George Manupelli "AC Sandino" Silk screen poster c. 1970
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George Manupelli “AC Sandino” Silk screen poster c. 1970
GEORGE MANUPELLI (1931-2014) USA
“AC Sandino” Silk screen poster c. 1970
Silk-screen with black and red ink.
This stylized “Ben-Day dot” technique image of Augusto Cesar Sandino (AC Sandino (1895-1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and guerrilla leader), the poster is float mounted in a white gold leaf edged frame.
Signed: george manupelli (in ink below image) and in pencil script below black inked printed name
Poster dimensions: H: 35″ x W: 23″
Framed dimensions: H: 41 1/2″ x W: 29 1/2″ x D: 2 1/2″
George Manupelli was born in Boston’s North End in 1931. A pioneer in experimental film since 1955, he has exhibited and won awards internationally including the 1964 Venice and 1965 Sao Paulo Biennials. He recently received and Avant- Garde Master Award for his Dr. Chicago films. He holds a Doctorate Degree from Columbia University (1959), and has taught at the University of Michigan, York University, was Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute, and was a Fellow at the University of Illinois Center for Advanced Studies. Manupelli founded the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1963 and directed it for 17 years. He was also a member of the music theatre ONCE Group. His many films are in the archive of the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
***This print is made from a 1930s photo of revolutionary Augusto Sandino.
Signed: Leontyne Price as Bes, Porgy & Bess, XVII KK 20, May 19, 53 (in ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 101 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Tim Liddy Oy Vey (1979) The game where you become a JEWISH MOTHER! Get your sons to become doctors—Get your daughters married to doctors! If not, OY VEY! 2008 Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
TIM LIDDY
“Oy Vey” (1979) The game where you become a JEWISH MOTHER! Get your sons to become doctors—Get your daughters married to doctors! If not, OY VEY! 2008
Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy, red circular ring, “circa 1979”, 2008
Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
H: 10 ¼” x W: 20 ½” x D: 1 ¾”
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.
Karl Benjamin, “Geo-metricized figure”, Oil on canvas 1954
KARL BENJAMIN (1925-2012) USA
Geometricized figure 1954
Oil on canvas
Signed: Benjamin 54 (lower left)
For more information see: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Vol. 1 to 10, E. Bénézit (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976).
Canvas: H: 17″ x W: 6″
Framed: H: 24 1/2″ x W: 13 1/2″
Karl Benjamin was born in Chicago, IL in 1925. He received his BA from the University of Redlands, CA and his MFA at Claremont Graduate School, CA. Benjamin belonged to the Hard Edge group of West Coast painters led by John McLaughlin during the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Visual Arts in both 1983 and 1989. His work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions and is included in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, Israel; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. For many years, Benjamin taught painting at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, and currently is Professor Emeritus. He lived in Claremont, CA.
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