Allen Jones (1937) - "Life Class" , from: Dumont

Artist: Allen Jones (1937)
Technique: Lithograph
Signature: Not signed
ALLEN JONES, "from Life Class", 1970 Colour lithograph on thick paper (cardboard) . Total: 58 x 69 cm This is "framed" in a "ready to hang" Allen Jones mat (as per the photos) edition of unknown size (estimated < fewer than 500 as per my phone call with Dumont) . The mat + print is very little/small dented (hardly visible) Unsigned as published (all of them were unsigned) . (*) stamped/ text on lithograph: "Allen Jones Litografie aus der Mappe "life Class"” - Serigrafie - 1968, 81 x 57 cm. Vorlage Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne. Printed by Studio Dumont, Germany. Published by Dumont, Germany. My provenance: bought from a US auction 2018. I had 2 prints, this is my last print Painter and sculptor Allen Jones was a seminal—and controversial—member of the British Pop Art movement; he’s renowned for highly sexual figurative works that raise questions about the representation and objectification of women. Jones rose to infamy in the 1960s with a series of sculptures that depicted women as furniture, posed for submission and clad in fetish wear. Feminists derided these pieces, yet the female form remained Jones’s primary subject. He has made photographs—notably of Kate Moss in a gold breastplate of his design—and stylised oil paintings, watercolours, and prints that reference fashion, dancing, and cabaret. Jones has exhibited in London, Zürich, Hong Kong, Shanghai, St. Louis, and Lisbon. His work sells for millions on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Nagaoka Museum, among other institutions. About Allen Jones / Dumont: Allen Jones was already an established Pop Art painter within the (British) Pop Art movement. In 1968 Allen Jones was asked by Dumont to use this image (from his portfolio Life Class) for there legendary Dumont Art Calendar in 1970. The total calendar edition was approx 500 (or less) , so this Lichtenstein image "Sweet Dreams Baby" was used (together with art of Lichtenstein/Warhol/Wesselmann/Indiana/and other Pop Art legends) to publish an unsigned and unnumbered colour lithograph calendar, published by Dumont. In that era publishers like Domberger, (art calendars as from 1960s; Multiples (Banner Calendar) ; and Dumont were the leading publishers for those kind of Art Calendars. For example a Banner Calendar is currently being sold for $5000 on life-auctioneers! Shipping is by priority mail - flat shipped.