Conceptual Art

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Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) was a highly revered artist, bookmaker and competitive cyclist. He was based in London, Ontario but beloved across the country. He would represent Canada at t...

A renowned edition by Joseph Beuys by the title ‘Rose for direct democracy'. These works are collected by major museums: another exemplar is currently in the Museum of Contemporary A...

Una performance di Joseph Beuys, registrata alla Staatliche Kunstakademie di Düsseldorf nel 1968. Interpreti: J. Beuys in collaborazione con H. Christiansen e J. Stüttgen. Questa è...

Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model sculpture of the ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

This striking large conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging six...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1962. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

Öyvind Fahlström Eddie (Sylvie's Brother) in the Desert (from New York International Portfolio), 1966 Silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of ...

"City 6" is an original 1968 hand-signed and numbered (9/45) screenprint by Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - 2014), nicely framed. Image measures 15 x 22 inches. The artist has sp...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963 in black on a grey background. The shapes appear to be floating or flying, ...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963 in black on a grey background. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual i...

This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1962. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...

Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 COA provided Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculpto...

3D multiple, 1966, published by The Something Else Press, New York, a wooden box with plexiglass slipcover, containing one book with 94 pages, ‘Performances Notations 1959/66’ 15 fol...

Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010) Mixed media sculpture "Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage, Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d. There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made. Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010 From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd." Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years. Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis. In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place. Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...

Dennis Oppenheim Directed Seeding -Wheat, Historic Yvon Lambert Gallery Poster (Hand Signed and Addressed by Dennis Oppenheim), 1969 Offset lithograph poster. Hand signed, inscribed. Postmarked and addressed to Oppenheim's dealer, John Gibson 23 × 16 inches Hand Signed and inscribed by Dennis Oppenheim lower right in blue marker in 2006, hand addressed by Dennis Oppenheim in 1969 in red marker Unframed This is an extremely uncommon vintage poster/mailer announcing the May 20th, 1969 opening reception (Vernissage) for the exhibition of works by American conceptual art pioneer Dennis Oppenheim at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris. The poster is historic in that it was originally mailed to John Gibson, the East 67th Street dealer, who famously gave Dennis Oppenheim his first New York exhibition in 1968, and it is hand addressed to Gibson, bearing the original Paris, France postmark of 1969. It is, exceptionally, hand signed and dedicated by Dennis Oppenheim to a collector who acquired the poster from John Gibson's collection, and then secured Dennis Oppenheim's autograph in 2006, making this an especially valuable collectors item. More information about the project from the Tate Gallery archives, which acquired the work: This work brings together two interventions Oppenheim created on a field owned by farmer Albert Waalken in Finsterwolde, north-eastern Holland, in 1969. It comprises four distinct elements mounted on board: a colour photograph of a wheatfield being sowed by a tractor in parallel curving lines seen from high up; a negative image in black and white of a map of the area of Finsterwolde onto which two sections of text have been collaged; and two black and white aerial photographs of the same field being traversed by a tractor cutting an X into the wheat. The first two elements relate to the action Directed Seeding. For this the field was seeded according to a line plotted by following the road from the village of Finsterwolde, the location of the field, to Nieuweschans, another village where the farmer’s storage silo for wheat was located. Oppenheim reduced this curved line by a factor of six in order to direct the trajectory of seeding. The tractor then carved a series of curved parallel lines on the surface of the field as it dug up earth and scattered seed. From an aerial perspective the patterning of parallel lines may be viewed as a form of line drawing on the landscape. The precise location of the field and the silo are indicated on the map, showing the trajectory of the road. The two sections of text collaged onto the upper portion of the map briefly describe the two interventions. Explaining the action Cancelled Crop, the artist wrote: In September the field was harvested in the form of an X. The grain was isolated in its raw state, further processing was withheld. This project poses an interaction upon media during the early stages of processing. Planting and cultivating my own material is like mining ones own pigment (for paint) – I can direct the later stages of development at will. In this case the material is planted and cultivated for the sole purpose of withholding it from a product-oriented system. Isolating this grain from further processing (production of food stuffs) becomes like stopping raw pigment from becoming an illusionistic force on canvas. The esthetic is in the raw material prior to refinement, and since no organization is imposed through refinement, the material’s destiny is bred with its origin. (Quoted from artist’s statement in Tate acquisition file.) Directed Seeding and Cancelled Crop are two separate works, brought together in several different versions of which Tate’s is one. The collage presents three ways in which human action may marks the land. For the first two, agricultural machinery is used to create straight lines, in the process of harvesting as in the X of Cancelled Crop, or curved lines, during the process of planting seed in the contours photographed for Directed Seeding. The map shows a third (and more ancient) way of marking the land, through the construction of roads. The use of the landscape – natural, industrial or urban – as a canvas on which to act is typical of Oppenheim’s work in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In a related action, Directed Harvest, 1966 (Tate T07590) and Directed Harvest 1968 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands), the artist caused a field to be harvested in linear patterns which he then had photographed in its progressive stages. In Reverse Processing: Cement Transplant, East River, NY, 1970, 1978 (Tate T07591) Oppenheim drew large crosses on the roofs of barges transporting raw cement that he found moored on the New York East River banks. All these works centre on process as an agent of change and utilise materials, elements and locations on which the artist can have no permanent claim, making them deliberately ephemeral. Such actions as seeding a crop and harvesting it several months later operate within time parameters dependent on the cycles of the seasons rather than the will of man, mixing human processes with those of nature. Oppenheim’s analogy between the prevention of a crop from entering the food chain and the halting of the expressive, ‘illusionistic’ force of paint deconstructs the sophisticated processes of art-making and the food industry to the elemental notion of making simple marks on the environment. In this way, the artist highlights contemporary man’s dependency on complex chains...

