Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Lady In Moscow" Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: In and Out of WorkMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 15.5 x 20 inchesPaper Size: 19.5 x 24.5 inchesEdition Size: 450: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can TomatoMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

A pear and a bottle of merlot make a delightful combination, especially when given the cool blues and abstract shapes of this art print. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Peras al Merlot"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 44"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Pedro TapiaTitle: 5Medium: Original painting Size: 30" x 40" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pedro Tapia was born in Tacna, Peru, in 1970. He studied art at the Federico Laso Art School in Tacna and later on at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Per (ENBA) in Lima. Tapia s art has garnered numerous awards and his work can be found in private and public collections internationally. *

Artist: Sam ParkTitle: AneccyMedium: Serigraph Edition: Limited, numberedSize: 36" x 27"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Born in 1949 in Seoul, Korea, Sung Sam Park began painting at the age of twelve. His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the ge of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught there.After graduating from Jung Ang Unviversity in 1973, Park traveled to France, where he studied painting and lived with other young artists in Paris. His artistic style today clearly reflects the inspiration of the French Impressionists.Sam Park returned to Korea briefly in 1984 to participate in the national Olympic sponsored art competition for he upcoming 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where he received a Gold Medal. In 1986, Park became a member of the jury of Heart Artists Association of Korea, which is the organization that assesses all artwork presented for juried competition in the nation.Park was commissioned by the President of Cypress to paint the First Lady's portrait. This and five other paintings by Park are currently displayed in the collection in the Presidential Palace. While in Europe, Park continued to study and evolve his vision of impressionism and hyper-realism. He established himself in several European galleries, and continues to exhibit in many of them today. His works were written about in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the European Travel Press and Euroko, a Korean magazine in Europe.Park came to the United States of America in 1994, where he continues to live on the coast of Southern California. He has exhibited in several American galleries and in March, 1996, he first exhibited at the New York Art Expo. In March 1988, Soho Editions, his exclusive publisher, introduced his first limited edition works. *

Letter from the Erte Alphabet Letter: XArtist: ErteEdition: Original Circle Gallery Release -not a recastMedium: Sterling, Vermeil, Swarovski Crystal Size: Approximately 1" x 1 1/2"Condition: ExcellentIncludes: Certificate of AuthenticityIn his autobiography My Life/My Art , Erte writes: "Drawing has been my favorite pastime from the age of three or four, so when I was taught to read and write, I was absolutely fascinated by the alphabet." It stands to reason that the graphic edition of his famous Alphabet is one of the famous artist's best-known and most sought-after works.Erte's phenomenally successful "Art to Wear" project engrossed the artist during the last ten years of his life. It is no wonder that he turned for inspiration to one of his favorite themes: *

The Cubist forms of a guitar and flowers alongside blue waters portray the song of the sea. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Canto de Mar"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 33" x 22"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "The Dancer"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 32" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This etching is by well-known American artist and printmaker Isabel Bishop (1902 - 1988):Title: "Students on the Steps" 1981 Published 1984 Etching and aquatint 8 × 7½ Numbered from a limited edition of 75 Excellent condition; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Isabel Bishop taught at the Art Students League from 1936 to 1937 and was a life member. In 1938, she worked as a Muralist for the W.P.A., and did a mural for the US Post Office in New Lexington, Ohio. She also taught at Yale and the Skowhegan Art School, Maine. She was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and Woodcutters. Bishop exhibited widely during her life including the Berkshire Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Associated American Artists, and the Midtown Galleries, NYC. She was featured at several Venice Biennials and won awards for her work at the American Artists Group (etching), the National Academy of Design, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the American Society of Graphic Artists; the National Arts Club; the Royal Society of Arts (London), and others. Her works are in the permanent collections of at least 39 museums including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian, and the National Academy of Design. * * Please click on the link below to view our other prints by Isabel Bishop.

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "Cirque Fernando"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales. *

The autumn leaves are given the main focus, shown from an unusually low perspective in this art print. * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: Leaves"Edition: Numbered 97/150, lower leftMedium: Serigraph on paperSheet size: 30 x 40 inches Condition: Very good; scuff marks, and some edge creasing; one smudge on a leaf not detractingBiography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artistic influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

Artist: Markus PiersonTitle: Coyote Portrait of KlimtMedium: Serigraph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 10 x 11.5 inchesPaper Size: 17 x 18 inchesEdition Size: 175: Hand-deckled edges, Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Excerpts from his book, But I Digress, A Coyote's View of Art History * * GUSTAV KLIMT * * When I was twenty, living in Milwaukee, I had a new apartment and a dog named Zeke. The night I got the apartment, I positioned all my paintings on the floor beneath the place I intended to hang them. That night as I slept, Zeke made his mark on every single one. Thank heavens for two things: 1) They were acrylic. 2) They were lousy. Gustav Klimt, a master of twentieth-century art, had cats. Dozens of cats, all of which had to "go." He made thousands of beautiful drawings. He laid them on the floor . . . with all the cats . . . * * Somewhere an art dealer is weeping . . . * * Let's not talk about his drawings anymore, shall we? Yes, fine, the paintings then. We are entering a glacial shift here now, new notions about art and how far you can tweak it are popping up like lost relatives at a millionaire's wake. Gustav was right there, melting the glacier with a gold-gilded blowtorch. He decided he didn't need to show the shape of a garment, or even show where the garment stops and the background starts. He just painted these lovely decorative swirls and patterns in blues and yellows and reds, and then applied gold all around them. How cool. And the farther out there he got, the more rules he forgot, the more interesting his world became. * * Many of Klimt's paintings had a sexual quality to them and, as you might guess, it put some noses out of joint. Almost all of his paintings of men and women have the woman as the bright shining star and the man as the groping also-ran. That put noses askew as well. And so whenever he looked about and saw a sea of mangled noses, he packed a bag and did some landscapes. Smart guy. * * He died at age fifty-five, orphaning about 268 cats and leaving fatherless more than a few little boys and girls all around Vienna. He was frisky, just like those cats. * Biography * * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: La Noia Medium: Embossed LithographEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 22" x 29-7/8" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. * * Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven .

Artist: Mackenzie Thorpe Title: Skipping Medium: Hand-Painted Cast resin Sculpture: 13h x 8.75w x 4.5d Base: 2.25h x 8.25w x 6d Edition: 395 Arabic Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Winter MoonlightMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 12.5 x 18.75 inchesPaper Size: 16.75 x 22.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Two provincial women in traditional garb are portrayed in their natural surroundings here, amidst beautiful lakeside greenery, and flowering trees. * Artist: Lazlo NeogradyMedium: Oil on canvasCanvas size: 23.5x29.5 inchesFrame size: 29.5 x 35 inchesCondition: ExcellentBiography * Lazlo Neogrady (1896-1962) was a Hungarian American artist born in Budapest, the son of the noted artist Anatal Neogrady. He began exhibiting his work at the Hungarian Art Gallery, and became recognized for his naturalistic landscapes. His specialty was forest scenes in the snow, the refracted light creating atmosphere. The technique he used primarily was impasto, working in layers of paint to create vivid three-dimensional landscapes. His pieces are highly sought after today, and can be found in collections around the world. *

This etching is by well-known American artist and printmaker Isabel Bishop (1902 - 1988):Title: "Seven Students" 1981 - 82 Published 1984 Etching and aquatint 5 × 8¼ Numbered from a limited edition of 75 Excellent condition; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Isabel Bishop taught at the Art Students League from 1936 to 1937 and was a life member. In 1938, she worked as a Muralist for the W.P.A., and did a mural for the US Post Office in New Lexington, Ohio. She also taught at Yale and the Skowhegan Art School, Maine. She was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and Woodcutters. Bishop exhibited widely during her life including the Berkshire Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Associated American Artists, and the Midtown Galleries, NYC. She was featured at several Venice Biennials and won awards for her work at the American Artists Group (etching), the National Academy of Design, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the American Society of Graphic Artists; the National Arts Club; the Royal Society of Arts (London), and others. Her works are in the permanent collections of at least 39 museums including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian, and the National Academy of Design. * * Please click on the link below to view our other prints by Isabel Bishop.

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: Noia a la LunaMedium: Embossed LithographEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 22" x 29-7/8" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. * * Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven .

This piece is influenced by the artist's musical background, showing layers of forms, and dancing brushstrokes. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Cancion de Sobremesa"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 32"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: Portrait of a Blue Coyote Medium: Serigraph on Paper Image Size: 22.5" x 45" Edition: 325 Signed and Numbered on Paper Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

This beautiful signed limited edition print is by noted contemporary artist Norman Laliberté: Title: "Marry Me" 28¾ × 39¾ Aquatint, drypoint, spit bite and lift ground * Signed and numbered from a limited edition of 100 Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Retail gallery price $975 This exciting print is wholly representative of the artist's work and first-class printmaking techniques. While he tips his artistic hat to the likes of Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, Laliberté has created a language all his own. * Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa; the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.; Standard Oil of Indiana; Container Corporation of America; the New York Bar Association. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design, and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in articles in such publications as Time, Life, The New York Times and Canadian Art. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. Please click on the link below to view our other auctions of the work of this exciting contemporary artist. * * * Spit Bite - A technique where the artist paints, drips or flings a strong acid solution directly onto the aquatint ground. * * Lift-ground aquatint -- A form of intaglio printing in which the artists draws with a specially formulated ink on a metal plate. The plate is then covered with an acid resistant ground and immersed in water. The characteristics of the drawing medium (which may be applied with a pen or brush) allow it to dissolve and work through the acid resistant ground. When bitten in acid, the final result resembles pen or brush work.

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Restful"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 24" x 40" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

A song for two, and a glass of wine for two too--that's the theme of this charming art print. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Una Cancion Para Dos"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 46"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: Lincoln VisionMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22 x 29-1/2 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "The Falconer"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * * * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * * * * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * * * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * * * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales.

