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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: 1910s
Period: 1870s
Original War Fund Week Keep this Hand of Mercy at its work vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: Keep this Hand of Mercy at its work. War Fund Week. One hundred Million Dollars. Original WW1 lithograph, archival line...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nijinsky in L’Apres Midi d’un Faune.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George. Nijinsky in L’Apres Midi d’un Faune. London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913. ‘The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by ...
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1910s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original The Tanks are Coming! Hold the Tanks! vintage World War One poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Authentic Vintage World War I Recruitment Poster - A Rare Piece of Historical Memorabilia. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. ...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

New York Bouquet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Bouquet Lithograph, 1917 Edition: 93 Signed with the artist's cipher in pencil lower right (see photo) This lithograph is inspired by Hassam's oil painting of the same title...
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1910s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Opium" Lithograph Poster by Theo Matejko
By Theo Matejko
Located in Chicago, IL
Frame is handmade by artist Gail Potocki. WEAG-Matejko, Printer, Vienna "In 1919, artist Theo Matejko created this lithograph for Robert Reinert's silent film Opium (starring Conra...
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1910s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Ixion" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed on laid paper by Cadart and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux Arts in 1876. Plate size: 5 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches (130 x 165 mm). Not signed.
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1870s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue "Liebe" (Dear), Text in German on the plate, The drawing created unusually bold erotic subjects through deft strokes. Good conditions. Mihály Zichy...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Tiger" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Tiger" Antoine Louis-Barye Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Tig...
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1870s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Black and White

Original Patriotic League vintage poster Christy Girl
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Patriotic League . Original Howard Chandler Christy's 1918 "Patriotic League" authentic World War 1 lithographic poster. Linen-backed and in excellent condition. This Christy girl...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Femme Assie
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme assise Etching with drypoint, c. 1920 Signed in pencil lower left publisher stamp lower right Edition: 100 (88/100) Condition: Excellent Image size: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches Cou...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

“Sur le Bord de la Mer”
Located in Southampton, NY
Sheet sight size 11 by 13 inches. Colored etching pulled from the master copper plate originally done in 1919. After Renoir. Executed at a later date by the estate of Ambrose Vol...
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1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Henri Matisse -- Visage À La Frange
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Henri Matisse Visage À La Frange, 1913 lithograph on japon paper Edition: 34/50 Hand signed with initials and numbered below the image Image size 49.0 x 32.5 cm Frame size 70.0 x 5...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Grand Canyon of Arizona from Hermit Rim, Vintage 1912 Chromolithograph
Located in Denver, CO
The Grand Canyon in Arizona from Hermit Rim by Thomas Moran. Early 20th century vintage color lithograph printed in 1912, signed and dated within plate lower left, titled lower cent...
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1910s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Color

You buy a Liberty Bond Lest I Perish original World War 1 vintage poser
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: YOU Buy a Liberty Bond. Linen Backed World War 1 bonds poster. Archival linen backed in good condition; ready to frame. Artist: C . R. Macauley created...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Broad Street (Wall Street)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
B.J.O. Nordfeldt, 'Broad Street (Wall Street)', etching, edition not stated, c. 1915. Signed in pencil. A superb impression, with rich burr, selectively wiped plate tone, and inky plate edges, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Princeton University, Smithsonian American Art Museum. A view looking down Broad Street past the New York Stock Exchange Building on the right with the columned Federal Hall...
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1910s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Rainy Night in Rome.
Located in Storrs, CT
Rainy NIght in Rome.. 1913. Drypoint. Dodgson 299.x. 12 x 9 (sheet 16 x 11 1/4). Edition 125 in 10 states. A rich impression with burr and tonal wiping. Pr...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

The Manhattan Municipal Building
By Chester B. Price
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil and annotated "imp" lower right; Dedicated lower left: "To Bob Nisbet from…" Note: Desgined by William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, this classical skyscra...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

