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Art For Sale
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Peach Bunnies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Peach Bunnies Series: Bunnies Date: 2017 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" Signature: Signed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

OR DUR OR AISON
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Edition of 175. All...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Woman Bust - Pencil on Paper by A. Mérodack-Jeanneau
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Bust is a beautiful pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau in the early 20th century. Stamp of the artist's atelier on the lower right corner of th...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

Drapery - Screen Print - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15 x 9.5 cm. Drapery is an original color serigraph on paper, realized around the 1970's by a German artist, whose signature is hard to read. Signed in pencil on ...
Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Stencil

Sketch For a Landscape Painting - Pen Drawing by Flor David - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch For a Landscape Painting is an original drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s This is an original pen drawing representing a sketch of a landscape. Good...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Pen

Nihon Embankment in Yoshiwara Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Houston, TX
Woodblock print from the Edo period. The print was apart of a series that Hiroshige did titled, "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo". The woodblock print is printed on rice paper. The p...
Category

1850s Edo Art

Materials

Woodcut

Illustrated Set, 2010 by Terry Winters (Red and Blue)
Located in New York, NY
From his body of "Illustrated Set" work, this print by Terry Winters takes the printmaking process itself as subject. Winters became inspired by how his prints appeared before press,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Gymnasium, circa 1908-1909 colored crayon, pencil, gouache and pen and ink
Located in Jerusalem, IL
coloured crayon, pencil, gouache and pen and ink on tracing paper mounted onto the artist's mount The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Pierre Brullé.
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Pen

8'' Vasija Multicolor / Ceramic Mexican Folk Art from Mata Ortiz
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Martin Olivas Quintana MASTERPIECE Carved polychrome jar decorated with a sgraffito and painted hummingbird, flowers ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Singing Bird
Located in London, GB
Lithograph 4.00 x 3.00 in (10.2 x 7.6 cm) From a limited edition of 1500. The piece was presented by the British Consulate as a gift to the attendees of the Biennale Venice in 200...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Under Greylock, Etching by Peter Milton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Milton, American (1930 - ) Title: Under Greylock Year: 1993 Medium: Intaglio Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 18.25 x 15 inches Size: 25 ...
Category

1990s American Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Bird, Original, Watercolor Handmade Painting
Located in Granada Hills, CA
50 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Year: 2022 Style: Realism, Subject: Bird, Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Kunsthalle Helsinki Exhibition poster
Located in London, GB
Offset Lithograph (poster) Edition of Unknown Size 27.56 x 19.68 in (70.0 x 50.0 cm) This is an original, authorised David Hockney poster, produced by the Kunsthalle Helsinki for t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Sky - Oil Painting 201s by Giorgio Lo Fermo
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Sky is an original oil on canvas on canvas realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo in the 2000s. Hand-signed by the artist on the back. The artwork represents an abstract landscape:...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Yale University Art Gallery (Thinking of Him) Poster /// Roy Lichtenstein Pop
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) Title: "Yale University Art Gallery (Thinking of Him)" Series: Yale University Art Gallery Posters Year: 1991 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Poster on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Springdale Graphics, Springdale, CT Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Sheet size: 27" x 26" Image size: 22.25" x 22.5" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: acquired directly from the printer Springdale Graphics, Springdale, CT. Comes from the 1991 "Yale University Art Gallery" series of three offset-lithograph, posters: "Thinking of Him", "Blam", and "Washing Machine". The image featured on this poster is Lichtenstein's 1963, 68" x 68", magna on canvas painting "Thinking of Him" which is part of the Yale University Art Gallery's permanent collection. 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: American artist Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, and grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the 1960s, Lichtenstein became a leading figure of the new Pop Art movement. Inspired by advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works parodied American popular culture and the art world itself. He died in New York City on September 29, 1997. Lichtenstein was committed to his art until the end of his life, often spending at least 10 hours a day in his studio. His work was acquired by major museum collections around the world, and he received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the National Medal of Arts in 1995. In 2013 the painting "Woman with Flowered Hat" set another record at $56.1 million as it was purchased by British jeweler Laurence Graff...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Totem Machine - Original Silkscreen by Ramon Alejandro
Located in Roma, IT
Totem Machine is an original artwork realized by the Cuban artist and writer José Ramón Díaz Alejandro in the 1990s. Serigraph on paper. Numbered in white pencil on the lower right....
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Jeanne Marguerite Frey - Surbek (Swiss, 1886-1981) c. 1935 Etching Gabés Tunesia
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Jeanne Marguerite Frey-Surbek (Swiss, * 23.2.1886 Delémont, † 17.5.1981 Bern) Country Road near Gabés, Tunesia, North Africa • Etching • Platte, ca. 7 x 11 cm • Sheet, ca. 33 x 25.5 cm • Monogrammed lower right • Edition noted lower left 74/100 • Printed title lower right Looking through my stock, buyers will notice my liking of female artistes working in Switzerland and here I introduce you to another important heroine of Swiss artistes and present a sweet little Swiss School orientalist pre-war etching...
Category

