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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Andy Warhol
Artist: Marc Chagall
Skulls, 1976 (FS.II.159)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Skulls (FS.II.159) is a screenprint on paper with an image size of 30 x 40 inches, signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left. From the edition of 60, numbered 50/50 (there were also 10 APs), and framed in a custom, closed-corner, gold-leaf frame. Catalogue - Feldman Schellmann, #159 (II.159 Skulls 1976) Andy Warhol’s Skulls from 1976 are part of the transition he began initially in 1972 with the Mao series – incorporating hand-drawn lines into the image – and with Ladies and Gentlemen and Mick Jagger in 1975 where he began the print process with his own photographs rather than appropriated ones. Additionally, in the 1975 prints, he began using collaged elements – torn paper, photographic elements, etc. Donna de Salvo writes about the Skulls series, “Skulls (II.157 – 160) lies somewhere between the genres of still life and portraiture and is based on a photograph of a skull taken by Warhol’s studio assistant, Ronnie Cutrone. The theme of skulls became a major preoccupation for Warhol, and he produced numerous versions of it in paintings. In this image, Warhol combined all three pictorial forms...
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20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Ahasuerus Sends Vasthi Away - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Ahasuerus sends Vasthi away  is a an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edition of 6500 unsi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Green Horse, 1973 (M.698)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Green Horse is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 14.5 x 10.25 inches, signed 'Marc Chagall' lower right and annotated 'epreuve d'artiste' lower left. From the edition o...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Musique, 1981 (Les Songes #7)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Musique (Music) is an etching on paper with an image size of 12 x 9 inches, signed 'Marc Chagall' lower right and annotated lower left. From the edition of 61, numbered VII/X (there ...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Paper

Bella - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. Matting included. Ref. Kornfeld, no. 41 IIb. Published by Albert Morance, Paris. Excellent condition. Bella Rosenfeld was a Jewish...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall's original 1961 poster - Nice Soleil Fleurs - La Baie des Anges
Located in PARIS, FR
In the world of art, Marc Chagall's original 1961 poster for "Nice Soleil Fleurs - La Baie des Anges" shines as a radiant gem, capturing the spirit of the ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Skulls, 1976 (#157)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Skulls (FS.II.157) is a screenprint on paper with an image size of 30 x 40 inches, signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left. From the edition of 60, numbered 36/50 (there were also 10 APs), and framed in a custom, closed-corner, gold-leaf frame. Catalogue - Feldman Schellmann, #157 (II.157 Skulls 1976) Andy Warhol’s Skulls from 1976 are part of the transition he began initially in 1972 with the Mao series – incorporating hand-drawn lines into the image – and with Ladies and Gentlemen and Mick Jagger in 1975 where he began the print process with his own photographs rather than appropriated ones. Additionally, in the 1975 prints, he began using collaged elements – torn paper, photographic elements, etc. Donna de Salvo writes about the Skulls series, “Skulls (II.157 – 160) lies somewhere between the genres of still life and portraiture and is based on a photograph of a skull taken by Warhol’s studio assistant, Ronnie Cutrone. The theme of skulls became a major preoccupation for Warhol, and he produced numerous versions of it in paintings. In this image, Warhol combined all three pictorial forms...
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20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

"Le jeu des acrobats" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. The catalogue reference is Mourlot 401. Printed in 1963 at the Mourlot Freres atelier and published in the "Chagall Lithographe II" catalogue raisonne. S...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Abimelech - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Abimelech  is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Prin...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Awakening of Boaz - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
The awakening of Boaz  is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edition of 6500 unsigned lit...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Grande Danseuse - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints. Excellent condition. Ref. Cramer no. 6
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Le Cirque Fantastique - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints. Excellent condition. Ref. Cramer 2
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

David (Poèmes, #18)
Located in Greenwich, CT
David is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. Unsigned as...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Paper

