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Frankenthaler, Diebenkorn and Kelly: Prints and Woodcuts for Sale at Vertu
April 22, 2016 Among our new acquisitions are works by the great American artists Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn and Ellsworth Kelly. Each of... Read more -
Keith Haring’s Signs and Symbols
April 15, 2016 While studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Haring took classes in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. As Haring’s work, and Haring himself, matured, along with the influence of the New York art scene, Haring’s work became more intricate and more political. Read more -
Victor Vasarely’s Alphabet Plastique
March 28, 2016 The French Institute in Budapest is exhibiting the works of Victor Vasarely through June. Born in Hungary, Vasarely moved to Paris in 1930 and became a French citizen in 1959. There was a time, just before and after World War ll, when the work of Vasarely and other abstract artists was banned in Hungary. Vasarely studied medicine before turning his scientific mind to his art. Back in the 1950s, way before the digital age, Vasarely used what he called programmations to create his artwork. Read more
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Jasper Johns Prints for Sale
March 23, 2016 He's painted a flag so you don't have to think of it as a flag but only as a painting'... Read more -
Andy Warhol Could Sell Shoes
March 9, 2016 In 1980, Warhol created his Diamond Dust Shoes series. According to Warhol’s Interview magazine editor, Bob Colacello, the idea began... Read more -
Robert Rauschenberg Prints: Beijing and Black Mountain
February 24, 2016 Robert Rauschenberg’s prints and paintings continue to be a source of joy and inspiration to art enthusiasts around the world.... Read more
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Donald Sultan and Chuck Close: Six Degrees of Separation
February 17, 2016 A recent New York Times article, featuring the work of photographer Walter Weissman, shows a photo of Chuck Close in front of Donald Sultan's Domino painting. When we found a photo of Donald Sultan in front of the same painting, we took a closer look…and found the six degrees of separation between the two artists. Read more -
Andy Warhol: The Signification of Soup
February 10, 2016 Even for Andy Warhol collectors, who know his enormous body of work, it’s hard to separate Andy Warhol from Campbell’s Soup and almost impossible to walk down the soup aisle of a grocery store without making the connection. Could Warhol have painted a box of Wheaties or a pack of Lucky Strikes and gotten the same emotional response that he achieved with Campbell’s Soup Cans? Read more -
Three Big Influences on Andy Warhol
February 3, 2016 Andy Warhol influenced the way we view art, fame and the commercial culture that we inhabit. The influences that turned Warhol from a sickly boy in Pittsburgh, into one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, began at birth. Read more
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Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Art: Finding Balance
January 21, 2016 Our brains are hard-wired to take comfort in symmetry and to look for balance in asymmetry. We humans are constantly looking at the world and trying to make sense of the things we see. We look for order, rather than chaos, in our world, and balance helps to turn that chaos into order. In 1921, Swiss psychiatrist, Hermann Rorschach (who, by the way, looked a lot like Brad Pitt), developed the inkblot Rorschach Test. He showed his patients ten symmetrical inkblots and asked them to tell him what they saw. He then used his patients’ responses as an analytical tool to assess their mental status. Read more -
Mel Ramos: The Nude Pinup Debate
January 11, 2016 Pinups are a very American phenomena, and their creators are some of our country’s truly great artists. Like Ramos’ work, the earliest and best artists painted their subjects in oil which were then transformed into prints. Their images appeared on calendars, magazines, movie posters and other advertising media. Read more -
Banksy, the Greatest Living Briton
January 6, 2016 "Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world,” Banksy wrote in his book, Wall and Piece, “I can't even finish my second apple pie." That pretty much reflects the work of Banksy: provocative, discomforting, funny and well-crafted. Banksy is one of the most well-known artists in the world, yet most people don’t know who he is or what he looks like. What we know about Banksy is what he’s told us in his books, films, the few interviews he’s given and, of course, his art. Read more
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Richard Anuszkiewicz: Collecting Op Art
December 23, 2015 Europeans have been collecting Op Art since the mid-20th century, after the Le Mouvement exhibit in Paris in 1955, which introduced the public to Optical and Kinetic artists like Victor Vasarely, Jean Arp and Alexander Calder. A decade later, in New York, MoMA hosted an exhibition called The Responsive Eye, which included the greatest European Optical Artists and their American counterparts. Works by Victor Vasarely, Yvaral and Bridget Riley were hung alongside the works of Frank Stella, Josef Albers and Richard Anuszkiewicz. Read more -
Andy Warhol Lithographs: Flowers 1964 and Photos After
