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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Artist: Gerard Razzia
Pablo Picasso 'Picador' (A. R. 289) Madoura Ceramic Bowl 1955
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 289) Terre de faïence bowl, 1955, from the edition of 500, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', partially glazed and painted.
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso 'Visage de faune' (A. R. 283) Face of a Faun Madoura Plate 1955
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Visage de faune (A. R. 283) Terre de faïence plate, 1955, from the edition on 150, with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Silver

Los Banderillos
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Los Banderillos Lithograph from 1961. Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm. Reference: Bloch 1016; Cramer 113.IV. Printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris. ...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Homme et Femme - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. With an handwritten dedication of the artist. Etching and Aquatint . Bloch n. 1385. This beautiful etching is dedicated to Michel Lessens, the talented assist...
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1960s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

La Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Le Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle Medium: Original etching with sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint on Vidalon paper with Vollard...
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1940s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Pablo Picasso 'Visage No. 127' (A. R. 478) Madoura Face Plate
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Visage No. 127 (A. R. 478) Terre de faïence plate, 1963, numbered 93/150, titled, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', glazed and painted.
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Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXX
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXX Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in f...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

De mémoir d'homme, , Planche II
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - De mémoir d'homme, , Planche II Lithograph from 1950. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 350. Dimensions of work: 32 x 25 cm Publisher: Édit...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs Etching and aquatint from 1966. The edition of III/X. Dimensions of work: 57.5 x 46 cm. Hand signed. Publisher: G...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Notre-Dame
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Notre-Dame Lithograph from 1957. The edition no. 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm. Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Édite...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Portrait de Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Portrait de Jacqueline Lithograph from 1967. The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper. With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Minoutaure et nue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minoutaure et nue Lithograph from 1967. The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper. With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the p...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline Lithograph from 1964. Dimensions of work: 30 x 27 cm. Plate signed. Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris. The work is in Excellent cond...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and s...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hibou noir perché, Picasso, Ceramic, Design, Madoura, 1950's
Located in Geneva, CH
Hibou noir perché 07.05.1957 Ed. 52/100 pcs Red earthenware clay, engobe decoration, knife engraved D. 44.2 cm I D. 50 cm (with frame) Stamped, marked and numbered : Edition Picasso,...
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20th Century Post-War Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Faience

The Vulture. 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.341)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Vulture is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Pablo Picasso 'Centaure' (A. R. 338) Madoura Ceramic Plate 1956
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Centaure (A. R. 338) Terre de faïence plate, 1956, numbered 18/100 and incised 'C112', with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic

Figure
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Figure Lithograph from 1957. The edition no. 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm. Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Éditeur, ...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse), 1959
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Considered to be one of Picasso’s monumental linoleum prints, Pablo Picasso Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse), 1959 is a large-scale artwork that captures the essence of this artist’s innovation and minimalist creativity. His simple lines curve and undulated together to form the characters of the piece: the woman – feminine and robust, the horse – whimsical and characteristic, and the picador – strong and masculine. All three subjects create a triad composition making way for a harmonious and balanced piece. The entire work exudes an air of femininity and mystery, all set against a backdrop of a misty grey helping to create Picasso’s sensual environment of intrigue. Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse) is a color linocut on Arches paper hand-signed by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered 21/50 in pencil in the lower left margin, this work was printed by Arnéra, Vallauris and published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Catalogue Raisonné: Pablo Picasso Picador, Woman, and Horse (Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme), 1959 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work): 1. Baer, Bridgette. Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Tome V – Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre grave et des monotypes, Berne: Editions Kornfeld, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 1238. 2. Bloch, Georges. Picasso Catalogue de l'ouvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I. Kornfeld et Cie: Switzerland, 1968. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 913. 3. Boeck, W., intr. Pablo Picasso Linoleum...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

