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Tape Collection, AILA Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
AILA Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides. The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal pas...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me, 2025 22 colour screenprint with varnish overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper 56 x 76 cm (22.04 x 29.92 in) Edi...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

North Shore Motel Steps, Salton Sea, California - Architectural color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel Steps, mid-century architecture photography captured by Richard Heeps as part of his Salton Sea series. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Liquid atomizer anti-shade, ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen

"Pinienhain" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1900 and published in Leipzig, Germany for Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst. This impression is printed on cream wove paper, and the image size is ...
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Early 1900s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

DAVID SHRIGLEY - Just Fly Away. Modern Design Figurative British Artist Blue
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAVID SHRIGLEY - WITNESS MY JOY Date of creation: 2023 Medium: Archival digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper Edition: 125 Size: 76 x 56 cm Condition: In mint condition, brand ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Varnish, Screen

ChagalRoméo et Juliette / Paris, Le Plafond de l'Opéra - Hand-signed "Pour Marc"
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original lithograph poster, printed by Mourlot and engraved by Charles Sorlier, published for the French Government Tourist Office, Paris. Referenced in Sorlier, Chagall’s Posters, n...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Sans titre, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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1950s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jasper Johns 'Edingsville' 1990- Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Edingsville by renowned American artist Jasper Johns, published by Edition 5 in Germany, offers a faithful and striking representation of the original artwork. J...
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1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Dusk from an Airplane, Abstract Aerial Diptych, Giclée, Deep Blue to Yellow Hue
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Unicorn
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: My artistic journey on Burano Island has been a captivating exploration of its vibrant character. While initially drawn to its clotheslines and colourful walls in search of inspiration for my next clothesline animal, I soon discovered that each whimsical house possessed its own unique personality. My work seeks to highlight and amplify these distinctive features, celebrating the island's charm beyond its iconic laundry, embracing the quirks and individuality of every little dwelling. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Helga Stentzel...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper

Paris, Place Du Tertre
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Place Du Tertre" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 183/2...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hand painted Artist's Proof#1 of the only 3-Golden Summer-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
This painting [Golden Summer: Sunlit - Rosa Albertines] was painted Plein Air, in Shizico's own garden of the memorial roses she planted. This is Rosa Albertine, the first Old Engli...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée

Picasso "Toros & Toreros" Photolithography
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This framed Picasso print, is an offset lithographic book plate from a captivating book, entitled Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), which features the iconic artwork of Pablo...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Figura de Pie, Surrealist Mixografia Print by Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Figura de Pie, Year: 1977, Medium: Mixografia, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 91/100, Size: 27.5 x 19.5 in. (69.85 x 49.53 cm), Pr...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Mr. Brainwash "Balloon Girl" Mixed Media
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: Balloon Girl Date: 2025 Medium: Silkscreen and Mixed Media on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 22" x 22" Framed Dimensions: 27.5" x 27.5" Signature: Sig...
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2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Mixed Media

Henri Matisse 'Blue Nude with Green Stockings'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Henri Matisse created Blue Nude with Green Stockings as part of his cut-out series, which he began later in his life, during the 1940s. Specifically, his cut-out technique became pro...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bearden - The Woodshed Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original exhibition poster for Romare Bearden's work titled The Woodshed refers to a piece he created in 1967. The Woodshed depicts a scene filled with rich, layered imagery tha...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Cindy Sherman 'Untitled 2010/2012' 2012- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 4.25 x 6 inches ( 10.795 x 15.24 cm ) Image Size: 4.25 x 6 inches ( 10.795 x 15.24 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling A...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Picasso "Toros & Toreros" Photolithography
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This framed Picasso print, is an offset lithographic book plate from a captivating book, entitled Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), which ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Antar' 1992- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 4.25 x 6 inches ( 10.795 x 15.24 cm ) Image Size: 3.75 x 5.5 inches ( 9.525 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 17.25 x W: 13 x D: 1.25 in. Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: This vintage blank...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Andrew Wyeth 'Karl's Room' 1970- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster features Andrew Wyeth's *Karl's Room*, an intimate and evocative work that captures the quiet, poignant atmosphere of a personal space. Presented in collaboration with th...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

