WORKS AVAILABLE Spring/Summer 2017
EdelmanArts
EdelmanArts
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Located in a townhouse in the Gramercy Park district of New York City, Edelman Arts specializes in the secondary market sales and placement of art works in a broad range of genres, from Impressionist, Modern, Post-War, Photography and Contemporary Art. Edelman Arts curates exhibitions, both independently and collaboratively since 2001. Works are available and not limited to the following artists: Estate of Fritz Bultman, Paul Cezanne, Joseph Cornell, Gunther Forg, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Keith Haring, Robert Indiana, Franz Kline, Jannis Kounellis, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Edouard Manet, Brice Marden, Nabil Nahas, Jules Olitski, Pablo Picasso, Larry Rivers, Will Ryman, David Salle, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Robert Wilson, Christopher Winter, and more. Through it’s affiliates, Artemus and Art Assure LLC, Edelman Arts has unique access to investment quality artworks, prior to reaching the public market, as well as the ability to advise clients on purchases and sales of artwork. Through Artemus’ innovative financing and leasing models, a fresh approach is available to private collectors and dealers. HISTORY In 2015, Edelman Arts curated of the public arts collection for the One World Trade Center in New York. The collection includes a monumental works by José Parla, Argue and Fritz Bultman, Greg Goldberg, and Bryan Hunt. The collection is on view in the North, South and Sixty Fourth Floor lobbies where the installations are viewed by 30,000 visitors a day. Asher Edelman began collecting in the early 1960’s and by the mid 1980’s, he had accumulated one of the preeminent and visionary contemporary art collections of its time. A close friend of Léo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend, he set trends and many of the artists he collected early on would become the biggest icons in the art world, such as Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana, and Keith Haring, to mention a few. In 1991, he opened FAE, Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lausanne, which presented the first European retrospectives of seminal contemporary American artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Halley. “Picasso Contemporain,” an exhibition of the artist’s post war work is still considered an unparalleled exploration of Picasso as a transmitter, interpreter and prophet of the ideas and techniques of Post War art. The trailblazing group exhibition, “Post Human,” co-curated by Chantal Prod’Hom and Jeffrey Deitch at FAE, helped define a new figurative movement and vision in art with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and many more. Viewings by appointment only.
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In addition to works in this catalog, artworks are available by
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Cathy McClure
Britt Boutros-Ghali
Joan Mitchel Henri Moore
Fritz Bultman
Nabil Nahas
Paul Cezanne
James Nares
Marc Chagall
Joyce Pensato
Joseph Cornell
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pavel Filanov
Larry Rivers
GĂźnther FĂśrg
Will Ryman
Sam Francis
Jennifer Steinkamp
Diego Giacometti
Frank Stella
George Grozs
Andy Warhol
Keith Haring Bryan Hunt
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alex Katz
Yasmine Chatila
Franz Kline
Bruce Davidson
Jannis Kounellis
Formento & Formento
Sean Landers
John Margolies
Paulo Laport
Murray Moss
Sol LeWitt
Vik Muniz
Roy Lichtenstein
Erwin Olaf
Kasmir Malevich
Arthur Tress
Robert Mangold Paul Howard Manship Brice Marden Robert Matta Alan McCullum
ANDY WARHOL (b. 1928) Mao 1972 Set of 10 Screenprints Each 36 x 36 in (91.44 x 91.44 cm) Edition of 250
FRANK STELLA (b. 1936) La Scienza della Fiacca, 3.5 X 1984 mixed media on canvas, etched magnesium, aluminum and fiberglass 124 1/2 x 129 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches (316.2 x 328.3 x 79.4 cm)
FRANK STELLA (b. 1936) Blyvoors (from the South African Mine Series) 1982 Honeycombed aluminum 84 x 105 x 62 in (213.4 x 266.7 x 157.5 cm)
GUNTHER FORG (b. 1952) Untitled 87 1987 12 watercolors (framed) 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 (each) (29/8 x 21 cm)
WILL RYMAN b. 1969) Untitled (Rose 50 with lady Bug and Cigarette) 2011 Steel, epoxy resin, plaster and paint 67 x 52 x 56 in. (170 x 132 x 142 cm.)
ANDY WARHOL (b. 1928) Flowers 1964 Echinoderms and Acrylic on wood panel 48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Nabil Nahas is Lebanon’s most renowned artist, having established himself before the current heightened interest in contemporary art of the Middle East, first in New York art circles as a master of color, texture and atmosphere. Although thoroughly schooled in Western abstract painting, Nahas takes his inspiration from a diverse range of influences, most significantly nature, and occasionally Islamic art, in particular its abstract geometric and chromatic qualities. The work for which he is best known are his thickly encrusted starfish and fractal paintings, built up by layer upon layer of acrylic paint mixed with pumice and finished in vivid colors. Nabil Nahas completed his MFA from Yale University in 1973. He has exhibited internationally and has work in a multitude of important collections including, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, the Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Flint Institute of Art, Michigan, the Michigan Museum of Art UMMA, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the High Museum in Atlanta. In July 2013 he was awarded the honor of the National Order of the Cedar, for services to Lebanese culture.
