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Prints and Multiples For Sale
"Les amoureux et luna park II"
Located in Warren, NJ
Frame: 47.5 x 39.5 x 2 Picture: 32.5 x 22.5 Frame has a lot of ware Picture itself is in excellent condition
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Olympia - Poster - Vintage Poster by Francesco Clemente - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Olympia - Poster is a vintage poster realized by the italian artist Francesco Clemente (Naples, 1952) in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984. Very good co...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Kandinsky, Lyrisch, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miro...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ignore the Ghosts
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley Ignore the Ghosts, 2022 Screenprint in eleven colours with varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub Sized 410gsm paper Signed by the artist and numbered, on verso 76 x 56...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Butterflies, late 19th century antique natural history colour lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. 2. Delias eucharis 3. Delias philyra' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Portrait de Nadia - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Monogrammed in the plate. It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

THE LAMP Vintage Lithograph Poster, 1st Printing 1984, Civil Rights, Justice
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN 1970-1980 THE LAMP (after the 1984 collage on board by Bearden) Vintage 1984 Commemorative Poster - Brown v. Board of Education 30 Years later: "The Politics of Excel...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

1968 After Marc Chagall 'The Bluebird'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 30 x 20 inches ( 76.2 x 50.8 cm ) Image Size: 22 x 17 inches ( 55.88 x 43.18 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Detai...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Plaza, Sunset Glow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Plaza, Sunset Glow', drypoint, c. 1920s, edition not stated. Signed in pencil and initialed in the plate, lower right. Titled 'The Plaza, Sunset' and annotated 'no. 165' in ink, in the bottom left sheet corner. A superb, luminous impression in dark brown ink, with selectively wiped plate tone; on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/4 inches). Pale tape stains on the top sheet edge, recto, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A view across 'The Pond' in New York City's Central Park, toward Grand Army Plaza...
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1920s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Ève Maudite par Dieu (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tribute to the Victims (Viet Nam) - Lithograph, 1967
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Calder (1898 - 1976) Tribute to the Victims, 1967 Lithograph on offset background (Arte atelier) Printed signature in the plate On paper 75 x 44.5 cm (c. 29.5 x 17.3 inch) Original vintage poster INFORMATION: Published by Maeght on the occasion of the artist's exhibition "Pour le Viet Nam...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Irving Penn 'Woman in Chicken Hat' 2024- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39 x 24 inches ( 99.06 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 23 x 22 inches ( 58.42 x 55.88 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

KAWS, Blame Game, 2014, Screen print, Printers proof edition of 5
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Printers proof 2 of an edition of 5, aside from the main edition of 100 88.8 x 58.4 cm (34.9 x 23 in) Framed: 101 x 70.5 cm with Acrylic Signed and dated on the front Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Sans titre (Mourlot 1708), Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 33 inches, with bifold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Miró, Joan, et al. Joan...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Photolithograph print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi created in 1932. The signature by the artist is perfectly reproduced on the plate and d...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Portrait of James McBey.
Located in Storrs, CT
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

L'Amazone, Modern Lithograph after Amedeo Modigliani
Located in Long Island City, NY
Amedeo Modigliani, After, Italian (1884 - 1920) - L'Amazone, Year: of original: 1909, Medium: Lithograph, stamp signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 101/150, Size: 30.25 x 22....
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Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "For Your Boy, YMCA, vintage WW1 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. YMCA for Your Boy. Acid-free original vintage poster in excellent condition with archival linen backing, ready to frame. Certificate o...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

L’écuyère au cheval rouge (Mourlot 191), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand, and Marc Chagall...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, 4.5.64. IV (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

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Robert Motherwell Mostly Mozart Festival, 1991 First Edition Screen Print
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First edition screen-print designed and created by Robert Motherwell for the Mostly Mozart Festival presented at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in 1991. ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Plastic Taste
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper

Hadrian's Mausoleum, Castel S. Angelo: A Framed 18th Century Etching by Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriana ora chiamato Castello S. Angelo nella parte opposta alla Facciata de...
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1750s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Paradise: Canto 4 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Paradise: Canto 4 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Medium: Woodblock engraving Date: 1963 Edition: 4765 Frame Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4" Sheet Size: 1...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

1983 After Sondra Freckelton 'Celebration' Contemporary Lithograph
By Sondra Freckelton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 34.25 x 25 inches ( 86.995 x 63.5 cm ) Image Size: 28 x 23.5 inches ( 71.12 x 59.69 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shippin...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rococo interior design and furniture, German mid 18th century etching
By Franz Xaver Habermann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo interior design and furniture, etching, by Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796), circa 1750. Lettered 'F. X. Haberman, inv. et del. loh. Georg Hertel, excud : Aug. Vind., number...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching

Carte Pour Servir a l'Histoire Philosophique.. - Etching by Rigobert Bonne- 1780
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper. From Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, Geneva 1780. This interestin...
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1780s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Fernand Leger 'Still Life with Beer Mug' 2000- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.5 x 23.5 inches ( 80.01 x 59.69 cm ) Image Size: 24.5 x 16 inches ( 62.23 x 40.64 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addition...
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Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

The World
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley The World, 2021 Screenprint in eight colours with a varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm paper hand-signed by the artist and numbered, on the back of th...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Color

