Kenny Scharf – SCHNOZEZ (2022)
Kenny Scharf – SCHNOZEZ (2022)
Kenny Scharf – SCHNOZEZ (2022)
Artist: Kenny Scharf
Title: SCHNOZEZ
Year: 2022
Medium: Archival pigment print on 290gsm Cotton Entrada Rag paper
Dimensions: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in)
Edition: 300 — unnumbered; signed and dated
Signature: Signed and dated lower right
Cut: Straight edge
Type: Limited edition archival print
Description
SCHNOZEZ (2022) is a large-format archival print by Kenny Scharf — the New York-born artist whose exuberant, psychedelic visual universe emerged from the downtown Manhattan scene of the early 1980s alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and whose work has sustained its chromatic energy and its pop-surrealist vocabulary across four decades of continuous production. The image is a close-up, wall-to-wall composition of bulging oval forms — part eye, part nose, part planet, part cartoon organ — rendered in Scharf’s signature palette of hot pink, orange, purple, and violet, the forms layered and interlocked in a dense, pulsating field that fills the picture plane without pause or relief. White starburst flares punctuate the composition, and looping pink coil-lines swirl across the background in the kind of gestural frenzy that recalls both his spray-painted cosmic murals and the visual language of the Saturday morning cartoons he has always openly adored.
The title is pure Scharf: “SCHNOZEZ” — a pluralised, phonetically spelled version of “shnoz,” the slang term for a large nose — transforms an anatomical comedy into the subject of a print of genuine formal intensity. The forms, stripped of their referential context, become purely abstract; restored to their comic origin, they become funny, warm, and deliberately ridiculous. Scharf has always understood that the ridiculous and the sublime are not mutually exclusive — that a painting can be joyful and serious simultaneously, that Pop Art’s debt to consumer culture and cartoon imagery is not a limitation but a resource.
Printed on 290gsm Cotton Entrada Rag — a heavyweight, acid-free cotton rag paper widely used for museum-quality archival printing, prized for its warm white surface and long-term colour stability — with a straight edge cut, signed and dated by the artist. Edition of 300, unnumbered.
Condition
Very good condition overall.
Minor pigment loss at the bottom right corner.
Not examined outside of frame (condition of artwork only).
Full condition report available upon request.
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FAQ :
Is this an original Kenny Scharf print?
Yes — an original archival pigment print on Cotton Entrada Rag 290gsm, signed and dated by the artist from an edition of 300.
What is the edition size?
300 impressions — unnumbered but signed and dated.
What is Cotton Entrada Rag paper?
A heavyweight acid-free cotton rag paper widely used for museum-quality archival printing — prized for its warm white surface, smooth finish, and exceptional long-term colour stability.
Who is Kenny Scharf?
Kenny Scharf (b. 1958, Los Angeles) is an American artist who emerged from the New York downtown scene of the early 1980s alongside Basquiat and Haring. Known for his psychedelic, cartoon-inflected paintings, murals, and installations, he has exhibited internationally for four decades and is represented by leading galleries in New York and Los Angeles.
Is the work framed?
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Do you ship internationally?
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