December 10, 2015 Andy Warhol could easily have drawn hibiscus flowers, made a silkscreen and hung it at his first exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery at the end of 1964. He could have, but he didn’t. For Flowers, Warhol appropriated a photo of hibiscus flowers from the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography magazine. The photos were taken by Patricia Caulfield, the executive editor of Modern Photography. Caulfield threatened to sue Warhol, was offered, but declined, two sets of Flowers silkscreens, and agreed to a cash settlement instead. Read more -
Frank Stella: Not His First Rodeo
November 4, 2015 This show is not Stella’s first rodeo. In 1970, at the age of 33, Stella was the youngest artist ever... Read more
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Rauschenberg Replaces Roosevelt in the White House
October 28, 2015 In a bold and beautiful move, President Obama and First Lady, Michelle, have updated the look of the White House... Read more -
Julian Opie: Keeping it Simple
October 14, 2015 Whether it’s a portrait or a landscape, Julian Opie strips things down to their bare essentials. Born in London in... Read more -
The Spiritual Side of Andy Warhol
October 2, 2015 Warhol was commissioned to create works, based on Last Supper, for an exhibit in the Palazzo Stelline in Milan across the street from the famous masterpiece. Warhol created a series of works, including a 32 foot long by 12 foot high Last Supper. Read more
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Victor Vasarely Artwork and Visual Perception
September 28, 2015 We don't always see what we think we see. Artists have been translating their visual perceptions of the three-dimensional world onto flat surfaces for about 40,000 years, the time of the earliest cave paintings. Most of us are used to viewing our world in a linear fashion. In America, and other industrialized countries, we build rectangle-shaped houses, with rectangular rooms and rectangular gardens. We have some winding highways, but the roads of our cities and towns are usually formed by grids. Read more -
Aim, Shoot, Repeat: The Photography of David Hockney
September 8, 2015 David Hockney calls himself a scophophile…a voyeur…but his images are more intimate than sexual. His view of the world is large, his perspective enormous. In the 1970s, Hockney began to look through at the world through the lens of a camera. Dr. Edwin Land had just introduced the Polaroid to the world and Hockney used it in a way that only an artist with incredible vision could imagine. He took Polaroids of the same subject, from different angles and at different times, creating collages that gave the finished works a cubist perspective. Read more -
Rauschenberg’s Monogram (Will Never Make it to the Vatican)
August 28, 2015 Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram opened the door for his contemporaries, like Andy Warhol, to do more than place paint on canvas, ink on paper or a chisel to stone. Rauschenberg was a young artist in New York, in 1955, when he saw a stuffed angora goat in the window of a used office furniture store. The store owner was asking $35 for the goat. Rauschenberg only had $15 in his pocket. Rauschenberg took the goat, and promised to return with the rest. Read more
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Artists like Shepard Fairey: Rebels With (and Without) a Cause
August 24, 2015 Police in cities around the world still chase after graffiti artists for vandalizing property. Some of those artists are often commissioned, by the same authorities who considered them vandals, to paint public works in their cities. The work of the rebels in our gallery all have stories to tell, messages to pass along, and some of them have causes feel passionate about. Read more -
Cultural Icon: Andy Warhol
July 15, 2015 Andy Warhol not only saw things differently than most, but his works forced the American public to look at things differently. Once Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans were displayed on the wall of a Los Angeles gallery in 1962, the country became plunged into a Pop Culture controversy that resulted in Warhol becoming the highest priced living artist of the 20th century. Read more -
Takashi Murakami Prints
May 16, 2015 TIME magazine named Takashi Murakami one of the “100 Most Influential People” of 2008. Murakami was 46 at the time, and had already changed the face of both Japanese and Western art, had an exhibit in L.A. that attracted over 95,000 visitors and infused new life into Louis Vuitton. Read more
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Tom Wesselmann Nudes for Sale at VFA
April 25, 2015 For many collectors of American Pop Art, the works of Tom Wesselmann easily stand out from the crowd as extraordinary.... Read more -
Polly Apfelbaum’s Flags of Revolt & Defiance
February 27, 2015 It's not always easy to find work of Polly Apfelbaum's that you can take home. Much of her work is installed on gallery floors or draped over ceiling pipes and down walls. Her Haunted House was an actual cabin in the Swiss Alps, without plumbing or electricity, that could only be gotten to by hiking. "I wanted to bring the hillbilly to this pristine alpine location in Switzerland," she said. She left bottles of moonshine in the cabin for visitors who wanted, "the full, hillbilly experience" in the Alps. Read more -
Alex Katz Prints & Paintings: Masterful Color and Design
January 16, 2015 An older painter gave me some advice: “Figuration is obsolete and color is French.” I said to myself, “To you,... Read more
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Ed Ruscha: Still Disarming
January 9, 2015 Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head. At age 77, Ed Ruscha is still putting a... Read more -
