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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Lithograph
A Real Ghost Print
A Real Ghost Print

A Real Ghost Print

By Alyza Perez

Located in Kansas City, MO

Alyza Perez Title: A Real Ghost Print Year: 2018 Medium: Lithograph Size: 15 x 11 inches

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Swierzy- 1972 'Lion with Mouse' Vintage CYRK Poster
Swierzy- 1972 'Lion with Mouse' Vintage CYRK Poster

Swierzy- 1972 'Lion with Mouse' Vintage CYRK Poster

By Waldemar Swierzy

Located in Brooklyn, NY

CYRK posters from Poland are renowned for their vibrant and imaginative designs, often featuring bold, abstract visuals that go beyond traditional circus imagery. These posters, like...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Diane Burko - Lily Pond at Giverny, signed print with hand coloring unique var.
Diane Burko - Lily Pond at Giverny, signed print with hand coloring unique var.

Diane Burko - Lily Pond at Giverny, signed print with hand coloring unique var.

Located in New York, NY

Diane Burko Lily Pond at Giverny, 1990 Hand colored monoprint (lithograph with hand coloring) Hand signed and numbered 8/95 by the artist and bears publisher's stamp on the front 21 ...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite, Lithograph, Monoprint

Flower Field (Champ Fleuri, 58% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)
Flower Field (Champ Fleuri, 58% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)

Flower Field (Champ Fleuri, 58% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)

By Ella Fort

Located in Kansas City, MO

Ella Fort Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches COA provided *edition number might va...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES Lithograph Piano Bar Cocktails, Singing, British Humor
BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES Lithograph Piano Bar Cocktails, Singing, British Humor

BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES Lithograph Piano Bar Cocktails, Singing, British Humor

By Beryl Cook

Located in Union City, NJ

BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is a hand drawn, pencil signed limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook(1926-2008). Printed in 1986 using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES presents a humorous piano bar scene depicting a lively group of night club patrons enjoying their cocktails as they enthusiastically sing along with the debonair piano player giving the viewer a true feeling of merriment in this quintessential Beryl Cook image. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is a warm, colorful interior scene printed in shades of golden brown, black, red, blue, lavender, purple, green, orange, pink, peach, gray, and beige. BIG OLIVES, LITTLE OLIVES is one of Beryl Cook's most loved images - the edition is SOLD OUT, this is a rare unsigned printers proof aside from the numbered edition from the master printers private collection, stamped legend on verso with provenance information. Print size - 27 x 27 inches, UNSIGNED Printers Proof, unframed, excellent condition Edition size - 300 plus proofs Year published - 1990, printed at JK Fine Art Editions Co. NYC Beryl Cook's unique artistic humor documented familiar social situations...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Fernando Botero Lithograph: Pedrito
Fernando Botero Lithograph: Pedrito

Fernando Botero Lithograph: Pedrito

By Fernando Botero

Located in Miami, FL

Fernando Botero Pedrito, 1975 Lithograph 38 x 29 in / 96,5 x 73,6 cm Edition: AP (Artist's Proof) Signed, named, dated, and numbered by Fernando Botero at the bottom of the paper.

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Couleurs au Choix
Couleurs au Choix

Couleurs au Choix

By Alexander Calder

Located in Hollywood, FL

Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Couleurs au Choix Size: 24 x 30 Inches Medium: Lithograph Edition: of 75 Year: 1970 Notes: Hand signed and numbered by the Artist in pencil. Artw...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Fish & Chips
Fish & Chips

Fish & Chips

By Robert Deyber

Located in Greenwich, CT

Fish & Chips is a lithograph on paper, initialed lower right 'BD', 9.5 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered XLIX/C (there were also 275 Arabic and 20 AP), framed in a c...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Paper, Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph by Mario Bardi - 1979

Still Life - Lithograph by Mario Bardi - 1979

By Mario Bardi

Located in Roma, IT

Lithograph on paper. Hand and numbered in pencil. Edition of 99. Excellent condition. This striking colour lithograph by Mario Bardi, dated 1979, blends the language of still lif...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph by Mario Bardi - 1979

Still Life - Lithograph by Mario Bardi - 1979

By Mario Bardi

Located in Roma, IT

Lithograph on paper. Hand and numbered in pencil. Edition of 99. Excellent condition. This striking colour lithograph by Mario Bardi, dated 1979, blends the language of still lif...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Nude - Lithograph by Ugo Rambaldi - 1970s

