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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1980s
Bandstand I, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...
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1980s Post-War Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Keith Haring Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse is a 1988 vintage offset lithograph postcard, published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood fram...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Judy Chicago poster (Hand signed and inscribed) feminist art
Located in New York, NY
Accidents, Injuries and other Calamities poster Judy Chicago (Hand signed and inscribed), 1988 Offset lithograph on thin board (signed and inscribed by Judy Chicago) 26 × 20 1/4 inch...
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1980s Feminist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset, Pencil

The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored lithograph entitled "Pyramids of Geezeh" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in Lon...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Monica with Tulips
Located in Malmo, SE
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) Monica with Tulips (1989) Signed and numbered AP 4/12 (aside the edition of 100) signed in the lower right Screenprint in colours on Museum Board. Publ...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Board, Screen

Original 1980s Keith Haring Pop Shop bags set of 2 (Keith Haring pop shop)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop Bags set of 2, 1986: Vintage original 1980s Keith Haring Pop Shop bag set designed & illustrated by the artist. Both feature a bold Keith Haring printed signature and standout original Haring Pop shop logos, plus bright, lush colors which make for a unique framepiece. Medium: silkscreened vinyl shopping bags (2 individual pieces). Dimensions: 19 x 16.75 inches inches (applies to each individually). Minor wear commensurate with age & medium; in otherwise good vintage condition. A very cool vintage original Keith Haring frame set. Keith Haring Pop Shop: In 1986, New York artist Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in downtown Manhattan. Haring saw the Pop Shop as an extension of his work, a fun boutique where his art could be accessible to everyone. For nearly twenty years, the shop continued to be a downtown attraction with floor-to-ceiling murals...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Plastic, Screen

Deep Waters, Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 21 x 18 inches Size: 29.5 x 2...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Ruckus Taxi
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box. Edition 75 Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with “Mountaintime”, followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, “Ruckus Taxi...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Art et Decoration" Original 1902 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 57 from "Documents Decoratifs", published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1902. Literature: Rennert/Weill, A.7 p. 389, Lendl p.132-33 no.105, Grand Palais no 28...
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1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Woman Walks into Bar" 53/450
Located in Houston, TX
Known for addressing difficult issues, this lithograph by Sue Coe tackles the difficult subject of rape culture. It is numbered in the lower left corner and signed and dated in the l...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

House of Raquel Vega - Columbian Party Dancing
Located in London, GB
This offset lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Botero" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 150, in the lower...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen
Located in Middletown, NY
King, Daniel (with Wenceslaus Hollar) Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen c 1650. Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with an indiscernible watermark wit...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Laid Paper, Engraving

Untitled (Jahn 84)
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
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1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

“Chess Players”
Located in Southampton, NY
ARTIST Hey, Paul, 1867-1952, artist TITLE Chess players OTHER TITLE(S) Die Schachspieler PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 1 print : etching ; sheet size 11 1/2" x 15" (30 x 39 cm.) Date: 1898 SUMMARY Three men are sitting around a chess board, two are playing and one is observing. The men are all late middle aged to old aged. The print has some fine details, and cross hatching is used extensively. On the table, besides the the chess set, are two coffee cups and a glass of water. Lower left in margin in pencil “original etching” in German. Lower right margin in pencil “chess players” written in German. No visible signature. The same etching by Paul Hey...
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1890s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching

ARIADNE 1980 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Will Barnet Ariadne - 1980 Print - Silkscreen on Heavy Paper 31 ¼'' x 23 ½' inches Edition: Signed, Titled, and Marked  in Roman numeral XXX ( from the edition to 50 - L) unframed ex...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"On Earth as it is in Heaven" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
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1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics - by Cy Twombly - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled, Sarayevo Winter Olympic Games 1984, is an etching with aquatint and lithograph in colors realized by Cy Twombly on the occasion of the Winter Olympics Games 1984 in Sarajev...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Original poster for the Chemin de Fer d'Orléans et du Midi to Biarritz
Located in PARIS, FR
Gustave Fraipont's original poster for the Chemin de Fer d'Orléans et du Midi to Biarritz, featuring the Bains de Mer, Thermes Salins, is an artistic creation that embodies the elega...
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1890s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

