, ME
Pearlstein, Philip. NUDE. Etching, 1976. Edition of 30, signed, dated and numbered 26/30 all in pencil. 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 (plate), 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.
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1970s Philip Pearlstein Art

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Olga Hirshhorn is 90, by world top realist artist, the late Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Olga Hirshhorn is 90, 2010 Lithograph on Aquarelle Arches Paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 158/185 by the artist on the front 31 1/2 × 24 inches Unframed Thi...
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2010s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Nudes in bathtub, signed lithograph edition of only 19 legendary realist artist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nudes in bathtub, ca. 1971 Lithograph on paper with Deckled Edges Numbered from the limited edition of only 19. Unframed Hand signed in graphite pencil and...
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Monograph: The Complete Paintings (Hand signed, inscribed by Philip Pearlstein)
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein The Complete Paintings, 1984 Hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed to Nadine by Philip Pearlstein 12 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches This i...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Untitled Nude, from Atelier International Portfolio by renowned realist artist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nude, from Atelier International Portfolio, 1985 Etching. on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 78/85, and dated on the lower front with printer's and publisher's blind stamps. 30 × 22 1/2 inches Unframed This vintage (mid 1980s) etching by Philip Pearlstein is hand signed, numbered and dated from the edition of 85. The late Philip Pearlstein is one of the most renowned realist painters in the world, but has become best recognized of late as Andy Warhol's former roommate in Pittsburgh, who traveled together with Warhol to New York. The Warhol museum in fact hosted a show of the two unlikely artists and roommates. Philip Pearlstein Born in 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Philip Pearlstein died in 2022. He is considered to be one of the masters of new figuration and modernist realism. He has been examining the question of how the model is represented since the 1960s, his complex works straddling the line between naturalism, abstraction and hyperrealism. His still lives in oil feature nudes with mask...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Nude in New Mexico
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN Nude in New Mexico, 1984 Lithograph on art paper 31 3/5 × 40 3/4 inches Signed, titled, dated and numbered in graphite pencil from the limited edition of only 65. (48/65) Unframed Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1924. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine's 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

NUDE ON STRIPED HAMMOCK.
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Portland, ME
Pearlstein, Philip. NUDE ON STRIPED HAMMOCK. Field 59. Etching with aquatint, 1974. Edition of 100, signed, titled and numbered 59/100 all in pencil. Printed on Copperplate Paper at...
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1970s Philip Pearlstein Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes, by Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein Title: Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes Year: 2010 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 40 Size: 34.5 x 25 in. (87.63 x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

American Modernist Sacsahuaman Landscape Aquatint Etching Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-) Large Sacsahuaman Landscape Etching Aquatint, 1979 From the series Ruins and Landscapes. Sugar-lift, aquatint and roulette on ivory wove paper. Sacsayhuamán, often spelled Sacsahuaman or Saqsaywaman (from Quechua Saqsaywaman (pukara) '(fortress) of the royal falcon or hawk') is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. The site is at an altitude of 3,701 m (12,142 ft). The complex was built by the Incas in the 15th century, particularly under Sapa Incan Pachacuti and his successors. Dry stone walls constructed of huge stones were built on the site, with the workers carefully cutting the boulders to fit them together tightly without mortar. In 1983, Cusco and Sacsayhuamán together were designated as sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, for international recognition and protection. Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog...
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1970s American Modern Philip Pearlstein Art

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Paper, Aquatint

Two Nude Women with Lion
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein, American (1924 - 2022) Title: Two Nude Women with Lion Year: 1993 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 179/...
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Contemporary color lithograph nude female figures horses red black signed
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Models & Horses" is an original color lithograph by Philip Pearlstein. The artist signed the piece lower left and it is edition 15/140. This piece features two nude female models lo...
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Girl in Ballerina Dress (Thonet Chair) Color Lithograph, American Modernist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl in Ballerina Dress, c. 1970 Color lithograph printed on wove paper, hand signed in pencil and numbered 22/75, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Landfall Press, Chicago (they have published an eclectic list of many important artists including Christo, Judy Chicago, David Levinthal and Jack tworkov to name a few.) Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog work, while Warhol immediately found work illustrating department store catalogs presaging Pop Art. In April 1950, they moved to 323 W. 21st Street, into an apartment rented by Franziska Marie Boas, who ran a dance class on the other side of the room. During this time, Pearlstein painted a portrait of Warhol, now held by the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1950, Philip Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor, with Andy Warhol in the wedding party...
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1970s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Landscape, Modern Painting by Philip Pearlstein
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein, American (1924 - ) Title: Landscape Year: circa 1940 Medium: Oil on Board Size: 12 in. x 26 in. (30.48 cm x 66.04 cm) Frame Size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
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1940s American Modern Philip Pearlstein Art

