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Prints and Multiples For Sale
'Japanese Woodblock Print', By Unknown, Color Woodblock Print on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 21.25" x 37.5" framed Japanese woodblock print, depicts a busy scene that includes many figures within, and upon a large boat. The boat takes up the majority of the horizontal c...
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19th Century Edo Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph Abstract Cubist Composition
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Nature Morte au Verre" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 277/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Squeezed Blue Fiddle Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Pierre Fernandez Arman Year: 1978 Squeezed Blue Fiddle Medium Type: Screen print on Arches Paper Size-Width Size-Height: 22'' x 30'' Edition Size: Signed in pencil and marked 121/...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Original 1942 Plaza de Toledo vintage bullfighting poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed “Plaza de Toros de Toledo" bullfighting poster for 20 August 1942. Grandiosa Corrida de Toros. Six bulls from the famou...
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1940s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

XIV Olympic Winter Games, Modern Poster by Gabrijel Stupica
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gabrijel Stupica, Slovenian (1913 - 1990) - XIV Olympic Winter Games, Year: 1983, Medium: Poster, Size: 33.5 x 24.25 in. (85.09 x 61.6 cm)
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Offset

La Dame aux Camelias - Sarah Bernhardt (after) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
Located in New York, NY
These beautiful and colorful lithographic posters were hand reproduced by the Mourlot Studio's Master Printer Henri Deschamps in 1969. They are not to be mistaken with later cheap digital and giclée reproductions. Ed. 1,500 In December of 1894, Mucha visited a print shop contracted to create a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris at the time. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographic poster within two weeks, and on January 1, 1895, the advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she signed a six-year contract with the artist. Written by Alexandre Dumas (son) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, "La Dame aux Camélias...
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1960s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Black Cats
Located in Bristol, GB
12 Colour Screenprint with a Varnish Overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper Edition of 125 Signed and numbered on the back Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the production process. Sold with COA from Jealous Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Flower in Vase (Summer)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower in Vase (Summer) Color woodblock, c. 1950 Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo) Sealed lower right (see photo) Series: Flowers of the Four Se...
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1950s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'L' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'L' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work often e...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LA PARADE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958) La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. Signed in plate as i...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Dendera, Egypt, Dec 7th, 1838: David Roberts' 19th C. Duotone Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored lithograph entitled "Dendera, Dec 7th, 1838" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 158-159, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hard Margins - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Margins - Hell Plate 19, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. G...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Landscape, Modern Drypoint with Embossing by Alena Kučerová
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alena Kucerova, Czech (1935 - ) - Landscape, Year: 1971, Medium: Drypoint with Embossing, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil, Edition: 1/100, Image Size: 10.5 x 15 inches, Siz...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Apple Think Different Set of 10 Educator Series Posters 2000
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Steve Jobs had just returned to the struggling company, Apple Computer in 1997. Jobs and Lee Clow had collaborated back in 1984 to launch the MacIntosh. Now was the time to recover t...
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Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

ALL THE PEOPLE Signed Lithograph, For My People-Margaret Walker, Rainbow Faces
Located in Union City, NJ
ALL THE PEOPLE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. ALL THE PEOPLE is graphic composition comprised of a brilliant multi color rainbow across the bottom of the image with a centered, rose beige textured circle filled with simple black line drawings of men, women, and children's faces, a blue sky like area on top consists of textural effects obtained from Japanese rice paper. This impressive composition by the master print maker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett is from the FOR MY PEOPLE suite of prints, a set of 6 lithographs illustrating the well known 1942 poem by Margaret Walker. "For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding, trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people, all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;" - Stanza from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker Print size 23” x 19”, Edition size 99, unframed color lithograph on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free, Edition printed using traditional hand lithography methods by J.K. Fine Art Editions Co, NJ. Published in 1992 by the Limited Editions Club, NY. Excellent condition, never been framed or mounted, hand signed in pencil, dated and inscribed P.P.(Printers Proof) aside from edition of 99, print documentation/COA will be provided. From the master printer's private collection. About the artist - Elizabeth Catlett (born April 15, 1915, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 2, 2012, Cuernavaca, Mexico), American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her intensely political art. Catlett, a granddaughter of enslaved people, was born into a middle-class Washington family; her father was a professor of mathematics at Tuskegee Institute. After being disallowed entrance into the Carnegie Institute of Technology because she was Black, Catlett enrolled at Howard University (B.S., 1935), where she studied design, printmaking, and drawing and was influenced by the art theories of Alain Locke and James A...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bullfight No. 5 original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
      Bullfight No. 5 is a signed limited edition ( 4/300 ) original lithograph by Salvador Dali from the Taureaumachie Suite of five original lithographs. Published by Phyllis Lucas...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Murakami print - Champagne Supernova Blue (2013) - Unframed, Last Piece
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an original Murakami limited edition offset print, signed and numbered. This beautiful print has a silver sheen (contrasting texture from the flower prints) interspersed amid...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Silver Panda - Panda and Panda cubs - unframed - LAST ONE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an original Murakami print. Sold unframed. Brand new. Handsigned and numbered out of 300 editions. Buyer protection by both 1stdibs and gallery. LAST ONE - one of the iconic...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Clave Japan engraving.
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work of the graphic of the Spanish teacher Antoni CLAVE. engraving 55/60 ej CLAVÉ I SANMARTÍ, Antoni (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005). Antoni Clave is one of...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