Artist: Mackenzie Thorpe Title: All the World is Playing Medium: Lithograph on Paper Orientation: horizontal Image Size: 22 x 14.75 inches Paper Size: 26 x 19.5 inches Edition Size: 100 : Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Precious Moments"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 36" x 48"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Desierto Cobriso 2"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 30" x 30" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Red Spot II"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

This is an original drawing by Pablo Picasso, signed, dated and dedicated by the artist. The drawing was done on the opposite side of the front cover of a book. The image is a portrait of a figure, done in the artist's signature Cubist style. It is done in 6 colors, including blue, green, orange, yellow, purple, and pink. The signature and dedication are done in blue. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in blue marker, upper leftDate: 19-5-1969Dedication: Upper right Medium: Crayon on paperPage size: 9 1/2 x 12 inchesBook: "Picasso Gravures"Publisher: Galerie Beyeler BaleBook publication date: 1966Condition: Very good; some slight smudging, appears to be from the artist's own handCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the book cover

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Land of LoveMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 15 x 18 inchesPaper Size: 19 x 22.24 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Mackenzie Thorpe Title: Hope, Love and Joy (Three Sheep)Medium: Serigraph on Paper Image: 23.25 x 29.75 Paper: 29.25 x 35.32 Edition: 395 Arabic Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Pepper PotMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "A Mother's Love"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 30" x 40" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This signed and numbered etching is by American contemporary Realist painter and printmaker Jane Freilicher: Title: "Peonies" (10 color) 1990 Etching and aquatint 21¾ × 29½ Hand signed and numbered from an edition of 65 Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Authenticity is absolutely guaranteed The work of Jane Freilicher (US, b. 1924) is held in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and many other important public and prestigious private collections worldwide.

The seaside in Baja California is portrayed in bold, colorful brushstrokes in this piece. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Baja Mar"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 44"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 2Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 4Medium: Lithograph with Embossing on Japon PaperEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 18.5" x 23" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Artist: Sam ParkTitle: St. Paul de VenceMedium: Serigraph Edition: Limited, numberedSize: 22.5" x 40"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Born in 1949 in Seoul, Korea, Sung Sam Park began painting at the age of twelve. His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the ge of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught there.After graduating from Jung Ang Unviversity in 1973, Park traveled to France, where he studied painting and lived with other young artists in Paris. His artistic style today clearly reflects the inspiration of the French Impressionists.Sam Park returned to Korea briefly in 1984 to participate in the national Olympic sponsored art competition for he upcoming 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where he received a Gold Medal. In 1986, Park became a member of the jury of Heart Artists Association of Korea, which is the organization that assesses all artwork presented for juried competition in the nation.Park was commissioned by the President of Cypress to paint the First Lady's portrait. This and five other paintings by Park are currently displayed in the collection in the Presidential Palace. While in Europe, Park continued to study and evolve his vision of impressionism and hyper-realism. He established himself in several European galleries, and continues to exhibit in many of them today. His works were written about in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the European Travel Press and Euroko, a Korean magazine in Europe.Park came to the United States of America in 1994, where he continues to live on the coast of Southern California. He has exhibited in several American galleries and in March, 1996, he first exhibited at the New York Art Expo. In March 1988, Soho Editions, his exclusive publisher, introduced his first limited edition works. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: David & GoliathMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 100Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #13 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 7 1/2" x 9"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: El CidMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22 x 30-1/2 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

A full body tan on a hot summer day... * Artist: Raoul DufyTitle: On the BeachMedium: Posthumous Etching on paper * Size: 15" x 18 1/2"Condition: Excellent:Biography: * From Paris to the Riviera, Raoul Dufy's lively water-colors capture the essence and energy of France during the early 20th century. * Born in LeHavre, Dufy began his studies there, taking night classes at L'cole des Beaux Arts. In 1900, after being awarded a scholarship to pursue his artistic ambitions, the artist moved to Paris and enrolled at the cole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts. While the Impressionist-dominated Parisian art scene had a profound impact on Dufy's early landscapes, the artist attended an exhibition of the Salon des Independants of 1905 and was struck by the dazzling colors of Matisse and the Fauvist group. This encounter radically changed the artist's approach to painting. Dufy immediately began to incorporate the lively brush strokes and brilliant color of Fauvism into his work. Working primarily in watercolor, the artist developed a signature technique of highly stylized calligraphic drawings accented with washes of bold color. His travels around the Mediterranean provided inspiration for many of the artist's best known paintings and the cheerful theme of the seaside is a recurring motif in his work. These immensely popular works exude spontaneity with their exuberant color and dynamic line. * Dufy extended the range of his oeuvre with innovative fabric design, book illustration, ceramics and tapestry. An unparalleled colorist, Dufy's highly decorative works retain a level of freshness and verve that have made them popular with modern audiences. * * *

Here is an original painting of a copper pot with apples and oranges. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed in red paint by the artist Title: Copper Pot With FruitMedium: Oil on linen covered board Image size is 11 x 14 inchesFraming: In gold painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

This is a sonata with violin and tangerines, perfect for this artist who gives a musical touch to the classic still life. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Sonata Para Violin y Mandarinas"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 33" x 44"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Consomme (Beef) Medium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

This is an original painting of a beautiful woman in white, resting against a tree in a soft, lush meadow. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed in silver paint by the artist Title: Morning In The MeadowMedium: Oil on canvas Image size is 17 x 27 inchesFraming: In gold painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 25 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Life in the LandMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: squareImage Size: 18.5 x 19.5 inchesPaper Size: 22.5 x 22.5 inchesEdition Size: 1235: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

This signed limited edition print by American painter and printmaker Larry D'Amico will be a welcome addition to any collection: Title: "Fire Road" 1990 Silkscreen 22 × 30 Signed and numbered from a limited edition of 150 Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed Larry D'Amico (U.S., B. 1951) studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Silvermine College of Art in Connecticut, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977 from the State University of New York at Purchase. D'Amico has exhibited in several solo shows including Helio Gallery, New York City; Jean Lumbard Fine Arts, New York City; Scarborough Gallery, Chappaqua, New York, among others. His prints are represented in several corporate collections, among them: Nomura Securities; General Electric; Pepsico; Sperry Corporation; IBM; Kaiser Foundation; Chemical Bank; NYNEX; New York Telephone; Chase Manhattan Bank; Philip Morris; Pace University; Aetna Life & Casualty and Reuben H. Donnelley Company.

This very appealing signed and limited edition lithograph is by world famous graphic designer Milton Glaser: Title: "Learning and Art" Lithograph 16¾ × 23 Signed and numbered from an edition of 100 Excellent condition; bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Glaser's work has been featured in important exhibitions in Europe and America and has been acquired for the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He holds a number of honorary doctorates and has received the highest awards in his field, including gold medals from the American Institute of the Graphic Arts and the Society of Illustrators.

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can BeefMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

This is an original drawing by Pablo Picasso, signed by the artist. The drawing was done on the opposite side of the front cover of a book. The image is a portrait of a figure with a cube-shaped head, perfect for its Cubist style. It is done in 5 colors, including blue, green, red, purple, and brown. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in brown crayon, upper rightMedium: Crayon on paperPage size: 8 x 9 3/4 inchesBook: "Pablo Picasso"Author: Jack BilboPublisher: Modern Art Gallery, Ltd., LondonBook publication date: January, 1945Edition: First EditionCondition: Very good; some slight smudging, appears to be from the artist's own handCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the book cover

Offered here is an original signed limited edition lithograph by the well-known and avidly collected artist Patricia Tobacco Forrester: Title: "Royal Flush" 1990 Lithograph 29½ × 45¾ Signed and numbered from an edition of 75 Very good - excellent condition Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed Yale University graduate and Washington, DC, based artist Patricia Tobacco Forrester (US, b. 1940) is a highly accomplished watercolorist. Forrester paints outdoors in such tropical regions as California, the Caribbean, Central and South America, which allows her to create lush, dense, and rich landscape paintings. The British Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Museum of American Art are just a few institutions that contain her work. Forrester exhibits in Washington, DC, California, and New Mexico.

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 1Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper Edition: Limited, numberedSize: 16" x 19.75" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

These flowers and sweet oranges have a fluorescent glow around them. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Naranja Dulce"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 46" x 32"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #10 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Naranja"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 45" x 15" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: A CrossroadsMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 15 x 16.5 inchesPaper Size: 19 x 21 inchesEdition Size: 100: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (posthumous rendition of)Title: Portrait of ChagallMedium: Posthumous EtchingSize: 13 x 10 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Saturday AfternoonMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 18 x 24.5 inchesPaper Size: 14 x 20.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

For over 40 years, Clearence Clemons has had the ability to make his saxophone speak a universal language; and his unique power to move listeners with the melody of his very soul. His saxophone speaks for him here with vibrant colors projecting out of it. * Artist: Shen Medium: Lithograph print on paper Signature: in pencil, lower right Edition: Artist Proof Size of Image: 14 1/4" x 18 7/8" Size of Paper: 16 3/4" x 23 1/8" Condition: Excellent

In this magical art print, love grows like a large flower, and a figure holds on as it blossoms overhead. Artist: Mackenzie Thorpe Signed and numbered in pencilTitle: Holding Onto Love Medium: Serigraph on Paper Image size: 18 x 15.5 inches Paper size: 22.5 x 19.5 inchesEdition size: 450Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Here is an original Picasso drawing, signed and dated by the artist. The drawing was done on the opposite side of the dust jacket to a book. The image is a dove with an olive branch flying toward a tree. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in brown ink, upper rightDate: 3-3-60Dedication: Upper right Medium: Ink on paperSheet size: 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inchesBook: "Posters of Picasso"Publisher: Crown Publishers, New YorkBook publication date: 1957Condition: Fair to Good; horizontal cut across the image, lower center (image intact); diagonal crease, lower right, and vertical crease, upper left; edge wear, and minor taping at the top edgeCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the book cover

The mansion in New York that houses the Frick Collection is a wonderful part of a wonderful art collection. Its beloved courtyard is portrayed vividly is this attractive print. Artist: Richard Haas Title: Frick Garden Courtyard Date: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen Signed Edition size: 200 Size: 72" x 96" Condition: Excellent Retail gallery price 1,800 USD Certificate of Authenticity included * Many people enjoy the masterpieces in the Frick Collection, and many people will also enjoy this print of the Frick courtyard. Richard Haas (1936- ) grew up in Spring Green Wisconsin, where Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked. He was influenced by the architect early on, and began drawing. He attended the University of Milwaukee and received his B.S. degree in 1958, and his M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He has taught on and off for many years. He has since become known as an artist of architecture, both past and present. His work has appeared in numerous solo shows in the U.S. and abroad, and is housed in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the New York Public Library. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 50Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