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Oil

MODEL WITH CHINESE KITE
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 175. All reasonable offers will be conside...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Except for a few art classes in high school and playing baritone horn in the band, Mark focused on other things besides art, especially when his mother worried for his financial future, kept insisting “that Jewish boys don’t starve to death.” His father made a good living as a production man in textiles so Mark, who had spent years doing the rounds of knitting mills with his father, decided to major in textile chemistry at North Carolina State. ROTC was mandatory on his campus and he did two years in order to be eligible for officer status. He won the Armed Forces Chemical Association award and thought for sure that he would be assigned chemical work, but instead was made a tank commander and stationed at Fort Knox. Not exactly what his heart yearned for, but a good job awaited him at Sandoz, a Swiss company that made dyestuff. What perfect training for someone who would soon be working in wonderful rich colors on canvas. He went on to receive his MBA degree from Hofstra University, left Sandoz and was hired to sell at a spinning mill. He liked it. In 1976 he joined Bennett Berman Associates and had an opportunity to buy the spinning mill Spun Fibers. But what of art? In the early days, Elsie, his wife of fifty-two years, had a problem with the large amount of space his canvases occupied in their one bedroom apartment. Mark took up photography instead, which only required a small darkroom. Photography was a natural ally for his eventual return to painting in the photorealistic style. It was on his second trip to Europe that Mark fell in love with painting all over again. The impressionistic museum, Jeu de Paume in Paris, renewed his passion and it’s been non-stop since then. Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was still not painting to sell until in 1990 when someone discovered and desperately wanted his candy bar (Sweet Series) painting. Mark didn’t want to let go of that particular piece, but was finally convinced to sell it and a second candy painting to this ardent art and candy lover. Two years later, Mark was commissioned to make three paintings of this man’s new Ferrari. Some of the artists who have inspired his work are Richard Estes, Sandy Scott, Chuck Close, and Charles Bell. He appreciates the work of Ken Keeley, but unlike Keeley’s hard-lined/tape and ruler style, Mark prefers an open touch, using the blending method. Mark’s subject matters range from candy bars to spice racks to soda cans and soda bottles. He photographs with a Leica M-7 and each painting can take up to 200 or more hours to complete. His palette is rich; his subjects, be it a fire engine or a pretzel cart, take on a luminous quality, always photoreal, but even more beautiful. Mark developed his own technique for working with bottles by painting a canvas all black, so that the transparency of the bottles allows a wonderful range of light to filter through. The same light and reflection can be seen in the black rotary phone...
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Early 2000s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Canvas, Oil

Knit - Original Graphite Drawing on Panel of Nude Male Figures
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
"Knit" by Rick Sindt is a small graphite drawing of two male nude figures. The faces are somewhat obscured as we view this intimate moment. The graph lines often used by artist are...
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2010s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Panel, Graphite

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Model on Grey Patterned Rug II
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Arches White Cover paper. Signed, dated and numbered 40/50 in pencil. Printed and published by Landfall Press, Chicago, with the bl...
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1970s Modern Philip Pearlstein Art

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Color, Lithograph

Nude on Couch /// Philip Pearlstein Figurative American Lithograph Modern Art
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-) Title: "Nude on Couch" Portfolio: Six New York Artists *Signed by Pearlstein in pencil lower left Year: 1969 Medium: Original Lithograph o...
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1960s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Nude on Settee
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this large color aquatint and etching on Rives BFK. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/55 in pencil. Printed at the Orlando Condeso Workshop, New York. Pu...
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1970s Modern Philip Pearlstein Art