Matisse, Nu Bleu VI (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962) - Framed Early 20th Century Etching, Hecklehornflect
Located in Corsham, GB
An original etching by the well-listed Austro-Hungarian printmaker Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962). Signed and inscribed to the lower margin. Dated 1914. Presented in a black frame with gi...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Pool Slide, Las Vegas, Nevada - American pop art color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Pool Slide, from Richard Heeps Dream in Color series. This fun original artwork really shows Richard's unique eye as a photographer, creating this kitsch pop-art picture from an Amer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Henley-bridge, Oxon, Thames, late 18th century English sepia aquatint, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Henley-bridge, Oxon' Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aqua...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Winter Moon Rising - large scale photograph of abstract nocturnal California sky
Located in San Francisco, CA
Winter Moon Rising by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 40 x 32 inches / 102cm x 81cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print li...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Lithographie Originale (Cover)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale (Cover) Color Lithograph Year: 1981 Size: 15.6 × 12.75 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer 177, Der Lithograph IV, 1969-1972, Ref.: 1255, p.178 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France With coverfold, recto - as issued Recto, right: Typographically annotated: 'Lithographie Originale' Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size COA provided --------------------------------------- Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981 Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

THE MILKY WAY CIRCLE (Limited Edition of Only 30 Prints)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**Annual Summer Sale Until August 31st** **This Offer Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Tale Advantage of it** **Please read the information carefully** Of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Giclée

Untitled Zwirner Gallery exhibition poster for Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama Offset lithograph poster, 2017 Published by David Zwirner Unframed, with original folds as issued (see photo) Gorgeous Yayoi Kusama offset lithograph poster published b...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

1982 original poster by Keith Haring - "One man show"
Located in PARIS, FR
This striking 1982 original poster by Keith Haring was created to promote one of his earliest solo exhibitions — a defining moment in the meteoric rise of one of the most influential...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1955 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, and published by the Artists Equity Association of New York in an edition of 2000...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled (Woman), 2010 - Hand-Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The etching Woman by Kerry James Marshall, published by Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, California, is a limited edition work, signed and numbered 30/50 by the artist. Presented ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Head and Arm Study)
Located in New York, NY
James Childs (1945-2020) 2012 Signed and dated, l.l. Graphite and charcoal on paper 24 x 19 inches Contact gallery for price.
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

Le Soleil de Paris (after) Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is additionally hand numbered in pencil, edition 133/150, at the lower left margi...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jasper Johns-Green Angel-ORIGINAL POSTER
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: AW1633 Artist: Jasper Johns Title: Paintings and Drawings (Green Angel) Year: 1990 Signed: No Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 39 x 26 inches ( 99.06 x 66.04 cm ) Image Siz...
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20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Destinations (Flatiron Bidg, 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Destinations", Frederick Mershimer creates an image of taxis rushing by the Fuller Building, better known as Flatiron Building. The building is only six feet wide at its rounded...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

Walled Off Hotel Flower Thrower Wall Sculpture
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Super iconic and instantly recognizable Flower Thrower image featured on this Banksy Walled Off Hotel wall sculpture. This image was originally painted by Banksy in the West Bank are...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Costruzione Arancio - Lithograph by Luigi Veronesi - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The proposed print is a lithograph with a print run of 99 copies, in very good condition. On the lithograph are the print number in the lower margins with its print run and the hand...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Silkscreen from the estate of Stephen Poleskie, Berggruen 11, Clark 12 Harrison
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Untitled, from the estate of Stephen Poleskie (Berggruen 11, Clark 12, Harrison and Boorsch 11), 1967 Color silkscreen on wove paper Unframed A unique unsigned pr...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Champignons, French antique mushroom chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'256 Marcella rotunda' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of Fren...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Lithograph

Original LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTISH RAILWAY - LMS, 1925 vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) vintage Art Deco railway poster from 1925. The artist is Raymond Virac. Archival linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to ...
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1920s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Seven Sculptural Ideas - Lithograph by Henry Moore - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and dated. Edition of 65 prints. Very good condition.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Saitn Moritz, 1929
Located in OPOLE, PL
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) - Saitn Moritz, 1929 Giclée from 2023. The edition no. 3 out of 100. Dimensions of sheet: 70 x 52.5 cm Dimensions in frame: 87.5 x 69.8 cm Publish...
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2010s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

FLOWERS - Exhibited in 1997 Smithsonian Monotype Exhibition
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945) (FLOWERS) 1919 Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½” Monotypes are unique works of art that fall between printmaking a...
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1810s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Untitled Abstract Picture (one plate) - artist authorized print on GardaMatt Art
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002 Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper Limited Edition edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches Unframed Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters Oil on Aluminum abstract picture) More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Stephen Sondheim Tony Awards Broadway Musical Theatre NYT Published
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Sondheim Tony Awards Broadway Musical Theatre NYT Published Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Stephen Sondheim Lithograph on paper Sight 21 x 15 inches Signed lower right, numbere...
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1980s Performance Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Composition, Hiroshima, Jacob Lawrence
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen in eleven colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.81 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Hiroshima, 1983. Published by Th...
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1980s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1973 After Marc Chagall 'The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote)' 2nd Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 38.5 x 25.75 inches ( 97.79 x 65.405 cm ) Image Size: 38.5 x 25.75 inches ( 97.79 x 65.405 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Ad...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Milkshakes, Parys, the Free State - Pop art color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
The seductive blue sky and the seductive milkshakes make you feel as if you are sitting in the car at this "Americana style" Roadhouse in Welkom, South Africa. It is typical of Richa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

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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