Nude - Lithograph by Ugo Rambaldi - 1970s

By Ugo Rambaldi

Located in Roma, IT

Nude is an color lithograph on cardboard realized by Ugo Rambaldi. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered, edition 42/150. The state of preservation is very good. Th...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Untitled (Rose, Pink, Abstract, Gestural, Movement) (30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Untitled (Rose, Pink, Abstract, Gestural, Movement) (30% OFF LIST PRICE)

Untitled (Rose, Pink, Abstract, Gestural, Movement) (30% OFF LIST PRICE)

Located in Kansas City, MO

Barry Eisenhart Untitled (Rose, Pink, Abstract, Gestural, Movement) Year: 2015 Lithograph on Arches Edition of 15 Size: 19 x 25 inches Signed in pencil COA provided

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

"Blind Faith" Figurative, Political Commentary, Stone and Plate Lithography
"Blind Faith" Figurative, Political Commentary, Stone and Plate Lithography

"Blind Faith" Figurative, Political Commentary, Stone and Plate Lithography

By Kathryn Polk

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Blind Faith" is an original piece by Kathryn Polk and is made from stone and plate lithography. This piece measures 27.25"h x 22.25"w framed and is shipped in the ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

The Echo of Luck

The Echo of Luck

By Fred Stonehouse

Located in Lyons, CO

Color lithograph, Ed. 25 The artist describes this project: “I have a long history of exploring the possibilities of animal and naturalist imagery to fabulist ends. These works ser...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Jonas Wood - Jersey City apartment print, Hand Signed twice with drawings
Jonas Wood - Jersey City apartment print, Hand Signed twice with drawings

Jonas Wood - Jersey City apartment print, Hand Signed twice with drawings

By Jonas Wood

Located in New York, NY

JONAS WOOD Interiors, 2019 Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper Signed TWICE: Signed and dated in black marker lower right with the artist's distinctive flourish; hand signed ag...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Lines of Force (Fire Red) State II

Lines of Force (Fire Red) State II

By Barbara Takenaga

Located in Lyons, CO

Color lithograph with hand coloring, Edition 20 Her most recent prints are "Lines of Force (Fire Red) State II" and "Lines of Force (TBR) State II." Vibrant hand-colored lithograp...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Peacock, Lithograph by Caroline Schultz
Peacock, Lithograph by Caroline Schultz

Peacock, Lithograph by Caroline Schultz

By Caroline Schultz

Located in Long Island City, NY

Peacock Caroline Schultz, American (1936–2004) Date: 1980 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of AP 50 Image Size: 18 x 22.5 inches Size: 23 in. x 29 in. (58.42 cm x 73...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Untitled Lithograph by Bram van Velde, Abstract, 1989
Untitled Lithograph by Bram van Velde, Abstract, 1989

Untitled Lithograph by Bram van Velde, Abstract, 1989

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This original lithograph by Bram van Velde, published by Arte, Paris, is a striking example of the artist’s intensely expressive abstract style. Printed on a large sheet with full ma...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Puerto Rico 1N
Puerto Rico 1N

Puerto Rico 1N

By Enoc Perez

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Perez, Enoc Title: Puerto Rico 1N Date: 2016 Medium: Photogravures with hand coloring Unframed Dimensions: 25" x 32" Signature: Signed Editi...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Christo - Surrounded Islands Project for Biscayne poster, hand signed by Christo
Christo - Surrounded Islands Project for Biscayne poster, hand signed by Christo

Christo - Surrounded Islands Project for Biscayne poster, hand signed by Christo

By Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Located in New York, NY

Offset lithograph poster Boldly signed by Christo on the front Measurements: 39" (vertical) x 25 inches (horizontal) Published by Christo/CVJ Corp., photograph by Jeanne-Claude Unfra...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph, Offset

Iris With Evian Bottle (Poster) after David Hockney
Iris With Evian Bottle (Poster) after David Hockney

Iris With Evian Bottle (Poster) after David Hockney

By David Hockney

Located in Dubai, Dubai

Iris With Evian Bottle (Poster) David Hockney, a prominent British artist, is celebrated for his versatile and innovative contributions to 20th-century art. Known for his vivid use...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Hunt Slonem "Blue Celeste Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies
Hunt Slonem "Blue Celeste Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies

Hunt Slonem "Blue Celeste Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Blue Celeste Bunnies Series: Bunnies Date: 2025 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" x 1.25" Sig...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Figures Allongées - Lithograph by Henry Moore - 1971

Figures Allongées - Lithograph by Henry Moore - 1971

By Henry Moore

Located in Roma, IT

Figures allongées is an print by the British artist  Henry Moore  (Castleford, 1898 - Much Hadham, 1986). This color lithograph on paper was edited by the French magazine XXe Siécle...