MARC CHAGALL "FIANÇAILLES AU CIRQUE - 1983"
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) "Fiançailles au Cirque" lithograph in colours, 1983, on wove paper. Signed in pencil, Numbered 18/50 in pencil Image 455 x 350 mm. Sheet 650 x 478 mm. LITERA...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Harbor Rainbow" Colorful Boat With Deep Blue Water Reflections Serigraph
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful hand pulled 90 color ...
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2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Femme au chapeau" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for Verve (Volume 1, Number 5-6), in 1939. Image size: 12 1/2 x 9 inches (317 x 227 mm). Sheet size: 14 x 9 7...
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1930s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

West Texas Morning [Hand Embellished]
Located in New Orleans, LA
Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper. Each print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist. Edition 2 of 5. In this new series of paintings, Moore explores themes ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

The Golden Retriever Photographic Society ‘Hud, NYC 2011’ Archival pigment print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, signed, dated and editioned by artist verso; studio stamped verso, 14 x 17 in.. Hardcover in slipcase, 11 x 14 in., 3,69 kg (8.12 l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Sexy - Black Glitter
Located in London, GB
Ben Eine
 Sexy - Black Glitter, 2018 6-color hand-pulled screen print including black glitter
 48.3 x 48.3 cm Edition of 200 hand-signed and numbered by the artist There are creases...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Glitter, Screen

Lemmy & Johnny Rotten at The Limelight Club 1986 25x17 b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
David Koppel served his photographic apprenticeship in the rough-and-tumble world of the Fleet Street paparazzi in 1980’s London when his skills captured the very essence of the Me Decade that gave birth to the celebrity culture of today. Koppel’s classic photographs of Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton & the Royal Family appeared in every major newspaper and magazine and marked him out as that rarity amongst press photographers: the artist with a camera. Building on the reputation gained through the photographs for the book Still Waters, his black-and-white portraits of ordinary people now rank among the many famous names in his portfolio. Koppel also went one better and in 2002 bought the St Giles St Gallery , bringing the best of local and international contemporary art and photography to Norwich, including the works of Sir Peter Blake, Terry O’Neill, David Bailey, Maggie Hambling, Storm Thorgersson, Tim Woolcock...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment, Giclée

"May Belfort" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Prochainement, Tournée du Chat Noir avec Rodolphe Salis; Black cat.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The poster was designed by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen in 1896 to promote the touring performances of the Le Chat Noir cabaret troupe led by Rodolphe Salis. It has since become one ...
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1990s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Color

Gunner Riding - Original Etching by Giovanni Fattori - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 16.5x10 cm Signed on plate by the artist. Bibliography: A.Baboni, L’Ottocento: le incisioni di Giovanni Fattori, Museo Civico “Giovanni Fattori”, Livorno 2001, p. 7...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Circa 1944 original poster showcasing the Swastika Broken by the Allies
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1944 original poster showcasing the "Croix gammée brisée par les alliés" (Swastika Broken by the Allies) is a powerful piece of World War II propaganda art. This poster cap...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

1988 'van Gogh with Sunflowers' HAND SIGNED Limited Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 34 x 22 inches ( 86.36 x 55.88 cm ) This limited edition lithograph, titled Van Gogh with Sunflowers, was created by the celebrated American artist Red Grooms. The print...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Fauvist Lithograph Woman Portrait Marie Therese
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Portrait de Marie Therese" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 274/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate Collection. The lithographs were meticulously created after the original works (Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, Charcoal Drawings, etc.) by Master Chromist Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso in his lifetime. They are printed in an edition of 500 on Arches paper. Embossed with the estate and chromist's stamp seals, along with the legend on the reverse "Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso". Image: 19 1/2" x 15". Paper: 28" x 20 3/4". Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Audrey
Located in East Hampton, NY
Audrey Hepburn Unframed World-renowned guru of Jap Pop Art - Zane Fix, is an American artist, born in Brooklyn, New York. The art of Zane Fix blends both the intensity and simplici...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

