Picture "Woman leaving red car" (2019)
Picture "Woman leaving red car" (2019)
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limited | numbered | signed | colour serigraph | framed | size 80 x 63.5 cm
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Picture "Woman leaving red car" (2019)
James Francis Gill's career began when gallerist Felix Landau organised his first solo exhibition in 1962. In the same year, MoMA in New York purchased two of his works, and in 1967, he represented the USA at the 9th São Paulo Biennial, along with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
One of the milestones of his career was the release of the edition titled "Woman Leaving Red Car," which was reissued in a very limited number of copies. This painting, featuring a woman stepping out of a car, was able to spontaneously convince gallery owner Felix Landau, among other things.
The original colour serigraph was created in 2020, with an edition of 100 copies and 10 E.A. copies on handmade paper, all numbered and signed by hand. Motif size/sheet size 75 x 58.5 cm. Size in frame 80 x 63.5 cm as shown.
About James Francis Gill
He is one of the first American Pop artists who is still alive: James Francis Gill, born in 1934.
The pioneer of the Pop Art movement achieved international recognition when the Museum of Modern Art New York exhibited his famous "Marilyn Tryptych" in 1962. At the 1967 "São Paulo Biennial", works by James Francis Gill were exhibited together with those by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns and Robert Indiana. The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts dedicated a retrospective to Gill in 2005.
James Francis Gill's pictures impress with their high colour intensity and strong expressiveness and preferably depict great Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, whereby a distinction can be made between peasant, bourgeois and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly-galant painting became prominent while in Germany the bourgeois character was emphasised.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the US and the UK - completely independently of each other - severed their ties with all the traditions of artistic creativity and helped modernity to achieve a new art movement.
In the US there were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With flash colouring, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective they created new provocative works. thanks to the famous exhibition "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi are to be considered as the true pioneers of Pop Art in England. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.