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

BESSIE MAE Signed Lithograph Linocut 1995, Plus Size Singer on Stage Red Dress
BESSIE MAE Signed Lithograph Linocut 1995, Plus Size Singer on Stage Red Dress

BESSIE MAE Signed Lithograph Linocut 1995, Plus Size Singer on Stage Red Dress

By Jonathan Green

Located in Union City, NJ

BESSIE MAE is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph/linocut by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed in 10 colors using hand lithography techniques and linoleum cut o...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph, Linocut

SUMMER RUSH Signed Lithograph 1991, Sacred Garden Series, Abstract Landscape
SUMMER RUSH Signed Lithograph 1991, Sacred Garden Series, Abstract Landscape

SUMMER RUSH Signed Lithograph 1991, Sacred Garden Series, Abstract Landscape

By David Leverett

Located in Union City, NJ

SUMMER RUSH is an original limited edition lithograph from the Sacred Garden Series of works by the British artist David Leverett (1938-2020), printed using hand lithography techniqu...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Book Box Una Grande Storia Italiana Valentino Garavani, Hand Signed and Numbered
Book Box Una Grande Storia Italiana Valentino Garavani, Hand Signed and Numbered

Book Box Una Grande Storia Italiana Valentino Garavani, Hand Signed and Numbered

Located in New York, NY

Valentino Large: Hand signed and numbered Monograph (gift book) in elegant Clamshell Box Una Grande Storia Italiana Valentino Garavani (Hand Signed and Numbered Collectors Edition),...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Board

The Door of Justice, Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers and Civil Rights, 2000
The Door of Justice, Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers and Civil Rights, 2000

The Door of Justice, Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers and Civil Rights, 2000

By Elizabeth Catlett

Located in Union City, NJ

THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor bes...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled

By Toko Shinoda

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

"When the Moon and the Sky Talk About Flowers"

"When the Moon and the Sky Talk About Flowers"

By Ana Maria Hernando

Located in Lyons, CO

The artist describes this project: “I paint and draw flowers, not only out of mesmerized wonder for their presence on earth, but also as a rebellion against the labels of “decorative”, “inconsequential” and “superficial” that have been equated historically to the art of women...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

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Lithograph

Letter P - Lithograph and Screen Print by Erté - 1976
Letter P - Lithograph and Screen Print by Erté - 1976

Letter P - Lithograph and Screen Print by Erté - 1976

By Erté

Located in Roma, IT

Hand signed and numbered. Limited edition of 350 prints. From the suite “Alphabet”. Near perfect condition. Lithograph/Screen print.

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1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Hobby Horse
Hobby Horse

Hobby Horse

By Robert Deyber

Located in Greenwich, CT

Hobby Horse is a lithograph on paper, 9.5 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 189/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP). Fram...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Antoni Tàpies lithograph (1960s Tàpies prints)
Antoni Tàpies lithograph (1960s Tàpies prints)

Antoni Tàpies lithograph (1960s Tàpies prints)

By Antoni Tàpies

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph 1969 Published by: Sala Gaspar as part of the 1969 Tàpies catalog. Lithograph in colors. 9x7 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Printed signature from an edition of unknown. Antoni Tàpies: In his wide-ranging practice, Antoni Tàpies combined rich conceptual concerns with material experimentation and monumental scales. His work was variously informed by early modernists including Paul Klee and Joan Miró and by Art Informel artists, such as Jean Dubuffet, who were his contemporaries. Throughout his paintings, prints, sculptures, and works on paper, Tàpies built a visual language full of thick, impastoed gestural marks and a cosmology of symbols and scripts. His materials ranged from trash and earth to dust and stone, which created a sense of solidity and physicality throughout his oeuvre. Tàpies participated in the Venice Biennale four times and exhibited in cities including Paris, London, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, Tokyo, Zürich, and New York. His work has sold for seven figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Fondation Beyeler, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate. Related Categories Spanish painters. Mid Century Modern. 1960s. Contemporary Art. Abstract art. Tàpies prints.

Category

1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

Materials

Lithograph

Two Pembroke Studio Chairs
Two Pembroke Studio Chairs

Two Pembroke Studio Chairs

By David Hockney

Located in London, GB

A striking original lithograph from Hockney's popular The Moving Focus series with Cubist influences. Hockney depicts his studio interior with varying perspectives, shadows, views an...

Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

Materials

Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Horse - Lithograph by Gino Marchesi - 1980s

Horse - Lithograph by Gino Marchesi - 1980s

Located in Roma, IT

Lithograph realized in 1980s. Hand signed in pencil lower left. Artist Proof. Very good condition.

Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Lithograph

Materials

Lithograph

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