George Dureau was an American artist whose long career was most notable for charcoal sketches and black and white photography of poor white and black athletes, dwarfs, and amputees. Dureau was born to Clara Rosella Legett Dureau and George Valentine Dureau in the Irish Channel, New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Mid-City. He graduated with a fine arts degree from LSU in 1952, after which he began architectural studies at Tulane University. Dureau briefly served in the U.S. Army. Before being able to survive as an artist, he worked for Maison Blanche, a New Orleans department store, as a display designer/window dresser. For the vast majority of his life, he lived in the French Quarter, where he was well known for his eccentricity and hospitality. His friend and student, Robert Mapplethorpe restaged many of his earlier black and white photographs. Many of his pieces are held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Several of his works are displayed publicly throughout New Orleans, most notably, the pediment sculpture for Harrah's Casino and his cast-bronze sculptures stand sentinel at the entrance gates of New Orleans City Park. Dureau’s depiction of a Mardi Gras parade dominates one wall in Gallier Hall. One of his more popular set of works, Black 1973–1986, a series of black and white photographs concentrating on young black men, toured throughout the USA to rave reviews. Dureau died of Alzheimer's disease in 2014.
Jeffrey Cook
By George Dureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
George Valentine Dureau (1930 - 2014) was active/lived in Louisiana. George Dureau is known for Male nude figure, genre, portrait.
Silver Gelatin
Emmitt Johnson
By George Dureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
George Valentine Dureau (1930 - 2014) was active/lived in Louisiana. George Dureau is known for Male nude figure, genre, portrait.
Silver Gelatin
$850
H 20 in W 15 in D 0.13 in
Portrait of a Woman with Teapot, 1970s Pittsburgh Black & White Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling 1970s black and white photograph of a contemplative woman leaning on a table into her crossed arms, beside a small teapot that casts a long sha...
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Victor Hugo in drag with unidentified man in drag
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique. Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. The work comes with an Authentication Letter from th...
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$5,696
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in
Avenue Simon Bolivar - Willy Ronis, 20th Century, French Humanist Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
One of the famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
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$590
H 24 in W 20 in
Fulham Football Fan's Fashion silver gelatin limited edition print
Located in London, GB
5th January 1957: Two young Fulham football fans Freda and Frank Hearn dressed in their club's colours of black and white, wait to board an 'Ipswich Sp...
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Bullet Through Plexiglass
By Harold Eugene Edgerton
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 60 Signed and numbered by Harold Edgerton Gelatin silver print 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. Printed 1977 Harold “Doc” Edgerton was born in 1903, in Fremont, Nebraska. During his su...
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$1,743
H 23.63 in W 15.75 in
English National Opera, A Game of Cards Backstage, Limited Edition Photograph
By Gérard Uféras
Located in Vienna, AT
Gérard Uféras’ “A Game of Cards Backstage, English National Opera” is a striking work of limited edition fine art photography that captures the surreal poetry and quiet humanity hidd...
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$11,000
H 24 in W 20 in
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Art in Area Party, Limited Edition Fine Art Print, 1985
By Roxanne Lowit
Located in Vienna, AT
Roxanne Lowit’s “Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Art in Area Party, 1985” is a remarkable work of limited edition fine art photography that captures the vibrant energy, spontaneity, and ...
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Knees & Toes
By Alli Wood
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist Signed and numbered. Edition 1/15
Silver Gelatin
$11,000
H 24 in W 20 in
Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle, LA, B&W, Fine Art Photography 2001
By Roxanne Lowit
Located in Vienna, AT
Roxanne Lowit’s “Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle in LA, 2001” is a captivating work of limited edition fine art photography that captures the intersection of celebrity, fashion,...
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Angus Young AC/DC 1976
By Michael Putland
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland Angus Young AC/DC Angus Young of AC/DC London, 1976 shoot was later used for album sleeve cover Angus Young is the electrifying lead guitarist of AC/DC, recogniz...
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$1,500
H 17.85 in W 15.85 in D 0.85 in
Fidel C. (Fidel Castro Cutting Canes)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fidel C. (Fidel Castro cutting cane) 1968 (printed later) is a gelatin silver print by noted Cuban artist Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, b.1939. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower margin. The photograph size is 11.75 x 10.25 inches, framed size is 17.85 x 15.85 inches. Custom framed in a black frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Ernesto Fernandez trained under the tutelage of several established photographers during the 1950s in Havana. He is one of the four great photographers of the Revolutionary period of Cuba. As a young man he witnessed both the excesses of Havana as a “playground” of the USA, and the poverty that produced the hotbed of revolutionary thought and action. He was in the Cuban capital as the revolution reached its climax, and his pictures document a time of great hope. They are celebrations of youth’s ability to bring about change and to reinvent a new world. Alongside Korda, Salas and Corrales, Fernandez documented the heady days of the Triumph of the Revolution and continued to photograph Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other leading lights of the new system, including some wonderfully intimate studies of Alicia Alonso...
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$1,743
H 23.63 in W 15.75 in
Un Fantôme à L'opéra, Gran Teatre del Liceu - Limited Edition Photography
By Gérard Uféras
Located in Vienna, AT
This poetic close-up by Gérard Uféras focuses on a performer’s lap filled with masks, lace, pleated fabric, and delicate theatrical accessories. The face is mostly absent, allowing h...
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John Hinton
By George Dureau
Located in London, GB
Silver print, signed and titled (recto), 35,5 x 28 cm (sheet size), (48cm x 42cm framed). George Valentine Dureau was an American artist whose long career was most notable for charcoal sketches and black and white photography of poor white and black athletes, dwarfs, and amputees. Robert Mapplethorpe is said to have been inspired by Dureau's amputee and dwarf photographs, which showed the figures as "exposed and vulnerable, playful and needy, complex and entirely human individuals." Some of his pieces are held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Several of his works are displayed publicly throughout New Orleans, most notably, the pediment sculpture for Harrah's New Orleans, and his cast-bronze sculptures stand sentinel at the entrance gates of New Orleans City Park...
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