1930s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

Keith Haring - Luna Luna Karussell: A Poetic Extravaganza! Pop Up 3D, 1986
Located in Varese, IT
Keith Haring ( 1958 - 1990 ) - Luna Luna Karussell: A Poetic Extravaganza! Pop up 3D, 1986 Additional information: Material: Color offset print on colored cardboard, shaped and carved, Pop up 3D Edited in 1986, Size unfolded: 30.3 x 60.8 x 24 cm Signature and date printed on the base. Limited Edition size: 2000 Edition: Luna Luna Freizeitlanlagen GMBH and Neue Revue, Hamburg, Germany About the work: “Luna Luna was a project organised by Andre Heller...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Cardboard

Portrait of Henry de Montherlant - Original Etching by Yves Brayer
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 16 x 12.5 cm. Henry de Montherlant Portrait is an original black and white lithograph realized by Yves Brayer (1907-1990) in the second half of the 20th Century. ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Nocturne in Egypt - Original Etching by R. Naly - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 18 x 14 cm. Nocturne in Egypt is an original contemprary artwork realized by Robert Naly in the middle of the XX Century. Original etching on ivory paper. Hand-...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Figure - Original Drawing in Pencil by Georges Picard - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pencil realized by Georges Picard in the Early 20th Century Good conditions except for a folding and ripping. Monogrammed. The artwork is depicted...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Model, Seated" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Art

Materials

Paper

"Hills of Provence" Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
French Impressionist landscape lithograph from the 1960's titled "Hills of Provence." Edition 10/25. Signed, titled, and dated by artist. Dimensions Without Frame: H 20.5 in. x W 24 in. Artist Biography: She was born in Latvia in 1921. She received her early training in Munich, Germany, working in theater Costume History and Design, and in painting before she came to America. In 1949 she became an American citizen. Once in New York she studied at the Art Students League, the School of Visual Arts, the Pratt Graphic Art Center under Frasconi, and then continued at Pratt on a fellowship to work under Michael Ponce de Leon...
Category

1960s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Basquiat Enrico Navarra Gallery 2000 (vintage Basquiat announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Enrico Navarra Gallery Paris 2000: Rare vintage Basquiat announcement published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gallery Enrico Navarra Paris during the...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Dahlia - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...weary of being followed round by old bachelors, who clasp me by the waist, and call me Flora's priestess, I have resolved to flee from mankind, and to return to my old condition - that of a simple flower." T. Delord. Les Fleurs...
Category

1840s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century Lake Anza Berkeley Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Landscape W/C
Located in Soquel, CA
Brilliantly colorful mid century expressive abstracted landscape of Lake Anza in Berkeley by Bay Area artist Howard Margolis (American, 1927-2015). Signed “Margolis” in lower right c...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Un chapeau de Paille d'Italie - Original China Ink Drawing by Flor David - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 55.2 x 32.3 cm. Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie is a superb original pencil and ink drawing on ivory glossy paper realized by Flor David in 1951, as it is reported i...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