This nude female figure appears to be blending in well in the artist's studio, with its slightly earthy hues, yet lively shapes and lines.Artist: Andre MinauxSignature: In pencil, lower rightMedium: Lithograph on paperSheet size: 20 x 26 1/2 inchesCondition: Excellent; slight discoloration along the edge, can easily be matted overBiography: * Andre Minaux (1923 - 1988) was born in Paris, and studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. Initially part of the post-war realism movement, Minaux began to develop more stylzed and and increasingly colorful portraits and still lifes. Female figures in intriguing interirors became a favorite subject. He had many well reviewed shows in Europe and New York. His work can be found in the Tate Gallery in London, and in many public and private collections. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Cream of MushroomMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

This terrific image is by Burton Morris, a remarkably popular and avidly collected contemporary artist who has put his own energetic spin on Pop art! * Title: "American Pop Red" * 1998 * 40 × 45 * Original serigraph on paper * Signed by the artist in pencil and dated LR * Avalon Publishing Group blind stamp LR * Numbered LL * Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed * Certificate of Authenticity * Morris first gained national attention in the mid-1990's when his artwork was chosen to hang on the set of the NBC television series "Friends," where it has remained throughout the show's run. He has created artwork for national campaigns for Absolut Vodka, Perrier, Gallo Winery and AT&T. Morris was chosen by the United States Olympic Committee to be an official artist for the U.S. team at the 2004 Games in Athens and also designed the 2004 Oscar poster.

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: Cosmic HorsemanMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22 x 24 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Green Lights of Summer 1"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedDate: 2009 * Medium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 12" x 12" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Couple Riding"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Yellow, Red and Blue"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

This musical artist knows how to capture a serenade with warm, passionate colors. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Serenata"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 46" x 32"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

This image portrays the sensual beauty of a woman lounging on fine velvet, while the beautiful woman in the painting appears to be longing for such elegance and leisure. * Artist: Douglas HofmannSignature: In pencil, lower right Title: "Woman in Chair" * Medium: Print on paperSheet Size: 25 x 33 inchesEdition: Printer's Proof, marked P.P. in pencil, lower leftCondition: Very good; slight corner creasing, stain on back (doesn't show through) * Biography: * Douglas Hofmann (1945 - ) learned his artistic techniques from Joseph Sheppard at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He developed his own unique style of baroque inspired atmospheric scenes. He got his start as an artist through an affiliatin with Circle Gallery. Since then, his art has been widely praised and collected in many public and private collections. * The artist, in his own words, say this: "I'm a dreamer. I want to express a romantic feeling in my work. This appeals to me as a form of self-expression in today's world of structured reality" *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Cliffside Retreat"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 32" x 40" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This is a lovely image of a woman relaxing in a chair with a fan, by the noted Spanish artist. * Artist: Jaime Carbonell (1942- )Medium: Oil on canvasCanvas size: 25 x 31.5 inchesFrame size: 31 x 37 inchesCondition: Excellent

This is an original Picasso drawing, signed and dated by the artist. The drawing was done on the opposite side of the dust jacket to a book. The image is a portrait of a jester-like figure. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in ink, upper rightDate: 3-3-60Medium: Brown tone ink on paperSheet size: 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inchesBook: "Posters of Picasso"Publisher: Crown Publishers, New YorkBook publication date: 1957Condition: Fair to Good; horizontal cut across the image, lower center (image intact); diagonal crease, lower right, and vertical crease, upper left; edge wear, and minor taping at the top edgeCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the book cover

This luscious signed limited edition print is by noted contemporary artist Norman Laliberté. We particularly like the dynamics between the two images: Title: "Pomme de Terre" 28¾ × 39¾ Aquatint, drypoint, spit bite and lift ground * Signed and numbered from a limited edition of 135 Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Retail gallery price $1475 This exciting print is wholly representative of the artist's work and first-class printmaking techniques. While he tips his artistic hat to the likes of Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, Laliberté has created a language all his own. * Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa; the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.; Standard Oil of Indiana; Container Corporation of America; the New York Bar Association. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design, and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in articles in such publications as Time, Life, The New York Times and Canadian Art. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. Please click on the link below to view our other auctions of the work of this exciting contemporary artist. * * * Spit Bite - A technique where the artist paints, drips or flings a strong acid solution directly onto the aquatint ground. * * Lift-ground aquatint -- A form of intaglio printing in which the artists draws with a specially formulated ink on a metal plate. The plate is then covered with an acid resistant ground and immersed in water. The characteristics of the drawing medium (which may be applied with a pen or brush) allow it to dissolve and work through the acid resistant ground. When bitten in acid, the final result resembles pen or brush work.

This signed limited edition print is by American artist and humorist George Booth: Title: "Maw Maw and the Family" 1982 Lithograph 20 × 30 Signed and numbered from an edition of 80 Very good - excellent condition Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed George Booth (American, b. 1926) one of America's great comic artists, was born and raised in rural Missouri. Booth attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, and the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His first work was as the art director for The Leatherneck magazine. George Booth became a contributing artist for The New Yorker in the early 1960's and remained at that position for the following two decades. His work for The New Yorker gained for him a national reputation and many awards. He has also illustrated a number of fine children's books as well as contributing cartoons to The New York Times.

A south suburban area of Chicago is portrayed in the print, with hills and lush autumn trees nestling the houses. * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: "Homewood"Edition: Artist Proof, marked H/C, lower leftMedium: Serigraph on paperSheet size: 26 x 36 inches Condition: Very good; scuff marks overall, and some edge creasing Biography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artistic influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

Artist: Mackenzie Thorpe Title: Ave Medium: Serigraph on Paper Image: 30" x 24" Paper: 36.5" x 30" Edition: 395 Arabic Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: NeptuneMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 100Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Wine is the subject of this art print, and it takes on rich colors and geometric shapes. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Al Son del Vino"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 31" x 44"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "At The Moulin Rouge II "Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: Wailing WallMedium: Offset LithographSize: 20 x 27 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

ARTIST: Roy Lichtenstein TITLE: As I Opened Fire (triptych) YEAR: 1965 MEDIA: Lithograph in colors on three panels SIZE: 20.5 x 25 in (each) *

ARTIST: Roy Lichtenstein TITLE: Whaam (diptych) YEAR: 1963 MEDIA: Lithograph in colors on two panels SIZE: 31.5 x 47.5 in (combined)

Popocatepetl is an active volcano in Mexico, but many local villagers know it by its human name: Gregorio. It looks bright and powerful in this art print. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Gregorio"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 45" x 30.5"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 3Medium: Aquatint on Hand Made PaperEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 21" x 38.5" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 7Medium: Lithograph on Japon PaperEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 25.5" x 19.5" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: ChevalierMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22 x 30-1/2 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: Paranoiac VillageMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22 x 30 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

This is an original painting portraying a porcelain figurine, with branch of dogwood and cherry blossoms. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed in red paint by the artist Title: Dogwood and Cherry BlossomsMedium: Oil on linen covered board Image size is 11 1/2 inches square Framing: In gold painted antique style wood frameFrame size: 18 1/2 inches square * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

Artist Andrea Bowers has taken elements of the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution, and in fused it with the promise of falling in love. Whether this refers to falling in love with the game, or with other gamers, it certainly is a commentary on contemporary gaming and the social interactions that surround it. * * Artist: Andrea BowersTitle: Fall in Love, Dance Dance RevolutionSignature: Signed by the artist in pencil with year on verso, lower rightEdition: Numbered from an edition of 25Media: Silkscreen on paperSize: 28 3/4 x 38 3/4 inchesCondition: Excellent Certificate of Authenticity: Included This compelling image from this respected artist goes beyond standard video game art. * * Biography: * Andrea Bowers (1965- ) was born in Wilmington, Ohio, and studied art at nearby Bowling Green State University, where she obtained an BFA. She further expanded her artistic form at the California Institute of the Arts. Proudly accepting the moniker of "feminist," Bowers has since focused on many personal and political issues throughout her artistic career. The media she uses varies. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. * Her work can be found in many public and private collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and The Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany. *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Angelica"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 42" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

What is there not to LOVE about this beautiful carpeted piece?!? * * Artist: Robert IndianaMedium: Serigraph on Decorative CarpetEdition: Out of 999Size: 23 5/8" x 23 5/8" * Condition: Excellent * Biography: * Robert Indiana (1928- ) was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, and he later took the "nom de brush" of his home state. He studied at art schools in Indianapolis and Utica, the Chicago School of the Art Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. In 1953 and 1954 he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, afterwards settling in New York, hanging out with art stars Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman. * Indiana's 1973 "Love" stamp was probably the most widely distributed Pop image ever (300 million were issued - the artist was paid $1,000 for his work), but his subject matter is drawn from decidedly UN-Pop American literature and poetry. Best known for sign-like paintings and sculpture, Indiana has also done figurative painting, written poetry, produced opera and collaborated on the film "EAT" with Andy Warhol. * His work is held in every major collection of contemporary art, including: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Allentown Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Brandeis Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. * "(Indiana) has influenced a younger generation of ''word'' artists like Jenny Holzer, Christopher Wool and Barbara Kruger, and at its best it has a jumpy vitality that registers the beat of American life," wrote Grace Glueck in her 1999 review of the artist's retrospective at the Portland Museum of Art, ''Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana.'' And the beat goes on - this image has lots of staying power and freshness and may be the perfect addition to your collection of 20th century prints. * Title: Self Portrait 69 Skid RowMedium: Lithograph on paperSheet size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/8 inchesCondition: Excellent

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: To the JobMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: horizontalImage Size: 20 x 15 inchesPaper Size: 24 x 19.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: King SolomonMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #15 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

