Dream Art Piece

I own two Picasso prints and a Miro lithograph.

I own a V. Vance nude self-portrait.

Clarifying that this is an original piece of art, even if it’s some sort of print, lithograph, etc. Posters from the museum shop don’t count.

Mine are not posters.

I want r1's posters.

I voted Matisse, but I want a Baldesarri as well.

From whom did you acquire these [R1] ?

Nothing crazy, perhaps a Demuth watercolor still life or floral.

I would have voted had you listed Renoir.

R9 Ugh, you want Renoir, go to the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, I think he has around 180 of them you will be satiated for life. While there check out the Cezannes, 69 in all more than there are in the city of Paris.

I hope nothing bad happens to this thread. That Art History thread got closed down after 17 posts.

My vote is for Miro.

[R11] I’m hoping for some exciting comments and opinions. Wondering why gay men are so into Matisse though.

I have a Miro print and a Hockney Graphic collage. Glad to see them mentioned here. I would rather have one of Hockneys earlier paintings - but I do like the color, blocking and scale of the collage. With Miro, I’m happy with the etching/print - lots of color and intensity expressed equally as a painting.

But I voted Picasso. But a painting - not a sketch or drawing.

[R13] you have great taste

OP, you get big points for listing Cathy Opie!

Mark Rothko (White Center). Paul Klee (Senecio)

And Ruscha was an interesting option. Can’t say I love it - but I like it. Would be interesting to do a separate poll on postwar artists only.

R15 I bet they were more likely thinking along the lines of this.

Actually, mine would be either Modigliani or Van Gogh

John Atkinson Grimshaw

I own a Vuillard, but I've never had the money to get it authenticated. It's an involved process and you need a fair amount of money to get it done. There's another painting on the other side. It's inscribed in his handwriting at the top left, almost invisible, but a conservator found it when he examined it. I had it over 20 years now.

A Klimt

Or a George grosz I love the dada movement and “degenerate art”

What was the name of that elephant who painted with his trunk?

I'm a basic gay bitch and if I had money to waste I'd get myself the original Pierre et Gilles piece.

I loathe Miro.

Ocean Horizon (1959) - Richard Diebenkorn

Thanks, R10, tip o' the hat to you. Many interesting opinions on this thread; I hope it lasts a while too.

OP, I'm going to with some contemporaties since they're not yet represented.

I'd like some original Keith Harings, a bunch of Mapplethorpes , but more than ever, I'd wish for a Banksy.

[R29] I just knew someone would bring up Banksy.

A Monet. I love everything he did.

R29 Shredded or unshredded?

A Warhol soup can or a Marilyn.

Damn, I should have included Thomas Kinkade.

I would want Sargent, or Eakins. Or Caillebotte

Would love this Sargent in particular.

I want this Manet painting so, so, so much!

Left off - it's called: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

[R37] have always loved that one, love the “I’m over these bitches” look in her eyes.

R1, are your art prints signed in original pencil or ink by the artist themselves?

I’d love a giant Christiane Kubrick painting or two.

I’ve got a small one, which is one of my earthly treasures, and two etchings. But I’d love to have one of the larger ones.

A Frida Kalo, a Diego Rivera, a David Hockney and a Jean Michelle Basquiat.

Anyone else love Norman Rockwell? MS.Rau has sir originals

I have the Freedom of Speech poster nicely framed (with matting.) (Not just a poster stuck in a frame) (I made a LITTLE effort.)

I got it done when I was doing a lot of activism. It was a nice reminder each day.

I'd KILL for an original Friday Kahlo!

[R45] totally making that my Scruff profile pic

I work at a college and its art gallery has allowed me to display a beautiful Léger lithograph in my office. It cheers me up every day.

I would love to collect Erté.

Not listed:

- Auguste Herbin

- Alexander Calder

A couple of Canalettos, Rubens, Rembrandts, Tiepolos or El Grecos. Can you imagine being such a grandee you had a couple works from one of these artists? I'd sell my collection immediately, of course.

I’m happy with my Cherished Moments figurines.

A Monet

Am I the only one who has no desire to own these famous works? I appreciate them, yes. They’re worth tons and of course I would be good at protecting/preserving a piece. Other than that, I’d rather share it and see it in a museum. Something about it seems like a burden almost. I can’t think of one I wouldn’t eventually tire of. Something futile about it. Like trying to own the sky. And you’d need people to share it with to enjoy.

I would love to have a HUGE wall sized, 15 ft x 12 ft , Thomas Darnell white and pink peonies oil painting.

An original large format EARLY Dali would also work.

I see your Cherished Moments, R51, and raise you Thomas Kinkade!!

You don't know much about art, do you OP?

Anything by this artist, OP.

I only like high class art, so I would just die for an original Thomas Kinkade.

[R57] I don’t think so. I only included museum gift shop artists and L.A.-centric artists to annoy people. By the way, I just heard that L.A. is the official art capital of the world.

A Brancusi.

"High class art"? Oh dear.

Gerhard Richter. His darker works.

I have a thing for Vermeer, so I would be happy to nick one from some wall in Guelph. Don’t really see how else you could wind up with one.

I also love Bacon, but almost more as an exhibition artist. In a group setting, I imagine the pain amplification of his paintings would be delightfully unbearable.

