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  Werner Mantz, Untitled, Gelatin silver print 1929

  WERNER MANTZ (1901-1983) Germany

  Untitled 1929 (vintage)

  Silver gelatin print, patinated bronze frame

  Signed: W. Mantz 1929 (in pencil on back)

  Framed size: H: 8 ¾” x W: 11”

  Price: $42,500

  Werner Mantz is regarded as one of the most gifted architectural photographers of the twentieth century. His talent in this field we recognized early in his career and he received numerous commissions from a variety of prominent architects, first in Germany and later in the Netherlands. His work in Cologne especially, from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, forms a definitive statement of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in architecture.

  Works by Werner Mantz can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate London and many more.

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  Tim Liddy, Lie Cheat and Steal (1971) The Game of Political Power Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back 2006

  TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Missouri

  “Lie Cheat and Steal” (1971) The Game of Political Power 2006

  Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back

  Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1971” 2006, red circular ring

  Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery (St. Louis, MO)

  H: 12” x W: 9” x D: 2”

   

  With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.