This original landscape painting portrays a summer shoreline in a bright array of colors. This Impressionist style scene is most likely the Scottish Isles. * Artist: David Abercrombie DonaldsonSignature: By the artist in red paint, lower rightMedium: oil on boardBoard size: 15 3/4 x 12 inchesCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On versoBiography: * David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916-1996) studied art at Glasgow School of Art from 1932-37. There he earned a travelling scholarship which allowed him to go to Italy and France to paint the landscapes. He returned to Glasgow to begin teaching at the School of Art.Donaldson became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1956, as well as Head of Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 1967. He developed skills as a portrait painter, and by 1977, he was appointed Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen. Donaldson's work can be found in many public and private collections throughout the world. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: The Long DaysMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 12 x 18 inchesPaper Size: 16 x 22.5 inchesEdition Size: 550: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Dancing in Barcelona"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 48" x 34" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This highly decorative floral artwork portrays two separate sections of flowers. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Encuentro"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 45" x 30.5"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

This evocative print by noted contemporary artist Norman Laliberte is wholly representative of the artist's fine work and first-class technique. While he tips his artistic hat to the likes of Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, Laliberté has created a language all his own- Title: "Cupid and Psyche" 18 × 35-7/8 Aquatint, drypoint, spit bite and lift ground * Signed and numbered from a limited edition of 100 Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Retail gallery price $775 Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa; the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.; Standard Oil of Indiana; Container Corporation of America; the New York Bar Association. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design, and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in articles in such publications as Time, Life, The New York Times and Canadian Art. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberte appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. Please click on the link below to view our other auctions of the work of this exciting contemporary artist. * * * Spit Bite - A technique where the artist paints, drips or flings a strong acid solution directly onto the aquatint ground. * * Lift-ground aquatint -- A form of intaglio printing in which the artists draws with a specially formulated ink on a metal plate. The plate is then covered with an acid resistant ground and immersed in water. The characteristics of the drawing medium (which may be applied with a pen or brush) allow it to dissolve and work through the acid resistant ground. When bitten in acid, the final result resembles pen or brush work.

This original painting shows a futuristic cityscape, with Modernist touches. * Artist: John TunnardSignature: Surface etched by the artist, lower rightMedium: Oil on boardBoard size: 17 5/8 x 13 inchesCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On versoBiography: * John Samuel Tunnard (1900- 1971) was an English Modernist designer and painter. *

What is there not to LOVE about this beautiful carpeted piece?!? * * Artist: Robert IndianaMedium: Serigraph on Decorative CarpetEdition: Out of 999Size: 23 5/8" x 23 5/8" * Condition: Excellent * Biography: * Robert Indiana (1928- ) was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, and he later took the "nom de brush" of his home state. He studied at art schools in Indianapolis and Utica, the Chicago School of the Art Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. In 1953 and 1954 he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, afterwards settling in New York, hanging out with art stars Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman. * Indiana's 1973 "Love" stamp was probably the most widely distributed Pop image ever (300 million were issued - the artist was paid $1,000 for his work), but his subject matter is drawn from decidedly UN-Pop American literature and poetry. Best known for sign-like paintings and sculpture, Indiana has also done figurative painting, written poetry, produced opera and collaborated on the film "EAT" with Andy Warhol. * His work is held in every major collection of contemporary art, including: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Allentown Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Brandeis Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. * "(Indiana) has influenced a younger generation of ''word'' artists like Jenny Holzer, Christopher Wool and Barbara Kruger, and at its best it has a jumpy vitality that registers the beat of American life," wrote Grace Glueck in her 1999 review of the artist's retrospective at the Portland Museum of Art, ''Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana.'' And the beat goes on - this image has lots of staying power and freshness and may be the perfect addition to your collection of 20th century prints. * Title: Self Portrait 69 Skid RowMedium: Lithograph on paperSheet size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/8 inchesCondition: Excellent

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: VictoryMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

We love this signed, limited edition print by popular contemporary artist Burton Morris! * Title: "Penny A Pop" * 1998 * 32 × 45½ * Original serigraph on paper * Signed by the artist in pencil and dated lower right * Numbered from an edition of 250 lower left * Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed * Certificate of Authenticity * Morris first gained national attention in the mid-1990's when his artwork was chosen to hang on the set of the NBC television series "Friends," where it has remained throughout the show's run. He has created artwork for national campaigns for Absolut Vodka, Perrier, Gallo Winery and AT&T. Morris was chosen by the United States Olympic Committee to be an official artist for the U.S. team at the 2004 Games in Athens and also designed the 2004 Oscar poster.

Offered here is a signed limited edition hand-colored etching and aquatint by the well-known New York urban landscape painter Max Ferguson: Title: "Coney Island - Self Portrait" 1991 14¾ × 18¾ Signed and numbered from an edition of 100 Very good - excellent condition Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed Max Ferguson was born in New York in 1959. His background was in animation but while spending a year at an art school in Amsterdam, his interest switched to painting. He continues to be greatly influenced by 17th century Dutch painting. He has worked on a number of series over the years, including a commission from the Transit Display Inc. to promote issues of social importance on the side of hundreds of buses in twenty cities throughout the United States. He has painted work for the subways, Coney Island, nocturnal imagery and Jewish scenes. He has expanded his imagery to include other parts of the United States as well as Ireland and Israel.

This is an original drawing by Pablo Picasso, signed by the artist. The image reveals a face, somewhat mask-like in form, rendered in simple perfection as only a master could do. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in black, lower right Medium: Gouache drawing on boardBoard size: 10 x 12 1/2 inchesCondition: Very good; some slight smudging, appears to be from the artist's own handCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On verso

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: She Lingers Medium: Digital Pigment Print with Silkscreen on Paper Image and Paper: 35" x 25" Edition: 95 Arabic Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Blue Circle"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

This original portrait on canvas is recognizable as a scene from the movie "My Fair Lady," and also as an image that originally appeared on a well known collector plate produced by the Edwin M. Knowles China Co, and distributed by the Bradford Exchange. This is the very painting from which 65,000 plates were produced, and saved by admiring collectors. Until now, the artist, William Chambers, held this painting in his personal collection, along with all his originals from the collector plates series. This is the first time the original artwork is being offered for sale, and Universal Live is pleased to be the exclusive online seller of this original art.This painting is known by the same title as the plate that bears its beautiful image: * "I Could Have Danced All Night" * The plate was the second issue in the series * The plates in this series are widely considered to be items of art, and here is an opportunity to own this one of a kind original. Audrey Hepburn looks absolutely radiant in her glittering gown. Even the expressions on the onlookers are done with meticulous detail in this wonderful scene. * The medium is oil on linen canvas, stretched. Some printers marks are seen in the margin. * The canvas size is 30 inches square. * It is signed in paint by the artist. * It is in Mint condition, having come directly to us from the artist. * This original artwork is the ultimate art collectible in the world of William Chambers collector plates. It is an elegant and beautiful portrait. * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his * studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in * industrial design, but after realizing the field required more * engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an * artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois * University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his * studies and graduated from at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * * * After graduation from the American Academy , he apprenticed for * several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued * his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios * in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in * portrait painting. * * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people * took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China * Company. * * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he * quickly became a design star, appearing * on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the * country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * * Although well known for his successes in the realm of collector * plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are * priced from $25,000 to $35,000. * * Note: This painting is shown in an oval matte which is not included *

Artist: Salvador Dali (posthumous rendition of)Title: El CidMedium: Posthumous EtchingSize: 14 x 11 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #2 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 4Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Lunch Time in South BankMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 14.25 x 17 inchesPaper Size: 19.25 x 22 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 2Medium: Lithograph on Japon Paper Edition: Limited, numberedSize: 25.75" x 21.25" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

This is a large, original painting by artist Michael Tienhaara. This is a landscape portraying the shimmering atmosphere of an autumn day. The fall colors are all very natural, and the invigorating brushstrokes evoke that crisp fall weather. Artist: Michael Tienhaara Title: "Fall Shimmerings" Medium: Original oil on canvas Signed: In paint, lower right Image size: 35 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches Frame size: 46 1/4 x 58 1/2 inches Framing: Custom framed, matted in natural canvas matte with inner gold border, and dark reddish brown rounded front wood frame Condition: Excellent Certificate of Authenticity: From Fine Art Showcase This impressive original painting is a tribute to the subtle vibrance of the autumn season. Artist BiographyMichael Tienhaara is a mostly self taught artist from Portland, Oregon. He began as a printmaker, and then began training with individual artists, including Michael Schofield. His interest in painting then began. His style developed into a kind of highly abstract expressionism, and loose impressionism. He describes some of his work as "planned expressionistic accidents." His inspiration is drawn from nature, and a touch from his imagination. Tienhaara currently works in Las Vegas, Nevada. His art has sold nationally and internationally, and continues to draw interest among collectors. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 6Medium: Lithograph on Arches PaperEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 18.75" x 17.75" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Vivid reds and golds evoke more than a still life--a passion tenfold brought to the table. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Diez Corazones a la Mesa"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 46"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: The Burning BushMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 100Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can OnionMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: David & BathshebaMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

This is an antique woodcut by well-known German master engraver Hans Sebald Beham. This image is one of his mythical subjects, done in fantastic detail and complex layout. * Artist: Hans Sebald BehamTitle: Vine Pattern with Satyrs and NymphsDate: Printed Circa 1850 in LondonMedium: Woodcut print in black ink on two sheets of laid paper hinged (late 19th century) together on the versoImage size: Approximately 21 x 25 1/2 inchesFraming: Matted in tan linen with black inner frame, in large black painted wood frameFrame size: 35 x 39 1/2 inchesRarity: Extremely RareCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: Free at Great Cost Medium: Digital Pigment Print with Serigraph on Paper Image and Paper size: 15" x 26" Edition: 95 Arabic numbers Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 5Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: Musical ProfileMedium: Embossed LithographEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 22" x 29-7/8" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Picasso's portrayal of a female head is done in a Classical style in this handsome print. * Artist: Pablo PicassoTitle: Tete de FemmeDate: Printed December 15, 1930, ParisMedium: Lithograph in black ink on wove paperImage size: Approximately 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inchesFraming: Matted in white with gold inner frame, in decorative gold painted wood frameFrame size: 20 3/4 x 23 1/4 inchesCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

This is an original painting on board by Pablo Picasso. The image portrays a jester, or other character, with beard. The outlines are done in red and black, and the coloring underneath is yellow. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in black, lower rightMedium: Original gouache painting on brown fiber boardBoard size: 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inchesGallery: A.W. John Simmons, Fine Art Dealer, Surrey (label on verso) Condition: Very goodCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On verso