de Staël, Nu debout, Nicolas de Staël, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.83 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Nicolas de Staël, Peintres d'aujourd'hui, 1960. Published by Fernand Hazan, Éditeur, Paris; rendered by Bussière et Nouël, Paris; printed by l'Imprimerie Lecot, Paris, May 1960. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), CCCLXXV examples of this album, numbered from I to CCCLXXV, are accompanied by an unpublished board illustrating a glued paper of the artist and shot on the presses of Daniel Jacomet, in Paris. The illustrations of this album, completed in May 1960, were shot by Bussière and Nouël and printed by the l'Imprimerie Lecot. The text was drawn by l'Imprimerie Damien and the binding made by F.l.A.P. according to the models of Marcel Jacno. Fernand Hazan Éditeur, 35-37, rue de Seine, Paris. 1960. Droits de reproduction réservés A.D.A.G.P. - Paris. NICOLAS DE STAEL (1914-1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. Known for his abstract landscapes and still lifes that uniquely blend colour, form and texture, Nicolas de Staël was fascinated by the world’s many spectacles and documented them through his art. De Staël was born in 1914 into an aristocratic family in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His father served as a cavalry general under Tsar Nicholas II and the family was forced to flee after the Russian Revolution. Both Nicolas’s parents died in the early 1920s, meaning he and his siblings were raised by a foster family in Brussels where he would begin his formal art education at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. De Staël’s early work was influenced by the European avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, including Cubism and Fauvism. However, he soon developed his own distinctive style with thick impasto and a bold use of colour. His early paintings, often sombre in tone, gradually evolved into more vibrant and dynamic compositions, reflecting his growing interest in the emotional and expressive potential of colour and form. In 1938 de Staël had moved to France, where he became an integral part of the post-war Parisian art scene. Having worked initially in the atelier of Fernand Léger, de Staël’s circle of friends came to include Sonia Delaunay, Le Corbusier and Jean Arp, who encouraged his tendencies towards abstract work. His work during this period marked a significant departure from traditional representation, moving towards abstraction while maintaining a strong sense of structure and form. De Staël's paintings from this era showcase his ability to balance abstraction with figuration, using broad, gestural strokes and a vibrant palette to convey movement and energy. What truly set de Staël apart, though, was the step he took beyond abstraction. This came with his football paintings...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78), Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after) Title: Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78) Year: 1987 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches cotton rag paper Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 70/80, a...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Paris : Saint Germain des Pres - Original Lithograph Handsigned and Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Urbain HUCHET Paris : Saint Germain des Pres, c. 1980 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil by the artist Numbered / 350 copies On Arches velllum 15 x 18 cm (c. 6 x 7 in) Excell...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Songs of Songs, Hand-Signed Lithograph Poster after Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - The Songs of Songs, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in color pencil lower right, Edition: 8500, Size: 30 x 20.25 in. (7...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Cocteau, Mesure hermétique, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picotees, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Picotees' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand ...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sans titre (Cramer 49; Mourlot 365), Marc Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.428 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagal...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Alberto Giacometti 'Femme Qui Marche I' 2019
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This museum poster, created for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, captures Femme Qui Marche I, one of Alberto Giacometti’s most iconic sculptures, positioned at the end of a hallwa...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

SUR LA PLAGE, a BERNEVAL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOR (1841 - 1919) SUR LA PLAGE, a BERNEVAL (D.: S. 5) Drypoint on laid paper. The plate was created in c. 1892. Plate 5 3/8 x 3 3/4". Sheet 11 1/4 x 10 1/8". This...
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1890s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Grande Guerre - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1954 oil on canvas by René Magritte, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Magritte...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue No. 188) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 22 inches (380 x 560 mm). There is a ce...
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1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Hardware Store' 1992- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 4.25 x 6 inches ( 10.795 x 15.24 cm ) Image Size: 3.75 x 5.75 inches ( 9.525 x 14.605 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 17.25 x W: 13 x D: 1.25 in. Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: This vintage blank...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Victor Vasarely 1980s Optical Illusion Serigraph
Located in New York, NY
Victor Vasarely (Hungarian/French, 1906-1997) Enigma, Four Blue Spheres Serigraph Sight: 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. Framed: 34 1/3 x 33 1/2 x 1 in. Numbered lower left: 74/125 Signed lower ...
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1980s Op Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Alexander Calder, 'Skybird' from Flying Colors suite 1974-1975
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title: "Skybird" (from the Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection) Year: 1974-75 Medium: Lithographs on Arches paper Size: 20 x 2...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Best Version Of Yourself by Jisbar (2023) Pop Art for Sale
Located in Winterswijk, NL
"The Best Version Of Yourself" by Jisbar/ Jean-Baptiste Launay is a pop-art, street style UV print on cardboard Dibond (0.3 cm) created in 2023. The artwork is hand signed, dated, a...
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2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Color

La Place de la Concorde
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a part of my private collection from the early 1970's. It is artist pencil signed in the lower right corner, and numbered in the lower left. Published : Guild de l...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Oil, Lithograph

