We are delighted to be exhibiting a collection of art at Signature Art Auction which takes place online at http://live.universal-collectibles.com/p_ds/?d=event&eid=575&ssn=1096584135, on September 19th, 2008. The event is open to the public to view and purchase from a selection of posters, prints, and rare books. The collection is on display now, and allows for absentee bids to be made. Many of the items for auction are one-of-a-kinds and this sale is unique in every respect. No sale of such a private collection of importance has ever been held before, and we imagine significant interest in the event. Museum Exhibition Posters & Prints Auction

September 19, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT

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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND WILL APPEAL TO PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTORS ALIKE. The Collection which has been developed over the past 20 years, with original works and acquired signed pieces. The Collection includes several hundred works of art and is divided according to price. The emphasis in the Collection is an eclectic mixture of both contemporary and traditional art, which includes Lithographs, Serigraphs, and Etchings. The Collection contains works of art by a wide range of contemporary artists, which together show the vibrancy and variety of styles and colors. Pop stars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; masters Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, plus art legends Robert Rauschenberg, Matisse, Miró, Dali, and Leger are some of the artists whose work we're proud to feature in this special live event.

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The sale will be live on the 19th of September with online bidding via Universal Collectibles . It's easy to participate. Simply click on the Sign Up link above to register. Anyone who places an absentee bid will be notified via email if they have been outbid. Of course, you can preview the Rare Posters Signature Auction catalog -- or any of our exciting live auction catalogs -- at any time.

From July 23-24, Rare Posters Online Auctions will offer 200 modern and contemporary prints by 50 artists including Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol with estimates between US $20 and US $1,000.

Collectibles, Antiques, Coins, Toys, Neons July 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT Sign Up for this auction

Leading the sale is an outstanding group of works by Andy Warhol ranging from the artist's 1960s to his 1980s work. Among the highlights in the Collectibles, Antiques, Coins, Toys, Neons are a series large sized circus posters, very bright and colorful lithographs straight from the big top. We are also featuring a mixed selection of vintage posters from the 20th century in this event. You will be able to purchase out of print original movie posters from some of the greatest movies ever made, such as on the Waterfront with Brando, and Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor. Vintage travel posters promoting tourism are also being offered, as well as a collection of vintage advertising posters from the 20th century, and politically charged vintage World War II propaganda.

Affordable Fine Art Originals & Prints July 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT Sign Up for this auction

In a market in which prices for many modern and contemporary works have reached stratospheric levels, our Affordable Fine Art Originals & Prints auction offers collectors the opportunity to acquire works by renowned artists at relatively affordable estimates. We are pleased to offer an exceptional range of works of modern, contemporary, and pop art at this special event. Modern artists such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, among others, are represented. A diverse selection of contemporary prints can also be found at great prices, including works by Jeff Koons, and Richard Serra. Pop artists featured in the sale on July 24th are Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and Robert Rauschenberg, and other renowned artists all being offered a very affordable prices.

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Brooklyn, New York June 1, 2008 – Rare Posters, Inc today announced a new line of limited edition exhibition lithographs and offset lithographs by Poligrapha are to be added to its new catalog. President and founder Bernard Rougerie has organized this collection which includes over 100 titles from Poligrapha from very well known Catalan, Spanish and Latin American artists such as Chillida, Miro, Tapies, Lam and other artists among them Ernst, Bacon, Christo, Motherwell and Ed Ruscha.

"We are extremely delighted with this latest collection" said Rougerie, "We have built a strong reputation for having contemporary art of the highest quality, and believe that these additions will help reinforce this."

Rare Posters goal is to always offer highly collectible art. Quality remains the most reliable and enduring characteristic in the art market and is the main reason why any work will hold or increase its value over time. The handpicked selection from Poligrapha includes a variety of subjects, colors and style, offering an elegant and sophisticated solution for most indoor décor of highly collectible art. About Poligrapha Editions

Polígrafa Obra Gráfica was founded in 1961 and has specialized for over 47 years in publishing the graphic work of leading artists from Spain and abroad. Over the years, Polígrafa's work has been recognized for its superior quality, winning numerous awards from the international art community. As a result, to date more than 250 artists have placed the trust of Polígrafa.

The selection of artists is governed by strict criteria of rigor and ambition. Over the years, Polígrafa has published works by artists who are today recognized as among the foremost of their time, such as Miró, Clavé and Hartung. Works by major European creators have also been produced at Polígrafa's workshops, including pieces by Henry Moore, Max Ernst, Christo, Kounellis, Francis Bacon, Sutherland, Dokoupil and Markus Lüpertz; members of the Cobra group: Alechinsky, Corneille and Karel Appel; Italian artists: Santomaso, Vedova, Sandro Chia and Enzo Cucchi; Portuguese artists: Vieira da Silva and Sarmento; Chinese artists: Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chung and Wang Huai-Qing; and artists from the United States: John Cage, George Segal, Larry Rivers, Robert Longo, Al Held, Kenneth Noland, Ed Ruscha, Robert Motherwell, Alex Katz, Hellen Frankenthaler and George Condo.

