Richard Hamilton

Original Signed Artworks & Limited Edition Prints For Sale

As a painter and collage artist, Richard Hamilton is highly recognised as the founder of Pop Art – a lollipop from one of his earliest collages gave the style its name, and his work outlined many of the ideals and aims that now define the movement.

« The artist in twentieth - century urban life is inevitably a consumer of mass culture and potentially a contributor to it. »
Richard Hamilton

Poster

Limited Edition Print - Mixed Media

EUR 5,000

Hamilton’s most notable works include his early piece - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? - the piece depicts a muscly man posing provocatively with a Tootsie Pop, alongside a bare-breasted woman wearing a lampshade for a hat;

« It's not so easy to create a memorable image. Art is made through the sensibilities of an artist, and the kind of ambitions and intelligence, curiosity and inner direction that role requires. »
Richard Hamilton

both of these figures are surrounded by 1950’s emblems of affluence such as canned ham and a vacuum cleaner. Throughout his career, Hamilton experimented with numerous materials including acrylic glass, plasticisers and plywood – extreme care was taken to preserve the plastics used in his work after previous complications had led to certain works being damaged.

United Kingdom / male artist / Comic Strip art / Late modernism / Readymade / Pop art / Appropriation / Lettrism

ARTWORKS BY Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton

Kent State, 1970

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

EUR 3,450

Richard Hamilton

Poster, 1973-74

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

EUR 5,000

Richard Hamilton

I'm Dreaming Of A Black Christmas, 1971

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Screen-print

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Richard Hamilton

Swingeing London , 1968

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What is Lettrism?

Lettrism is an art form which uses letters, words and symbols to create an artwork. The art form was popularized in the 1950s in America, but was established in 1940s Paris. Lettrisme is the French spelling of the movement, and the French word for letter.

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