Artist: Markus PiersonTitle: Coyote Portrait of DegasMedium: Serigraph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 10 x 11.5 inchesPaper Size: 17 x 18 inchesEdition Size: 175: Hand-deckled edges, Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Excerpts from his book, But I Digress, A Coyote's View of Art History * * EDGAR DEGAS * * Edgar Degas is my brother Pat's favorite, and since he's my older brother, I have to toe the line and say Edgar's a stud. Not that I wouldn't anyway. * * I know why he likes him. Pat loves motion. Nobody captured motion better than Degas. Many were the times I can recall him approaching his snot-nosed runt little brother's basement studio and saying, "God, that music you like is repulsive. Turn it down. What could you find appealing in it? How can you draw with your ears on fire? I can't stand it in here. Ooooh – you've got nice motion there." And then he'd leave to immerse himself again in the classical music that I found utterly lacking. No lyrics! Got to have lyrics. But I digress. * * Some folks say Edgar is an Impressionist, others say no. I say he dabbled, he flirted. Remember what Impressionism is. They're all about light and color; subjects don't matter. Well, Edgar put huge importance on light, even more on color, but more than anything he was nuts about subject and composition. * * Lordy, that boy is good. Degas was a huge fan of Ingres. Ingres told young Edgar to learn to draw, draw like the wind, and darned if he didn't do just that. Degas is a draftsman's draftsman, a painter's painter, and a pasteler's pasteler. (Pasteler? That can't be right.) He played to the strengths of each medium he worked in. A brilliant technician, but beyond that nobody can touch Edgar when it comes to capturing spontaneous movement and its particular effect on light and shadow. A stud. Man alive, could he draw from memory. You'd swear he was working from snapshots. Nope. Cameras only took still pictures back then. I guess he could have said, "Now hold it," but that would have caused the dancers to get miffed or worse, get a bunion. All he had was a sketchbook and a quick hand. Wow. To this day I can't figure out how he could concentrate in those ballet studios with all that classical music blaring in his ears. He probably just did a quick pencil study and then ran back to his basement studio to crank some Zeppelin. * * Every profession has its own particular horror. Singers fear throat cancer, balloonists fear vertigo, a sommelier fears sinusitis, a politician fears a moral compass, painters fear blindness. Well, Edgar went blind. Not completely, but still . . . yikes! How ironic that someone who created such an expansive feast for the eyes would, in the end, find himself starved for sight. * Biography * * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Green PeaMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: Music To HeavenMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

This print is a charming, colorful image from the Pop Art icon. * Artist: Andy WarholTitle: The MillDate: Circa 1958Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paperImage size: Approximately 5 x 5 1/2 inchesFraming: Matted in black with gold inner frame, in decorative gold painted wood frameFrame size: 21 3/4 x 20 1/2 inchesEdition: First State Rarity: ScarceCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 1Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

Artist: Max PapartSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 5Medium: Etching on Japon and Arches PaperEdition: Limited, numberedSize: 13" x 27.5" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Papart (1911-1994), who was born in Marseilles, began his career as a landscape painter. His work evolved into abstraction, and he gained a reputation as the heir to classic cubism. Through the years he has developed spiritual affinities with other styles and schools. Elements of Etruscan, archaic European, African, and pre-Columbian art have influenced his work, leading to his present semi-figurative style. In Papart's art, composition goes hand in hand with color, each strengthening the other. He feels that "color is intuitive." His etchings are noted for contrast in surface textures, achieved with aquatint for a soft, mottled appearance and with carborundum, a technique that results in deep veining reminiscent of stone. Papart has received a number of awards for printmaking. His work is found in many collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Yale University, New Haven . *

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: Red Sky Blue Heart Medium: Serigraph on Canvas Image Size: 44" x 21" Canvas Size: 48" x 25" Edition: 195 Arabic Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 75Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

A unique mixed media painting from renowned artist Norman Laliberté, Gold Apple, Silver Pear is executed in a colorful, decorative style that is sure to enliven any interior. A truly lovely work of art from a master of the still-life genre! Artist: Norman Laliberté Title: Gold Apple, Silver Pear Date: 1995 Signed by the artist Media: Acrylic & mixed media on board Size: 30 by 40 inches Comes in excellent condition with a certificate of authenticity Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa and the American Institute of Architects. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in such publications as Time, Life and The New York Times. This exciting painting is wholly representative of the artist's work. While he tips his artistic hat to the likes of Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, Laliberté has created a language all his own. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Chicken Noodle Medium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #14 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

This enticing still life appears to be a whole Pandora's Box full of interest. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "La Caja de Pandora"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 44"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

The artist further explorers the abstract still life with these vivd flowers and fruit on the table. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Flores En Mi Mesa"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 46" x 32"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

This print shows the interior of a house divided in two separate images. Inspired by the cubist, and abstract impressionist movements, Villon depicts overlapping lines and forms to gives substance to the sketch-like quality. * Artist: Jacques VillonSignature: Pencil signed, lower rightTitle: Composition InterieureEdition: One of 24Medium: Original lithograph on Japon Imperial paperCirca: 1953Image size: Approximately 9 1/2 x 20 inchesFraming: Matted in black with gold inner frame, in decorative gold painted wood frameFrame size: 22 x 32 1/2 inchesCondition: ExcellentRarity: Considered scarce * Certificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #1 * Medium: EtchingSize: 9" x 12"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Full MoonMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 9 x 18 inchesPaper Size: 13 x 22.5 inchesEdition Size: 550: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Green Lights of Summer 2"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedDate: 2009 * Medium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 12" x 12" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Letter from the Erte Alphabet Letter: FArtist: ErteEdition: Original Circle Gallery Release -not a recastMedium: Sterling, Vermeil, Swarovski Crystal Size: Approximately 1" x 1 1/2"Condition: ExcellentIncludes: Certificate of AuthenticityIn his autobiography My Life/My Art , Erte writes: "Drawing has been my favorite pastime from the age of three or four, so when I was taught to read and write, I was absolutely fascinated by the alphabet." It stands to reason that the graphic edition of his famous Alphabet is one of the famous artist's best-known and most sought-after works.Erte's phenomenally successful "Art to Wear" project engrossed the artist during the last ten years of his life. It is no wonder that he turned for inspiration to one of his favorite themes: *

Artist: Markus PiersonTitle: Coyote Portrait of MatisseMedium: Canvas SerigraphOrientation: verticalImage Size: 10 x 11.5 inchesPaper Size: 10 x 11.5 inchesEdition Size: 175: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Excerpts from his book, But I Digress, A Coyote's View of Art History * * HENRI MATISSE * * Before I say what I have to say here, let me state that I just love Henri Matisse. Okay? Okay. Now here it goes: Henri Matisse got by on his looks. There, I said it. Yes, he got by on his looks, and I say this because Matisse looked and dressed like a Cambridge Professor, but his artwork was, well, zippy. Follow me a minute. Let's say you took Henri Matisse's work, put it in a satchel and had a struggling, part-time soap opera actress carry it into the Guggenheim pretending to be its creator. They'd laugh her out of the building! You know they would! They'd say, "It's too flat, too unfocused, too scattered, too . . . zippy." But Henri? "Oh my yes, a man like this must be taken seriously. Why, just look at him. I bet his beard has more brain cells than my whole head. Why yes, of course I'll install his artwork in my museum. Never before has such an intellectual giant been so . . . 'childlike' in his approach. Pure genius. And that suit! I'm certain tweed has never before felt so fulfilled, so honored, as to be encircling his girth." * * Matisse was Fauve, which is French for "wild beast." Yes, his fur-covered body appearing yellow-orange in the moonlight, a blood-covered, four-inch fang extruding from his lips, his murderous rampage sent towns across France into sheer panic . . . no. No, no. Art critics have their own notions about what constitutes a wild beast, and they were simply referring to his bold use of color. Neat name though, huh? Imagine someone asking, "So, what do you do for a living?" and you respond, "Me? Well, I used to be a Post-Impressionist, but now I'm a wild beast!" But I digress. * * Here's what makes Matisse's work cool. Matisse was not into foreground and background – he was into color. He'd paint pure color wherever he saw it in whatever order, and let the viewer figure out what's what. His paintings vibrate with color so much they almost make a humming sound, and his optimistic point of view about nature and beauty serve well as a soothing pool in an otherwise turbulent tide of art produced during the early 1900s. Further, the simple cutouts he produced late in life, at a time when crippling arthritis prevented him from even simple movements, demonstrate perfectly how some can create so much with so little. Bravo, Henri, bravo! * * Yes, Matisse's coolness knows no bounds, but beware, fellow artists: don't try this at home. Fauvism may get a Cambridge-appearing man through the door, but a normal schmoe will more likely get a swollen nose – Slam! Better luck elsewhere. * Biography * * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

An outbreak of passion in portrayed in this print, with expressive red hues and lines, and flowers as a centerpiece. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Brotes de Passion"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 32" x 46"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

A house in Michigan stands out in traditional white along the rolling sands of the lake. * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: "Winter Haven"Edition: Numbered 23/150, lower leftDate: 1/12/76 * Medium: Serigraph on paperSheet size: 30 x 40 inches Condition: Very good; scuff marks overall, and some edge creasing and slight tear, upper left Biography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artistic influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

This limited edition Neiman print portrays the Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg, his vibrant yellow hair and shirt emphasizing his lightning speed on the court. * Artist: LeRoy NeimanSignature: In pencil, lower right marginTitle: Bjorn BorgMedium: SerigraphEdition: Numbered 160/300, in pencil lower leftImage size: 17 1/4 x 23 1/2 inchesFraming: Double matted in blue and white, in light blue laminate frame Frame size: 29 1/2 x 35 1/2 inchesCondition: Excellent; frame has some surface nicks, and matting is slighly askew, and needs to be re-alignedLeRoy Neiman is one of our most popular and prolific contemporary artists. His work consistently garners popular praise and critical acclaim. This is an exciting work by the man who has transformed "sports and celebrity art" into "fine art." *