NABIL NAHAS (b. 1949) Untitled 2012 Acrylic and pumice on canvas 14 x 11.5 inches (35.56 x 29.21 cm) Signed and dated on the reverse
NABIL NAHAS (b. 1949) Untitled 1996 Echinoderms and acrylic on wood panel 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
NABIL NAHAS (b. 1949) Equinox I 2000 Acrylic and pumice on canvas 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.9 cm.)
NABIL NAHAS (b. 1949) Untitled 1987 Oil on canvas 98 x 96 in (248.92 x 243.84 cm)
LARRY RIVERS (1923 – 2002) Bar Mitzvah Photograph Painting 1961 Oil on canvas 60 x 72 in (152.4 x 182.9 cm) Signed center right: Rivers 61
JANNIS KOUNELLIS (b. 1936) Untitled 1983 Lead & burlap with red tin can 38 ¾ x 27 ¼ x 5 in (98.4 x 69.2 x 12.7 cm)
PAULO LAPORT (b. 1951) LEKSO 2012 Oil on plywood, wood and glass 64.6 x 55.3 x 2.8 in (164 x 140.5 x 7 cm) Framed
PAULO LAPORT (b. 1951) SAXTO 2012 Oil on linen 78.7 x 63 x 3.9in (200 x 160 x 10 cm)
Fritz Bultman is a first generation Abstract Expressionist artist who used meticulously organized abstract compositions, sculpture, and adopted collage as a core practice early on. A familiar name in his native New Orleans, he sought creative refuge in Europe, became a leader in the arts community of Provincetown at its height and, with Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Richard Lindner and Giorgio Cavallon was a bright star in the constellation of artists living in a tight neighborhood on the Upper East Side. He could be a fearless paint-slinger or a conscience-addled second-guesser who scraped back days of progress in bursts of doubt, as diligently productive in the studio as a metronome unless paralyzed by psychoanalysis and a loathing of dealers and their deadlines. Deep down, he was committed to an aesthetic of “fullness” and the ideally positive “equivalence” (his terms) between art and nature but like so many of the Abstract Expressionists he boasted a wide and violent destructive streak. As the critic Belle Krasne wrote in an Art Digest review in 1950, Bultman’s annus mirabilis, his paintings had a “blood on the moon fierceness that strikes at the heart.”
FRITZ BULTMAN (b. 1919) Before and After V 1982 Painted papers 50 x 31 in (127 x 78.7) cm
James Nares’ paintings capture the very moment of their creation. They are most frequently made in a single brush stroke, recording a gestural passage of time and motion across the canvas. An integral part of his work is the uniquely crafted brushes which he creates that give an optimum desired effect. He repeatedly creates and erases his strokes, over and over again, until he feels he has made one that represents a precision of balance between intent and improvisation. Nares’ films and videos reference many of the same preoccupations with movement, rhythm, and repetition while also ranging further afield in their scope. His work is included in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2008, Anthology Film Archives hosted a complete retrospective of his films and videos. In Spring 2014, Rizzoli published the first monograph dedicated to James Nares’s work in all media over the last four decades.
JAMES NARES (b. 1953) Untitled (Blue Circle) 1996 Oil and enamel on paper laid on canvas 36 x 24 in (91.5 x 61 cm)
Joyce Pensato was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she continues to live and work. Her touring solo show, I Killed Kenny, was shown at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (2013) and then traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Empire State, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Sir Norman Rosenthal, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2013); Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville (2012); and A Painting Show at The Speed Museum of Art, Louisville (2011). Pensato’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art; St Louis Art Museum and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire. She has won numerous awards including the Robert de Niro, Sr. Prize (2013), the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996).
Joyce Pensato’s rigorous art embodies a baleful transmutation of American cartoon culture – employing a fast, assured, and gestural hand to shed light on the arguable darkness lurking within our familiar Pop iconography. This monumental work measuring 10 x 14 feet is the largest work on paper she has created, making this extraordinarily unique piece. The rips and tears are intentional and fundamentally a part of her work.
