BILLY SULLIVAN 'NY Sketchbook #8 Guy w Tattoos' 1979 SIGNED Framed Litho Gay Int

Description: BILLY SULLIVAN (b. 1946, NYC) 'New York Sketchbook #8 (Guy w/ Tattoos)', 1979 SIGNED Framed PrintHand-colored lithograph print with silver metallic ink on wove paper. SIGNED (lr) and numbered 'A.P. 5/7' (ll) by artist in pencil on recto under image. Edition size: 18. Professionally framed and matted in white-washed wood (1/2" x 1-5/8"). Dimensions: 14-3/4" x 11" sheet, 20-3/4" x 16-3/4" framed. Gallery label affixed to back of framing. Published and printed by Parasol Press, LTD. Very good condition (not examined out of frame; frame shows signs of wear and age). Provenance: Gallery Obelisk, Boston, MA.Billy Sullivan is an American contemporary artist. Though he works primarily in oil, pastel and ink, he is also highly recognized for his photography, which he introduced alongside his paintings later in his career. He credits Pop art as an influence for his work, and continues to explore the nature of contrast and the emotional poignancy of this expression. This fascination, in particular, has incited him to extensively research black and white photography, which he presents consistently within his works. He received his degree from Georgetown University in Washington, and lives and works in New York. In both painting and photography, Billy Sullivan captures the everyday life of his friends and loved ones, documenting his surroundings in a diaristic mode. This photograph reflects the casual intimacy characteristic of Sullivan’s work, capturing a nude woman eating breakfast in a hotel room. Billy Sullivan's portraits and still lifes capture the fleeting moments in life that transcend the everyday. Since the late 1960s, he has chronicled in slide photographs the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes through which he travels. These images of the intriguing people and striking details that surround him often serve as source material for his paintings, pastels, and ink drawings. Buzzing with a tangible energy and fraught with an insider's intimacy, they depict the highs and lows of a life less ordinary. Sullivan views his work as a diary, describing the people and objects around him. His still lifes capture the lushness and inherent beauty of a vase of sunflowers on a windowsill overlooking Long Island Sound or a plate of fish and mussels on a checkered tablecloth. The portraits, in their spontaneity and tenderness, offer an intimacy, as if we belong, are part of the moment. Sullivan is one of a select group of artists whose portraits are considered more than accurate likenesses of the sitter; they transcend beyond to a work of art. David Rimanelli in his Top Ten of the Nineties, (Art Forum, December 1999), describes Billy Sullivan as a contemporary artist in whose work "we see the distant reflection of Ingres's enterprise, one that admits both frank idealization and more psychologically ambiguous homage." Billy Sullivan has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1971. He has been included in important exhibitions such as Ugo Rondinone’s I Love John Giorno at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); GLAM! The Performance of Style, Tate Liverpool (2014); Open Windows, Addison Gallery of American Art, curated by Carroll Dunham (2012); Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2012); Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006). His recent solo exhibitions include shows at ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York (2015); Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (2014); Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich (2014); Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (2012); kaufmann repetto, Milan (2011); Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (2011); Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, New York (2010); and Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2008). His paintings are currently in the 2016 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Sullivan’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, as well as many other public and private collections. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2023'Billy Sullivan: Studio Visit', Kaufmann Repetto, New York, NY 'Friends & Lovers' (group exhibition), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY 'The Minotaur’s Daydream' (group exhibition), Semiose Gallery, Paris, France 2022'Some People' (group exhibition), Cheim & Read, New York, NY 'Greener Grass' (group exhibition), East Hampton, NY 2021 'Billy Sullivan: Flowers & Birds', The Madoo Conservancy, Inc., Sagaponack, NY 2019'Billy Sullivan: Muses', Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy 'Pastel' (group exhibition), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY 2018 'Billy Sullivan: Love Letters', Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2017 'Billy Sullivan & Kathy Rudin', ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY 2016 'Billy Sullivan', Monteverdi Art Gallery, Sarteano, Tuscany, Italy 'Billy Sullivan: Muses', Kaufmann Repetto, New York, NY 2015 'Billy Sullivan: Summer Diaries', ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY2014 'Billy Sullivan: Blush', Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany 'Billy Sullivan: Time After Time', Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland 2012 'Billy Sullivan: Bird Drawings', Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY 'Watercolors' (group exhibition), Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 'Billy Sullivan', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 'Open Windows: Keltie Ferris, Jackie Saccoccio, Billy Sullivan, and Alexi Worth' (group exhibition), Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 2011 'Billy Sullivan: Still, Looking', Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy 'Billy Sullivan: Now & Then', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 2010 'Plank Road' (group exhibition), Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY 'Billy Sullivan', Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI 'Wall to Wall' (group exhibition), Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 'Billy Sullivan: East End Photographs (1973 - 2009)', Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY 'Trompe l'Oeil' (group exhibition), Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH 2009 'Portraits' (group exhibition), Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH 'Drawings' (group exhibition), Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH 'Billy Sullivan: Conversations', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 2008 'Billy Sullivan: New Work', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 'Billy Sullivan: An Installation of Paintings and Works on Paper', Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 2007 'Billy Sullivan', Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy 'Billy Sullivan', Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 2006 'Billy Sullivan: Friends', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 'Billy Sullivan: New Work', Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH 'The name of this show is not GAY ART NOW' (group exhibition), Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 'Whitney Biennial: Day for Night' (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 'Billy Sullivan', Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy 2004 'Billy Sullivan: Aspen Portrait', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 2003 'Billy Sullivan', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 'Billy Sullivan: New Paintings', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 2002 'Billy Sullivan: Photographs 1969 - 2002', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY Store ICON ABOVE

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