One of America’s most celebrated abstract printmakers, with a career spanning over half a century, Sam Francis (1923-1994) was born in San Mateo, California. His exploration of visual space and colour ran from the 1960s all the way through to the mid-1990s. In the late 1940s, whilst a young man studying for his degree in [...]

Picasso’s first visit to Paris in 1900 had a major impact on the artist’s life, helping him to discover his own artistic style and inspiring him to be more productive than he ever had been before. He fell in love with the city instantly upon arrival and found success almost immediately thanks to his friend [...]

Born in Malaga in 1881, Picasso began his artistic career in the port city of A Coruña in Northern Spain where his family moved when he was just 10 years old. This epic move from the very South to the North West tip of Spain came about when Picasso’s father José Ruiz y Blasco accepted [...]

During a seven year period, from 1953 to 1959, Warhol self-published a series of portfolios, books and individual prints – each work was produced as an offset lithograph, with Warhol employing his blotted line, the graphic technique he had developed while a student at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).⁠ Andy WARHOL Untiled, from [...]

Have you heard the news? A visitor at a Miami museum recently broke an iconic Balloon Dog sculpture by Jeff Koons! But don't worry. We have another version of the blue balloon dog available for you, sitting safely in the original box.  For those unfamiliar with Jeff Koons, he is a contemporary artist known for [...]

Take a look at this exhibition poster advertising Andy Warhol’s 1971 exhibition at the Tate. ⁠The poster displays Warhol’s iconic Shot Blue Sage Marilyn (1964). ⁠ ⁠ Do you know why Warhol named his piece the Shot Blue Sage Marilyn? ⁠ Andy WARHOL Marilyn, Tate Gallery Poster Offset lithograph in colours, circa 1971, on wove paper [...]

One of America’s most celebrated abstract printmakers, with a career spanning over half a century, Sam Francis (1923-1994) was born in San Mateo, California. His exploration of visual space and colour ran from the 1960s all the way through to the mid-1990s. In the late 1940s, whilst a young man studying for his degree in [...]

Picasso’s first visit to Paris in 1900 had a major impact on the artist’s life, helping him to discover his own artistic style and inspiring him to be more productive than he ever had been before. He fell in love with the city instantly upon arrival and found success almost immediately thanks to his friend [...]

Born in Malaga in 1881, Picasso began his artistic career in the port city of A Coruña in Northern Spain where his family moved when he was just 10 years old. This epic move from the very South to the North West tip of Spain came about when Picasso’s father José Ruiz y Blasco accepted [...]