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Original 1937 Imperial Airlines Poster - An Ensign Air Liner for Empire Services
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Imperial Airways: An Ensign Air Liner for Empire Services 2 decks 200 mph 20 tons featuring a great technical drawing...
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1930s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Nudes - Suite of 5 Etchings by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a series of five etchings on paper realized by by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita.
Conditions are very good.
Included Passepartout: 40 x 30
The artworks represent different sce...
Category
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Night Room
Located in Greenwich, CT
Night Room is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 2.25 x 3.25 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray fram...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Takashi Murakmai flowers drawing 2018 (Murakami The Octopus Eats its Own Leg).
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakmai Flowers Drawing 2018:
A unique Takashi Murakami hand-drawing featuring the artist’s 2 most iconic motifs: Flowers & DOB. This work was executed in 2018 on the interior front page of the 2018 exhibition catalogue: Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg. Hand signed and dated.
Medium: Felt tip marker drawing on a removed interior exhibition catalog page (Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg).
Approximate Dimensions. 11.25 x 9.5 inches.
Signed and dated in ink on the lower edge. Unique.
Very good overall condition.
Provenance:
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Swann Auction galleries New York.
Takashi Murakami (American/Japanese, b.1962) is a painter and sculptor famous for his integration of Fine Art, commercialism, Japanese aesthetics, and cultural criticism into his work. Murakami received his BFA, MFA, and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he studied Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). He first gained recognition as a sculptor during the early 1990s, exploring otaku (the Japanese term for an obsession with anime and cartoons) and the contradictions between contemporary Japanese society and American culture in his work.
In 1996, he created the Hiropon Factory in Japan, which later developed into Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., a large art-making and artist management corporation. Murakami is also a curator and a critical observer of Japanese art. In 2000, he founded the "superflat" movement, a post-modern style drawing inspiration from Japanese manga (comics created in Japan), graphic design...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink
Ex Libris - M-G.Lévy - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - M-G.Lévy is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut print on paper.
The work is glued on colored cardboard.
...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Icons Letterpress Prints
Located in London, GB
Icons Letterpress Prints (Complete Set), 2023
Four Letterpress prints on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges
35.5 x 27.9
Edition of 250
Hand-signed and numbered
Mint condition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Balloon Moon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Balloon Moon is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 1.75 x 2.5 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray fra...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Jean-Michel Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery NY 1982-1988 (Basquiat Annina Nosei)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982-1988:
A set of 3 rare vintage original Basquiat announcement cards from 1982, 1986, 1988, respectively - with 2 published d...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Colubro - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Tasso-Cevetta...-Etching by Jean Francois Turpin - 1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of " Dizionario di scienze naturali " (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundred...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Coleoptera - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin - 1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Goniostomi - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Original Vintage Soft Drink Advertising Poster Dr Pepper Frosty Man Soda Pop
Located in London, GB
Original vintage soft drink advertising poster for Dr Pepper - frosty, man - frosty! The friendly "Pepper-Upper" - featuring a fun image of a smilin...
Category
1950s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
The White Goddess #36/50
Located in LILLE, FR
Dorothy Iannone
The White Goddess
Silkscreen on heavy paper
Number 36 from an edition of 50
Edited by Dieter Roth in Düsseldorf this silkscreen is of a very high quality. Seven colors were applied on a cardboard of about 350gr.
A large format, for which Dorothy is inspired by Robert Graves' book The White Goddess, published in 1948. It is one of the most desirable multiples of Dorothy lannone.
Dorothy Iannone (August 9, 1933 – December 26, 2022) was an American Artist. Her autobiographical texts, films, and paintings explicitly depict female sexuality and "ecstatic unity." She lived and worked in Berlin.
The majority of Iannone's paintings, texts, and visual narratives depict themes of erotic love.
Her explicit renderings of the human body draw heavily from the artist's travels and from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vases, and visual motifs from Eastern religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Tantrism, and Christian ecstatic traditions like those of the seventeenth-century Baroque.
For the High Line in New-York, Iannone creates a new, large-scale mural installation at 22nd St. Iannone’s mural features three colorful Statues...
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1970s Feminist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Coleoptera - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Coleoptera - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
Category
1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Coleoptera -Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
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1830s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Original Vintage WWII Poster SSAFA Soldiers Sailors Airmen Families Association
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - SSAFA Soldiers' Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association - The Fighting Man's link with his home. For Forces' Families Flag Day, September 3rd...
