Alan Cristea Gallery at the Armory Show | PIER 92, BOOTH 218 | 7

Alan Cristea Gallery will be exhibiting from 7-10 March at The Armory Show, New York, exhibiting new work by leading contemporary artists as well as classic 20th Century pieces.

PIER 92, BOOTH 218

JOSEF ALBERS

Midnight and Noon, 1964

We are delighted to be showing this rare and important early portfolio of eight lithographs. The suite represents the first collaboration between Albers and the master printer Kenneth Tyler – a relationship which would endure for the rest of the artist’s life.

GILLIAN AYRES

Untitled, c. 1957

Untitled is one of the small group of paintings which first brought Ayres to public attention and which established her as one of the most dynamic and important British abstract artists of her generation.

Works from this group were exhibited in numerous museum touring exhibitions at the time and lead to her winning her first major public art commission at South Hampstead School for Girls in London.

Very few of these works exist, most in private or public collections, and at the end of last year a selection of these paintings were exhibited together at the Jerwood Gallery as part of the first comprehensive survey exhibition of her early work.

MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN

Corkscrew, 2012

Made by hand-applying crepe tape to drafting film, this new drawing by Michael Craig-Martin reflects the pared down compositions of his latest paintings, fifteen of which are shortly to be exhibited at the Museum Haus Esters, part of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany.

EDMUND DE WAAL

night, and all its lights, 2012

This new and previously unexhibited installation by Edmund de Waal takes its title from a line of poetry by Nobel prize winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and comprises 24 thrown porcelain vessels in black glazes on an open black aluminium shelf.

DIETER ROTH

Six Piccadillies, 1969-70

To coincide with the opening of the exhibition Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth, at the Museum of Modern Art, we will be displaying his Six Piccadillies. Based on images taken from tourist postcards of Piccadilly Circus in London, Six Piccadillies is one of the most seminal print portfolios from the Pop era.

HOWARD HODGKIN

In India, 2012

One from a series hand-painted sugar lift aquatints with carborundum which were published last summer in celebration of the artist's 80th birthday.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Nude, 1987-9

From Lichtenstein's Brushstroke Figures, series, this complex print combines lithography, woodcut, screenprint and wax encaustic printing.

Lichtenstein's work is currently the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern, London.

PABLO PICASSO

Nature morte sous la lampe, 1962

One of Picasso's few multi-coloured linocuts, and one of two famous studies for the still life illuminated by a hanging lamp, this piece was printed from 2 blocks in 7 colours from 8 separate printings.

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