Artists from across Latin America have also come to print their works in the Polígrafa workshops, including Tamayo, Cuevas and Toledo from Mexico; Daniel Senise, Tunga and Regina Silveira from Brazil; Ana Mercedes Hoyos from Colombia; Fabio Herrera from Costa Rica; Guillermo Kuitca. Karina Chechik, Guillermo Conte and Liliana Porter from Argentina; Carlos Capelán from Uruguay; Jorge Tacla and Roberto Matta from Chile; and Wifredo Lam, José Bedia and Kcho from Cuba. The widely recognized Spanish artists who have published work with Polígrafa, include Guinovart, Hernández Pijuan, Ràfols Casamada, Evru (formerly Zush), Alfons Borrell, Victor Mira, Perejaume, Cristina Iglesias, Ester Partegàs and Antoni Tàpies, whose graphic work has been published by Polígrafa for more than 40 years. Polígrafa has also published artists in the El Paso group, such as Rafael Canogar, Lucio Muñoz, Luis Feito, Eusebio Sempere and Antonio Saura, among others.

The majority of the prices in the new collection from Poligrapha Editions fall within the $45.00 with $125.00 range, although some, such as a signed Christo exhibition lithograph priced at $325.00, can go higher. As always, you are able to browse and purchase these new special items, along with many other limited editions on the company's website, www.rareposters.com. Be sure to sign up for an account while, it takes a moment, and will save you extra on purchases.

If you need assistance or are interested in a certain piece, don't hesitate to contact Rare Posters directly at sales@rareposters.com or call toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 International

About Rare Posters Since its inception almost two decades ago, Rare Posters, Inc has evolved from offering a small selection of museum and exhibition posters, to now showcasing some of the most sought-after artworks available, Rare Posters' strength is in providing an impressive selection of lithographs, limited editions prints, signed items, and high quality serigraphs to those interested in something more than a poster, but less expensive than a painting. By partnering with seasoned art dealers, publishers, and printers throughout the world, Rare Posters is able to provide you with the purchasing power to acquire any one of over 800 highly collected artists. At www.rareposters.com, you will find over 5,000 exclusive items featuring artists such as Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Christo, Warhol, Matisse, Botero, Lichtenstein, and Miro as well as many items hard to find anywhere else.

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Contact: Bernard Rougerie, President and Founder, Rare Posters, Inc. email: sales@rareposters.com

Lempicka is best known for her Art Deco-styled portraits. Sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress are rendered in haunting poses. Perhaps it was her own dramatic life mirrored in her art. Married twice to wealthy, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925 she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris. She moved to America in 1939 with her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner. Her works appeared exclusively at many galleries and museums, but her artistic output decreased. In 1960 she changed her style to abstract art and began creating works with a spatula. After her husband died in 1962 she ceased painting and moved to Mexico.

Tamara received her first painting lessons from Maurice Denis at the Academe Ranson. Maurice Denis was the painter who caused such a stir in his day with a statement that both impressed itself on his pupils and brought him lasting celebrity: It must be remembered that a painting is essentially not so much a war-horse, a naked woman or some story or other, as a plain surface covered with paint in a particular arrangement.

In spite of this "modem" position, Maurice Denis remained a purely decorative painter his whole life long; his style was archaic, post-symbolist, even when he was trying to "renew" his subject, something he believed he was doing, for example, by substituting, in his painting Les Muses, visibly bourgeois figures, strolling in the Bois de Boulogne, for the deities of ancient Greece customary in the genre until then. At this period even someone like Eugene Pougheon would not shrink from placing "Venuses" and "Pegasuses" in the surroundings of the Jockey Club, while his rival Emile Aubry managed to seat a rococo Liberty vamp astride the back of a centaur. Even so, Maurice Denis was a hard taskmaster and a methodical teacher; the patient apprenticeship which Tamara absolved under his eye enabled her later to create immaculately structured pictures.
Her definitive stamp, however, Tamara received from the instruction she went on to receive from Andre Lhote: painter, decorator, critic, art-teacher, theoretician - activities which he himself found difficulty in reconciling, and which often enough prevented him from realizing the subtle syntheses of his inspiration. Andre Lhote was the inventor of a revised and corrected cubism, a "safe" cubism using "bourgeois" colours, a so-called synthetic cubism which Tamara took up immediately. In other words, it was a question of reconciling the iconography of the Salons (or, shall we say, of the academicians and other hacks) with avant-garde cubist experiments of Braque, Juan Gris, or Picasso. In short, to place a variety of cubism (one had to move with the times, after all) at the service of the bourgeoisie, albeit an attenuated cubism, acceptable on the walls of a respectable household, and unlikely to frighten away the visitors. On the one hand, Lhote was of the opinion that what the impressionists had built up on pure colour must now be transferred to the level of form-n. On the other hand, the only thing that interested him about cubism was its rational, constructive aspect, which, in his opinion, allowed the phenomena of the natural world to be preserved in a painting, and the forms of objects to be left intact, a human body, for example, being an object like any other. This was what he called the "plastic metaphor", a metaphor which Tamara used time and again in her artistic output: in her harems populated by provocative idiots; in her nudes, which are also allegories of lasciviousness; or in her portraits characterized by the haughty expression typical of a certain caste. Of course the negative side of this procedure is that cases left with nothing more than the most superficial aspects of cubism as originally conceived. There is a penalty to be paid when one reduces the figures to the lowest common colour denominator just in order to satisfy the requirements of plasticity. This is to confuse academism with simplification of the picture. One could say that Andr6 Lhote confused cubism with geometrism without realizing that cubism implies a total questioning of the pictorial system created by the Renaissance.

