Jean Cocteau Pencil Drawing
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Pencil
1950s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Pen
1980s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Color Pencil
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pencil, Pastel
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1950s Other Art Style Nude Prints
Etching, Paper
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
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1940s French School Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
House Paint
Vintage 1920s Russian Paintings
Paper
Vintage 1920s Russian Paintings
Paper
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Chairs
Rattan, Maple
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern More Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Tables
Stainless Steel
20th Century Cubist Figurative Prints
Linocut
Early 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Paper
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Lithograph
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
1950s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1950s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
India Ink
Recent Sales
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite, Paper, Pencil
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Color Pencil, Crayon, Paper
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ballpoint Pen
Mid-20th Century French Modern Pottery
Pottery
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon
Vintage 1930s Spanish Drawings
Paper
1980s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Color Pencil
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil, Paper
1950s Surrealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil, Archival Paper
1950s Surrealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil, Archival Paper
Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1950s Dada More Art
Paper, Color Pencil
Late 20th Century More Prints
Silk
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
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Finding the Right prints-works-on-paper for You
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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