Offered here is a lush floral still life painting from master artist Norman Laliberté. Iris Pale is executed in mixed media on board in a subtle yet vibrant array of pastel hues shot through with touches of bright primaries. Sure to enliven any décor! Artist: Norman Laliberté Title: Iris Pale Date: 1995 Signed by the artist Media: Acrylic & mixed media on board Size: 10 by 30 inches Comes in excellent condition with a certificate of authenticity Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa and the American Institute of Architects. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in such publications as Time, Life and The New York Times. This exciting painting is typical of the artist's sensitivity to color and composition - sure to be a jewel in the crown of any fine art collector! *

This original artwork is both drawn and painted. It portrays a Classical style interior, with figures and decorative elements. * Artist: David RobertsSignature: By the artist in pencil, lower leftMedium: Pencil and watercolor on paperBoard size: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inchesCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On versoAlso included: Portrait print of the artist, published 1855 by Day & Son, London, 8 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches Biography: * David Roberts (1796- ) was a Scottish artist working in London in the early 19th century. He traveled to Egypt and the Holy Land to paint the monuments, architecture and local people. His work from this period became quite popular, and is in many fine public collections. * *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "Flamenco In Red"Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 46" x 36" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This exciting image is by Burton Morris, a remarkably popular and avidly collected contemporary artist who has put his own energetic spin on Pop art! Title: "American Pop Blue" 1998 40 × 45 Original serigraph on paper Signed by the artist in pencil and dated LR Avalon Publishing Group blind stamp LR Numbered from an edition of 250 LL Bright and fresh; never mounted, matted or framed Certificate of Authenticity Morris first gained national attention in the mid-1990's when his artwork was chosen to hang on the set of the NBC television series "Friends," where it has remained throughout the show's run. He has created artwork for national campaigns for Absolut Vodka, Perrier, Gallo Winery and AT&T. Morris was chosen by the United States Olympic Committee to be an official artist for the U.S. team at the 2004 Games in Athens and also designed the 2004 Oscar poster.

This original painting has a more unusual subject for a still life- eggs and red onions, which look quite lovely in this arrangement. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: Eggs And Red OnionsMedium: Oil on linen covered board Image size is 9 x12 inchesFraming: In gold painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can Black Bean Medium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Mother and DaughterMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 15 x 18 inchesPaper Size: 19 x 22.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

This is an original painting of a decorative vase of tea roses, upon an old lace covering. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed in gold paint by the artist Title: Tea Roses And Old LaceMedium: Oil on linen covered board Image size is 9 x 12 inchesFraming: In gold painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

This is an original painting by Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac, signed by the artist. The scene is a group of mountain chateaus on a summer's day, bright with sunlight and greenery. * Artist: Andre Dunoyer De SegonzacSignature: By the artist in black ink, lower right Medium: Watercolor on paperSheet size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inchesCondition: ExcellentCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On verso Biography: * Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884 -1974) was a French painter and engraver who developed a strong interest in drawing as a child. He studied at Academie de la Palette in Paris, and soon began exhibiting at Salon d'Automne and Salon des Ind pendants. His work was inspired by the Cubism styles of his era, and he became a member of Section d'Or, which had a group show in New York. After serving in WW I, he went on to pursue a more naturalistic style. He worked in oils, water colors, and later etchings. His art can be found in many public collections, including the Mus e de l'Ile. There is also a museum of his work at his birthplace, Boussy-St-Antoine, near Paris. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #5 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Green Lights of Summer 3"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedDate: 2009 * Medium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 12" x 12" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #12 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 4 1/2" x 9"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

These are two original drawings by Pablo Picasso, both signed by the artist, and one dated. It is very unusual to find two drawings, both signed, in the same book. The complete drawing was done on the opposite side of the front cover of a book. The image is of a figure's head, in single color. The other drawing is a partial drawing done upon the printed drawing on the title page of the book. It has red, yellow and blue colored additions to the black and white printed image. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignatures: By the artist in black felt tip marker, lower right, and in red marker under the printed signature, lower rightDate: 17-11-58Medium: Black and color felt tip marker on paperPage size: 13 5/8 x 10 inchesBook: "Posters of Pablo Picasso"Author: Joseph K. FosterBook publication date: 1957Condition: Very Good; some smudging, which may or may not be original to the piece Certificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference markings: One on the cover of the book, and one on the reverse side of the title page *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: Song of SongsMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Andy WarholTitle: Sunday B Morning Campbell's Soup Can VegetableMedium: Serigraph on Paper Size: 34" x 23" Condition: Excellent * *

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "Portrait of Jeanne Saurary"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * * * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * * * * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * * * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * * * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales.

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "Red Oval"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #4 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Markus PiersonTitle: Coyote Portrait of MagritteMedium: Serigraph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 10 x 11.5 inchesPaper Size: 17 x 18 inchesEdition Size: 175: Hand-deckled edges, Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Excerpts from his book, But I Digress, A Coyote's View of Art History * * RENE MAGRITTE * * My deadline for the book approaching like the Starship Enterprise approaches Klingon territory at full warp drive with fresh dylithium crystals, I sit at my writer's desk, hopped up on antihistamines, buried in art books, and Magritte's biographer tells me, by way of written word, "Anti-Painting is equivalent to anti-art, or at the very least, to a reintegration of industrial production and its sociological effects into artistic endeavor." What? Excuse me, what? The guy is nuts! I've read that sentence fifty times – it still evades me. I think the guy has no interest in informing his readers. He has no respect for words other than to use them as a way of sounding smarter and more enlightened than other authors. Which brings me to Magritte and his particular brand of Surrealism. * * Surrealism is the painted version of that sentence I read to you. It was done mostly by artists wishing not to inform, but instead to seem smarter and more enlightened than other artists. Dali is a perfect example. * * Pity the poor fool who would claim to fully understand Dali's work while Dali was within earshot. He wasn't amused by people thinking they were his equals. Now give the guy his due: he was a genius after all. But look at Magritte and what you see is a blue-collar, down to earth, nice guy, everyday Joe Surrealist. * * Magritte didn't claim to be a genius. Or a master. In fact, he didn't even claim to be a gifted painter. He didn't make impossible images, he made improbable ones. Unlike most Surrealist art, a great number of Magritte's paintings depict scenes which could actually happen, things which could actually be. * * I like a good, snappy wit. Magritte's work has wit all over it. When it isn't obvious in the painting, it's there in the title. He did a big painting of a pipe. The title? This Is Not a Pipe. He did a portrait of himself painting a bird. His reference? An egg. This guy must have been a world-class dinner guest, just a hoot to have around. Maybe not, though – artists can get testy. Most times artists get testy when they are out somewhere far from art supplies and they get a good idea. They wish they were working right that minute and since they can't, they fidget and mumble and sometimes their wife, Sheryl, has to ask them the same question five times and kick them in the shin under the table, which just makes them fuss all the more. But I digress. * * Magritte was a wickedly fast painter, a "one-a-dayer" as we in the trade like to say. They don't look near as good as a Dali close-up, but who cares. He was from Belgium, which as we all know is also the country that gave us five-time world champion motocross racer Roger DeCoster – the best ever. Magritte joined and un-joined the Communist Party (now there's a witty bunch) many times, dabbled in filmmaking, wrote some, blah, blah, blah. That's not important. Take a good hard look at Magritte's paintings and what you hear is a guy whispering, "Hey pal, anything can happen." Read that last sentence again – it's almost surreal. * Biography * * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

The eclectic use of shapes and colors exemplifies the moving and grooving that is occurring in this great piece. * Artist: Neal DotyTitle: Night Music * Medium: SerigraphSignature: Signed and Numbered by artistSize: 30" x 22 1/4"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Neal Doty was born in 1941, in Glendale, California. He studied at the Art Center School of Design (Los Angeles, 1967); Los Angeles City College (AA Degree, Fine Art, 1971); and California State University at Northridge (BA Degree, Fine Art, 1973). * A student of the late Ben Duer, Mr. Doty was awarded 1st Place in the 1976 Larchmont Art Exhibit in Los Angeles and, in 1977, worked as a commissioned artist with Paramount Studios in Hollywood. * Mr. Doty's works have appeared at the N.Y. Art Expo in New York City, the Wash Art Fair in Washington, D.C., and the Basel Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland . * Neal, a Viet Nam veteran, attended the USC School of medicine in 1974 and worked as a paramedic in the City of Glendale, California for a few years then relocated to his current residence in Palm Desert, California. * Neal has "pushed the envelope" in his innovative printmaking and painting techniques and has a vast body of work collected around the world. * * * *

This original etching portrays a clearing in a wooded area to reveal a tranquil pool, in wonderful details. * Artist: Fred Slocombe Signature: In pencil, lower leftTitle: Woodland PoolMedium: Etching on paperSheet size: 7 7/8 x 14 1/2 inchesCondition: ExcellentBiography * Frederick Albert Slocombe (1847 - 1920) was an accomplished painter and printmaker. He and his brothers Charles Philip, and Edward, were all artists, and were quite popular around the end of the 19th century. Frederick exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy, and his artwork has been widely collected in public and private collections around the world.

