Jim Dine

Ginger and Uni

1996

With a lifetime of work that is adored by collectors and art lovers around the globe, Alex Katz is a favorite successor of the New York-based artists that responded to Pop Art. Born in 1927, Katz has been dedicated to art-making since the 1950s - however, it wasn't until the following decade that he established his signature 'flat' figurative style, which continues to influence contemporary painters. Today, we can see this impact on a host of artists including Eric Fischl, David Salle, Julian Opie, and Elizabeth Peyton amongst others. One could argue that Katz kept the tradition of figurative painting alive when it had gone terribly out of style. An active and devoted printmaker, Katz typically creates portraits and landscapes: subjects that he is personally connected to such as Soho cityscapes, the flora of rural Maine, and the people in his life. In 1957, Katz would meet his future wife "Ada" - over the course of the last fifty years, he has depicted her over 200 times. She is the most iconic subject in his oeuvre and is depicted with affection, sincerity, and devotion. Utilizing 5 colors, this dynamic print depicts Ada coming up for air as she swims through a body of water. Recalling Katz's 1973 painting "Swimmer #3", this work is a fine example of the artist's pared-down aesthetic, depicting Ada with few details and a striking use of negative space. In 1976, this iconic image was extended to the United States Olympic Committee and reproduced as a poster for the Olympics in Montreal at the time. In 2022, Katz was the subject of a major retrospective at The Guggenheim (New York) which exhibited work spanning 8 decades of the artist's career. "Olympic Swimmer...

Caviar20 has had the pleasure and privilege to work with Canadian legend and artist extraordinaire Charles Pachter. Celebrating Canadian patrimony is an important element in Pacht...

Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museums and the Canadian art canon. The barn, along with Queen Elizabeth and the Moose, forms a triad of icons that Charles Pachter has repeatedly visited over the course of his career. Playful and a touch irreverent, Pachter's charming imagery presents a new narrative on Canadiana. The artist’s vast body of work includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Pachter’s works are widely sought-after and are an ideal selection for starting or continuing a collection of 20th-century Canadian art. Pachter's confident colors, sharp lines, and graphic qualities are instantly recognizable and continue to be a mainstay throughout his oeuvre. Here with an image of the classic TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars, this work epitomizes Pacther’s version of Canadian Pop Art...

Claes Oldenberg (b.1929) is a Swedish-born American artist, renowned for his contribution to Pop art by way of his iconic soft sculptures and public installations. In 1962, Oldenburg debuted his revolutionary soft sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York. Three giant, squishy sculptures of an ice cream cone, a hamburger, and a slice of cake, swelled across the gallery floor, forever changing the way we define sculpture. It has been noted that Oldenburg's early work was largely inspired by Yayoi Kusama's hand-sewn phallic-shaped soft sculptures that enveloped the surfaces of ironing boards, sofas, and boats. Click here to see an exhibition poster featuring a later example of Kusama's soft sculptures. Ranging from voluminous hamburgers (famously on display at the AGO) to ballistic badminton shuttlecocks, Oldenberg's colossal sculptures replicate commonplace objects on a grand scale, often disrupting the environment they inhibit with curious and playful subtexts. The confrontational nature of Oldenberg's sculptures places an emphasis on the viewer, asking us to reconsider our relationship to these recognizable, but obscure, objects. "Geometric Mouse...

Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museums. For the uninitiated, his work is accessible and beloved (notably his amazing hockey mural at Toronto's College Street subway station). While Pachter’s work shares some characteristics with Jim Dine, David Hockney and even Andy Warhol, his style is resoundingly charming, singular and uniquely Canadian. Queen Elizabeth, barns, Hudson’s Bay Company...

Charles Pachter's iconic and celebrated series the Painter Flag was created in the early 1980's. For nearly forty years it has been one of his most sought-after creations and hangs in important commercial and public institutions across the country. In 2001, shortly after the tragedy of 9/11 Pachter created this special lithograph both honoring the fallen and celebrating Canada and the United States' friendship. Like the best of Pachter's work "Side by Side...

Woodcut, collagraph and photo-engraving in colors, on Rives Lightweight Cream paper, with full margins. Hand signed, dated and numbered lower front by Jim Dine. From the edition of...

1983 Woodcut in colors, on Tosa Koza paper S. 20 3/8 x 22 3/8 in. (51.8 x 56.8 cm) Edition of 200 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin

2013 Ukiyo-e style woodcut in colors, on Japon paper Image/sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 2/5 in. Edition of 25 Signed and numbered in pencil Framed

2010 Woodcut in colors, on wove paper Image/sheet: 16 3/5 x 11 7/10 in. (42.2 x 29.7 cm) Edition of 50 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin Framed, excellent condition

2013 Ukiyo-e style woodcut in colors, on Japon paper Image/sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Edition of 25 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin Framed, pristine condition

2013 Ukiyo-e style woodcut in colors, on Japon paper Image/sheet: 16 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. (41 x 28.6 cm) Edition of 25 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, top margin Unframed, pristine...