Sales per Year

Tony Berlant

Tony Berlant (Born 1941) is active/lives in California.  Tony Berlant is known for Assemblage.

A California artist known for his collages and assemblages composed of colored metal pieces that have been nailed together to form a single image, Tony Berlant uses discarded metal and tin scraps from cookie tins to TV trays.

Berlant was born in New York City in 1941 but moved to California at a young age. He studied at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles for one year in 1959. He then attended the University of California Los Angeles from which he graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Art in 1964.

While Berlant studied art as an undergraduate, he became interested in collage and influenced by prolific artists at the time such as Robert Rauschenberg and Edward Kleinholz. He restricted himself to the medium of found metal, cutting and bending them, then hammering the bits to a plywood base. His early work reflects the influences of Jim Dine and Claes Oldenburg. His pieces have a unique textural element in that they are nailed together by steel brads, giv   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1896 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 197 auction lots for Tony Berlant (of which 155 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Tony Berlant as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Tony Berlant in 0 of its research Essays. Tony Berlant has 1 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Tony Berlant available:    Martin Mull,  Kehinde Wiley,  Robert Graham,  Guy Girard Dill,  William T Wiley,  Alexis Patricia Anne Smith,  Carlos Almaraz,  Italo Scanga,  Charles Arthur (Chuck) Arnoldi,  John Register,  Suzanne Caporael,  Lari Pittman,  Billy Al Bengston,  Jack Zajac,  Michael Lucero,  Terry Winters,  Wallace Berman,  Roy Dean De Forest,  David James Gilhooly III,  Ed (Edward) Moses,  George Herms,  Karl Stanley Benjamin,  Tom Holland,  Larry Stuart Bell