1970s Pop-Art Greek Wrestlers Silk Screen Print

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Vintage 1970s pop art silk screen print based on a drawing of the famous Hellenistic marble sculpture, "The Wrestlers" or … Read more Vintage 1970s pop art silk screen print based on a drawing of the famous Hellenistic marble sculpture, "The Wrestlers" or the Uffizi Wrestlers. This original print portrays two nude male athletes engaged in the ancient Greek combat sport of pankration, a form of mixed martial arts that combined boxing and wrestling and was a popular event in the ancient Olympic Games. The sculpture, currently housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, was discovered in Rome in 1583. This print would be well hung in a very stylish gay man's home.

Print is unmarked but attributed to Tiber Press NYC. Tiber Press was founded in 1953 by Floriano Vecchi, Richard Miller and Daisy Aldan to promote collaboration between poets and artists of the New York School, it was active through the 1970s. They were known for their vivid extreme colors, their prints POP. Vecchi taught Andy Warhol how to silkscreen at the Tiber Press. Floriano had Warhol redraw the dollar bill on Mylar, then showed him how to silkscreen it.

Print is unframed.

MEASUREMENTS
26 1/4”W x 20 1/8"H

CONDITION
In good vintage condition with some light, normal signs of age and wear. Some wear to the edges and corners and some green paint marks on the margins that occurred at the time of printing and the occasional other small mark, pictured. See less