Donald Sultan: Bold Prints and Sculpture
January 6, 2015 Donald Sultan's works appear simple, yet are powerful pieces that contain layers of complexity. The progression of Sultan's work has... Read more -
Shepard Fairey’s Cautionary Tone Hits All The Low Notes
October 3, 2014 A recently acquired Shepard Fairey serigraph , Endless Power, consistently puts smiles on the faces of viewers who appreciate the... Read more
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Transcendent Warhol Works for Sale at VFA
September 26, 2014 When considering the appeal of Andy Warhol Prints , we think of the eccentric Pop Art trendsetter who forever changed... Read more -
Chuck Close: Process, Piecework and Portraits
August 14, 2014 Viewing the works of American Contemporary Artist Chuck Close is much like traveling to a familiar place, but taking a new route every time. The artist, who is best known for his large scale photo mosaic portraits, continues to be one of the more fascinating New York artists living today. Like all masterful artists, Chuck Close has perfected a signature style that’s unmistakably his. For decades, Close has been creating portraits using grids that organize every segment – allowing him to apply fine interpretive embellishments – while maintaining photorealistic effects on a large scale. The result is “picture perfect” portraits from a distance that reveal incredible shapes, colors and textures when inspected closely. Read more -
Julian Opie’s Human Form Masterworks
August 1, 2014 You need travel no further than the interactive map on Julian Opie’s website to gain proper perspective of this British Contemporary Artist’s worldwide reach. Opie studied at the renowned Goldsmiths, University of London in the early 1980s, where he was a student of artist Michael Craig-Martin − another British master of earthly forms. Like experiencing Craig-Martin work, after being in the presence of the iconic style of Julian Opie, you may find it challenging to view any object without pondering how this intuitive artist might choose to render the core characteristics. Some classify Opie’s style as Pop; others as Realist or Minimalist. Most agree that it proves an intriguing and wonderful niche in the modern world of Contemporary Art. Read more
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Shepard Fairey: Dissent Goes Pop
June 23, 2014 Before the Internet became mainstream media and Web 2.0 social channels made content sharing an everyday cultural norm, innovative young artists like Shepard Fairey relied on Word of Mouth advertising to launch “viral” campaigns. Like Pop Artist Keith Haring, who took to Manhattan’s subway stations to garner exposure for his early works, Shepard Fairey employed street tactics to plant seeds of inquiry about the nature of his artistic intentions. In 1989, while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fairey stumbled upon viral success with a sticker he designed and disseminated – bearing the likeness of professional wrestler Andre The Giant. Read more -
All That Glitters: Hirst’s Diamond Skulls
May 28, 2014 Time and again, British Pop Artist Damien Hirst has demonstrated that when it comes to Contemporary Art, no subject is... Read more -
Action Painting: Subconscious Revelations Change Abstract Expressionism
April 2, 2014 In the post-war America of the 1940s and 1950s, a number of New York Abstract Expressionist Artists captured the imagination of the public with regard to the mechanisms of their craft − a style described as “Action Painting.” In 1952, it was art critic Harold Rosenberg who officially named this style within his article about the trend among various members of the New York School, most notably Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. In the years leading up to the American Pop Art movement, Action Painting created enhanced interest in a form of Abstract Expressionism that felt significantly different and new. It was exciting, but also more understandable and accessible to a wider audience. Read more
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Left Coast Pop Art: Ed Ruscha
March 12, 2014 When most of us think of American Pop Art, we conjure images of the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Haring and... Read more -
Andy Warhol’s Georgia O’Keeffe Portrait
February 16, 2014 In 1979, the meeting of Pop Art icon Andy Warhol and another famous American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe, resulted in the Warhol production of a highly coveted series of diamond dust prints. At this point in time, when Georgia and Andy agreed to sit for one another, Ms. O’Keeffe had pretty much ceased her own creations, as her diminished eyesight had worsened and she was in her early nineties at the time. For Andy Warhol, despite meeting being a larger than life celebrity in 1979 and regularly meeting other celebrities – the opportunity to meet with Georgia O’Keeffe was still a big deal – as the two of them had solidified their positions at the top of the list of important American artists of the 20th century. Read more -
Tom Wesselmann: Pop Art and Intention
October 30, 2013 The American Pop Art movement had its share of reluctant participants. Perhaps most notorious among them is Tom Wesselmann. Mentioned alongside the biggest names in Pop – Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Johns − Wesselmann rejected the Pop label and any other label for that matter. The artist was among those masters who viewed themselves independent of any such art movement associations, interpreting such labeling as confining and simplistic, unable to capture the essence of their style. For Wesselmann, it boiled down to a matter of intention. Read more
