James Rizzi:
Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)
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Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)
James Rizzi:
Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)

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limited, 350 copies | numbered | signed | dated | titled | 3D screenprint | framed | size 59 x 84 cm

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Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)
James Rizzi: Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)

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Picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers" (1996)

Flowers do not only bring joy on Valentine's Day. James Rizzi presents a particularly colourful bouquet in his humorous 3D picture "Buy your Gal some Flowers". With his pictures, Rizzi tells stories about people, especially about people in New York, his home city.

James Rizzi, who grew up in Brooklyn, has been influenced by the lively and noisy city like no other Pop artist. Using the 3D technique he developed, he produced pictures that tell of the concrete everyday life of New York and, at the same time, are universally understood.

His art tries to bring a smile to the viewer's face, as the artist himself explained. Rizzi always saw himself as a lucky person favoured by fate, and it was precisely this luck that he sought to pass on with his art - just as lovers share their love with a bouquet of flowers.

3D screenprint, 1996. 350 copies, numbered, signed, dated and titled. Motif size: 41.5 x 66 cm. Sheet size: 55 x 80 cm. Size in frame 59 x 84 cm as shown.

Portrait of the artist James Rizzi

About James Rizzi

1950-2011 - Painter and graphic artist, New York pop artist

His friends called him Jimmy, and he looked like that nice boy next door. Despite university studies and academic training in painting, etching, lithography and sculpture, James Rizzi miraculously managed to keep the positive traits of children alive within himself: Childlike curiosity, naive joie de vivre, fun with the colourful and the games of the kids with whom he painted dreary house walls. This and many other traits made his works so likeable and popular. Jimmy was a real child of the melting pot of New York before he became famous with his 3D prints.

The painter, graphic artist and sculptor James Rizzi was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also spent his entire childhood. Rizzi initially attended business school at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Gradually, however, changed his major to art and finally graduated in 1974 with a degree in painting, graphic arts and sculpture.

In the first years after his college, Rizzi sold his prints and paintings on the streets outside the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum. In 1977, James Rizzi was asked to present some of his works in the collective exhibition "Thirty Years of American Printmaking" at the Brooklyn Museum, in which Andy Warhol, Jim Dine and Roy Lichtenstein also participated. Since then, he has participated in countless solo and group exhibitions and celebrated successes all over the world.

In addition to consumer merchandise such as T-shirts, hats and ties, James Rizzi has also realised numerous projects. Volkswagen, for example, was able to get ahold the artist for the new release of the "Beetle", as well as the publishing house Brockhaus for its current encyclopaedia. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the airline Condor, Rizzi designed the outer surface of a Boeing 757 in an exotic pattern ("Rizzi-Bird") that put travellers in the right mood for their holidays. Music posters, CD covers and even the Atlanta Olympics benefited from his cheerful images. The first and only "Happy RIZZI House" was built in Braunschweig as part of the EXPO 2000.

Rizzi's colourful 3D graphics from the world of sport are rare and coveted collector's items with upside potential. For example, the painting "New York Marathon for all" was published in 1997 for a price of US$ 4,500 and was traded at over US$ 15,000 after only 5 years - other paintings achieved even higher increases in value!

He was one of those artists whose ambition was only to create a world of their own with their art. On the occasion of his 60th birthday in October 2010, Rizzi's world's largest exhibition in Bremen (until 4 July 2011) showed just how successful he was.

James Rizzi, who for many years had been regarded as the legitimate successor to the New York Pop Art legends Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, lived and worked in New York's Soho district until his sudden death in December 2011.

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