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Standard Station by Ed Ruscha, 1966.

One of the more impressive works in the history of modern art is Ed Ruscha's Standard Station which he created in 1966. Standard Station was based on the minimal modern architecture of the classic gas stations of yesteryear (in this case by Chevron). At a Bonhams & Butterfields fine prints auction held simultaneously in Los Angeles and San Francisco in November of 2009, Standard Station fetched the highest price ever paid at auction for a print by the artist Edward Ruscha. The work, produced in 1966, depicts a 1960s-style Standard Oil gas station in bright red, orange, and blue hues. The image displays the bold use of color and the dramatic angles that characterize Ed Ruscha’s Pop Art style. Standard Station had a presale estimate price of $30,000 to $40,000 so his prices are definitely in a speedy upward elevator.

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de Tomaso Pantera

The de Tomaso Pantera was quite the car. As you can see your $10K went a lot further in 1971. And Ford certainly had style on it's mind, more than it does today. At the time de Tomaso Pantera was released, the cost was only $10,000.00.


In Italy, men build cars with passion. One of them is Alejandro de Tomaso. And this is his car. Pantera. Conceived without compromise. A car so beautifully built (it is virtually hand made) there will only be 2,500 made the first year (1971). Mid-engined like a racing car. An ultra-high-peformance sports coupe that stands a little higher than the average man's belt buckle, it seats two (and only two) and it's priced in the neighborhoud of $10,000.


Clearly, Ford isn't interested to supply "the few" any longer.

Style Icon 1965: Gloria Steinem as photographed by Yale Joel

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The galaxy is filled with dots, I am a dot, You are a dot, Countries are just dots, everything is dots!

Love Forever!

Yayoi Kusama

Soooooooooo beautiful...

Modern psychedelic exercise of the day. A good start is to download "Celestial Music For Sitar". Now, we believe each of strokes in swimming have certain qualities conducive to Tai Chi. So lay back on your chair with your back bending backwards over the edge of the chair. Point your back, arms and hands to degree you feel comfortable with. Let your head gently fall backwards. You are now floating in space and you feel super good. Make continuous fluid breaststrokes. Exactly like you would in a swimming pool but upside down. Make sure you have a stable chair which does not flip over. Think you are floating. Relaxing indeed.

Step back in time and enjoy a visit with Roy Lichtenstein in 1963.

A rare glimpse in the Roy Lichtenstein studio in 1963 as photographed by John Leongard for Life. Interesting to see how Roy Lichtenstein created his art. Some of the pictured works have not seen the light of day ever since they have been in private collections including the "Woman with Flowered Hat" which was based on the cubist work by Pablo Picasso. Don't you just wish you had a time machine now and could hit "1963", walk into his studio with a suitcase full of money, and walk out with all these icons?


Roy Lichtenstein used a projector to project images on white canvas. He traced the projections on the white canvas. A metal raster with small holes, a tooth brush and paint was all he needed. Incredible.


Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. - Roy Lichtenstein.

Thanks for your legacy Roy, we sure miss you!

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Powerplay in 1969. Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis & Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis (Aristotle Onassis's butler Alex Magnos R rear) sitting at table, celebrating 1st anniversary of their marriage with friends at Neraida nightclub in Greece in 1969.

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Love these very fine mod pop graphics of this 1968 fashion ad for sunglasses. Kind of like a mix between Henri Matisse, Mary Quant and Gio Ponti. Very stylish indeed.

Marisa Berenson 1970s Top Model

Marisa Berenson was one of the highest paid top fashion models of the late 1960s and early 1970s and she was a darling of fashion magazine "Vogue". The grandchild of famous designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Marisa Berenson entered the showbiz as a fashion model and became one of the most successful models during the late 1960s and early 1970s thanks to her frequent appearance on Vogue magazine and later in Time Magazine. She was known as "The Queen of the Scene" for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other social venues in her youth. Yves Saint Laurent dubbed her "the girl of the Seventies". After working as a model, she became an actress in the early to mid 1970s and became famous for her outstanding roles in the movies “Death in Venice” (1971), “Cabaret” (1972) and “Barry Lyndon (1975).