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1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
JULIO LE PARC : ALCHIMIE & POESIE 8
Located in LILLE, FR
Signed and numbered art print by Julio Le Parc from the series "ALCHIMIES" containing a poem by Julio Le Parc.
Very Limited edition Print of only 12 copies !
Technic : Pigment print...
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2010s Op Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
ALCHIMIE & POESIE 3
Located in LILLE, FR
Signed and numbered art print by Julio Le Parc from the series "ALCHIMIES" containing a poem by Julio Le Parc.
Very Limited edition Print of only 12 copies !
Technic : Pigment print...
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2010s Op Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
JULIO LE PARC : ALCHIMIE & POESIE 12
Located in LILLE, FR
Signed and numbered art print by Julio Le Parc from the series "ALCHIMIES" containing a poem by Julio Le Parc.
Very Limited edition Print of only 12 copies !
Technic : Pigment print...
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2010s Op Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Etching, 2014. Line etching, 70 x 50cm, limited edition of 30 prints
Located in Tuscany, Pisa
Bobby Dowler (b. 1983, London) studied Filmmaking at FH Salzburg and Southampton Institute/Solent University and Art and Design at Camberwell College, London. Bobby is a painter work...
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2010s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Window
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and establish...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Eight Sculptural Ideas - Lithograph by Henry Moore - 1973
By Henry Moore
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and dated. Edition of 65 prints.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster Intourist Yalta Sochi USSR Bikini Beach
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the Soviet travel agency Intourist featuring a great image of a sun tanned lady in a bikini holding up a smiling...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Fly Fishing Argentina Tourism Trout Fisherman
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Fishing in Argentina issued by the Direccion Nacional de Turismo / National Directorate of Tourism featuring dynamic artwork depicting a trou...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
And Then Red
Located in Greenwich, CT
And Then Red is a screenprint on paper from the edition of 50, 15.75 x 15.75" image size, signed and dated 'Takashi '99' and numbered 45/50 in pencil verso. Framed in a custom, gold-...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
A Rose
By Tom Marioni
Located in New York, NY
A Rose...
drypoint and etching in colors, on Somerset paper, 2008
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 7/10
Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamp, wit...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Alchimies
Located in LILLE, FR
Signed and numbered art print by Julio Le Parc including all the "ALCHIMIES" drawn for its artists book "Petite bifurcation de celui qui n'est pas" published by Editions Sylvain Cour...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Arp - Original Lithograph
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp - Original Lithograph
1951
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art revue XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Aracne - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Aracne - "The Divine Comedy" - Song 12 - Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not s...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Man's Best Friend #10
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in black and white
Saunders Waterford High White Paper
Signed and dated recto in pencil
The KAWS motif has become instantly recognizable with traditional cartoon charac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Musée Matisse Danseuse Créole After Henri Matisse, 1965
Located in New York, NY
Artist: After Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1965
Dimensions: 40 x 26.50 in, 101.6 x 67.3 cm
Classic Poster Paper - Good Condition A
Matisse's signature cutout style...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Giuseppe Capogrossi Iconic Comb Design "Superficie 324" Serigrafia
Located in Detroit, MI
"Superficie 324" is a 1988 screen print (serigraph) of a 1959 painting by Capogrossi. This is one of his famous "comb" or "fork" works that he perfected in the 1950s and continued to create for the remainder of his life. The blocks of primary red and yellow colors give a bright, joyful feel and contrast to the strong bold black that was Capogrossi's consistent color for the "combs". With no allegorical, psychological, or symbolic meanings, these structural elements could be assembled and connected in countless variations. Intricate and insistent, Capogrossi's signs determined the construction of the pictorial surface. This piece is identified along one side: Giuseppe Capogrossi By SIAE 1988 Silvio Zamorani Editor Via Saccarelli, 9 10144 Torino Italy Tel. (39)(11) 4730554 Progetto Grafico (Graphic Project): Studio Walter Benjamin. Serigrafia (Screen Print): BISI Torino.
Capogrossi was born in Rome. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. In 1927 Capogrossi embarked on a formative trip to Paris together with fellow artists and acquaintances Fausto Pirandello, Corrado Cagli and Emanuele Cavalli...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
The Visionary Tree - Etching by Gaetano Pompa - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Visionary Tree is an artwork realized by Gaetano Pompa (1933, Forenza- 1998) in 1970s.
The artwork is an aquatint and etching on paper.
Hand signed on the left corner. Editio...
