Incollect Magazine - Issue 3

Issue 3 108 www.incollect.com T he only reason you are not seeing Pop Art prints on my gallery walls or on my website is because whenever I am lucky to get them, they immediately sell,” Evan Lobel tells me. Lobel is both a dealer of important 20th-century furniture and an art collector, especially of Pop artworks which he has been collecting since the 1990s. “I grew up on Long Island and would come to New York in the late 70s and the early 1980s and search out the galleries that showed Pop art. To me it was brilliant. Then I would figure out how I could someday buy the work.” Today he has an extensive collection of original Pop art paintings and of prints, including a monumental 17 foot oxidation or “Piss” painting by Andry Warhol which he keeps in his home in Florida. He had to extend a wall in his home simply to accommodate the scale of the work. Pop art was the most popular art movement of the 20th century and remains, today, popular with collectors and the general public around the world. Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rosenquist, Tom Wessleman and Jasper Johns are household names, famous for accessible, colorful artworks based on imagery derived from popular culture and advertising, as much as for the prices paid at auction. Lobel began collecting Pop prints in depth in the 1990s and at that time, he says, he managed to “buy a lot of great things at very reasonable prices.” Over the years he has owned important prints by Andy Warhol like the Queen of England and of James Dean, among others, as well as rarer, more valuable one-off prints, and trial proofs. He also bought a complete set of the prints after the urban painter and graffiti artist Jean Michel Basquiat and original works by the graffiti artist Keith Haring. Art Prints by Benjamin Genocchio “