Günther Förg

Günther Förg, born in 1952 in Füssen, Germany, was a prominent German artist recognized for his exploration of color, form, and space.

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Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was an American abstract expressionist painter born on February 12, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois.

Smoke

A star of Abstract Expressionism at a time when female artists rarely achieved fame. Mitchell was a peer of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and has been exhibited in the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum.

Recognition

A solution of sugar and ink painted onto copper is Mitchell's direct path from painting to etching. These diptych paintings are printed on Swiss linen paper in a portfolio of beautiful poems.

Composition

In this folio of poems, Smoke, Mitchell gives life to "air" and "tobacco"

Intent

The MOMA owns an edition of this Mitchell, and her works continue to hit auction records of $29M.

Ceres Take

James Brown

James Brown was an American painter born in Los Angeles, California in 1951.

Salt Notes

This book uses rich papers and and extravagantly complex techniques to make the simple profound.

Rising to fame in the 1980s East Village art scene, Brown was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist. He has been exhibited in institutions like Centre de Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

"Salt" as a symbol of permanence, while "Notes" evoke both music and marks. Both these words are about essence as&nbsp;they penetrate and extract from whatever they encounter.

Brown has strong six figure auction records and this book calls to art collectors.

Jürgen Partenheimer

He is known for his diverse body of work that spans across various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.

Vasts Apart

<ul><li>Characterized by an extraordinary relationship of line and mass – creating an effect of metaphysical realism.</li></ul>

<ul><li>German artist drawing on theory and prose in his paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures which have been displayed in MOMA, SF Art Iinstitue, RISDI.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Partenheimer sets up a series of balanced compostions, architectural forms that resonate with the simplicity of Beckett's text, "Half reaching our logic and half toying with our sense of fantasy."</li></ul>

<ul><li>One of the most renown German artists of his generation, Partenheimer's works are a commanding Hero size.</li></ul>

Hank Hine

Hank Hine is a renowned art publisher and executive director who has been dedicated to promoting and preserving the world's most exceptional art.

Plant Phenomology

The essay proceeds on nine horizonal panels, each with hand-printed text and images. The panels may be displayed together at once, or in sequence in series.

Hine is a Californian poet, educator, and artist of the visual and spoken word. He's published works exhibited in the MoMA, Stanford Museum, and more.

The artist's reflection on the life of plants is a foil for the human experience.

Hine is a prolific creator with an eye for the unique and poignant. He's worked with the likes of Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha.

David Salle

David Salle, born in 1952, grew up in the Midwest, which influenced his artistic development.

Light Sleeper

Postmodern artist who designed American Ballet costumes and had a stint of directing Hollywood films. His wide array of art has been shown in the Whitney Museum, Tate Modern, Guggenheim.

In a contemporary update of the artist's book illustrating creative texts, Salle illuminates a screenplay for film by the director Paul Schrader.

Salle's edgy images inhabit an area between awareness and the haze of sleep.

The skill of this collectible is indicative from other Salle works that sold for over $500K.

The Rune

German Conceptual artist who was a painter, printmaker, scultpor, and photographer with works in the MoMA, Tate Modern, Museum Ludwig.

Förg uses the fundamental structural unit of the book, gathered sheets center-folded to compose a sequence of loose portfolios.

A rune is an ancient marking. This is an integration of word and image with Förg's vigorous purple and orange markings and the lines of Ezra Pound.

This work can serve as a table piece or framed in parts for the wall. Förg has a strong historical auction record in the millions.

Susan Rothenberg

She is known for her unique style of abstract expressionism, which often features animal figures and bold brushstrokes.

Parts

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Rothenberg's commitment to painterly figures has been highly infliuential in generations of artists. She has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney, Hirshorn Museum.

The raw mezzotint plate produces a sollid black impression and the artist must burnish back the tooth of the copper plate to create tones from dark gray to white. In effect the artist is drawing in reverse, bringing light into the image.

Rothenberg shows the formal similarity in the shape of animal parts that we at once recognize and find congruent with our human forms.

Trailblazing female artist who ushered a return to figuration.

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was an influential artist who emerged from the 1950s San Francisco Beat scene.

Adventures of a Novel in Four Chapters

An American pioneer in conceptual works and experimental film, Conner has been shown in Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia.

Fascinated by the form and the psychological power of biateral inkblot drawings, Conner creates arrays of these images. Relief plates together with handset type of the Michael McClure text creates an orderly yet provocative work.

This book was made with the San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure. Austere in its format, binding and restricted pallet, Adventures explores the meeting of poetic and artistic imagination of ink on deluxe paper.

Conner's artwork has historically auctioned for six figures.

Markus Lupertz

Markus Lüpertz, born in 1941 in Czechoslovakia, is a renowned artist known for his bold and unconventional work across painting, sculpture, and poetry.

Steelpoints and Poems

Lupertz's expressive painitings chronicle historical wars, biblical themes, and mythology. This German artist has work displayed in the National Gallery, MoMA, Tate Modern.

A book is the single medium that allows the poems and the images to face each other, and Lupertz accomplishes with his 10 drypoints and poems.

The copper plates are too fragile to yield many impressions, which creates an emotional and expressive state in the book.

Critically acclaimed, high auction artist with beautifully intricate pieces.

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