20th Century Figurative Prints

Color mezzotint on fibrous, buff wove paper, 19 x19 inches (482 x 484 mm), full margins. Titled in pencil, lower left, and with the artist's stamp in black ink in the lower right mar...

This artwork titled "Olympic Robe" From "Game of the XXIVth Olympic, Seoul" is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown artist Jim Dine, b.1935. It is hand signed and nu...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Femme Dessinant, Femme Assoupi". The original painting was completed in 1935. In the 1970's ...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Femme Assise a la Robe Grise". The original painting was completed in 1943. In the 1970's af...

Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the Picasso Lithograph...

Medium: original woodcut. The inscription on the banner translates to "Come Sweet Death". Signed in pencil by Richard Seewald and printed in Germany in 1922 for the very rare "Die zw...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Etudes de Mains et Colombe". The original drawing was completed in 1952. In the 1970's after...

Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. FATHER & SON is a beautifully simple composition depicting a refreshing Lowcountry South Carolina landscape...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mour...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Formeuse a l'Oreiller (Marie-Therese Walter)". The original painting was completed in 1932. ...

Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 3, 1952....

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, Monumental Works XXe Siècle, 1...

Original Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151, published by Derrière le miroir, Paris; print...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mour...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.38 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 162, published by Derrière le miroir, Par...

Edition of 100. Color aquatint and etching, 21 x 14 7/8 inches (531 x 376 mm), wide margins (full). Signed in pencil, lower left image area. Light toning, otherwise in very good cond...

Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 145. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (170 x 218 mm). Sheet ...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...

Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...

Lithograph on Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: Published by Atelier Mourlot, Paris, 1964. PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor is one of the most recognized figures of twentieth century art. During his artistic career, which lasted more than 75 years, he created thousands of works using all kinds of mediums. He changed art more profoundly than any other artist of his time. First famous for pioneering cubism, Picasso continued to develop his art with a pace...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, The Ceramics and Sculptures of Chagall, 1972. Published by Éditions...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Sunday Morning. Title: Sunday Morning Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Printer: Sam J. Brown (1901-1994). Date: ca. 1939. Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm) plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) This is the most heavily inked, atmospheric example known to exist. Unique, unsigned example from the collection of artist Samuel J. Brown. Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life. He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A. at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Early life Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.[2] He was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend school.[3] In 1914 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. In September 1917, at the age of twenty-four, Thrash enlisted in the army.[3] He was placed in the 365th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Brigade, 92nd Division, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.[1] During combat, Thrash suffered shell shock and a gas attack, but was not permanently injured. Career as an artist Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann. After having served in the war, Thrash qualified as a war veteran and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of federal funding.[3] After finishing his education, he traveled intermittently from Georgia to Chicago, Boston, New York, and finally Philadelphia, working odd jobs - experiences that provided him with subject matter to later paint. Settling in Philadelphia by 1925, he took a job working as a janitor. In his free time, he continued his art career and used his talent to create emblems, such as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and festivals, including the 2nd Annual National Negro Music Festival and the Tra Club of Philadelphia.[1] This gained him local recognition and opened doors for new artistic endeavors. By 1929, Thrash was attending nightly classes within these clubs, namely with Earl Horter of the Graphic Sketch Club, now known as the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[3] In 1937 Thrash joined the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.[5] At the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, Thrash, along with Michael J. Gallagher and Hugh Mesibov, began experimenting and co-inventing the process of carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking technique.[1] Carborundum printmaking uses a carbon-based abrasive to burnish copper plates creating an image that can produce a print in tones ranging from pale gray to deep black. The method is similar to the more difficult and complicated mezzotint process developed in the 17th century. He used this as his primary medium for much of his career and created his greatest works with it. One of his first pieces employing this nascent technique was his anonymous self-portrait entitled Mr. X. With this new technique, the three gained increasing recognition as they published more and more graphics within newspapers and featured more and more pieces within exhibitions. Their works often featured subtle commentaries about social and economic exploitation regarding the contemporary politics of the Great Depression and the Second World War. By 1940, Thrash, Gallagher, and Mesibov all began to gain attention in local circles for their carborundum prints, although the role that each artist played in the development of the process was left unclear.[6] In 1960, Thrash participated in a show at the Pyramid Club, a social organization of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He was posthumously honored almost 40 years later in 2001 with a major retrospective, titled Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7] Thrash's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] Relation to Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an intellectual, professor and author who espoused that African Americans, specifically artists, to capture the personality, lives, and essence of their people in The New Negro. He explained “The Negro physiognomy must be freshly and objectively conceived on its own patterns if it is ever to be seriously and importantly interpreted. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”[9] What Locke is expressing here is not only the call for black artists to overcome racial prejudices via positive artistic representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of fellow blacks, and had the power to propagate this idea of the New Negro, as Locke explains, “There is the possibility that the sensitive artistic mind of the American Negro, stimulated by a cultural pride and interest, will receive…a profound and galvanizing influence.”[10] In his shadowy carborundum mezzotint Cabin Days, Thrash depicts a southern black family on the porch of their shack-like home in a rural landscape. The man, woman, and child, clutched tenderly to the female figure's breast, create an intimate scene highlighted by the bright cleanliness of the laundry hanging behind them. Placed in front of the drying laundry, they are framed by one aspect of the hard work accomplished during the day. Close to one another, staring collectively outward at the Southern landscape, they, and their laudable priorities of cleanliness and family, are made the bright focal point in the poor, unstable atmosphere. Such inner warmth is seemingly incompatible with the family's crooked and disheveled surroundings, and their fuzzy appearance with a lack of facial detail makes the scene into a general archetype for rural southern blacks living conditions and qualities. Thrash was referencing an experience common to thousands of black families in rural occupations at the turn of the 20th century, often forced into slavery-like tenant farming as their only means of livelihood in the racist South. The “uneven clapboards, leaning porch, broken shutter, and uprooted fence” are rife with instability, much like the post-slavery economic and social systems of the South, making it clear that for African Americans, “the house is not the home; rather, the figures on the porch represent family unity and continuity”.[10] In this way, Thrash is able to not only champion the positive qualities of blacks in the family setting but underscore this with a symbolic look at their disadvantaged situation, making it all the more impressive that they persevere. Thrash symbolically depicted harsh realities for the African American at this transitional point in history while conferring a sensitive rendering of their humanity, akin to any other race, despite its utter denial by American society. Through softer tempera washes like A New Day, he literally and figuratively paints a picture of a black family transitioning from the South to the North during the Great Migration, making a hopeful, daring leap to attempt to be equal members of the society that has historically oppressed them. On the left side of the canvas lie muddled farm houses and plow handles, embodiments of their rural life of tedious hard labor behind them, fading to gray. Their hopeful gazes “…convey the optimism of the scores of African Americans who left the countryside to pursue better job opportunities, health care, and education in urban centers”.[6] The stance of the figures, with their chins raised in a dignified gesture towards cityscape ahead suggest a confidence and ambitiousness in their collective futures in this new northern industrial terrain. Even the child, clutched securely in the arm of the mother figure against her breast is not only serenely grinning, but calm enough to appear to gently doze, confident in that the journey ahead will result positively, poses no threat. The exposed arm of the woman is notable as well, being unusually thick and muscular, along with the general proportions of the kneeling father, who position on the ground appears not pleading but rather in a slightly exhausted, but upright gratefulness for the promise ahead. Thrash makes it clear that this family has traveled a long way, but is not depleted; rather they are strong and preparing for further hard work and hopeful success ahead. They are the quintessence of the New Negro, in that they are not only journeying forward to seize previously unobtainable opportunities that will enhance their lives, but the manner with which they hold themselves provokes a certain level of warranted respect for their humanity, from the viewer. In fact it was the strength of his fellow African Americans that Thrash often emphasized, amongst other positive characteristics in the face of adversity in personal portraits. Through his carborundum print Life, he depicts a neatly dressed black girl reading...

