WILLIAM WEGMAN (b. 1943)

'La Fille du Régiment', 2007

SIGNED Vintage Oversized Limited Edition Artist's Photography Poster

Commissioned for the Metropolitan Opera's 2007-2008 season, renowned artist William Wegman created a series of works inspired by the season's new productions, including this image for La Fille du Régiment. HAND-SIGNED, numbered '24/100' and dated '2007' offset lithograph poster. Dimensions: 42" x 29" (107 x 74 cm). Edition size: 100. © William Wegman. Very Good / Excellent Condition (some crimping to one extreme edge - could be trimmed or matted over; never framed or displayed).

William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1965 with a BFA in painting, then enrolled in the Masters painting and printmaking program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, receiving an MFA in 1967. After teaching at various universities, Wegman's interests in areas beyond painting ultimately led him to photography and the infant medium of video. While living in Long Beach, California, Wegman acquired Man Ray, the dog with whom he began a fruitful twelve-year collaboration. Man Ray became a central figure in Wegman's photography and videos, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence. In 1972, Wegman and Man Ray moved to New York. In 1986, a new dog, Fay Ray, came into Wegman's life, and soon thereafter another famous collaboration began, marked by Wegman's use of the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. With the birth of Fay's litter in 1989 and her daughter's litter in 1995, Wegman's cast grew. His photographs, videos, paintings, and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.

A retrospective of Wegman's work traveled to museums throughout Europe and the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His most recent exhibitions have gone to Japan, Sweden, and the Orange County Museum of Art in California. Wegman lives in New York and Maine.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024 
'William Wegman: 20 x 24 in 2024', Galeria Alta, Anyós, Andorra (2/17 - 6/22)
'William Wegman: Learn to Dance with Modern Electronic Equipment, Early Conceptual Photography, 1971-74' and 'William Wegman: Do You Want…? Video Works, 1970-76', Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL (1/26 - 3/9)

2023 
'A Walk on the Wild Side: ’70s New York in the Norman E. Fisher Collection' (group exhibition), MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (12/2/2023 - 7/14/2024)
'William Wegman: Around Bermuda', Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, Bermuda
'William Wegman: Drawing by Artist', Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
'William Wegman: A Number of Problems', Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2022 
'William Wegman: Agility coneptuelle', Gallerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris France
'William Wegman: Painting by Artist', Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
'William Wegman: Art by Artist', Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
'William Wegman: Writing by Artist', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

2020 
'William Wegman: Being Human', Fotomuseum den Haag / Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
'Animals in Art' (group exhibition), Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 
'William Wegman: Being Human', Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
'William Wegman: Outside In', Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
'William Wegman: Being Human', Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand

2018 
'William Wegman: Being Human', National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
'William Wegman: Stationary Figures' (commissioned by MTA Arts and Design), 23rd and 6th Ave., New York, NY
'William Wegman: Polaroids', Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
'William Wegman: Instant Miami', Williams Center Gallery and Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
'William Wegman: Being Human', Les Recontres de la Photographie, Palais de L’Archevêché, Arles, France
'William Wegman: Cinderella', Gallery Met, New York, NY
'Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism', The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

2017 
'William Wegman: Dressed and Undressed', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
'William Wegman: Reel to Real', Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), Rockland, ME
'William Wegman: Improved Photographs', Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
'William Wegman: Please Stand By: Drawings for a Better Tomorrow and a Worse Yesterday', Lafayette College Art Galleries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2016 
'William Wegman', Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
'William Wegman: Drawings', Magenta Plains, New York, NY
'William Wegman: Postcard Paintings', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

2015  
'Artists Including Me: William Wegman', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
'William Wegman: Cubism and Other-Isms', Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
'Artists Including Me: William Wegman', Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

2014 
'William Wegman: Cubism and Other -Isms', Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
'Way Up in Maine: The Works of William Wegman', Emery Flex Gallery, Farmington, ME

2013 
'William Wegman: Hello Nature', Artipelag, Värmdö Island, Sweden

2012 
'William Wegman', Galerie ALFA, Paris, France
'William Wegman: Hello Nature', Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME 
'William Wegman: Drawings for a Better Tomorrow and a Worse Yesterday', Salon 94, New York, NY 
'William Wegman: Artists Including Me', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

2011 
'The Big Reveal' (group exhibition), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
'William Wegman: New Photos', Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010 
'William Wegman and Fay: Polaroids 1987 - 1995', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY 
'William Wegman: Inside | Outside', Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
'American Photographs' (group exhibition), Galerie Johannes Faber, Wien, Austria

2009
'William Wegman', Watergate Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Cocker Spaniel and Other Tools for International Understanding' (group exhibition), Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany 
'William Wegman', Fortune Cookie Projects, Singapore 
'William Wegman: Fay', Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 
'William Wegman: Fay', Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH 
'William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks - in the Woods - at the Seaside', Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany 
'William Wegman: New Work', Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
'It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from The Polaroid Collection', Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL

2008
'William Wegman: Paintings and Drawings', Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), Rockport, ME 
'It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from The Polaroid Collection', Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA 
'William Wegman: Photographs', Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, ME
'William Wegman: Fay', Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
'William Wegman', Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 
'William Wegman', Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

2007
'William Wegman: Funney/Strange', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
'William Wegman: Around the Park', Madison Square Park, New York, NY
'William Wegman: Outdoors Photographs 1981 - 2007', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
'William Wegman: Funney/Strange', Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
'William Wegman', Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'William Wegman: and no Dogs', Galerie Bugdhan und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
'William Wegman: Funney/Strange', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
'William Wegman: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection', Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
'William Wegman', Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
'William Wegman: Black & White Photographs', Galerie Wouter Van Leeuwn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'William Wegman', Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
'William Wegman: Funney/Strange', Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
'William Wegman: Postcard Paintings', Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
'William Wegman: Funney/Strange', The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
'William Wegman: New & Improved (1975 - 2006)', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
'It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from The Polaroid Collection', Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
'William Wegman: Recent Photographs and Early Video Works', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY

2005
'William Wegman: New Paintings', Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
'William Wegman: Polaroids & C-Prints', Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Münich, Germany
'William Wegman, Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Videos', Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
'William Wegman: ', Image/Imatge, Orthez, France
'William Wegman: Nursery Rhymes', Galería Clave, Murcia, Spain

2004
'William Wegman', Parco Museum of art and beyond, Tokyo, Japan
'William Wegman: New Works', Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
'It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection', Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
'William Wegman: déprises et reprises : annotations, corrections et déplacements: 1968-2004', Domaine de Kerguéhennec, centre d'art contemporain, centre culturel de rencontre, Bignan, France
'William Wegman', Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
'William Wegman: Recent Polaroids', Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
'William Wegman', Multiple Box Sydney / Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2003
'William Wegman', Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
'William Wegman', Centro José Guerrero - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Granada, Spain
'William Wegman', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
'William Wegman', Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, Finland

2002
'William Wegman', Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

 

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