Artist: Salvador Dali (posthumous rendition of)Title: Don QuixoteMedium: Posthumous EtchingSize: 13 x 11 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Here is an original painting of Killarney Garden in lovely, pastoral southwestern Ireland. This still life was completed by the artist when he was in China doing plein-aire painting studies on location. * * Artist: William ChambersSignature: Signed in silver paint by the artist Title: Killarney GardenMedium: Oil on linen covered board Image size is 10 x12 inchesFraming: In gold painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 15 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches * Condition: Excellent -brought directly to us by the artist * * Biography * Born in 1940 and raised in the Chicago area, Chambers first began his studies at the University of Illinois He planned on majoring in industrial design, but after realizing the field required more engineering than he had initially thought. and desiring to be an artist more than an engineer, he transferred to Northeastern Illinois University earning a Bachelors of Arts Degree. From there he began his studies and graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. * After graduation from the American Academy, he apprenticed for several years at Magee Inc. a top illustration studio. He continued his career as an illustrator working at another Jack O'Grady studios in Chicago. While working in illustration he became more engrossed in portrait painting. * By 1979, he decided to strike out on his own as a portrait painter. Many people took notice of his painting, and before long, he was approached by a consultant for the Knowles China Company. * Chambers had never heard of collector plates at that time, but he quickly became a design star, appearing on the cover of Plate World magazine and making appearances across the country. He is a Master Signature Member in a group of only 25 artists. * Although popular for his successes in the realm of collector plates, Chambers is best known for his expertise as a portrait artist. His large commissioned works are priced from $25,000 to $35,000. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: Tearful Soft WatchMedium: Offset LithographSize: 20 x 26 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Salvador Dali (posthumous rendition of)Title: Self PortraitMedium: Posthumous EtchingSize: 13 1/2 x 11 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: Psalm of PsalmsMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 300Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Pedro TapiaTitle: 1Medium: Original painting Size: 20" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pedro Tapia was born in Tacna, Peru, in 1970. He studied art at the Federico Laso Art School in Tacna and later on at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Per (ENBA) in Lima. Tapia s art has garnered numerous awards and his work can be found in private and public collections internationally. *

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 3Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

These vibrant flowers certainly make a welcoming site for this table. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Flores de Bienvenida"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 44' x 32"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Here's an original signed work in oil by Emile Bernard and a pre-eminent example of Cloisonnism, a painting technique pioneered by the artist: * Title: Portrait of Mademoiselle Lecequin * Oil paint on gesso-prepared mahogany panel * Circa 1890 * Signed LL * Panel size: 12½ × 17½ inches * Framed size: 21 × 24 inches * Excellent condition; no conspicuous flaws or faults; no overpaints or restorations * * The painting bears a number of identifying marks on the verso. Some are illegible or partially legible. Most notably, a circular exhibition registrar's label appears in black ink on the LL verso of the panel and reads: "Douane Centrale Expositione." A ghost image of a previous exhibition label appears at the top center verso. Please see the photograph of the verso, taken several years ago, below. The verso is now enclosed behind a dustcover. All framing elements meet current archival conservation standards. * * * * A detailed appraisal of the painting, including extensive provenance back to the artist, is included. * * * * Cloisonnism refers to the painting style of Bernard and several other French artists of the nineteenth century, reminiscent of the look of cloisonné enamel and stained glass windows. Bernard was a pioneer in the development of this technique. * * * * Emile Bernard (France, 1868-1941) painter and writer on art, is closely linked with most of the major art movements of his time, most notably Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau and the previously mentioned Cloissonism. He seemed to know everyone, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Louis Anquentin (with whom he developed Cloisonnism) and Paul Gaughin, with whom he worked closely in Paris and Pont-Aven, and conducted a voluminous and fascinating correspondence with Van Gogh, publishing a book of Van Gogh's letters to him in 1893. * * * A copy of that book "Vincent Van Gogh Letters to Emile Bernard," edited and translated by Douglass Lord, Museum of Modern Art, 1938. xi, 124 pp, 32 b/w pls. 4to cloth, inscribed and in very good condition, will be included. * * * * " 'There are artists around Gauguin, such asemile Bernard, Maurice Denis, and Paul Serusier, whose smaller oils, and certainly their works on paper, can remain under $100,000," says David Norman of Sotheby's, " in an ArtNews "Best Bets" feature in the Summer 2001 edition. * * * * This splendid example ofemile Bernard's best mature work may be the "best bet" you've been waiting to acquire.

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: Just the Two of Us Medium: Lithograph on Paper Image Size: 35"x 24" Edition: 75 signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Here are two original drawings by Pablo Picasso, one dedicated, and both signed by the artist. One drawing was done on the opposite side of the front cover of a book. The image portrays a dove holding an olive branch landing on a woman's head. The dedication is in the upper left. The other drawing is done on the previous page. It features a clever rendition of the edition number, appearing as a bird. Both drawings are done in black. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in black, lower left, and lower rightMedium: Original drawing on paperPage size: 8 x 10 1/2 inchesBook: "Picasso: 'Blue' and 'Rose' Periods·1901-1906, Loan Exhibition"Date: November 2- November 26, 1936Gallery: Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New YorkPublisher: The Spiral Press, New YorkEdition: Number 785 of fifteen hundred numbered copiesCondition: Very good; some smudging and stainingCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the book cover

This is an original drawing by Pablo Picasso, signed, dated and dedicated by the artist. The drawing was done on the opposite side of the title page of a book. The image is a portrait of a smiling figure. It is done in 5 colors, including brown, blue, green, red, and yellow. The signature and dedication are done in blue. * Artist: Pablo PicassoSignature: By the artist in blue crayon, lower rightDate: 1962Dedication: Upper right Medium: Crayon on paperPage size: 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inchesBook: "Le Dejeuners, Dessins Originaux Picasso"Publisher: Galerie MadouraBook publication date: 1962Condition: ExcellentCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London EnglandReference marking: On the title page

Artist: Salvador Dali (interpretation of)Signature: Facsimile Signed Title: A Mad Tea PartyMedium: Offset LithographSize: 22-1/2 x 29-1/2 inches Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali, for his father was named Salvador and so was his older brother who had died 9 months before Dali was born. Because of the coincidental dates that marked the death of one child and the birth of the next falling on the same date, his parents believed that their second son was actually a reincarnation of the first. Due to this, the "ghostly" memory of his lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Dali took on a unique and conspicuous personality. He felt as though he was forced to live both as himself and his dead brother, which caused him to have a particular obsession with decay and petrification. In 1922 Dali was accepted into a special school for painting, sculpture, and engraving known as the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. He exhibits his paintings in a student art show at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. A year later, Dali was suspended from the academy for criticizing his lecturers and inciting a student rebellion. At the age of 18, Dali had become a member of the young elite, an emerging group of intellectuals. In 1923, Dali first started to experiment with cubism. He became a leader of an avant-garde group of young Spanish intellectuals. He has his first one man show in the same year at the Dalmau Gallery.In 1926 Dali takes his first trip to Brussels and Paris where he visits Picasso and Miro. He also has his second one man show at the Dalamu Gallery and is expelled from the San Fernando Academy due to his refusal to take the oral exams. He felt that he knew more than his examiners on the subject of Raphael. Far from discouraged, Dali was determined to be one of the greatest painters of all time. In 1928 Dali does theater designs for Mariana Pineda and he works regularly with the journal, L'Aime de les Arts. Miro visits Dali and encourages him to establish himself in Paris. Shortly after, Dali takes his second trip to Paris and Miro introduces him to the Dadaists and Surrealists groups.In 1929 he meets his future wife, Gala Eluard in Cadaques. This same year he has his first one man show in Paris at Goeman's Gallery. Dali embraced the ideas of surrealism but in a way unique to him. In the early 1930's Dali expands on his paranoiac critical process of thought and in 1933 the Julian Levey Gallery organizes Dali's first one-man show in the United States, in New York. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: It's a Drying DayMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 14.5 x 16 inchesPaper Size: 19.35 x 23.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: PinoSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: "A Soft Place in My Heart "Edition: NumberedMedium: Giclee on CanvasSize: 28" x 38" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Pino, born Guiseppe Dangelico in Bari on November 8, 1939, began his studies at the city s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. From 1960 to 1979, his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. He was also commissioned by Italy s two largest publisher s, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, he felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom, which he believed he could find in the United States. * After knocking on many doors, in February of 1980, Zebra Books Publishers promised him a job, commissioning him to do a book cover.His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His illustrations were so successful that he gained entr e into creative relationships with many leading publishers of romance novels. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. From 1980 to 1993 he dedicated himself totally to this art where his style dominated and influenced the market. His illustrations combined elements fresh from Europe with a powerful sensuality, bringing this medium to new heights. * Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful pallet to create tender pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. *

This vibrant still life includes a guitar with a floral vase at the top, portraying the way a song can bloom like flowers. * Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Cancion Florecida"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on Somerset paper with deckled edgesSize: 45" x 30.5"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

Artist: Ira Moskowitz Signature: Signed by the artist in pencil, lower rightTitle: Song of Songs XIMedium: Lithograph on paperEdition: Limited, numbered out of 100Size: 30" x 21" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Ira Moskowitz, (1912 - 2001) descendant of a long rabbinical line, was born in Poland and went with his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1914. The family remained there until 1927, and young Moskowitz received his first education in Prague's schools. Soon after, his family moved to New York City, and in 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League, having finally resolved his conflict between a passion for drawing and a desire to follow the rabbinical profession of his forefathers. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." * In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. Since 1962, Moskowitz has divided his time between Paris and New York. He is a superb draughtsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks. *

Artist: Cecilia Garcia AmaroTitle: "Desierto Cobriso 1"Signature: Signed by the artistEdition: LimitedDate: 2009 * Medium: Giclee on paper with deckled edgesSize: 30" x 30" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Cecilia Garcia Amaro was born in 1953, in the City of Guadalajara. She studied Interior Design at the Superior Institute of Art and Culture in Monterrey, California.Cecilia, who is also a singer, composer and musician, held her first exhibition in the Disarte Gallery in Tijuana, Baja, California and performed her song entitled "Canto Sobre Papel" ....."Song Over the Paper".During the last several years, Cecilia has combined her exhibitions with musical presentations where her inspiring poetry can be best expressed through her musical interpretations. Ms. Amaro can count more than sixty exhibitions.Cecilia's art captures the warmth and feeling of her beloved native land, Mexico. Ms. Amaro, while continuing to hold concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis, far exceeding the norm of most artists, has now become a beloved icon, who expresses a warm, beautiful, creative and generous spirit of the Mexican peoples. Her art along with her music transcends all geographical boundaries worldwide. * Cecilia Garcia Amaro's art is now among the collection of the 3 great Mexican muralists - Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco. Not to mention that her pieces are surrounded by Tomayo, Toledo, Lazo, Nishizawa and several other prominent artists of Mexico. This elite collection is in Mexico' City's Industrial's Club - now 47 years old. The oldest piece - a Pelegrin Clave - dates back to 1849, and the most recent - a Cecilia Garcia Amaro, 1996. Timeline of one and a half centuries. *

The flat landscape of the Midwest family farm is portrayed in simple shapes and soft tones in this fine modern art print * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: "Hanson's Farm"Edition: 11/65, marked lower leftDate: 10/21/1974Medium: Serigraph on paperSheet size: 22 x 28 inches Condition: Very good; minor scuff marks overall, and some edge creasing Biography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artisti * c influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