JOYCE PENSATO (B. 1941) Donald as a Cross Dresser 1999 Charcoal and pastel on paper, in 2 parts 10 x 14 ft. (3.048 x 4.26 meters)
CATHY MCCLURE (b. 1965) Mickey 2011 Plastic battery operated mechanism 16.5 x 8.5 x 6 in (42 x 21.6 x 15.2 cm)
Cathy McClure is a Seattle based artist who shares part of her time in Brooklyn, NY. McClure’s work is centered on the appropriation and re-interpretation of mechanical toys; she is interested in the discrepancy between the perception of an imagined techno-future and the future that we now inhabit. As an artist, she juxtaposes with irony in her sometimes elaborate installations. In 1995, McClure received her BFA from Texas Technological University, followed by her MFA from the University of Washington in 1997. She is the recipient of the 19th Annual Betty Bowen Memorial Award. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Milton Hershey School Museum, and Art Miami Basel, and she is currently represented by Edelman Arts and Moss in New York, New York.
CATHY MCCLURE (b. 1965) Green, Verde, Vert 2014 Exteriors of stuff toys mounted on canvas 30 x 25 x 9 in (76.2 x 63.5 x 22.9 cm)
SCOTT COVERT (b. 1954) Construction 27 1996-2011 Oil and wax crayons, and acrylic on muslin 62 x 80 in (170.2 x 213.4 cm)
Previoius page SEAN LANDERS (b. 1962) INRI (I’m Nailed Right In) 1993 Ink on paper 80.7 x 110.6 in (205 x 281 cm)
JENNIFER STIENKAMP (b. 1958) I Want to be a Cowboy. 2002 1 Sharp PG-C30XU 1700 lumen projectors, DVD player 10 x 2 x 2 ft
Last Page CHRISTOPHER WINTER (B. 1968) Huxley's Guide to Switzerland 2011 Acrylic on canvas 35.5 x 27.5 in (90 x 70 cm)
CHRISTOPHER WINTER (B. 1968) Spook-a-Rama 2008 Pencil on paper 29.75 x 40.25 in (75.3 x 102 cm)
Britt Boutros-Ghali, the Norwegian painter best known for her vibrant abstract expressionist paintings, has spent over 40 years in Egypt. As one of the most desired artists in Egypt and the Middle East, her magnetic personage and dynamic work draw collectors from around the world. Her oft visited studio is nestled on a barge on the banks of the Nile, is a favorite gathering place for local artists, journalists and intellectuals. As the noise of the city disappears one gets transported to Britt’s unique world. The spirit and vibrance of the characters and surroundings are a powerful source of inspiration of her ongoing series “Women of My World,” which present a naive figurative expression and departure to her abstract work. BRITT BOUTROS-GHALI (b. 1937) Mervette 2009 Oil on canvas, gold 61 x 57 inches (154.94 x 144.78 cm) Framed
BRITT BOUTROS-GHALI (b. 1937) Tante Sophie 2009 Oil on canvas, gold leaf, acrylic payettes. 81 x 53 inches (205.74 x 134.62 cm) Framed
PHOTOGRAPHY
VIC MUNIZ (b. 1961) Orestes Pursued by the Furies, after Adolphe William Bouguereau (Pictures of Junk) 2006 Chromogenic print 94.5 x 70.9 in (240 x 180 cm) AP 3/4 Framed
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 1/2: Adult Education/Betty Crocker Frosting, 1979/1968 Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 53/54: Empire State Lightning Strike/Sermons from Science, 1938/1941 Moss Bureau
T E RT I U M Q U I D
pictorial narratives from vintage press photographs by
Murray Moss
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 13/14: Solar Eclipse in Nice/Flagman D.E. Jones, 1961/1959 Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 3/4: Here's smoke in your eye/Smokestack, Bethlehem Steel, 1976/1959 Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 47/48: First Solar Eclipse/Picture in the Round, 1929/NA Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 29/30: Benito Mussolini Statue/Jelly Fish, 1936/1964 Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 89/90: Smallest Books in the World/Unemployment, 1979/1959 Moss Bureau
MURRAY MOSS (b. 1949) TQ 59/60: Flat Tire/Phys-Eye-Cians, 1963/1960 Moss Bureau
FORMENTO + FORMENTO The Japan Diaries: Maaya XIV, Nishi-Sugamp, Japan 2013 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition 3/7 + 2 AP
FORMENTO + FORMENTO The Japan Diaries: Quorra XXV, Akasaka, Japan 2013 Archival digital print 60 x 40 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition of 6/7 + 2 AP
FORMENTO + FORMENTO CIRCUMSTANCE: Allie XIV, Lancaster, California 2010 Archival pigment print 40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition of 7 + 2 AP
FORMENTO + FORMENTO CIRCUMSTANCE: Doris III, Las Vegas, California 2009 Archival Digital Print 40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition of 7 + 1 AP
FORMENTO & FORMENTO She Is Cuba: Marian III, Havana, Cuba 2014 archival pigment print 40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) Edition 7/7 + 2 AP
FORMENTO & FORMENTO She Is Cuba: Naivys VIII, Havana 2014 archival pigment print 60 x 40 in (152.4 cm x 101.6 cm) Edition 6/7 + 2 AP