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Robert Rauschenberg Prints at VFA
October 25, 2013 Vertu Fine Art is pleased to present a few examples of the impressive Robert Rauschenberg prints for sale at our South Florida art gallery. Rauschenberg’s contributions as an Abstract Expressionist and Pop Artist were powerful and significant in defining moments attributed to both movements. Read more -
Abstract Expressionism: Part II – Featured at VFA
September 22, 2013 Our collection of works from Abstract Expressionist artists is ever-changing in our Boca Raton Contemporary Art gallery. In addition to... Read more -
Abstract Expressionism: Part I − A Profound Shift
September 16, 2013 Like all powerful art movements, Abstract Expressionism is a phenomenon that is the result of a perfect storm. In the years following World War II, as powerful nations worked to rebuild, both physically and emotionally, and millions of people were transplanted worldwide, change was undoubtedly in air. No wonder that New York City emerged as a Contemporary Art powerhouse, with the unconventional works of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and others signifying a new shift in the art world. Read more
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The Colliding Worlds of Nicola Lopez
September 6, 2013 It’s hard not to appreciate a contemporary artist who helps us to define and often redefine our environmental perception. Just... Read more -
Chuck Close Artwork: Face Value
August 27, 2013 For a number of truly gifted artists, pursuing their craft is about something more than acquiring fame and fortune, it’s... Read more -
Floored by Polly Apfelbaum Prints and Mixed Media
August 21, 2013 New York artist Polly Apfelbaum is one of the more unique Contemporary Artists working today. The artist is undoubtedly best known for her “fallen” paintings and mixed media installations, which are primarily crafted on floors. Recently, collectors have become intrigued with Polly Apfelbaum prints, some of which are currently available for sale at Vertu Fine Art Gallery in Boca Raton. Apfelbaum’s playful combination of vibrant colors, rich textures and funky shapes have become the artist’s easily identifiable brand. Read more
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Donald Sultan: Positively Brilliant Negative Space
August 15, 2013 There's a saying about artists that speaks to the fact that while they often grow up seeking to move away... Read more -
Sam Francis: Pure Expression
August 1, 2013 Seeing the art of American Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis is nothing less than an adventure. Vibrant colors hit the canvas like notes from a jazz musician, with white space representing time and tempo. In time, the white space would come to dominate more of Sam Francis’ paintings. As experienced jazzmen taunted their unique power over the fermata − “a pause of unspecified length on a note or rest”, Sam Francis confronted white space on his unique terms, tugging at the space, leaving his mark of movement and pure expression. His work speaks to the enormous confidence of an artist who held back nothing, leaving it all on the canvas. Read more -
Robert Rauschenberg: Highly Contextual
July 29, 2013 Every Contemporary Art master contributes irrevocably toward the establishment or growth of one of more art movements. In the case... Read more
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The Superflat World of Takashi Murakami
July 21, 2013 The Superflat world of Murakami pays homage to the flat, two-dimensional affect of traditional Japanese art and those within modern manga and anime representations as well. In addition to mixing these two styles – which share commonalities but live on opposite ends of the spectrum – the artist also seeks to “flatten” out the consumer audience to whom this style of art appeals. Read more -
Damien Hirst: Sensational
June 27, 2013 At 48 years old, Damien Hirst, who rose to fame as a leader of the 1990’s Young British Artists (YBA) movement, is one of the most commercially successful artists living today. He is also one of the more controversial. His detractors liken him to a radio shock jock, an opportunist, a serial businessman. His supporters consider him to be a man of conviction, a trailblazer and a master. Hirst’s knack for sensationalizing common objects and leveraging his celebrity status often place him alongside Warhol, Haring and other popular artists. Read more -
Keith Haring Art: Pop’s New Wave
June 7, 2013 Keith Haring art is near and dear to us at Vertu Fine Art. Haring is an artist’s artist. Like Warhol... Read more
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The Wonder of Tom Wesselmann
May 30, 2013 Of the American Pop Artists that we feature at Vertu, it’s Tom Wesselmann’s Pop Art that consistently ranks high among... Read more -
The Oil Paintings of Anna Halldin-Maule
April 12, 2013 In Anna Halldin-Maule’s Her New Religion, the newest work showcased in our Boca Raton art gallery, the piece shares an attribute of all great hyperrealism, asking the viewer to first reconcile the fact it is indeed oil on canvas. Regarding the meaning and significance of the work, the title and the subject's skyward gaze work harmoniously to convey the pairing of prayer and materialism. Read more
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