The surreal stylings of Spanish painter Joan Miró are at the center of this this month's Artiast Spotlight. A contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Miró was as imaginative as he was prolific, producing thousands of whimsical and colorful works throughout his life. Our inventory showcases approximately 130 pieces of the the work of pioneer European Joan Miro, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century.
Joan Miro was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró received early encouragement from the dealer José Dalmau, who gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917 he met Francis Picabia.

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He attended drawing sessions of the Sant Lluch Circle, where the architect Gaudi had been a student. In 1916 he visited an exhibition of French art organized by Vollard in Barcelona. During this time Miro met many influential figures of the art world, such as F. Picabia, the founder of the Dada review "391," Marie Laurencin, and Max Jacob. He had his first exhibition in 1918 at the Gallery Dalmau, and in the same year became a member of the Agrupacio Courbet, a group of young painters around Artigas. He painted "detailist" landscapes at this time. Then in 1919 Miro took his first visit to Paris, where he met and became friends with Picasso. He spent the subsequent winters in Paris, returning to Montroig with his family for the summer. At the end of 1920 he took a studio at 45 rue Blomet in Paris.
His first Paris exhibition in 1921, organized by Dalmau at the Galerie La Licorne was a complete failure. Until his next exhibition in 1923 Miro established a close relationship with the neighboring artists surrounding his studio in Paris; and with Henry Miller and Hemingway. Then in 1924 he joined Andre Breton Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard in the Surrealist group, and in 1925 took part in the Surrealist exhibition at Galerie Pierre. During the years that followed he lived next to and worked closely with Max, Ernst, Magritte, Eluard, and Arp, he was married in 1930 to Pilar Juncosa on October 12th, and continued exhibiting with the Surrealists from New York to London.
After the outbreak of war in Spain in 1936 he left, not to return for four years. He had 22 works included in the International Surrealist exhibition in the same year, at the New Burlington Galleries in London. In 1940 while beginning his Constellations series finished the next year, Miro returned to Paris in the face of the advancing German army. He returned to Spain that same year. In 1942 Miro returned to live in Barcelona, he begins to work with ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. He makes his first visit to the United States in 1947, and returns to Paris the next year where he produced numerous engravings and lithographs.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, May 14 – Pop Art Pioneer artist Robert Rauschenberg has died of heart failure. He was 82.

Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, he briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II prior to studying art. Upon being honorably discharged in the summer of 1945, Rauschenberg enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute (1947) and later at the Academia Julien in Paris (1948) before studying with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he formed life-long friendships with John Cage, Merce Cunningham and David Tudor. After moving to New York City in 1949, Rauschenberg enrolled in the Arts Students League. In the spring of 1951, Rauschenberg was invited to exhibit at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City. Two years later he created the first of his acclaimed Combine sculptures, works that incorporated painting and a variety of found objects. The juxtaposition of different media (lithography, painting, photography, silk-screening and sculpture) and their interplay comprise Rauschenberg's chief interests, and throughout his career, his work has been marked by a sense of experimentation and chance. During the 1950s, Rauschenberg also began his lifelong involvement and affiliation with theatre and dance, designing sets and costumes for a variety of productions worldwide. At the time of his death Texas native was a painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and a composer

Robert Rauschenberg's boundless experimentation and his rich collaborations with talented printers are all on display at www.rareposters.com . The website presents 53 outstanding posters and prints, including some never before seen in a museum, all available for purchase. "I'm curious" he said in 1997 in one of the few interviews he granted in later years. It's very rewarding. I'm still discovering things every day." Rauschenberg's more than 50 years in art produced a varied and prolific collection that showed America that all of life could be open to art. ... Rauschenberg didn't give a fig for consistency, or curating his reputation; his taste was always omnivorous, and hit-or-miss, yet he had a bigness of soul and a richness of temperament that recalled Walt Whitman. Rauschenberg split his time between New York and Captiva Island in Florida, where he kept a house stocked with his own art and those of his friends.

"We are fortunate to have more than 50 posters and prints by Robert Rauschenberg in its collection," said Bernard Rougerie, president and founder of Rare Posters, Inc, "Our website features the lithographs, screenprints, and intaglios of an artist who has sustained extraordinary creative powers across more than five decades and who has launched printmaking in new directions through his experiments in collaborative workshop environments."
Prices for the Robert Rauschenberg pieces on www.rareposters.com range from under $50 to over $3000 for a signed limited edition.

Rauschenberg is survived by his son Christopher and companion Darryl Pottorf.