B/w etching on Hollande Van Gelder Paper, with margins. Hand Signed and numered in bistre ink. Edition of 99 pieces aside from the portfolio edition of 340. Published by Ambrose Vo...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

"Goethe" is a silkscreen in colors made by Andy Warhol in 1982. The work is signed and editioned in graphite, lower left, "70/100 Andy Warhol". The artwork size is 38 x 38 inches. Th...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.38 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Original etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"publised by Skira in 1930. Catalogue Bloch Vol. I n. 108. Includes passepartout: cm. 49x34.

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.38 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

A lithograph reproduction from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Nu se tordant les cheveux". The original painting was completed in 1952. In the...

Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...

This lithograph by Fernand Leger is from the portfolio entitled "La Ville" (The City) which consists of 29 lithographs featuring scenes of people, life and emotions of Paris. The art...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithograph 1957-1962, 1963; publis...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, The Lithographs of Chagall 1962-1968, 1969...

Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Plate 12: Seule, au pied du grand caroubier (Only, At the Foot of the Great Carob Tree) Portfolio: Pasiphae Medium: Linocut on Arches vellum Date: 1944 E...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) 'Reitre raptando a una mujer por encargo de un caballero', 1968 aquatint, etching on paper 9.9 x 13 in. (25.1 x 32.8 cm.) Unframed ID: PIC2001-006 Hand-signed by author The work is documented in the catalog raisonné Picasso Suite 347...

Not Signed. Not Numbered. Edition of 225 pieces. Etching - aquatint. Belongs to the Suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Catalogue Bloch n.339. Passepartout included.

Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume N° 151, published by Derrière le miro...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.38 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

An extremely scarce impression from the artist's own collection. Etching on watermarked antique laid J Whatman Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signe...

Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...

Original Limited Edition Collotype on Arches paper. Paper Size: 16.5 x 10.38 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1500, plus proofs. Excellent condit...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Édi...

Toter Sappenposten (Dead Sentry in the Trench) is an Etching and dryopint realized by Otto Dix in 1924. It belongs to the Suite "Der Krieg". Hand Signed in the lower left. Titled ...

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, The Lithographs of Chagall 1922-1957, 1960...

Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....

Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°26, May 1966. Published a...

Pablo Picasso's rendering of a harlequin playing the guitar may be a common theme throughout his prints, but this work is unique for his careful linework and delicate shading along t...

Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...

Artist: (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988) Title: "FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain (Sans titre)" Year: 1993 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: likely Multigraphic Lauber & Romagnoli, Renens, Switzerland Publisher: FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland Reference: "Jean-Michel Basquiat" - FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, page 39 (illustrated) Sheet size: 50.13" x 35.63" Condition: Scattered mild handling creases to sheet. In otherwise excellent condition with full margins and clean edges We cannot find a single other example of this poster to have appeared on the secondary market or at auction ever before. Extremely rare Provenance: private collection - Hamburg, Germany. Poster produced for a special posthumous solo exhibition of Basquiat's work "Jean-Michel Basquiat" at FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland from July 10 to November 7, 1993. The image featured on this poster is Basquiat's 1982, 72" x 84.25", acrylic and oil stick on canvas painting which is untitled. Poster designed by Pierre Neumann (Swiss, 1951-). GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980's as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism. His visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, "Untitled", a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings...

"Goethe" is a silkscreen in colors made by Andy Warhol in 1982. The work is signed and editioned in graphite, lower left, "70/100 Andy Warhol". The artwork size is 38 x 38 inches. Th...