Live Auction 22126Prints and Multiples
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Lot 116

VARIOUS ARTISTS

On the Bowery

Closed28 October 2023

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USD 100,000–150,000

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
On the Bowery
the complete set of ten screenprints in colors, on wove paper, 1969-1971, each signed and dated in pencil, inscribed and numbered 'AP II/XX' (an artist's proof, the edition was 100), printed and published by Edition Domberger, Stuttgart, with their blindstamp, each the full sheet, in very good condition, with text by William Katz, each within the original brown paper folders with text and screenprinted photo of each artist by Eliot Elisofon, all within the original cardboard box with street map of Lower Manhattan printed in black
Overall: 26 1⁄8 x 26 1⁄8 x 1 3⁄8 in. (664 x 664 x 35 mm.)
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Specialist note

This portfolio is a collection of one example of the work of each of ten artists working “on the Bowery” in the 1970s. Borrowing its title from a 1956 documentary film on the daily lives of the Bowery neighborhood’s rootless inhabitants, this portfolio reflects the transition of this undeveloped pocket in lower Manhattan from skid row to important artistic community. Included in the portfolio are coversheets with biographical information and studio photographs of each artist represented in the group of screenprints. The ten contributions highlight the variety of work being produced by New York City based artists around 1971.