"Rue du Mont Cenis, Montmartre" original etching
By Charles Adams Platt
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (138 x 212 mm). Signed in the plate, not by hand. Condition: there is soiling in the margins and an old...
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1880s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Winter and Spring
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Columbia, MO
Jean-Antoine Watteau Winter – Spring 1841 Hand colored lithograph 14 x 19.5 inches Framed: 25 x 31 inches
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19th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Insignia #2" Abstract Mixed Media on Handmade Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Insignia #2" Abstract Mixed Media on Handmade Paper Tactile Abstract on handmade paper by David Dodsworth (English, b. 1952) - David’s work is typifi...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

MARILYN'S FLOWERS II, Signed Lithograph, Abstract Floral, Orange, Pink, Brown
Located in Union City, NJ
Marilyn's Flowers II is an original hand drawn lithograph by Peter Max printed in an edition of 165, using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival paper, 100% acid free. Marilyn's Flowers II is a vibrant multicolor still life depicting an abstract floral arrangement of lush magenta pink blossoms, with warm red centers against a backdrop of brown and orange, with accents of blue, plum brown and black. The warm brown interior setting enhances the floating, freely drawn pop art cosmic flowers...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jobs and Employment Classifieds, Monoprint by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Jobs and Employment Classifieds Year: 1982 Medium: Monoprint Silkscreen, signed l.r. Image Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Size: 39 in. x 29.5 in. ...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Ince's Paradise Flycatcher Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Muscipeta Incei" ( (Ince's Paradise Flycatcher)) by John Gould, which is plate 19 from his monograph "The Birds of Great Brita...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Spendeur"
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an ERTÉ Serigraph Signed And Numbered “spendeur”. In good condition. Measures 40x35. slight hairline crackling due to age.
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Esteve-Papiers Colles at the Neue Galerie Lithograph Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Printed by Mourlot for an Maurice Esteve exhibition held at the Neue Galerie. Esteve is well-known for his rich colors similar to the fauvist mouvement of the early 20th century. The...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was engraved, printed and colored in London by Robert Havell, Jr. in 1834. It depicts a male and a female Esquimaux Curlew birds...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Numbers in Color, 1981, Johns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Numbers in Color Year: 1981 Medium: Offset Lithograph exhibition poster on archival paper Edition: 5,000 Size: 39.5 x 27 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by the Al...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gare du Nord - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition Beryl Cook's appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint with a passion. Her pa...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Screen

Basse Cour - Etching by Eugène Cottin - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Basse Cour is a black and white etching realized by Eugène Cottin (1840-1902) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 22.5cmx10.5cm. Very Good condition. Realized by Cadart fo...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

My Favorite Hat, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - My Favorite Hat, Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 18 x 23 inches, Size: 21 in....
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Fountain of Job. Tinted lithograph after David Roberts, 1855.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Fountain of Job', tinted lithograph after David Roberts RA. Signed in stone lower right. Printed title below the image. Roberts travelled throug...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Die Segen" (Sins/Blessing) - 1986 Lithograph On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Die Segen" (Sins/Blessing) - 1986 Lithograph On Paper Original 1986 lithograph on paper titled "Die Segen" ("Sins/Blessing") by Deborah Rumer. Red, green, purple, black and white m...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Lithograph, Acrylic

Violet Temple, Art Deco Screenprint by Lillian Shao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lillian Shao, Taiwanese/American - Violet Temple, Year: 1986, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Size: 27.5 x 30.25 in. (69.85 x 76.84 cm), Frame Size: 32.25 x 4...
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1980s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Ting Shao Kuang "Emerald Valley"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ting Shao Kuang (b. 1939) Chinese American) "Emerald Valley" (S.49), 1987, color screenprint, signed and numbered 118/275 in pencil, pu...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

Quantum VII (Abstract Geometric Composition)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Marko Spalatin Title: Quantum VII (Abstract Geometric Composition) Medium: Color silkscreen Signed, numbered and titled by hand Edition: 70 Size: 20.5 × 20.3 on 28.9 × 25.0 inches CO...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pinwheel, Op Art Screenprint by Jurgen Peters, 1980
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...
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1980s Op Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Utagawa Kunisada - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Samurai is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout. Includes frame: 45.5 x 35...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Forest Insects - Beetles, German antique chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Forstinsekten II Kafer' (Forest Insects - Beetles) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 245mm by 155mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Growing #5
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1988, on Lenox Museum Board, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, with their...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Four 19th Century Hand Colored Engravings Depicting English Royal Residences
Located in Alamo, CA
Four hand colored etchings and aquatints depicting interiors within English royal residences, including "The Blue Velvet Room at Carlton House", "The Queen's Library at Frogmore", "T...
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1810s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