Storm Dragon
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20. Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs “Storm Dragon” and “Sea Dragon” continue his lifelong exploration of dragon mythology and imagery. For 2000, the Year of the...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting - Pink Tree In Desert
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to P...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Male Nude
Located in London, GB
Fresson print, inscribed ‘LAG 17033’ (verso), 29cm x 23cm (on view), 37cm x 30.5cm (sheet size), (48cm x 41cm framed). The photograph is framed to the line and crop indicated by the photographer on the print, behind museum quality UV non-reflective glass. (A Fresson print is a type of photographic printing, created in 1899, that has been passed down in the family for four generations. Still to this day, the Fresson family keeps some elements of the process a secret but make sure it stays alive. Located in the outskirts of Paris, their workshop is the only one in the world to produce such prints.) Albin-Guillot studied drawing and painting before becoming interested in photography. In 1925, she went on to have the first one-person exhibition at the Paris Autumn Salon. She also served as president of the French Societe des Artistes Photographes and in June 1928, was included in the first independent Salon of Photography in Paris. Published in 1932, she took a series of male nudes taken for Henry de Motherlant’s La Deesse Cypris. The strongly cropped images in which the male nudes fill the entire frame accompany the author’s text about sensuality. In 1933, she collaborated with the poet Paul Valery...
Category

1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Black and White

Lioness i- Etching by Evert Louis van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a modern artwork realized by Evert Louis van Muyden (Albano, Lazio 1853 - 1922 Orsay) in 1900 . Black and white etching. Signature and date on plate. Includes passe-pa...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Shepard Fairey Rose Soldier Letterpress Edition 2017 Obey Giant Mint
Located in Draper, UT
Edition Details Year: 2017 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 10/10/17 Run: 450 Technique: Letterpress Paper: Cream cotton paper Size: 10 X 13 Markings: Signed & Numbered Embossed Paper / Silkscreen / Graffiti and Street Art...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Screen

Toyota
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Toyota" 2018. Oil and mixed media on newsprint mounted on panel. Pop and Contemporary Pop / Text / Cultural Commentary / Earth Tones / Modes of Transportation
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wax, Canvas, Oil, Newsprint

Crying Girl Exhibition The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein at The Parrish Art Museum
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
This is a poster, done by Roy Lichtenstein for the Crying Girl Exhibition The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein at The Parrish Art Museum. It is signed by the artist and framed.
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Offset

Dirk from Rear
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Polaroid

1967 After Rene Magritte 'Moderna Museet' Surrealism Gray Denmark Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.5 x 27.5 inches ( 100.33 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 31.25 x 20.5 inches ( 79.375 x 52.07 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age A...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Bly by BOAC to Japan" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original JAPAN, Fly by BOAC to the Caribbean. Small format. Archival linen-backed original vintage European travel poster in mint condition; ready to frame. This antique original poster...
Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Stonechat - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Stonechat is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
Category

1870s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

"Bonne Fête Monsieur Picasso" - The UCLA Art Galleries by Pablo Picasso, 1961
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1961 Dimensions: 38.75 x 25 in, 98.4 x 63.5 cm Classic Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A+ This whimsical exhibition poster was an original design by Pablo Picasso for the University of California exhibition in 1961. Picasso's attribution 'for UCLA' can be seen written beneath a colorful bouquet of flowers, full of movement and life. Curated from Southern California collections of Picasso work, the exhibition celebrated Picasso's 81st birthday and entitled "Bonne Fête...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Homage to Jean Cocteau - Original Lithograph by Giancarlo Limoni - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Homage to Jean Cocteau is a beautiful brown-ink lithograph on paper, realized in 1987 by the Italian artist Giancarlo Limoni. Hand-signed, dated, and titled "Omaggio a Cocteau/Limon...
Category