But to be “realistic” about my chance of ownership, I would like a Schiele, that little scamp, especially one of the self-portraits. When the Neue Galerie had a show for him in 2015 (?), my friends had to drag me out of there. They were good sports.

“A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” is a dreamy painting, r37. I saw it in my teens, in ‘88 or ‘89, when the Courtauld Collection was touring the USA. It’s much larger than I expected it to be; functionally, it could serve as one of several mirrors at a bar. It’s rather difficult to look away from the barmaid’s eyes, but eventually the background appears and then you begin to miss your reflection, and then Manet’s, and then realize that this woman is relying upon you to free her from the looking glass and you feel impotent because you can’t. I haven’t yet been back to see it in London, but I’ve promised that I will on my next trip.

R37 I had never seen that painting and I’m entranced. Thank you!

Les Raboteurs de Parquet (the Floor Scrapers), by Gustave Caillebotte:

Rothko. Don’t have one, though! 😭

Rothko's Blue, Green, and Brown for r67

Thanks R62. I love seascapes.

Yes, please R68!

Turquoise blue homage to Rothko, by Barry Sack.

R49 you can buy a Calder lithograph for about $300.

I chose a Rothko above BUT I sure wouldn’t say no to this.

Phenomena Kwan Yin - Paul Jenkins

I’d love a large landscape by Maxfield Parrish.

His colors have such depth!

I know most of you secretly covet one of these.

I want r1's posters after r5 poops on them.

Anyone else into MANET?

Caillebotte for my boat, r77.

I'd like either Rembrandt's "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" (Met), or "The Beanery" in the Stedelijk (Amsterdam).

Monet.

Rene Magritte

Another by Paul Jenkins: Phenomena Spring Alter II after Phenomena Nightingale

I would go off the off the reservation and get a Modigliani.

[quote] Anyone else into MANET?

I am!!!

I have a thing for Prince Alexander Gorchakov, painted by Russian artist Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky ca. 1904.

I believe he's still hanging in the The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, but I wouldn't mind finding a place for him in my bedroom.

A Sargent would be wonderful for me.

Mark Rothko

Rothko

R72 - I have six. The flying colors series.

You could always buy one of my art works.

I chose Picasso because Rothko wasn't an option.

It's not my dream art piece by far, but I own this signed lithograph by Dali called "Morning Annunciation" that I picked up at an estate sale back in the 90s for $250. These days, it usually sells at auctions for $1500 - $2000, but I've seen it go for as low as $500 (unframed). So it really hasn't gone up in value all that much. But I liked it, so I bought it, and the frame mine came with is really nice as well.

I want a Rossetti.

Hans Hofmann’s “The Gate.” His push/pull theory of color fascinates me.

R94, could you share what you know about his theory? I'm genuinely curious!

Here you go, R95. There’s more detail at the link.

“Hans Hofmann’s famous phrase ‘push and pull’ is most often associated with his signature works of the 1950s and 1960s, in which bold colour planes emerge from and recede into energetic surfaces of intersecting and overlapping shapes.”

Klimt

I have a signed Fernand Léger print in my office and a signed Duncan Grant print at my house.

I wish I had an original of anything by these two.

Signed prints are boring. No one is going to museums to look at a signed print by those artists. I would be more impressed if you had a Duncan Grant painting.

Anyone that wants a Rothko just likes that it goes with their decor.

You're mean, R100.

I had not known of Duncan Grant, homosexualist and paintist until reading r100. He's really rather interesting. I tried to post a page with his paintings the other night, but Muriel wasn't having it (literally). Here's his Wiki page. Do check out his paintings on your own. They're quite interesting, though why someone would compare his work to Mark Rothko's eludes me. There's room for both in this world, and on one's walls.

I’m NOT comparing Rothko to Rothko, not sure why you would think that. ADHD, perhaps? You should look at Vanessa Bell’s work, she’s an artist you could compare to Duncan Grant.

Léon Bonnat's "Jacob Wrestling the Angel" (1876).

I also like Bonnat's self-portrait.

A rare glimpse at a Vance from my private collection. Not for sale, bitches.

[quote] Ed Ruscha

Appropriate for certain DL posters (not you Darfur Orphan, although you probably have a distended belly).

A Rembrandt and a Vermeer. I have a Raoul Dufy lithograph and an odd small sculpture of a woman in a knee length dress. The piece looks like featureless doll. I don't know the artist. Years ago, this odd piece was a gift from a friend who owns two art galleries. For all I know, the artist might now be very famous.

I would love to have something by Alexander Calder---love his small Josephine Baker sculpture, I jumped up and down beside the case to make her move a bit. At the Peggy Guggenheim house (?) in Italy, I wanted the hammered silver headboard with little dangling charms for myself SO MUCH.

I would also love to have a piece by Niki Saint Palle---love her crazy painted whimsical people and creatures with mosaic tiles and mirrored bits. ESPECIALLY love her assemblages that were filled with paint and shot with rifles in Paris in the early 60s. The paint exploded from the secret hiding places as they were punctured by bullets, and sprayed or dripped down all over. Finally saw one of these in person at the MOMA in NYC.

Terrible background for showing the silver

Niki DE St Phalle, my mistake

One of Kandinsky's Compositions.

A Gerrit Rietveld red and blue chair

One of Mondrian's late NY pieces (boogie-woogie)

A Zhang Xiaogang portrait (below)

A Murakami flower ball

A Rauschenburg combine piece