"La Balustrade" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1911-13. Printed in Paris by Fourtier et Marotte and published in 1911 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Image size: 8 ...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gustav Klimt "Water Serpent Study" collotype from Funfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen
Located in Chicago, IL
Title page numbered: 263/450. Collotype is presented in a handmade, gold-leaf frame.
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1910s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Hyacinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hyacinth Color woodcut, 1917-1918 Unsigned From: Seiyo Kusabana Zufu (Illustrations of Western Plants and Flowers) 1st edition Publisher: Unsodo, Kyoto Condition: Centerfold...
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1910s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Original Marines World War 1 poster. E-E-E-YAH-YIP Go over with U. S. Marines
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War One: Go Over With U.S. Marines. E-E-E-YAH-YIP. This charging leather neck holds his Springfield high. The cropped design was influenced by candid photography, ...
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1910s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Lealtad - Original Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
La lealtad - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 17 from of...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

19th century engraving landscape bridge industrial river scene ink signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fulham A.K.A. Chelsea" is an original etching by James Abbott MacNeill Whistler. The artist signed the piece in the plate with his butterfly monogram in the lower right. IT was publ...
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1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The European Macabre Dance N.7 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.7 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed on the plate, Original Edition. Published by Domenico Longo, Treviso. Handcolored lithographic postcards. Very good conditions. Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 - Milan, 1954); was an Italian draftsman, painter, engraver and illustrator, forerunner of the surrealist movement...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition (Hodorisch B2), Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des papeteries Lafúma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the album, Le manuscrit trouvé dans un ch...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Am Gänsehäufel in Wien
Located in New York, NY
Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Am Gänsehäufel in Wien, 1911, soft-ground etching, signed and dated in pencil lower right. In very good condition, on firm laid paper with margins, 5 1/2 x 8...
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1910s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Bridge, Santa Maria
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Bridge, Santa Marta, 1879-80, etching with drypoint, printed in sepia on fine laid paper. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp on the tab (also with an exceedingly light butterfly lower right in the plate). Kennedy 204, probably eighth (final) state; Glasgow 201, probably state 9 (of 9) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011), Lochnan 199. Trimmed to the platemark by the artist, h: 11.8 x w: 7.9 in / h: 30 x w: 20.1 cm. A fine impression, printed with subtle tone. The bridge theme occurs repeatedly in Whistler’s vistas. It is also the main focus of more than one of the Venetian prints. While some bridges are seen from below, from where one would see it if approaching in a gondola (for example Ponte del Piovan, Kennedy 209), The Bridge depicts the scene from a high perspective, opening up the view into the far distance. The small boat approaching the arch in the foreground is again, as in the earlier Thames prints, a stock motif that is probably ultimately derived from the Japanese woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige. The bridge here is the Ponte de le Terese over the Rio de l’Arzere in the Santa Marta quarter. The early biography of Whistler by Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell is essential for its “immense quantity of information” but also notorious for “the inherent hyperbole and misinformation” (Eric Denker, Annotated Bibliography, in Fine, p. 184). Still, it is worth quoting from the Pennels’ appraisal of The Bridge: “Simplicity of expression has never been carried further. Probably the finest plate, in its simplicity and directness, is The Bridge. Whistler now obtained the quality of richness by suggesting detail, and also by printing. In The Traghetto...
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1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Carnaval.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George. Carnaval. London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913. Barbier’s wonderful illustrations of the legendary dancer in Scheherazade, Carnaval and L’Après-midi d’un Faune ‘The d...