Gahan Wilson was the Master of the macabre, and most of his work is associated with Charles Addams. The beauty of a Gahan Wilson is that is a payoff pu...

"Landscape with radiations signs and lots of little tiny figures" This is the title of this black and white etching numbered 12/20 and signed by the artist. Ben Sakoguchi...

This sexy joke cartoon with thought balloons and some bathroom humor was done by the brilliant humorist cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee. The joke's...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 57 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: 6/75 Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)

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Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 37 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image: 27.75 x 20 inches Size: 28.5 x 22.5 in. (72.39 x 57.15 cm)

Etching with aquatint and embossing on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed and numbered Edition of 8/170 prints aside from 15 artist's proofs Printed by Stamperia 2RC – Rome. Publ...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 0 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 12.5 x 19 in. (31.75 x 48.26 cm)

"Murdered Rappers" by contemporary American artist Jason Clay Lewis is a table top conceptual sculpture consisting of 15 bullets, each inscribed with the name of a murdered rapper, m...

Etching on paper, 1962/64, signed and numbered E.A. from the edition of 60, printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris, published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 25.2 x 19.2 cm. (9.9 x 7.6 in.) Various Artists with George Brecht...

A silkscreen print by Louise Nevelson from 1966. An abstract composition of black and white photographic imagery. Artist: Louise Nevelson Title: Facades 1 Year: 1966 Medium: Silkscr...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura (1924 - ) Title: City 50 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 inches

Work is marked on reverse "Rhythm" and "The Whip." on verso - We are not sure the exact meaning of this work. Gropper was a social realist and a radical of his time and a commenta...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 87 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 18.75 in. (63.5 x 47.63 cm)

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 85 Year: 1969 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 25 x 20 inches Size: 25 in. x 19 in. (6...

This lithograph was created by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. Known for his aggressive attitude and strong beliefs, Cuevas' work is characterized by...

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 84 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 36 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 86 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)

This lithograph was created by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. Known for his aggressive attitude and strong beliefs, Cuevas' work is characterized by distorted human forms. Cuevas h...

Artist: Shlomo Koren, German (1932 - ) Title: Untitled - Conceptual Moon Phases 8 Year: 1965 Medium: Ink, Watercolor and Collage on Paper mounted to Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 15.5 in...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Forma Sobre Forma Year: 1968 Medium: Mixed Media and Collage on Paper, Signed Verso Size: 25.5 x 17.5 in. (64.77 x 44.45 cm)

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 88 Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 18.75 in. (63.5 x 47.63 cm)

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Motion Sickness Year: circa 1966 Medium: Acrylic and Collage on Paper Size: 23 x 20 inches

“Construction Drawing II”, 1973 Dimensions : 18.75″ x 23.5″ Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual ar...

“Construction Drawing I”, 1973 Dimensions : 19″ x 23.5″ Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist...

Gouache and technic mixte on paper, signed in the text. Benjamin Vautier was born July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier [fr] (1829-1898). He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu. In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. Ben joined George Maciunas...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Nivea and Insects Year: circa 1966 Medium: Acrylic and Collage on Paper Size: 23.5 x 18 in. (59.69 x 45.72 cm)

Gouche and technic mixte on paper.signed in the text. Benjamin Vautier was born July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier [fr] (1829-1898). He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.[2] In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. Ben joined George Maciunas...

Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photogr...

Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photogr...

“Construction Drawing I”, 1973 Dimensions : 19″ x 23.5″ Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist...

“Construction Drawing II”, 1973 Dimensions : 18.75″ x 23.5″ Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual ar...

This lithograph was created by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. Known for his aggressive attitude and strong beliefs, Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and iso...