Frontispiece from Chagall Lithographe Volume III
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Frontispiece Portfolio: Chagall Lithographe Volume III Medium: Lithograph Year: 1969 Edition Size: Unnumbered Frame Size: 20 3/4" x 17 3/4" Sheet Size: 12...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rachel Hides her Father's Housold Gods - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Rachel hides her father's housold gods  is a an artwork from the Series "The Bible", realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hagar in the Desert - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Hagar in the desert  is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signatur...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ruth at the feet of Boaz - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Ruth at the feet of Boaz  is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edition of 6500 unsigned li...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall -- Cul-de-lampe (End-Piece), 1964
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Marc Chagall Cul-de-lampe (End-Piece), from Douze maquettes de vitraux pour Jérusalem (Twelve Maquettes of Stained Glass Windows for Jerusalem) 1964 Lithograph in colours, on Arche...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Cheval Bleu au Couple (Blue Horse with Couple) /// Modern Marc Chagall Post-War
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985) Title: "Cheval Bleu au Couple (Blue Horse with Couple)" Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir: Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght (No. 250) ...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tamar, Beautiful Daughter of Judah - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Tamar, beautiful daughter of Judah  is an artwork from the Series  "The Bible", realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edit...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall – LE BOUQUET BLANC – hand-signed Lithograph on Arches - 1969
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1969 Limited edition of 50 copies plus 25 in roman numbers signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered IX/XXV in lower l...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

1957 Marc Chagall 'The Black and Blue Bouquet'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9 x 8 inches ( 22.86 x 20.32 cm ) Image Size: 9 x 8 inches ( 22.86 x 20.32 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Automobilist, from: My Life - Russian French Berlin Autobiography Surrealism
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at t...
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1920s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Dames charmante et charmante a tous egard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(A charming lady chatting with a lady perfect in every possible way) Signed in the plate. No pencil signed impressions are existent. Edition: 368 (including 50 imps on japan) includi...
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1920s French School Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall ”L’Oranger”
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (Russia/France 1887‑1985). ”L’Oranger”. Year 1975 Signed and numbered Marc Chagall 8/50. Colour lithograph printed on Arches. Framed 35.5H x 28W x 2D Inches Illustr...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Cover - Original Lithograph
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...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Bateau Mouche au bouquet - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Title: Bateau Mouche au bouquet 1962 Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm Edition: 180 Unsigned as issued. From Regards sur Paris Published by André Sauret Condit...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Daphnis and Chloé - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Daphnis and Chloé - Original Lithograph From the literary review "XXe Siècle" 1960 Mourlot N°227 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G....
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Akt mit Fächer
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching and drypoint. With burr throughout and crisp plate edges. First state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed in penc...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Frontispiece for "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Frontispiece for the book "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera)" by Jacques Lassaigne (Paris...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall Color lithograph, 1969 Unsigned as issued by XXe Siecle From: XXe Siecle, Volume, Special Issue Marc Chagall Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. M...
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1960s French School Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

L'Enfant Et Le Maître Décole (The Child and the School Teacher)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Enfant Et Le Maître Décole (The Child and the School Teacher Etching with hand coloring by Chagall, 1927-1930 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) From La Fontaine Les Fable...
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1920s French School Prints and Multiples

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Etching

MICK JAGGER FS II.142
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by Andy Warhol & Mick Jagger, numbered in pencil. Edition of 250. There were also 50 artist’s proofs. Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (Rough) Paper. Printed by Alexan...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Homage to Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Homage to Marc Chagall (XXe Siecle) Medium: Lithograph Year: 1969 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 17 1/4" Sheet Size: 12" x 9 1/2" Image Size: ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MICK JAGGER FS II.139
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by Andy Warhol & Mick Jagger, numbered in pencil. Number AP 19/50 (aside from the main edition of 250). Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (Rough) Paper. Printed by Alex...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Marc Chagall ”La Femme du Peintre”.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (Russia/France 1887‑1985). ”La Femme du Peintre”. Signed and numbered Marc Chagall 35/50. Color lithograph on Arches, Framed 39.25H x 33W x 2D inches Image 63 x ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MICK JAGGER FS II.147
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by Andy Warhol & Mick Jagger, numbered in pencil. 242/250 (there were also 50 artist’s proofs). Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (Rough) Paper. Printed by Alexander He...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

MARC CHAGALL "THE VISION OF EZEKIEL - 1956" ETCHING WITH WATERCOLOR
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985 (Russian, French) The Vision of Ezekiel - 1956, From bible 1931-1939, 1952 - 1958 Etching with watercolor signed lower right, numbered '52/100' lower left Pri...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Queen Ntombi Twala, from Reigning Queens
Located in London, GB
Unique screenprint in colours, 1985, on Lenox Museum Board, signed in pencil, numbered and inscribed TP 12/30, a unique trial proof, aside from the standard edition of 40, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by George C. P. Mulder, Amsterdam, 100 x 80 cm. (39¼ x 31½ in.) Queen Ntombi...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Andy Warhol - Portrait of Patty Raynes and Son
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) Portrait of Patty Raynes and Son signed and dated ‘Andy Warhol 85’ (on the overlap) acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 40 ⅛ x 40 ⅛ in. (101.9 x 101.9 cm.) E...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic

On the Land of the Gods (Plate 7)
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1967 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 68/75 Publisher : A.C. Mazo, Paris Printer : Mourlot, Paris Catalog : [Mourlot 535 p.141-148] 64.50 cm. x 49.50 cm. |...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Andy Warhol's original poster for the 1982 film "Querelle" - Erotic - Cinema
Located in PARIS, FR
Andy Warhol's original poster for the 1982 film "Querelle" is a fascinating fusion of two artistic worlds: cinema and pop culture art. Directed by German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fass...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Rare historic broadside for 1971 Andy Warhol Gotham Bookmart exhibition
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Rare broadside for Gotham Bookmart exhibition "Andy Warhol His Early Works, 1947 - 1959", 1971 Offset lithograph poster 18 × 12 1/2 inches Unframed (not signed) This pos...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Andy Warhol's original poster for the 1982 film "Querelle" - Erotic - Cinema
Located in PARIS, FR
Andy Warhol's original poster for the 1982 film "Querelle" is a fascinating fusion of two artistic worlds: cinema and pop culture art. Directed by German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fass...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Nude with a Fan | Nu à l’eventail
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right corner. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at t...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Place de la Concorde
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Place de la Concorde Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Year: 1953 Edition: 6000 Signed: No Framed ...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

POSTWAR Rare BRILLO Andy WARHOL Index Book Brillo Hologram
Located in New York, NY
An original hard copy of Andy Warhol's Brillo book. 11.25" h x 8.75" w. Wear consistent with age and use. Some wear at corners, as in the images. Andy Warhol, an American artist,...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Unique Polaroid of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, 1975 Polaroid dye-diffusion print Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, bears the Foundation stamp verso Frame in...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid, Ink

Electric Chair
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Electric Chair" F. & S. 81, is a screenprint in colors on wove paper by Andy Warhol. The work is signed verso. This piece is from an edition of 250 + 50 AP, and is one from a portfo...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

L'artiste à la chèvre
Located in Barbizon, FR
"L'artiste à la chèvre" Lithographie originale, 1984, tirée à 50 exemplaires numérotée et signée au crayon par l'artiste. Numéro 10/50. 43 x 33 cm Ref: Mourlot 1026 Label de la Galer...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Campbell's Soup II, Cheddar Cheese (F&S II.63), Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Title: Campbell's Soup II, Cheddar Cheese (F&S II.63) Year: 1969 Edition: 250, plus 26 proofs Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 35 x 23 inches Co...
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1960s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Lovers with Bouquet of Flowers - Original lithograph - 1965
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL Colorful Bouquet of Flowers Stone lithograph in colors (Mourlot workshop) Engraved by Sorlier under the supervision of Marc Chagall Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) INFORMATION : Edited for the portfolio Les Peintres mes amis (Les Heures Claires...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Job In Despair
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Job In Despair Series: Bible Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 13.9" x 10.5" Framed Dimensions: 24" x 20.5" Signature: Unsigned ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Andy Warhol Record Cover Art 1982
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1982 1st pressing, Querelle vinyl album featuring Original Cover Art by Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonne: Paul Marechal: Andy Warhol, The Complete Commissioned Record Covers. Cover: Off-set print of Warhol's original screen print from the same year. 12 x 12 Inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). Minor shelf-wear; otherwise very good overall vintage condition. Record included in very good condition. Warhol credit appears in the lower section of verso (image 3). Looks super cool framed. Further Background: The soundtrack for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film based on Jean Genet's novel "Querelle de Brest." In 1982 Warhol designed a silk-screen image which was issued as a print, used on the poster for the movie, and as cover art for the soundtrack. Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. Related Categories Gay interest. Andy Warhol record art. Warhol vinyl record album. Warhol nude. Warhol men.
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Marc Chagall The Bay of Angels
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall The Bay of Angels Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: The Bay of Angels Portfolio: 1960 Mourlot Lithographe I Year: 1960 Editio...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Chagall At Pace/Columbus - Marc Chagall - Lithography
Located in Winterswijk, NL
"Chagall At Pace/Columbus" by Marc Chagall Exhibition poster Color offset lithography Signed in the print Publisher: Pace Gallery, Columbus
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1970s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Color, Lithograph

Frontispiece from the Jerusalem Windows series
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: Frontispiece from the Jerusalem Windows series Year: 1962 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: 20...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph The Red Rider From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1957 See Mourlot 191 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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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