Category
1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Kingdom of the Penitents - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Kingdom of the Penitents - "The Divine Comedy" - Song 1 - Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Da...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
LOVER'S TWINE - Abstract Pen Ink and Pastel Giclee Print by Nora Pineda Unframed
Located in Chico, CA
Pen, ink and pastels.
These limited-edition Giclee prints are created on Epson archival paper using the finest Epson inks available and which Nora has determined most closely capture the look of her original drawings. Fine art prints are custom made to order by a Chico, California professional printmaker. Prints are shipped unframed as we prefer you make this selection with your framer of choice. Each print is signed by Nora and professional packaged for shipping. Prints are shipped from Nora Pineda...
Category
2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pastel, India Ink
2 1/4 Eggleston (Limited Edition Monograph Hand signed by William Eggleston)
Located in New York, NY
William Eggleston
2 1/4 Eggleston (Hand signed by William Eggleston), 2011
Fifth Edition hardback monograph cloth-bounded with tipped-in image to ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
The Superb - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Superbs - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" Song 11- Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dant...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Marc Chagall - Cover - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Cover - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chaga...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Le Voci dei Juke-Box San Remo Teatro vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Le Voci dei JUKE-BOX. Original Teatro Della Palme, Citta di San Remo vintage poster. Conservation linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Fold marks restored. Sunda...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
THE MILKY WAY CIRCLE (Limited Edition of Only 30 Prints)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL APRIL 25TH ONLY**
*This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Take Advantage Of It*
**Please read the information carefully**
Of the doz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
Sculptor and Reclining Model at Window Viewing Sculptured Torso
Located in San Antonio, TX
Vintage 1970s Black and White plate after the original by Pablo Picasso for the Vollard Suite. This artwork is highly desirable due to its age and artistic significance to both Picas...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White
The Stars Visible to the Naked Eye. Antique Astronomy print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Just Waiting-- Lithograph, Human Figure, Nude by Tracey Emin
By Tracey Emin
Located in London, GB
Just Waiting, 2022
Tracey Emin
Lithograph in colours, on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm
Signed, dated, titled and numbered from the edition of 50
Sheet: 65 × 84 cm (25.6 × 33 in)
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
David Shrigley -- Complexity of the Foot, limited edition, 2023
Located in BRUCE, ACT
David Shrigley -- Complexity of the Foot, 2023
70 x 50 cm
It is created from the unique work: Untitled (Complexity of the Foot) (2020)
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Printed by Na...
Category
2010s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Joan Miro - Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Biography
Joan Miró i Fer...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
HANDS - Abstract Pen Ink and Pastel Giclee Print by Nora Pineda Unframed
Located in Chico, CA
Pen, ink and pastels.
These limited-edition Giclee prints are created on Epson archival paper using the finest Epson inks available and which Nora has determined most closely capture the look of her original drawings. Fine art prints are custom made to order by a Chico, California professional printmaker. Prints are shipped unframed as we prefer you make this selection with your framer of choice. Each print is signed by Nora and professional packaged for shipping. Prints are shipped from Nora Pineda...
Category
2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pastel, India Ink
"Denise Rene" Yellow Screen Print Poster
By Josef Albers
Located in Austin, TX
A vintage screen print poster by minimalist, op artist Joseph Albers from 1968. The piece advertises and exhibit of paintings and graphic works at Denise Rene, a Paris Art Gallery. ...
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20th Century Op Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Mark Tobey And Sam Francis- Exhibition Poster - Lithograph Print - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Mark Tobey and Sam Francis Exhibition Poster is a colored lithograph and offset poster realized in 1977.
Good Condition.
Poster realized for the artist's exhibition in Galerie Web...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Polychromatic Fiori Rose III - contemporary floral multi-colour xogram print
By Hugh Turvey
Located in London, GB
Edition of 10, this print is also available in 50 x 50 cm for £625.
Archival Fine Art Giclee Print
Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Spiders, antique English natural history engraving prints, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Depicts species of spiders.
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 125...
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19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Untitled I
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Roy Lichtenstein
Untitled I, 1980
Soft-ground etching on mold-made Lana paper
23 x 20 5/8 inches
Edition of 8
Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right
Unframed
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Original Tennis, Henry V, Act I, Scene ii vintage motivational poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Tennis. Original motivational – theater - sports poster. Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame.
This linen-backed 1970 vintage poster, created by The Perfection Fo...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original "Give It Your Best" 48-stars large American flag vintage poster 1942
By Charles Coiner
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Give It Your Best!’ vintage poster. This poster features the U.S. flag with 48 stars. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. Larger format version of this poster.
...
Category
1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
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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