"Once upon a time there were ladies who were totally secure within their own environment. These ladies, so amusing and delicious, illustrated on these covers of Vogue, were the illusion of dreaming. These tantalizing come-on girls on these covers were the curtain-raisers to the world of opportunity and the future" Diana Vreeland, noted columnist of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

The George Nelson Pleated Star Clock is an usual and hard to find clock which George Nelson created in 1955 for the Howard Miller Clock Company. This modern wall clock measures 18" in diameter. Available at the upcoming modern design auction of Wright20 in Chicago on March 23rd 2010. Estimate at $2,000 to $3,000.

Cari Zalloni, Italian Pottery, late 1960s

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Josef Albers Nesting Tables

The Bauhaus Nesting Side Tables were designed by Josef Albers in 1926. The four piece set we offer is a faithful reproduction from the original Josef Albers design and is fully authorized by the Albers Foundation. The Albers Foundation is a non-profit organization set up to promote and preserve the life work of Bauhaus alumni and faculty, Josef and Anni Albers.

The Josef Albers Bauhaus side tables have beautiful saturated colors. The Josef Albers Bauhaus side tables were designed in 1926-27 for the Fritz Moellenhoff (Berlin psychoanalyst) family's apartment, together with other furnishings, of which many pieces did not survive the war. These modernist side tables use the colors favored by the Bauhaus: yellow, red, and blue. Josef Albers was a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism and an influential teacher, writer, painter and color theorist Josef Albers is best known for the Homages to the Square he painted between 1950 and 1976 and for his innovative 1963 publication The Interaction of Color. Significant pieces by Josef Albers are part of the permanent collection of the MoMA in New York.

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On the occasion of the first Brussels Biennial, CCNOA, in cooperation with Brussels-based artist & curator Tilman and Dutch artist & curator Jan Maarten Voskuil, is pleased to present the exhibition YO, MO’ MODERNISM… as part of the Brussels Biennial Off-Program. The exhibitions featured the work of 25 artists from Belgium, elsewhere in Europe and abroad who investigate the premises of modernism and question and/or highlight aspects and principles of modernism within contemporary art practice.

Haggerty has become known in recent years for paintings that express the formalist vocabulary of abstraction in a new way. The principle of serial composition can be discerned in Haggerty’s work: light-colored stripes alternate with darker ones to form regular, often horizontal arrangements, which also have a pattern-like quality due to their dense structure. This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the symmetrical center of the composition—by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support. This has a crucial effect on the overall pictorial appearance, in that it immediately transforms the planimetric structure of the painted motif into an illusory perception of three-dimensionality within the image. (Friedrich Meschede) The surface seems to continue beyond the boundaries of the picture support, with the result that the two-dimensional paintings suddenly resemble painted volumes or reflect the illusory perception of a third dimension back onto the pictorial motif. Haggerty’s vibrant wall paintings conjure nostalgic associations from the mustard yellow and avocado décor of the 1960s and 1970s, to optical art, to the precise lines of sugar icing on pastries. He combines humorous and historical references to form abstract compositions that electrify and manipulate the space around them. Biography: Terry Haggerty was born in London in 1970 and lives in New York. He studied at the Southend School of Art, Essex, England, and the Cheltenham School of Art, Cheltenham, England. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Kuttner Siebert, Berlin; Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich; Konsortium, Düsseldorf; Aschenbach & Hofland, Amsterdam; and Riva Gallery, New York. He has participated in group exhibitions at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Artists Space, New York. Haggerty’s work was also included in the Prague Biennale (2003) and the Venice Biennale (1994).

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The paintings, murals and installations of Esther Stocker, based on grid structures and on the colors black, white and gray, consistently manifest entanglements, interconnections, interpenetrations, both semantically and formally, for which the variably deployed grid motif functions as a metaphorical logo. Stocker consistently breaks with one-dimensional notions of order, space, and painting as contextual and relational factors and concepts. When an artist so persistently preoccupied with spatial structures and spatial experience, simultaneously calls attention to the fact that „we know nothing about space“ (Stocker), then her stance would seem to testify to a productive skepticism which arises from unremitting and methodical attempts at understanding, and from insight into their-in principle-interminability.

