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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Robert Motherwell
Artist: Robert Bechtle
Samurai
Located in London, GB
Signature: Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right
Edition: 16
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Greenwich Arts Council Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992)
Title: "Greenwich Arts Council"
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) center right
Year: 1976
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Strathmore paper
Limited edition: 700. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 42)
Printer: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY
Publisher: Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap Appendix: No. 28, page 282; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 202
Sheet size: 37.25" x 23"
Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Printed in three colors: black, green, and cream. Poster produced for a special exhibition "Sculpture 76" at The Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT from June - October, 1976. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1972 acrylic painting on paper "Greenwich Sculpture". Artist's copyright lower left and printer's imprint lower right.
GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.
Biography:
Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Africa Suite #10
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Tricolor (from XXe Siecle)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell
Title: Tricolor (from XXe Siecle)
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1973
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 18 1/2" x 16 1/2"
Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 10 1/2"
Signature: U...
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Summertime in Italy (With Lines)
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century.
Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction.
His work appears in museum collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. Yet in addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as a printmaker. He is one of the most innovative and prolific printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques, whether at his own printmaking atelier or collaborating with others, to expand his ideas and express his aesthetic.
In the 1960s, Motherwell visited Italy on vacation with his then-wife, Helen Frankenthaler. Motherwell became enamoured with the Italianate landscape and the mountainous terrain of the Liguria region, which inspired a series of paintings, "Summertime in Italy...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VI
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar to...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Grey Open
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Return, from the Octavio Paz Suite (unique signed position proof) Engberg/Banach
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
Return, from the Octavio Paz Suite, 1988
Lithograph and chine appliqué on watermarked Japanese Gampi hand made paper applied on Arches paper
Hand-signed by artist, ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
American – La France Variations VII, Ed./68
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Robert Motherwell was an American artist and seminal Abstract Expressionist painter. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Galler...
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
London Series II: Untitled (Blue/Pale Blue)
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 150
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Black Sun
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph with Chine applique. One of ten Roman numeral artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed and numbered IX/X in pencil by Mot...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Seaside Studio
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Primal Sign II
Located in New York, NY
Primal Sign II, 1979-1980
Etching, aquatint
23 x 10’’
Edition of 45
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Razor's Edge
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this scarce color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 27/36 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Catherine Mousley in t...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Black for Mozart
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Black for Mozart
1991
Lithograph and collage, Edition 23/40
162.6 x 104.1 cms (64 x 41 ins)
RM15195
Paper: White Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper; white Ri...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph
The Basque Suite #2
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 134/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlboro...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Screen
Elegy Black Black, a beautiful lithography from Motherwell's elegy series
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy Black Black
1983
Lithograph in colors, on TGL handmade paper, Edition of 98< AP XI/XVI
38.1 x 95.9 cms (15 x 37 4/5 ins)
extract from the catalogue raisonné...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Put out All Flags
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 22/50 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Catherine Mosley in the arti...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
The Poet's Eye
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
The Poet's Eye
1990
Aquatint and carborundum in black and blue, on J. Whatman paper, Edition of 35
Image size: 45.1 x 60.3 cms (17 3/4 x 23 3/4 ins)
Sheet size: 64....
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
The Dalton Print
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph by Motherwell. Initialed and numbered 40/150 by the artist in pencil. Printed by Tyler Graphics Ltd., New York, with the blind stamp lower r...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins)
Edition of 32
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
America-La France Variations VI
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Basque Suite: Untitled
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
America La France Variations III
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters who radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City.
Today, his work appears in museum colle...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Suite 1 (Spring)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite I (Spring)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
48.9 x 48.9 cms (19 1/4 x 19 1/4 ins)
RM17031
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pull Out All Flags (Engberg Banach 263) iconic abstract expressionist work 33/50
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
Pull Out All Flags (Engberg, Banach 263), 1980
Aquatint and etching in colors, on German Etching paper, with full margins
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed and n...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Etching, Aquatint, Pencil, Graphite
"American - La France Variation VIII"
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Robert Motherwell
American - La France Variation VIII
Lithograph in colors from five aluminum plates with collage in Arches, 1984
Arches collaged on Oatmeal Australian Bemboka hand...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
No. 1 from Three Poems (Red Wind), Framed Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
No. 1 from Three Poems (Red Wind) by Robert Motherwell, American (1915–1991)
Portfolio: Three Poems - Octavio Paz
Date: 1988
Lithograph on Masa Dosa paper, mounted to board
Edition o...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
The Quarrel (Belknap 294; Engberg & Banach 318)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
The Quarrel (Belknap 294; Engberg & Banach 318), 1983
Lithograph in colors on Arches cover mould paper
Hand signed and numbered 1/100 in graphite on the front with publisher's distinctive blind stamp. Accompanied by original Tyler Graphics label
40 × 25 1/2 inches
Unframed
Hand signed and numbered in graphite on the front with publisher's distinctive blind stamp. The work has been removed from its original frame, but the back board has been kept bearing the original label from the publisher, Tyler Graphics, New York.
There is no better art work for kissing and making up than "The Quarrel"!