André Breton (Cramer 12; Bloch 63), Clair de Terre, Pablo Picasso
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Clair de Terre, avec un portrait par Pablo Picasso, 1923. Published by André Breto...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Joie de vivre' (A. R. 346) Joy of Life Madoura Plate 1956
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Joie de vivre' (A. R. 346) Terre de faïence dish, 1956, numbered 48/100, with the workshop numbering, with the Madoura and Empreinte Originale de Picasso...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXXIX
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXXIX Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso 'Picador' (A. R. 201) Variant Bullfighter Madoura Plate
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 201 V) Terre de faïence plate, 1953, from the edition of 200, inscribed 'Edition Picasso', partially glazed and painted, with the Edition ...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Le Cocu Magnifique -- complete with 12 original etchings
Located in New York, NY
About In-folio Oblong Dimensions : 29x39 cm. Paris Atelier Crommelynck 1968 Edition #41 of 200 copies including 12 original out-of-text etchings (7 etchings, 4 etchings and aquatint...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and s...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jeune faune, femme et enfant
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jeune faune, femme et enfant Lithograph from 1967. The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper. With two watermarks - one of the paper, seco...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lithograph by Picasso for his exhibition Céramiques et Pates blanches
Located in PARIS, FR
Color lithograph by Picasso for his exhibition of "Céramiques et pates blanches" at the Musée Municipal d'Art Moderne in Céret. The Musée Municipal d'Art Moderne in Céret (in the so...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Pablo Picasso 'Tête de faune' Unique
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Tête de faune (Unique) Wax crayon on ceramic; tomette (floor tile). This work is unique. Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work. Prov...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Le Vieux Roi
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Vieux Roi" 1959 is an original Lithograph on Arches paper with Mourlot watermark. by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973. It is stamp signed in red ink a...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Woman with Monkey
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Woman with Monkey Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and se...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Deux Vieux au Bord de la Mer
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Deux Vieux au Bord de la Mer Medium: Original etching Portfolio: Lysistrata Year: 1934 Edition: 1500 Signature: No (signed and numbered on the justificat...
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1930s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Oiseau No. 76' (A. R. 481) Bird Madoura Plate 1963
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Oiseau No. 76 (A. R. 481) Terre de faïence plate, painted in colors and partially glazed, 1963, numbered 116/200 and inscribed 'No 76', 'Edition Picasso' ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Picasso Pablo - XIIIeme Salon de Mai 1956 - Poster - Exhibition
Located in PARIS, FR
This exhibition poster by #Picasso commemorates the thirteenth May Salon in 1957, which was held at the Museum of Modern Art. On this poster, we find an iconic work "the torso of a woman" better known as "the Egyptian. The Salon de Mai was an annual exhibition organized by a group of French artists who first met in 1943 in a café in Paris...
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1950s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961. Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jesus
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Matadores Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961. Dimensions of sheet: 38 x 27.5 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'A...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961. Dimensions of sheet: 27 x 37.9 cm Dimensions in frame: 43.2 x 53.2 cm Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Suerte de Picador
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Suerte de Picador Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961. Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Éditions Ce...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Bleus de Barcelone - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint on wove paper, full margins. Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 70/75. Belongs to the series "Les Bleus de Barcelone". Excellent condition. Ref. Bloch no. 1130.
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1960s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

The Basket
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Basket Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Minotaur
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minotaur Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Four Ballet Dancers
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Four Ballet Dancers Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Coloured lithograph on paper - 1970
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph from the serie ‘Portraits Imaginaires’ Published by Georges Salinas, 1970. Edition: 250 for France (F) and 250 for America (A) Signed in the stone, numbered (A 11/25...
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1970s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970 showcases a beautifully crisp work of art that Picasso imaginatively creates. Simple and ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Corrida' (A. R. 181) Bullrider Madoura Plate 1953
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Corrida (A. R. 181) Terre de faïence dish, 1953, from the edition of 200, glazed and painted, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso and Madoura stamps.
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze

Cinesias et Sa Famille
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Cinesias et Sa Famille Medium: Original etching Portfolio: Lysistrata Year: 1934 Edition: 1500 Signature: No (signed and numbered on the justification pa...
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1930s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
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1930s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Les Saltimbanques
Located in Wien, 9
Pablo Picasso's ,,Les Saltimbanques" is a captivating drypoint etching created in 1905. The work is unnumbered and part of the catalog raisonné. The artwork explores the lives of cir...
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Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Pablo Picasso 'Frise gravée' Unique
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Frise gravée (Unique) Unique Plaster mould. Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work. Provenance: Marina Picasso
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic

Nature Morte au Pot de Grès - Lithograph by Pablo Picasso - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed in red pencil and numbered. Dated in plate. Edition 14/50. On Arches Wove Paper. Excellent condition. Reference: Bloch n.443; Mourlot 86.
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1940s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XL
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XL Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in fr...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche LI
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LI Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in fr...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXII Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XVI
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XVI Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in f...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rembrandt à la Palette
Located in Wien, 9
- etching on Montval laid - with Vollard watermark paper - Number 34 from the Suite Vollard - Exhibited: Picasso and the 20th Century, Grand Rapids Museum, MI 2002 No.18 - Unsigned ...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIV
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXIV Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XVIII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XVIII Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche II
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche II Lithograph from 1949. A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included). On...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXV
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXV Lithograph from 1970. An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in f...
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1970s Modern 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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