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Etching, Color, Aquatint

Two Nudes on a Blue Coverlet (Ltd. Ed. 41/65, Signed) - Large Modern Framed
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image that is classic for the great Philip Pearlstein: starkly realist, non-romantic, beautifully-wrought. Very large and powerful on the wall, professionally float-framed. Quite ...
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Models and Horses
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by American artist Philip Pearlstein. A key figure in the sharp-focus realist movement, he was a leader in the early 1960s of the revival of figure painti...
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1990s Photorealist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

Seated Nude
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed lithograph on Arches cream wove paper by American artist Philip Pearlstein (1924-) titled "Seated Nude", 1968. Hand inscribed, signed, and dated by Pearlstein in green pen...
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1960s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

"Two Female Models on Rocker and Stool" Lithograph with Seated Nude Females
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Detroit, MI
"Two Female Models on Rocker & Stool" is an exceptional Lithograph of Pearlstein's Realistic style. The nudes are posed seated frontally, are neither engaged with either each other or the viewer, and give the atmosphere of being happening upon as they take a break. It is an intimate scene and may suggest the viewer as voyeur. Their full-figured bodies exude power and strength which is reinforced by not fitting within the frame. This Lithograph is #11 of an edition of 20 with two blind stamps on the lower left corner and signed by the artist. Philip Pearlstein is an American painter born in Pittsburgh, PA, and best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine’s 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he received his BFA in 1949. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he pursued work in graphic design and received a Master’s degree in art history from New York University in 1955. Pearlstein worked as a graphic designer for Life Magazine before becoming an instructor at the Pratt Institute, and then a professor at Brooklyn College; he has also served as a visiting artist at several prestigious institutions throughout the country. His work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions throughout the United States with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Pearlstein served as a President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 2003-2006 and currently lives and works in New York. “It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.” —Philip Pearlstein. In spring of 1946 he becomes assistant to Robert Lepper, head of the Design Program at Carnegie Institute of Technology, at the firm of Altenhof and Bown, Architects, and designs catalogs for building products through 1949. Meanwhile he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology and studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green, and Samuel Rosenberg. Meets Dorothy Cantor, George Klauber, and Andy Warhol (Warhola), fellow students at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Serves as art editor of the Carnegie Technical, the student publication of the Engineering School, through 1949 when he received his BFA and moved to New York to live with Andy Warhol. A few months later he worked with graphic designer Ladislav Sutnar in design and production of catalogs of plumbing fixtures and ventilators for the next eight years. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University where he studied with Karl Lehmann, Craig Smith and Jose Lopez...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Seated Nude with Kimono (Signed & Dated)
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed by Pearlstein and numbered 13/125. Beautifully framed and matted, in a simple museum frame (saving you the framing cost!). Pearlstein is quite famous, but here's a brief exc...
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Girl in Ballerina Dress (Thonet Chair) Color Lithograph, American Modernist
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl in Ballerina Dress, c. 1970 Color lithograph printed on wove paper, hand signed in pencil and numbered 22/75, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Landfall Press, Chicago (they have published an eclectic list of many important artists including Christo, Judy Chicago, David Levinthal and Jack tworkov to name a few.) Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar...
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1970s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

NUDE MODEL WITH BANNER AND FISH WEATHERVANE
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 40. All reasonable offers will be considered.
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2010s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

GIRL ON IRON BENCH
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in overall excellent condition. Minor creases on upper and lower left corners. Please see images. Certificate of Authenticit...
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Girl on a Blue Coverlet
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Miami, FL
An early work by a well-known artist, Pearlstein depicts a classic pose of a female figure in reds and pinks. From an edition of 50, it is beautifully framed.
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Art

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Lithograph

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Find a wide variety of authentic Philip Pearlstein art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Philip Pearlstein in lithograph, etching, aquatint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Philip Pearlstein art, so small editions measuring 11 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Rudolph Carl Gorman, Karl Bodmer, and Alberto Vargas. Philip Pearlstein art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $25,000, while the average work can sell for $2,000.

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