1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Woman Hanging Laudry - Original Etching by L. Desbuissons - 1904
By Léon Desbuissons
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Hanging Laudry is a beautiful black and white aquatint and etching on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1904 by the French artist Léon Desbuissons (1870 -1940). Signed in penci...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Blue Coat
Located in New York, NY
Image size: 24 x 12 inches Edition of 30
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Aquatint

Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM Color lithograph, 1968 Unsigned as issued in DLM Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
Category

1960s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Gloria Saez, Campos de Castilla, Oil on paper, 2011
Located in New York, NY
"Campos de Castilla - Castile Landscape" by Gloria Saez is a horizontal abstract, oil paint on paper with muted, yellows, pinks, reds and neutral shades of blues and grays. This is...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Paper

Man with Trousers
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, 19cm x 19cm (print size), (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, but contained within archive quality mount. Tress is one of the most renowned and innovative photographers of his generation. Citing his influences as Hokusai, Frank Lloyd Wright, Picasso, El Lissitzky, Duane Michaels...
Category

1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

C - 17
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme. Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Pigment

William Jacobs "Untitled", original pastel on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is an abstract expressionist pastel on paper created in 1969. The artwor...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Erebos
Located in Miami, FL
Gerd Leufert Title: Erebos Signed, titled, dated ‘91 and inscribed P/A in pencil (lower center) Screenprint on paper 23⅝ by 22⅜ in. / 60 by 56.8 cm. Executed in 1991, this work is an artist’s proof from an edition of 35 plus 1 artist’s proof. Provenance: Private Collection, Venezuela - Acquired from the above by the present owner - Sotheby's Auction “The first duty of the creator: restlessness,” Gerd Leufert wrote in 1985, looking back on his 30-year career as an artist, designer, museum worker, and professor of art in Venezuela.1 Bridging the worlds of commerce and culture in Caracas, Leufert’s impact on art and design owed to his interdisciplinary approach: the influence of cutting-edge developments in abstract art appeared in his graphic design, while the efficiency and bold contrast of mid-century design characterized his paintings. An immigrant born in German-controlled Lithuania at the cusp of the first World War, Leufert studied arts and design in Hannover, Mainz, and, finally, in Munich with the German typographer Fritz H...
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Screen

Chardon - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow grows." T. Delord. Les Fleurs animées...
Category

1840s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

A Satirical Scene - Lithograph by E. Lavrate - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
A Satirical Scene is an original modern artwork realized by Edmond Lavrate in the second half of the XX Century. Original colored lithograph. Hand-signed on the lower right corne...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1973 After Pablo Picasso 'Fete De L'Humanite'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.25 x 25.5 inches ( 99.695 x 64.77 cm ) Image Size: 18.5 x 23 inches ( 46.99 x 58.42 cm ) Framed: No Condition: C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible ma...
Category

1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Warm Beach (#108)
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Signed and titled verso. 59 x 58.5 in. 61 x 60.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance B...
Category

1970s Post-War Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

French Etching - Place Stanislas
Located in Houston, TX
Playful black and white etching of a child figure looking out on a quaint city square in Nancy, France, 1959. Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered 16 of 140 lower left. ...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

Campagne Contre Jour, Antibes
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso. 38.25 x 51.25 in. 39.75 x 52.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater with a matte white ...
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1960s French School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Tree-Lined Avenue - Original Watercolor on Paper by Pierre Segogne - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Mountain Landscape Northern in France is an original modern artwork realized in the 1930s by the French artist Pierre Segogne (1890-1958). Original colored watercolor on paper. Han...
Category

1930s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Supplicate
Located in Dallas, TX
Valley House Gallery presented our first exhibition for Houston artist Otis Huband in the summer of 2014. After a hiatus of over 20 years from regular exhibitions, his work was re-in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled (#222)
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 49.5 x 34.5 in. 51 x 36.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Howard Wise Galle...
Category

1950s Post-War Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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