Kumi Sugai, La Planète Mercure , 1965

Japanese artist Kumi Sugai created La Planète Mercure in 1965. Kumi Sugai belonged to the first group of pioneering contemporary Japanese artists to adopt western styles of painting. In the 1960s, Kumi Sugai produced almost heraldic images of traffic signs and directional panels, in which repetition of purely abstracted simple forms evokes a hallucinating atmosphere, in dream-like colorings.

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François Morellet, 2 Trames de Tirets 0° 90°, 1974
Oil on canvas
Estimate: 20,000 to 30,000 Euro


François Morellet, 2 Trames de Tirets 0° 90°, 1974
Oil on canvas
Estimate: 20,000 to 30,000 Euro

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François Morellet is a contemporary French painter, engraver, sculptor and light artist. His early work prefigured Minimal art and Conceptual art, and he has played an important role in geometrical abstraction over the past half century. François Morellet is also considered to be artist who was influenced by the German Zero group of the 1960's. François Morellet has worked with various materials (fabric, tape, neon, walls, etc) and has investigated the use of the exhibition space in terms similar to artists of installation art and environmental art. He has gained an international reputation, especially in Germany and France, and his work has been commissioned for public and private collections in Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Sotheby's continues with its focus on minimal post modern works after the highly successful ZERO art auction which took place in London on February 10th 2010. The above works will be up for auction at Sotheby's in Amsterdam on March 8th 2010. The exhibition in Amsterdam opens on March 1st 2010 at 10AM. All these artworks are from exceptional quality and completely fresh to the market. Part of the Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection. The Peter Stuyvesant Collection started as a daring experiment with art in a production company in the Netherlands, in the early - 1960s. The collection is the largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in the Netherlands. In the late 1950s Alexander Orlow, the Managing Director of Turmac Tobacco, put his love for abstract art to industrial use. He wanted to improve the working environment of his dedicated employees, he did this by building a world-class collection of large, colourful contemporary works specifically chosen to be shown in the factories above the machinery and so provide inspiration and stimulation. By 1961, Orlow appointed a succession of highly respected advisors out of the museum world and gave them all a simple brief and a free hand. The criteria for the collection were that the works should be large in scale, bold in imagery and by artists of international standing.

Jan Schoonhoven, Combinatie, 1968
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 80,000 to 120,000 Euro.


Jan Schoonhoven, Vierkant met Diagonalen, 1967
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 100,000 to 150,000 Euro.


Jan Schoonhoven, Kwadratenrelief met Diagonalen, 1968
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 100,000 to 150,000 Euro.

If you love the above works you should check our previous listings on Jan Schoonhoven and ZERO art.

Sotheby's continues with its focus on minimal post modern works after the highly successful ZERO art auction which took place in London on February 10th 2010. The above works will be up for auction at Sotheby's in Amsterdam on March 8th 2010. The exhibition in Amsterdam opens on March 1st 2010 at 10AM. All these artworks are from exceptional quality and completely fresh to the market. Part of the Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection. The Peter Stuyvesant Collection started as a daring experiment with art in a production company in the Netherlands, in the early - 1960s. The collection is the largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in the Netherlands. In the late 1950s Alexander Orlow, the Managing Director of Turmac Tobacco, put his love for abstract art to industrial use. He wanted to improve the working environment of his dedicated employees, he did this by building a world-class collection of large, colourful contemporary works specifically chosen to be shown in the factories above the machinery and so provide inspiration and stimulation. By 1961, Orlow appointed a succession of highly respected advisors out of the museum world and gave them all a simple brief and a free hand. The criteria for the collection were that the works should be large in scale, bold in imagery and by artists of international standing.

These art works were made by Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven. Truly remarkable works by a man which was once employed as a postal office employee in the Netherlands. In the 1950s Jan Schoonhoven began to make drawings and paintings of a tachiste character, followed from 1957 by reliefs in papier-mach-23, at first colored and with an organic, irregular structure. Jan Schoonhoven was a member of the Dutch 'informel' group 1957-60, then of the Nul group with Armando, Henderikse and Peeters 1960-5. Jan Schoonhoven also collaborated with the German Zero group during the 1960's. Jan Schoonhoven worked almost exclusively with white reliefs of a geometrical structure during the late 1960's and early 1970's.

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