“Manhattan Celebration”
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an embellished giclee signed and numbered. In good condition. Frame has some chips.
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21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1957 at the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches (225 x 145 mm). Jean Cocteau executed this original lithograph to depict a...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Duthuit N° 17), Pierre à feu, Les Miroirs profonds, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin supérieur paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Maeght, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, January 17, 1947. Notes: ...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

“Sage with Bird”
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Peter Max 1971 lithograph “Sage with Bird” signed and numbered. In good condition measures 17x17
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vintage Floral Study Etching Titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Floral study etching titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot (American, 20th century), 1983. Titled, signed, and dated lower edge. Artists Proof designation. Unframed. Image: 11.75"H ...
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1980s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Printer's Ink

Dead Give Away, Screenprint by William Schwedler
Located in Long Island City, NY
This abstract composition by William Schwedler includes several geometric forms and shapes that are placed alongside straight, angled lines. Dead Give Away Artist: William Schwedle...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

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

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Canvas, Color

Sin título
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Author: Keith Haring. Title: Untitled. Year:1970 Technique: lithography. Issue: 140/150 Sizes: 70 x 50 cm. Stamped by the Keith Haring Foundation.
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Mark Ryden "The Butcher Bunny" Lenticular Framed Contemporary Pop Fine Art
Located in Draper, UT
American artist Mark Ryden has been a champion of the Pop Surrealist aesthetic for decades, and with that he’s established a massive catalog of works that continue to be cherished to...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lenticular

Red Rose - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Red Rose is an original contemporary artwork realized by Giacomo Porzano in 1970s. Colored etching Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition 6/50. Giac...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Takashi Murakami - Flower Sparkles - Pop Art Japanese Flowers Colours
Located in London, GB
Edition of 300. Murakami signed and numbered in silver marker pen along the lower right edge. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp and high gloss varnishing on UV paper 60 x 60 cm ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: Hallelujah II Year: 1988 Edition: 50, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Beach at Long Branch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Beach at Long Branch Woodengraving, 1869 Signed in the block lower right "WH" ( see photo ) Published in Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science and Art, August 21, 1869 Condit...
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1860s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

After Gerhard Richter-DG-
Located in Brooklyn, NY
From the Collection of Contemporary Art: Gerhard Richter. Copyright Stamp collection, printed in Germany. Originally painted as an oil on canvas in 1985, reproduced in 1991, colors c...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

H13-2 Kingsdown Beach
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: H13-2 Kingsdown Beach Series: Where the Land Meets the Sea Date: 2023 Medium: Laminated Giclée prints on aluminium co...
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2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Prints and Multiples

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Panel, Giclée

Twin Springs Diner, Photorealist Screenprint by Ralph Goings
Located in Long Island City, NY
Featuring two men seated at the counter of a diner, Ralph Goings’s depiction of a classic American establishment can be viewed as a prime example of photorealism. Although both figur...
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1980s Photorealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

David Shrigley - Witness My Joy
Located in Central, HK
David Shrigley Witness My Joy, 2022 16 colour screen print with a two varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm 29 1/2 × 22 in 75 × 56 cm Edition of 125 Numbered and signe...
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2010s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Andy Warhol 'Marilyn Orange 1995 Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This a reproduction of Andy Warhol's famous artwork "Marilyn" (1967), printed as an offset lithograph in 1993 by Te Neues Publishing in Germany. This reproduction is printed on heavy...
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1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Nus Bleus VII, from 1958 The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Nus Bleus VII Portfolio: 1958 The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 3/4" Sheet Siz...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Back Cover of Verve (volume VII, number 25-26)
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in 1951, this composition was executed by Picasso for the back cover of Verve (volume VII, number 25-26) and published in Paris by Ter...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí­ -- Thomas (Lancelot healing Sir Urre) from The Twelve Apostles
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Thomas (Lancelot healing Sir Urre) from The Twelve Apostles, 1977 Lithographs in colors with embossment on Arches paper Hand signed lower right Edition EA lower left Sh...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

FULL MOON
Located in Portland, ME
Field, Sabra Johnson.(American, born 1935). FULL MOON. Color Woodcut, c. 1968. Edition of 50. Titled, numbered 37/50, and signed in pencil. 16 x 8 3/4 inches (image), 20 5/8 x 12 inc...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Magnolia 11 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Drypoint, 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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