At Galerie 33, 1986
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking exhibition poster by Peter Nyborg showcases his mastery of color and form. Printed on heavy stock paper, it boasts vibrant, richly layered hues that radiate energy and ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Offset

La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas, Sevres (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas, Sevres (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) etching & drypoint, 1876 Signed in the plate bottom right corner (see photo) in plate, at lower left: xbre ...
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1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ara Waya Nac, Pop Art Indigenous Screenprint by Sergio Gonzales-Tornero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ara Waya Nac Sergio Gonzales-Tornero, Chilean (1927–2020) Date: 1983 Screenprint, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil Edition of 250 Image Size: 24 x 30 inches Size: 28 x 34...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Screen

GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS Signed Lithograph, Asian Women, Fan, Parrots, Flowers
Located in Union City, NJ
GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS is an original lithograph printed using hand drawn lithography techniques on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010). Ting's use of bold colors and expressive calligraphic brush drawn forms convey vivid life energy. He is well known for his colorful images of women, flowers, fish, parrots and horses and was associated with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Throughout his artistic life, Ting imbued his passion and spirit into his paintings, poetry and sculpture. GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS is a freely expressed Chinese Ink Brush drawing depicting a colorful bright green horse with dark blue mane and tail standing with two lovely dark green haired Asian women...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sanjûroku Kasen... - Woodcut by Mizuno Toshikata - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26). Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...
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1890s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

ETUDES DES MAINS ET COLOMBE
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
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1980s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

1982 After David Hockney 'Detail From Cubistic Bar"
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster, titled Detail from Cubistic Bar, was designed by David Hockney for a 1982 exhibition of his work held at the City of London Barbican Centre for the Arts. The ...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Green Cat, etching and aquatint, pencil signed & numbered, rarely seen in market
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Green Cat, 1984 Color etching and aquatint on copper plate, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper Pencil signed, numbered 178/230, dated 1984 along with artist's perso...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Etching, Aquatint, Mixed Media

Ocelot by Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate LXXXVI. P...
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1850s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Four Reddish Arches - Vintage Offset Print After Antoni Tàpies - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Four Reddish Arches a vintage offset print after Antoni Tàpies, printed on handmade paper and part of a deluxe edition of reproductions published in 1982 and limited to 2.000 specime...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

VISAGE SUR FOND ROUGE
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
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1980s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, 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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"I Love Lucy" Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz TV Comedy Legends Emmy Awards Litho Emmys
Located in New York, NY
"I Love Lucy" Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz TV Comedy Legends Emmy Awards Litho Emmys Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) "I Love Lucy" Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Lithograph on heavy paper, 1989 Sigh...
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1980s Performance Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts. For the Year 1801
Located in Middletown, NY
An excellent example of Rowlandson's visual commentary on the challenges of changing fashion for those with a less than ideal physique. Rowlandson, Thomas (after George Murgatroyd W...
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Early 19th Century English School Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