Torkil Gudnason is one of the leading beauty, fashion and still life photographers of our time. The Danish-born, Brooklyn based photographer's commercial work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Surface, and Allure. His art photography has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. TORKIL GUDNASON Hothouse 002 2009 Hahnemuhle fine art photo rag 308 gsm matte smooth paper 45.5 x 35.25 in (115.6 x 89.5 cm) Edition 3/25
Electric Blossom 1721 2012 Hahnemuhle fine art photo rag 308 gsm matte smooth paper 35.25 x 45.5 in (89.5 x 115.6 cm) Edition 2/10
TORKIL GUDNASON Hothouse 090 2009 Archival pigment print 23 x 29 in (58.2 x 73.7 cm) Edition 3/25
Stolen Moments is Yasmine Chatila’s love poem to New York. To capture these moments, her artistic process was as follows; Chatila would find a well-situated New York City apartment with views of apartment interiors across the way, working exclusively at night she would then set up her telescopic and photographic equipment, position the camera through a stranger’s window and patiently wait. As it was “true” surveillance, the artist did not seek permission. However, through a labor intensive post-production process, the artist obscured these intimate portraits, taking documentary events into the realm of fiction and fantasy. Over an eight-month period, Chatila meditated on thousands of Stolen Moments, thus creating her latest body of work comprehensively presented at Edelman Arts, New York. YASMINE CHATILA (b. 1974) The Office Romance, Tribeca, Tuesday 6:27 PM Thursday 5:46 PM 2007-2008 Fujicrystal archival black and white print 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127 cm) Framed
YASMINE CHATILA (b. 1974) The Kiss, Lower East Side, Sunday 11:37 PM 2007-2008 Fujicrystal archival black and white print 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127 cm) Edition 1/5 Framed
YASMINE CHATILA (b. 1974) The Bathroom Girl, City Hall, Wednesday 5:36 PM 2007-2008 Fujicrystal archival black and white print 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127 cm) Edition 1/5
YASMINE CHATILA (b. 1974) The Bachelor, Wall Street, Friday 11:34 PM 2007-2008 Fujicrystal archival black and white print 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127 cm) Edition 1/5 Framed YASMINE CHATILA (b. 1974) The Blondie Teen, Greenwich Village, Tuesday 6:27 PM 2007-2008 Fujicrystal archival black and white print 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127 cm) Edition 1/5
John Margolies documented the commercial architecture and design lining America’s “highways and byways,” exploring the changing landscape and open-road automobile culture that swept America in the middle of the 20th century. His imagery is both objective and nostalgic, with subjects including mini golf courses, drive-in movie theaters, and the sort of empty small-town main streets suggesting bygone times, as in “Photographs from Roadside America” (1980). Margolies has also lectured on the topic of architectural change, a theme poignantly illustrated in his work.
JOHN MARGOLIES (b.1940-2016) Hunt’s Casino Theatre Wildwood, New Jersey 1986 16 x 20” Right Page JOHN MARGOLIES (b.1940-2016) Pussy Cat Lounge Sign Fargo, North Dakota 1980 20x16”
JOHN MARGOLIES (b.1940) Bell Boy Motel Sign Wichita, Kansas 1979 16x20� Signed on Verso
JOHN MARGOLIES (b.1940) Signs Store Springfield, Illonois 1980 16 x 20� Signed on Verso
Carlos Betancourt (1966), Puerto Rican born, works in photography and mixed media. His conceptual and sensationalist work pushes to a glitzy bravado, bending the lines between art, photography and nature. His work alludes to issues of memory and beauty, layering and juxtaposing information based on his own experiences and pop culture.
CARLOS BETANCOURT (b. 1966) Re-Collection III 2007 Metallic Lambda Print 20 x 19 in (50.8 x 48.3 cm) Edition 1/2
Bruce Davidson, a reknown Magnum photographer since 1958, began shooting at age ten in his hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, then was drafted into the army near Paris, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum Photos. Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for LIFE magazine. He received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography in 2004 and a Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club in 2007.
BRUCE DAVIDSON (b.1933) Young Girl on London Street 1960 11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.5 cm)
MICHAEL MUNDY (b.1963) Chuck Close 1993 Cprint 30 x 40 in (76.2x101.6 cm) Edition 1/7
MICHAEL MUNDY (b.1963) Marilynn Minter Studio 2009 Digital Print 40 x 60in Edition 1/7
ARTHUR TRESS (b. 1940) Boy With Decoy New Jersey 1970 Gelatin silver enlargement print 20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.9 cm) Edition 1/25 Framed
ARTHUR TRESS (b. 1940) The Fish Tank Sonata: Flock of Young Lovers 1989 Cibachrome print 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm) Edition 4/50 The Fish Tank Sonata: Learning to Swim 1989 Cibachrome print 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm) Edition 7/50 Framed
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