This rare Robert Motherwell lithograph...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Peace Portfolio I: Untitled /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991)
Title: "Peace Portfolio I: Untitled"
Portfolio: Peace Portfolio I
*Signed and numbered by Motherwell in...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
The Basque Suite #10
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 115/150 in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Published...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Screen
Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary, Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Motherwell’s vibrant red lithograph features a collage-like composition with an intense contrast of black and red on top of sheet music.
Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Delos
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on TGL handmade paper. Initialed and numbered 6/40 in pencil. Printed and published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, with the bli...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Tricolor with Dollar - Original lithograph (Mourlot 1973)
Located in Paris, FR
Robert MOTHERWELL
Tricolor with Dollar, 1973
Original lithograph
(Printed in Mourlot workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch)
Edited by ...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary, Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary
Year: 1991
Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint on ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Untitled (From the Flight Portfolio), by Robert Motherwell, Screen print
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This screen print by Robert Motherwell, Untitled (from the Flight Portfolio) was printed on Arches Imperial paper in 1970. The print is hand signed in pencil and numbered 239/250 by ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Africa Suite #6
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Art 1981 Chicago Print (Signed and Numbered) 79/150
Located in Three Oaks, MI
This classic lithograph by renowned artist Robert Motherwell was created for the 1981 art Chicago show at Navy Pier. Motherwell was known for his bold forms and vibrant colors, makin...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Tricolor" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Belknap 24 (appendix). Printed in 1973 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inch...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Red) /// Abstract Expressionism Robert Motherwell Screenprint Minimal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991)
Title: "Untitled (Red)"
Portfolio: London Series I
*Signed by Motherwell in pencil lower right. It is also signed in the plate (printed signature) upper left
Year: 1971
Medium: Original Screenprint on J. B. Green Double Elephant paper
Limited edition: 32/150, (there were also 10 artist's proofs)
Printer: Chris Prater of Kelpra Studio, London, UK
Publisher: Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York, NY
Reference: Belknap No. 62, page 176-177; Engberg No. 90
Framing: Within its original frame - the artwork is floated, framed in a gold contemporary moulding with black fabric matting and gold filet
Framed size: 51.38" x 38.38"
Sheet size: 41.25" x 28.25"
Image size: 36.25" 24.13"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Detroit, MI; acquired from GMB Gallery Inc., Birmingham, MI in 1982 retaining its original receipt and appraisal. Numbered by Motherwell in pencil lower right. Comes from Motherwell's 1970-1971 "London Series" portfolio of 5 screenprints, (Belknap No. 60-64, page 176-177). The five works include "Untitled (Orange...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Spoleto Festival Italy mixed media etching & screenprint pencil signed 71/150
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
Spoleto Festival, 1968
Silkscreen on American Etching Paper
Signed and numbered 71/150 in graphite pencil on the front
Literature:
Reference: Fig 60 in Motherwell "...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Screen, Mixed Media, Pencil
"Untitled" Robert Motherwell from the Portfolio of Nine
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Robert Motherwell
Untitled (from Portfolio 9), 1967
Lithograph, 1967
22.25 x 17.25 in. (56.52 x 43.82 cm.)
Signed; lower left with artist's trademark initials; numbered,
Publisher...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
America-La France (Variation IX)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Robert Motherwell
Title: America-La France (Variation IX)
Year: 1983-84
Medium: Lithograph and collage elements on Oatmeal Australian Bemboka HMP; hand signed and numbered i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Rites of Passage II
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century.
Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction.
His work appears in museum collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. Yet in addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as a printmaker. He is one of the most innovative and prolific printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques, whether at his own printmaking atelier, or collaborating with others, to expand his ideas and express his aesthetic.
This print, along with "El General", was created at Tyler Graphics in 1979.
"Rites of Passage II...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Basque Suite #2
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Red Sea I
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint and lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper. Signed and numbered 15/100 by Motherwell. There are 20 artist proofs, number...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Three Poems: Burnt Water
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 10 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Limited Edition Lithograph as Exhibition Catalogue Cover, Signed and Dedicated
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
Limited Edition Lithograph as Exhibition Catalogue Cover, Signed and Dedicated to Jacqueline Brody (Editor of the Print Collectors' Newsletter), 1974
Lithograph on Limited Edition Catalogue, Ink Signed and Dedicated
10 x 24 inches
Boldly signed n 1974 and dedicated in black felt tip pen to Jacqueline Brody, editor of the Print Collectors Newsletter from 1972 - 1996.
This poignant 1974 Robert Motherwell lithograph...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Offset
Three Poems: Nocturne V, Framed Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 6 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
I...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Primal Sign V (Copper)
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce color aquatint on Arches Cover. Initialed and numbered 15/28 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Catherine Mosley at the artist's ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Aquatint
Palo Alto
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Primal Sign VI (Moss)
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint and lift-ground etching on Arches cover paper. Initialed and numbered 3/32 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Catherine Mosley at the a...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Baque Suite #7
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Three Poems: Nocturne III
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 3 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
I...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Tricolor 137
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Date: 1973
Lithograph, signed in the plate
Image Size: 12 x 9 inches
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Persian II
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
No. 6 from Three Poems
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 2 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
...
Category
1980s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, 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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