Here is a scene of a Midwestern farmscape portrayed in a clean, modernist style. * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: "Plowed Fields Rising"Edition: Numbered 42/50, lower leftDate: 1/21/75 * Medium: Print on paperSheet size: 30 x 40 inches Condition: Very good; minor scuffs, and slight crease in the image; crease marks and tiny tears in the margins, easily matted outBiography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artistic influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

This modern art print depicts the different layers of the urban environment: the traffic, the residential homes, and the tall buildings forming the skyline. * Artist: Steve Horan Signature: In pencil, lower left ("Horan")Title: "City"Edition: Numbered 119/150, lower leftDate: 9/3/76 * Medium: Serigraph on paperSheet size: 30 x 40 inches Condition: Very good; scuff marks overall, and some slight edge creasing; tear at the upper edgeBiography: * Steve Horan studied Art History at the University of Chicago. Much of his artistic influence came from doing part time jobs, including card lettering, sign painting, and commercial layout. Working in acrylics or pastels, he captures basic geometric forms of landscapes, inspired by memories and discovering new ways of looking at things. Horan's art has appeared in many national exhibitions and one-man shows, as well as galleries in New York, Chicago and cities around the country. *

Here is one single sided artwork and one double-sided artwork, all mixed media abstracts by Alberto Burri. They are full of energetic lines and abstract forms. * Artist: Alberto Burri Signatures: (Two) by the artist in pencil, lower rightMedium: Mixed media on paper, (marker, white paint)Sheet sizes: 8 x 11 1/2 inches, 5 x 7 inchesCondition: Good to Very Good; larger piece has creasingCertificate of Attribution: Alan Goldberg Authentication Service, London England; attributed to Alessandro Maria Carella, the Italian film producerReference marking: On reverse side of the larger pieceBiography * Alberto Burri (1915 - 1995) was an Italian abstract painter and sculptor. He began his career as a surgeon in WWII. While being held in a Texas prisoner of war camp, he began using his surgical skills and developing them into artistic expressions, by sewing things together. The horrors of war influenced his art, as well as industrial waste of the mid 20th century. Burri was recognized as a seminal figure in Italian modern art, sometimes contemporary, and sometimes nihilistic in form. His work was featured amongst post-war Italian art at the Guggenheim Museum. His art is considered significant in modern art, and it can be found in public and private collections around the world. *

Artist: Wassily KandinskyTitle: "In Blue"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * "Wasilly Kandinsky (or Vassilii Kandinskii) was a Russian painter whose works from 1910 are considered the first abstract paintings. Kandinsky had a law career in Moscow until he opted for art school in Munich in 1896 -- when he was almost 30. Within a decade he'd made a name for himself in Russia and in Europe, an Expressionist whose dazzling watercolors were influenced by Russian folk art and French Impressionists such as Claude Monet. Between 1910 and 1912 he wrote about non-objective "abstract" paintings and published On the Spiritual in Art, a work that solidified his position as the father of abstract art. Known for his ingenuity with geometric shapes and use of brilliant color, Kandinsky was successful in Europe and the United States." * -from Infoplease.com: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/wassilykandinsky.html#ixzz1XqGt37Po *

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "At The Moulin Rouge"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales. *

This print portrays the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris. Villon, inspired by Cubist forms, presents this part of the city with an unusual composition. At the center is a road, dividing the buildings to either side, their angles veering off, somewhat distorted. Yet, it is a perfectly balanced work * Artist: Jacques VillonSignature: Pencil signed, lower rightTitle: La PlaceEdition: First state: One of 24Medium: Original lithograph in black ink on BFK Rives watermarked paperPrinter: Studio of Fernand MourlotPublisher: Sripta & PictaCirca: 1953Image size: Approximately 10 1/2 x 20 inchesFraming: Matted in black with gold inner frame, in decorative gold painted wood frameFrame size: 22 x 32 1/2 inchesCondition: ExcellentRarity: Considered ScarceCertificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

This original animation cel is from the Nickelodeon TV show SpongeBob Squarepants. The story takes place under the deep blue sea in Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob resides. SpongeBob, who is a yellow, porous sponge, is your typical happy-go-lucky character, as he is always cheerful and enjoys making people laugh. Patrick Star, SpongeBob's neighbor who is a starfish, boasts knowing nothing and is often getting himself into ridiculous situations. Between the homes of these two lies the home of the miserable Squidward, a squid, who is known for being grouchy and playing tricks on SpongeBob and Patrick. Both SpongeBob and Squidward work at the Krusty Krab, a fast food business run by the greedy money-loving Mr. Krabs, a crab, the arch rival of the evil, possibly misunderstood, Plankton. Another neighbor, Sandy Cheeks, an athletic squirrel who normally wears an astronaut's space suit, was introduced in "Tea at the Treedome." She spends most of her time inventing and experimenting. * Plankton is giving a Thumbs Up, which probably means thumbs down to everyone else! * Original Production Animated Cel Overall Size of Cel: 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" Very Good Condition This is an original hand-painted cel set-up used in the production of an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants." Each one-of-a-kind set-up represents a slight change in position of the characters. When individually photographed and projected in rapid succession, the images appear to move. * To create production cels, the original animator's drawing is transferred onto an acetate cel (by hand-inking and/or photo copying). The cel is then hand-painted on the reverse side. * Peg holes and animator's notations are at the bottom edge. *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: SunshineMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: horizontalImage Size: 26 x 11.5 inchesPaper Size: 30 x 16 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist: Markus Pierson Title: Dancer and Censor Medium: Hand-Painted Cast Resin Dims: 21h x 6w x 11.5d base: 3h x 7w x 7d Edtion: 95 signed and numbered sculptures Certificate of Authenticity included Biography * Markus Pierson was born in 1961 and raised in the small farming town of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where his father owned a popular restaurant. A self-proclaimed reckless "racer", Markus was the youngest and most challenging of the four Pierson children. * While a student, an encouraging art teacher swung wide the door to Markus' talent and profoundly moved him. However, the Grand Ledge art scene was somewhat lacking, leading Markus to take on a number of odd jobs before accidentally stumbling upon accounting as a means to making a living. After a near-fatal bout with Crohn's Disease in early 1985, he declared that the accountant was "dead" and in his place was a man pursuing his dream of becoming a successful artist. * The Coyote Series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it, played it often and memorized the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred to as "Coyote," is a reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow - Pierson aspired to be the carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something he'd never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. * Over the next six months Markus painted billboards by day for a living and drew his Coyotes into the night. To the wall above his desk he taped these words, "No one works this hard and this smart - and has it come to nothing." Within a year, he walked out of Artexpo in New York City with commitments from 110 art galleries who sought to represent his work. * In the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the Coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life's ups and downs. He has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, while also being featured at various prestigious international fairs including Art Miami, Artexpo New York, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and palmbeach3. Markus has amassed a collector base which includes Heads of State, major corporations and celebrities worldwide. * Markus' wife and muse is artist, Sheryl Pierson. The two live and work in a converted loft in Kansas City, Missouri. * "There's no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say this now to anyone who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been worth it. Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might have been. " Markus Pierson *

Per the certificate of authenticity, this is an original etching that portrays a standing man from the design of Leonardo da Vinci. There are several letters which were marked to corresponded to a study of anatomy. It was originally conceived between 1490-1513, and it later appeared in a book titled A Treatise on Painting, first published in 1651. * Da Vinci was a master of the human form, both scientifically and artistically, and this etching is a fine example of his genius. * Artist: Leonardo da VinciExecuted with collaboration by: Nicolas Poussin and Charles Errand Title: Standing ManEdition: First State Medium: Original etching in black ink on thin laid paperCirca: 1651Image size: Approximately 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inchesFraming: Matted in black with gold inner frame, in decorative gold painted wood frameFrame size: 23 x 25 1/2 inchesCondition: ExcellentRarity: Considered Very ScarceCertificate of Authenticity: From Global Fine Art

Artist: Lowell NesbittSignature: Signed by the artistTitle: 6Edition: NumberedMedium: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Size: 19" x 24" Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Nesbitt graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he majored in stained glass and etching.During his career he had more than 130 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Stable Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Brooke Alexander, Inc., Stafanotty Gallery in New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Galerie M.E. Thelen in Cologne; Gimpel and Hanover Galerie in Zurich; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museo de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico; Hester Van Royen Gallery in London; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Henri Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit. His work is included in the collections of more than 100 museums, government institutions, and corporations, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. the Yale University Art Gallery; the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts; the Renwick Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art in Wellington, New Zealand; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Plateau Beaubourg of the Pompidou Center and Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France.A very affordable print by a well-known contemporary gay artist. *

Artist: Albrecht DurerEngraver: Amand-DurandTitle: #3 * Medium: Etching on paper * Size: 8 1/2" x 6"Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Amand - Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century Old Masters' engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.References to Amand - Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the 19 th and 20 th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published master books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.Soon after Amand - Durand's death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publishers, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand - Durand painstakingly recreated Durer's etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world. * *

Artist: Mackenzie ThorpeTitle: Love by the Pale MoonlightMedium: Lithograph on PaperOrientation: verticalImage Size: 13.75 x 20 inchesPaper Size: 17.75 x 24.5 inchesEdition Size: 200: Signed by the artist, individually numbered, accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the publisher.Biography * Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. * The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum's makeup bag. Struggling with dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. * After leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio and gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Since then, he has become one today's most collected and sought-after artists. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. * Mackenzie's perspective on life is clear. He doesn't hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. *

Artist Norman Laliberté presents an abstract interpretation of a calendar, in this beautifully composed original mixed media painting. * Artist: Norman LalibertéTitle: Day, Week, Month, YearDate: 1994Signature: Signed by the artistMedia: Mixed media on boardSize: 30 x 40 inchesCondition: Excellent Certificate of Authenticity: Included This is a thoughtful original work by a true master artist. * Biography: * Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-applique banners designed for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa and the American Institute of Architects. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Norman Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections. * Two retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Center. In addition, Laliberté is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIGA Award for Design and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in such publications as Time, Life and The New York Times. *

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-LautrecTitle: "Moulin Rouge"Edition: LimitedMedium: Giclee on paperSize: 22" x 17-1/2" (approximate)Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period. * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. Henri's father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri was weak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint. * He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs. * Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings. * In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. Toulouse-Lautrec died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then his paintings and posters--particularly the Moulin Rouge group--have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and art sales. *