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Mark Rothko 'Untitled' 1990- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 19.75 x 15.75 inches ( 50.165 x 40.005 cm ) Image Size: 12.5 x 11.75 inches ( 31.75 x 29.845 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addit...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mark Rothko 'Untitled, 1969' 1998- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 47.5 x 35.5 inches ( 120.65 x 90.17 cm ) Image Size: 41.25 x 32.25 inches ( 104.775 x 81.915 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Suppl...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mark Rothko 'Untitled, 1969' 1998- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 47.5 x 35.5 inches ( 120.65 x 90.17 cm ) Image Size: 41.25 x 32.25 inches ( 104.775 x 81.915 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Suppl...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mark Rothko 'Untitled, 1952' 2020- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 20.5 x 39 inches ( 52.07 x 99.06 cm ) Image Size: 17.25 x 38 inches ( 43.815 x 96.52 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Poster from The Irascibles: Pa...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mark Rothko 'White and Greens in Blue' 1998- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
. Universal Prints Hamburg, Based after Rothko's 1957 original oil on canvas. Shipping and Handling: We
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1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Mark Rothko 'Untitled (Green on Purple), 1961' 2022- Offset Lithograph
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 35.5 x 26.75 inches ( 90.17 x 67.945 cm ) Image Size: 28.75 x 25.25 inches ( 73.025 x 64.135 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addit...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Minage" Contemporary Abstract Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
like Mark Rothko and Paul Klee. He employs soft, pastel palettes and layered textures to create works
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Joan Miró Lithograph Derriere Le Miroir
By Joan Miró
Located in NEW YORK, NY
painters, including Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko. The artist died at age 90 on December 25, 1983 in Palma
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Joan Miró Lithograph Derriere Le Miroir
By Joan Miró
Located in NEW YORK, NY
, including Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko. The artist died at age 90 on December 25, 1983 in Palma de Mallorca
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Survol" original lithograph by Bill Hayter 1967
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Paonia, CO
, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wassily
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

"Grand Palais" Modern Abstract Geometric Surrealist Lithograph Edition 36/50
By Joan Miró
Located in Houston, TX
enormous influence on such American artists as Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, who had adopted his
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Mid century modern sculptural Minimalist lithograph from Lunar Series geometric
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in New York, NY
Institute’s chop mark Published by: Tamarind Institute unframed This impressive Minimalist lithograph on white
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1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Pencil

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Set of Eyes, Color Lithograph, Belgian Abstract Expressionist Tamarind Print
By Dirk de Bruycker
Located in Surfside, FL
Willem deKooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack, and Barnett Newman as being of particular importance
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Archival Paper

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Ronald Reagan Political Art
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
work of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. Burkhardt held his first solo exhibition in
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Linocut

Henri Matisse – Le Repos du modèle - hand-signed lithograph - 1922
By Henri Matisse
Located in Varese, IT
bold colors informed the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and many others. His famous rivalry with
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1920s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
Category

20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
Category

20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Olympic Lithograph, 1984 Limited Edition SIGNED Deluxe Edition with Official COA
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
, Mark Rothko and Kurt Schwitters; certain key paintings, such as Matisse’s 1916 Studio, Quai St. Michel
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pencil

America - La France variations I, 46/70 color lithograph with collage
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Three Oaks, MI
. Alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell is considered one of the
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

America - La France variations IV, 17/68 color lithograph with collage
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell is considered one of the great
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

FACE OF THE NIGHT(Octavio Paz)Lithograph on Arches Paper, Abstract Expressionist
By (after) Robert Motherwell
Located in Union City, NJ
included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Trained in philosophy, Motherwell became an
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Sepia Print Edition of 6
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
New York and Europe including the work of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. Burkhardt
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Linocut

Bright Vibrant Pop Art Silkscreen Lithograph Print NYC Abstract Expressionist
By William Scharf
Located in Surfside, FL
painters, and symbolism. He apprenticed with Mark Rothko and was influenced by his color field paintings
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Pierre Bonnard Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Mosque Minaret, Swan
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
exert a considerable influence on American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Mosque Minaret, Village
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
exert a considerable influence on American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must
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20th Century Post-Impressionist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Young Boy
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
exert a considerable influence on American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Chicken, Egg
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must also be numbered among the American
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Double Page
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must also be numbered among the American
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Guli Wall, rare 1970s lithograph by famed British Pop artist Alan Davie Signed/N
By Alan Davie
Located in New York, NY
Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. By the early 1960s Davie was
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pencil

Color Silkscreen Pop Art Lithograph Print Les Levine Canadian Pop Art Portrait
By Les Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
and 50s Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Fernand Leger and Jean Dubuffet, among others, had studios on the
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1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Father and Son
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must also be numbered among the American
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20th Century Post-Impressionist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Sail Boats, Lake
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must also be numbered among the American
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20th Century Post-Impressionist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Chickens and Swan
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painting over the last half-century. Even Mark Rothko must also be numbered among the American
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20th Century Post-Impressionist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Albert Rafols Casamada - ESTRUCTURES 2 Spanish Abstraction Contemporary Art
By Albert Rafols Casamada
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Albert Rafols Casamada - ESTRUCTURES 2 Date of creation: 2006 Medium: Lithograph on paper Edition
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
those from Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still and especially artwork of Jackson Pollock. When he
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jenkins, Composition, Prints from the Mourlot Press (after)
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Morris Kantor. Influenced by Picasso, during that time, he met Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
those from Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still and especially artwork of Jackson Pollock. When he
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
those from Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still and especially artwork of Jackson Pollock. When he
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Summertime in Italy (With Lines)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Adolph Gottlieb exhibition poster for Guild Hall in Easthampton, NY - Framed
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
abstract painters, “The New York Artist Painters,” that included Mark Rothko, John Graham, and George L. K
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Vegetable I, from Vegetable Series
By Sam Francis
Located in Miami, FL
development Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled Geometric Abstraction (de-accessioned from the Triton Museum)
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Italian abstract artists. In 1953, he traveled to New York, where he met the painters Mark Rothko, Robert
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Mark Rothko Lithograph For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate mark rothko lithograph for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the Surrealist style, while we also have 30 Surrealist versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a mark rothko lithograph may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a mark rothko lithograph to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of beige, gray, black, pink and more. Creating a mark rothko lithograph has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Robert Motherwell, André Masson, Joan Miró, Mark Rothko and Sam Francis are consistently popular. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in lithograph, offset print and paper. A large mark rothko lithograph can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller mark rothko lithograph, measuring 7.4 high and 5.75 wide, may better suit your needs.

How Much is a Mark Rothko Lithograph?

The average selling price for a mark rothko lithograph we offer is $950, while they’re typically $75 on the low end and $110,000 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right Prints and Multiples 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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Questions About Mark Rothko Lithograph
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    Mark Rothko is so famous due to his influence on modern art. He is best known for his color field paintings, which have regions of color and helped to move abstract art further away from traditional notions of representation. Rothko's works served as inspiration for numerous contemporary artists, including Robert Ryman, Bill Viola, Cleve Gray, Glenys Cour and Lisa Nankivil. On 1stDibs, explore a variety of Mark Rothko art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Mark Rothko is an American artist best known for his work in the abstract expressionist movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Rothko’s most well-known works include his composition of square shapes with glowing colors. Browse a selection of authentic Mark Rothko art on 1stDibs.

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