Laburnum, English antique yellow flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Laburnum' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur bota...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Homage to the Square - P1, F19, I1, Framed Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 1, Folder 19, Image 1 " from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origi...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Le débarquement
Located in OPOLE, PL
Jean Carzou (1907-2000) - Le débarquement Lithograph from 1966. Dedicated to Pierre Sorlier, on Arches paper. Dimensions of work: 77.7 x 62.2 cm. Hand signed. The work is in Exc...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Encircled' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Encircled', engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '5/50' in pencil. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDIT...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Blue Pacific Foamy Shorelines, Horizontal Calm Seascape, Minimal Waterscape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Pacific Foamy Shoreline" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying a smooth wave reaching the shore. Details: + Title: Pa...
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2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Lithograph, Paper

August Moon-Unit of One only Proof-Hand painted-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf
Located in London, GB
This is a large, hand-painted oil and hand gilded gold leaf Artist’s Proof on giclée paper; it is a one-off piece, the only hand painted proof of this image, Unit of one. Its strikin...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

Room 102 - Collector Portfolio # 6 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always being more obsessed with aesthetics than with simulacrum. If he worships more than one of these predecessors who poured into more outrage, it is freely that he suggests to the imagination to imagine without capturing the fantasy of the viewer. The choice had been made of very high quality prints: cotton fiber base baryta paper without chlorine and high grammage (310 gr / m²), pigment inks. They carry on the back an authentication label signed by Eric Ceccarini The enhancement of this limited edition of 100 copies is ensured by the use of a unique high-quality box to keep the 12 fine art prints This is edition #1/100 Eric is a Belgian artist born in 1965. He gained a Degree in Photography from INFAC, Brussels in 1987. Since then he has been a fashion photographer working with many of the top houses. Elle, Marie-Claire, L'Oréal, Levi's, Coca Cola, Virgin, Saab, Delvaux, Lowe Lintas and Ogilvy are some of his clients. Among other distinctions, his photography for the Saab cabrio 9-3 campaign was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Eric is set apart from many of his colleagues by his way of shunning technical artifice and working in natural light. This results in soft, velvety, almost painterly images. Nowadays in his artistic works, he captures women's essence and soul, transcending mere physical representation. Eric's "AMNIOS" series of soul portraits- the model appear in suspended animation, as if they were about to born, and full of hidden secrets. This represents a new conceptual departure for Eric, who began as a fashion photographer, moving on to classic artistic nudes...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment, Rag Paper

Edward Hopper 'Sun on Prospect Street' 2010- Offset Lithograph
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm ) Image Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 14 x W: 18 x D: .75 in. Condition: A: Mint Additiona...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 1957 poster by the German National Tourist Office in Paris - Baviere
Located in PARIS, FR
This elegant original 1957 lithographic poster was commissioned by the German National Tourist Office in Paris to promote travel to Bavaria (“Bavière” in French). It captures the reg...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Blake Edwards 'The Pink Panther Enjoying Someone Else's Sandwich' 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 22 x 28 inches ( 55.88 x 71.12 cm ) Image Size: 22 x 28 inches ( 55.88 x 71.12 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1961 for Derrière le Miroir (issue number 124) and published in Paris by Maeght. Image size: 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 15 x 11 inches (37...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Travel : Boat on the Sea - Original etching with aquatint
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre Alechinsky Travel : Boat on the Sea, 1998 Original etching with aquatint Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 63 x 92 cm (c. 25 x 37 in) Authenticated with the blind stamp of chalcog...
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1990s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Train Tracks (Green)
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan Train Tracks, 2010 Giclee on Hahnemuhle 350gsm Museum etching paper hand-signed and numbered by the artist Sheet: 70 x 56 cm Image: 54.5 x 40 cm Edition of 295 Acknowledge...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Pumpkin sculpture with holes By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Pumpkin sculpture with holes By Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist known for her avant-garde and immersive installations, often featuring polka dots and mi...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Edward Hopper 'Eleven A.M.' 2010- Offset Lithograph
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 13.25 x 17 inches ( 33.655 x 43.18 cm ) Image Size: 13.25 x 17 inches ( 33.655 x 43.18 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 14.25 x W: 18 x D: .75 in. Condition: A: Mint ...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Le clown au fond rouge" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1968 by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (310 x 240 mm). There is printed text on the back, as issued. Signed ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Yoshitomo Nara - In the Pink Water
Located in London, GB
Yoshitomo Nara In the Pink Water, 2021 Offset lithograph on paper Sheet size: 72.8 x 51.5 cm Stamped with title, artist's name, copyright and year Unnumbered Sold Out edition pub...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Pumpkin (White T)
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 102 of 120 83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in) Signed, titled, dated and numbered on front Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Only visible under stud...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Picasso Cote D'Azur Poster- Original Lithograph- 1962 VINTAGE
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Côte d'Azur is a lithograph designed by Pablo Picasso in collaboration with Henri Deschamps, depicting a view from Picasso's balcony overlooking the Côte d'Azur. Created in 1962, thi...
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1960s Cubist 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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