5745, for the Jewish Museum original signed/n abstract expressionist screenprint
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves 5745, for the Jewish Museum, 1984 Silkscreen on paper Signed, numbered 5/90 and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner 30 1/4 × 40 1/2 inches Unframed Commissioned by the Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List Graphic Fund for The Jewish Museum, New York Signed, numbered and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner. Commissioned by the Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List New Year's Graphic Fund for The Jewish Museum, New York. During the 1980s, various artists were commissioned to create a print celebrating the Jewish New Year. This is the silkscreen renowned sculptor Nancy Graves created to celebrate the year 5745 of the Jewish Calendar, beginning in September 1984 (Rosh Hashanah). This work was published in a limited edition of 90. The number 90 has special significance in Jewish gamatria (numerology) for several reasons, including the fact that it equals five times life - or Chai. The number for Chai, meaning "Life " s 18, and 18 x 5 = 90. This is a magical number in Judaism. All of the works were published in editions that were multiples of 18, or the Life. In her lifetime, Nancy Graves did not receive the renown or acknowledgement that her ex-husband and former Yale School of Art classmate Richard Serra did, but she is finally getting the recognition she richly deserves. Biography: Nancy Graves (1939 – 1995) is an American artist of international renown. A prolific cross-disciplinary artist, Graves developed a sustained body of sculptures, paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints. She also produced five avant-garde films and created innovative set designs. Born in Pittsfield Massachusetts, Graves graduated from Vassar College in 1961. She then earned an MFA in painting at Yale University in 1964, where her classmates included Robert Mangold, Rackstraw Downes, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, as well as Richard Serra with whom she was married from 1964 to 1970. Five years after graduating, her career was launched in 1969 when she was the youngest artist — and only the fifth woman — to be selected for a solo presentation at the Whitney Museum of Art. Graves’ work was subsequently featured in hundreds of museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, including several solo museum exhibitions. She was awarded commissions for large-scale site-specific sculptures and her work is in the permanent collections of major art museums. A frequent lecturer and guest artist, her work was widely documented during her lifetime. In 1991 she married veterinarian Dr. Avery Smith. Graves travelled extensively and was fully engaged with the cultural and intellectual issues of her times. Her brilliant career and life were cut short by her untimely death from cancer at age 54. From a point of view that she described as “objective,” Graves transformed scientific sources, such as maps and diagrams, into artworks by re-producing their complex visual information in detailed paintings and drawings. Investigating the intersections between art and scientific disciplines, Graves created compelling, formally rigorous, yet ultimately expressive works of art that examine concepts of repetition, variation, verisimilitude, and the presentation and perception of visual information. Based in SoHo, New York, Graves gained prominence in the late 1960s as a post-Minimalist artist for innovative camel, fossil, totem, and bone sculptures that were hand formed and assembled from unusual materials such as fur, burlap, canvas, plaster, latex, wax, steel, fiberglass and wood. Made in reaction to Pop and Minimalism, these works reference archaeological sites, anthropology, and natural science displays. Suspended from the ceiling or clustered directly on the floor, these early sculptures also engage with Conceptualist ideas of display. For her Whitney Museum presentation Graves exhibited three seemingly realistic sculptures of camels in an installation that evoked taxidermy specimens and questioned issues of verisimilitude in art and science, particularly in light of their hand patched and painted fur surfaces. The exhibition elicited wide spread critical responses and established her artistic significance. After intensely engaging with sculpture in the early 1970s, Graves returned to painting. Her detailed pointillist canvasses re-produced — in paint — images culled from documentary nature photographs, NASA satellite recordings, and Lunar maps, commingling scientific exactitude with abstraction. Resuming sculpture in the late 1970s, Graves was among the first contemporary artists to experiment with bronze casting. She re-invigorated the traditional lost wax technique by assembling cast found objects into unique improbably balanced sculptures, with bright polychrome surfaces and distinctive patinas. Throughout the 1980s Graves became widely recognized for her increasingly large and graceful open-form sculpture commissions. At the same time, she also expanded her drawing, painting, and printmaking practice and made large gestural watercolors. Then, in the late 1980s she created wall-mounted works that combined her explorations of sculpture, painting, form and color. In these large-scale pieces, she mounted high relief polychrome sculptural elements to the surfaces and edges of painted shaped canvases so that patterned shadows were cast onto the paintings and surrounding wall. By the 1990s Graves was casting in glass, resin, paper, aluminum, and bronze, combining these varied materials and colors into daring sculptures with moving parts. As she proceeded in all the media she mastered, Graves increasingly re interpreted and transmuted forms sourced from her own earlier artwork — rather than from outside research — creating elaborate compositions that form a layered a-temporal archaeology of her own visual production. Nancy Graves’ pioneering art...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Graphite, Screen

1894 Eugène Grasset’s Art Nouveau poster - Sarah Bernhardt - Jeanne d'Arc
Located in PARIS, FR
Eugène Grasset’s medieval-inspired Art Nouveau poster, commissioned by Sarah Bernhardt to promote her 1894 role as Joan of Arc in Jules Barbier’s Jeanne d'Arc. Grasset portrays Bernhardt in the spirit of her historic role: standing bravely with a flowing flag embellished with fleur-de-lis amidst an onslaught of arrows and spears. This antique lithograph is the only color small-format edition of the original poster design, from an extremely rare folio published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition of poster design in St. Petersburg in 1897. This poster design for Jeanne d’Arc is especially important as being the collaboration that led Sarah Bernhardt to discover Alphonse Mucha, as she wanted a new artist...
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1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Le Ministere De La Marine
Located in New York, NY
Charles Meryon (French, 1821-1868), "Le Ministere De La Marine", Landscape Etching, 7 x 6.38 Interior Matte ( 20.25 x 16.25 In Matted Frame), Mid 19th Cen...
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1860s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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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