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Berkeley Chrysler, 1979

Color lithograph
23 x 28 in. (paper)
12 x 16 in. (image)
FMV: $4,000.00

Robert Bechtle (1932-2020) was an American painter associated with the Photorealist movement. Born in San Francisco and based in the Bay Area for most of his life, he became known for his meticulously rendered paintings of everyday suburban scenes-especially cars, houses, and quiet streets.

Working from photographs, Bechtle translated ordinary moments into highly detailed, subtly composed images that blur the line between photography and painting. His work is noted for its calm, observational quality and its focus on mid-20th-century American life. He taught for many years at San Francisco Art Institute and remains a key figure in West Coast Photorealism.

Printed by Don Farnsworth at Magnolia Press
Courtesy of Bechtle Chadwick Trust
Frame Courtesy of City Picture Frame

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Polaroid Land Camera, 2006

Color aquatint
20.5 x 21.75
FMV: $3,500.00

This work is part of a series entitled The History of Photography Remix. The series as a whole presents a personal, aesthetic, and critical interpretation of the medium and its history. Inspired by a class on photography at Stanford University, Ezawa decided to create his own unofficial historical survey in the old-fashioned format of the art-historical slide show. He chose forty photographs from various sources and, through a process combining hand-tracing and computer manipulation, translated them into minimal yet evocative versions of the originals.

Courtesy of Kota Ezawa and Paulson Fontaine Press

Frame Courtesy of Eric Rose Art Services

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Simona Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, 2016

Woodcut, drypoint, hand painting
15 x 11 in. (paper)
FMV: $800.00

Ellen Heck has received degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brown University. She works as a printmaker in North Carolina and is represented by galleries in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Over the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored specific questions about identity-its creation, variability, persistence and change-by combining subject matter and thematically resonant printmaking techniques.

Frame courtesy of Small Works

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Backyard no. 515, 2026

Watercolor on paper

22.5 x 22.5 in.

FMV: $3,075.00

"By magnifying that which is small and temporary in nature - flowers and moths from my garden become poignant reminders of the transience of life. Throughout history flowers have represented fertility and birth while moths have been associated with death and decay. So I combine flowers and moths to suggest the interconnectedness and fragility of life where birth, aging and death are intertwined and nothing remains constant."

Ellen Little is a San Francisco-based artist known for her large-scale watercolor paintings that explore the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Originally from Los Angeles, she studied at Art Center College of Design before working in advertising and teaching in New York, then founding a graphic design firm after relocating to San Francisco. Since 2009, she has focused on painting, developing a distinctive practice that magnifies flowers and moths to reflect on themes of transience, fragility, and the interconnected cycles of life. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected by both private and public institutions, and she is also the founder of Dogpatch Collective, a vibrant community of artist studios in San Francisco.

Frame courtesy of Eric Rose Art Services