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Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

American, 1946-2014
Born Albert Napoleon, artist Rene Ricard moved to New York in the 1960s at the age of 18. With that relocation, Albert died, and Rene was born. Instantly adopted into Andy Warhol’s glittering orbit, Ricard thrived in the city, with its heady concentration of art, culture, and debauchery. He acted in underground films, playing Warhol in the artist’s own Andy Warhol Story, and was lauded by the New York Times in 1981 as “splendid” for his turn in the independent film Underground USA. He was a renowned art writer who launched the careers of artist like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring with his poetic essays. In New York, Ricard found the center of his life. In his memoir “Rene Ricard” painter and close friend William Rand calls the artist “the Baudelaire of Avenue C…a brilliant, elusive and glamorous underground figure” adding that Rene’s stomping ground, the East Village, was a “…Halloween show all year round: squatters…hustlers, freaks…” Ricard could be found at any given time of day or night walking these streets, linking up with an endless stream of friends and acquaintances. The city’s underbelly was a bustling hub of culture: one could find artists, critics, gallerists and poets such as Nan Goldin, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Bill Stelling, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Allen Ginsburg mingling in the same gritty milieu. Like the rapidly-changing city, Rene's life was in flux: he moved between living situations and struggled intermittently with addiction, leaving a trail of makeshift canvases and alternately bleak, tender, and acerbic poetry. He had gained prominence and fame as an art critic and poet throughout the 1960s and 70s, but his nascent painting career took shape after gaining the attention of the Petersburg Press Gallery. They were to present his first exhibition in New York in 1990. The upcoming show proved to be a motivating force, harnessing Ricard's raw talent by providing him with studio assistants and a place to work at Petersburg’s studio on Lafayette Street. The show was to be entitled “Mal de Fin”. French for "Bad End", Mal de Fin may be a play on "fin de siècle": the end of an era and the beginning of another, and "mal du siècle": sickness of the century, a phrase attributed to the 18th/19th century French writer François-René de Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand’s notion of turn-of-the-century ennui no doubt resonated with the famously moody artist, and Ricard’s name change may have been inspired by Chateaubriand’s first name François-René. Mal de Fin’s body of work reflected not only his wild lifestyle, but the artist’s interest in spirituality, literature, and art itself.
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Artist: Rene Ricard
Jasper Johns over 34, 000, 000 sold, by Rene Ricard text art satire
Jasper Johns over 34, 000, 000 sold, by Rene Ricard text art satire

Jasper Johns over 34, 000, 000 sold, by Rene Ricard text art satire

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Located in New York, NY

In the center of a royal blue field of color, Ricard has scrawled “Jasper Johns over 34,000,000 sold”.  Ricard’s work brims with cultural references: with this statement he positions...

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1990s Abstract Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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Monoprint, Monotype

Gigi: red black abstract print with poetry based on 1950s vintage movie poster
Gigi: red black abstract print with poetry based on 1950s vintage movie poster

Gigi: red black abstract print with poetry based on 1950s vintage movie poster

By Rene Ricard

Located in New York, NY

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. This red and black lithograp...

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1980s Contemporary Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

David Shapiro: Rene Ricard vintage poetry tombstone print "carved in stone"
David Shapiro: Rene Ricard vintage poetry tombstone print "carved in stone"

David Shapiro: Rene Ricard vintage poetry tombstone print "carved in stone"

By Rene Ricard

Located in New York, NY

The title of this poetic, abstract work is written across the top of the sheet. The hand-written cursive below reads: "David Shapiro / Told me he was going to / Carve his poems in stone / "That's one way to make them lost" / I don't have to / Rene Ricard". A poet, art historian and art critic, David Shapiro was friends with Ricard, and a part of the 1980's art scene in New York. Shapiro became famous briefly during the 1968 anti-Vietnam student uprising at Columbia University, when a photograph of him smoking a cigar behind the desk of the Columbia University president was published in Life magazine, and he became the face of the student protest...

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1980s Contemporary Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

I Dreamed by Rene Ricard: abstract yellow and black brushwork with poetry
I Dreamed by Rene Ricard: abstract yellow and black brushwork with poetry

I Dreamed by Rene Ricard: abstract yellow and black brushwork with poetry

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Located in New York, NY

Abstract yellow and black Rene Ricard print with hand painted poetry on handmade paper. Printed in black ink at the top of the sheet and framed with a thin line, the artist's loose h...

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1980s Contemporary Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Unhappily Dead: Rene Ricard poetry of 1980s Chelsea New York life rainbow
The Unhappily Dead: Rene Ricard poetry of 1980s Chelsea New York life rainbow

The Unhappily Dead: Rene Ricard poetry of 1980s Chelsea New York life rainbow

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Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval: Ricard drawing vintage typewriter love poetry
Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval: Ricard drawing vintage typewriter love poetry

Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval: Ricard drawing vintage typewriter love poetry

By Rene Ricard

Located in New York, NY

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. Here, Ricard traverses visual art, text, and the pleasure of sculptural trompe-l’œil with this printed drawing of melancholy hand-written and typed love poetry, composed with natural earthen shades of antique white and brown. Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval...

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1980s Contemporary Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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Michele Maria: bright yellow red Maria Callas opera artist portrait with poetry
Michele Maria: bright yellow red Maria Callas opera artist portrait with poetry

Michele Maria: bright yellow red Maria Callas opera artist portrait with poetry

By Rene Ricard

Located in New York, NY

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this bright yellow, red, ...

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Dangerous Liaisons: Yellow, red, Tiffany blue abstract print with poetry
Dangerous Liaisons: Yellow, red, Tiffany blue abstract print with poetry

Dangerous Liaisons: Yellow, red, Tiffany blue abstract print with poetry

By Rene Ricard

Located in New York, NY

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this abstract painted composition, Ricard combines expressive poetry with vibrant color. A bright yellow forms the background for two rounded rectangles printed...

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Taxis, Rene Ricard lithograph of New York City life in grey blue with poetry
Taxis, Rene Ricard lithograph of New York City life in grey blue with poetry

Taxis, Rene Ricard lithograph of New York City life in grey blue with poetry

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Located in New York, NY

Lithograph on butcher paper. Signed lower middle of plate in blue pen. One of 21 signed, unnumbered lithographs, this impression is in gray/blue ink. In the center of a grey-blue fie...

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1990s Abstract Rene Ricard Prints and Multiples

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