SALE INFORMATION
Stair is delighted to be offering for sale at auction an extensive collection of works by Antonio in a two-part online auction. Part I will take place on March 26th and will include approximately sixty lots of large-scale fashion illustrations for American Vogue and Saks Fifth Avenue, fabric designs and swatches, printed scarves and illustrations for lingerie designs.
Legendary fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, known to everyone simply as Antonio, was an iconic figure in New York and Paris during the 1960s, 70s and 80s where he worked as an illustrator for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and the New York Times. Born in Puerto Rico in 1943, Antonio moved with his family to Spanish Harlem in 1950. He showed early promise as an artist making drawings for his mother who was a seamstress and dressmaker, and later attended the Fashion Institute of Technology where his talent for fashion illustration was quickly recognized. It was at FIT that Antonio met Juan Ramos who would become his partner and collaborator. The pair moved to Paris in 1969 and then back to New York in 1975, all the while working together on commissions from all the major fashion magazines, as well as fashion designers and retailers. Antonio was part of the Warholian jet set in New York, hanging out with Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Pat Cleveland and Tina Chow and capturing their lifestyle in Instamatic prints as well as sketches. In part due to their Puerto Rican heritage, Antonio and Ramos had a broad view of what beauty and style were at that time, and their work helped to move our view of fashion towards diversity through their use of high-fashion mixed with street style. Antonio died much too early from AIDS-related complications in 1987, leaving a legacy of work whose subject is still topical today and is seeing a resurgence of interest in the form of museum and gallery exhibitions and the 2017 film Sex, Fashion & Disco.
Part II of Antonio Lopez: The Art of Fashion will include another approximately sixty lots of similar works and will be held at a future date.
We accept online and absentee bidding for this sale. All bidding must be arranged by 10am, Monday, March 26.
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For inquiries regarding the items in this sale please contact us at 518-751-1000 or internetrequests@stairgalleries.com.