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1910s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Make Every Minute Count for Pershiping original World War 1 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Make Every Minute Count For Pershing. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Original 1917 World War 1 vintage poster. Artist: Adolph Treidler Original linen backed World War I vintage poster. Tonnage built in American ship yards tripled after the U.S. entered the war. Poster shows a riveter using his wrench to bolt the steel plates of the hull of a ship together. Until the 1930s, when arc welding was introduced, bolts were secured by hand. Standardization speeded production. Make every minute count for Pershing. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Artist: Adolph Treidler Dimensions: 27.75 x 22 in. Published: Philadelphia Linen backed, ready to frame. Remember Rosie the Riveter...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The European Macabre Dance n.25 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance n.25 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Origina...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Der Bildermann" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed on laid paper in 1919 and published in Berlin by Paul Cassirer. Sheet size: 6 3/4 x 9 inches (175 x 229 mm). Not signed.
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1910s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Etching 1916 Number II
Located in New York, NY
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Etching 1916 Number II, drypoint, signed in pencil lower right, titled, numbered (No. 9) and dated lower left [also with initials and date in the plate lower right]. Reference: Roethel 154, only state, edition of 10. In excellent condition (the barest handling fold at sheet edge), printed on a heavy ivory wove paper, the full sheet with full margins, 4 7/8 x 3 1/4, the sheet 17 1/2 x 13 inches, archival mount with window mat. A fine fresh impression of this great rarity, printed in a dark brown ink. Kandinsky created this drypoint (erroneously named Etching 1916) in early 1916 while staying with Gabriel Munter in Stockholm during the winter of 1915-16. This is from the second series of drypoints he made; the first was in the year 1913-14. Provenance: Kornfeld Auction, Bern, June 2007. The tiny size of this edition (10) makes this print a great rarity within the Kandinsky’s printed...
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1910s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Seated Woman with Bent Knee" Collotype plate I
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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1910s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Original Vintage Leonetto Cappiello Poster c1915 for Le Nil - Elephant Tobacco
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Leonetto Cappiello, often called the Father of the Modern Poster, used his best artistic talents in portraying the beautiful elephant that is central to this poster. The actual produ...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; ...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Original Jungfrau Railway Bernese Oberland vintage 1913 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
The original vintage poster by Emil Cardinaux for the Jungfrau Railway in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, is a classic example of early 20th-century travel advertising. Emil Cardi...
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1910s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Klimt, Weibliches Bildnis, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.23 x 17.32 inches; image size: 14.17 x 13.74 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Elmo the Mighty, the great Elmo Lincoln original lobby cartd
Located in Spokane, WA
ELMO THE MIGHTY, original 1919 lobby card, not signed. Protected in a 16" x 20" acid-free presentation mat suitable for framing. This lobby card is over 100 years old. Original,...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Bjrenomogeti Mushrooms - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "SAVE A LOAF A WEEK, Help Win the War" vintage World War One poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original rare poster: SAVE A LOAF A WEEK - HELP WIN THE WAR. Original WW1, 1917, U. S. Food Administration antique American poster. Artist sig...
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1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Red Cross Christmas Roll Call original World War 1 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. “Where Columbia sets her name let every one of you follow her” Linen-backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Artist: Edwin Howland Blashfield. The Red Cross stands on the left helping hold the banner that reads Where Columbia sets her name let every one of you follow her. December 16th to 23d. World War 1...
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1910s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 'The Greatest Mother in the World' vintage World War poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: THE GREATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD. archivally linen backed. Very clean. Artist: Alonzo Earl Foringer. Lithograph, circa 1917-1918. Good condition, restored tear near the center top in the white area, ready to frame. Loosely based on Michelangelo's "Pieta," the image in this poster depicts a monumental Red Cross nurse...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Uncle Sam Needs that Extra Shovelful (of Coal) vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 poster: Uncle Sam Needs That Extra Shovelful (of Coal.) If you like the Uncle Sam image, this is a good one to have. Help Unc...
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1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "Back Our Girls Over There, YWCA vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Back Our Girls Over There Y.W.C.A. WW1 antique poster: Linen-backed original Beautiful Y.W.C.A. Telephone operator sitting at the control pane...
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1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Lion" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Lion" Antoine Louis-Barye (France, 1775-1895) Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Lion," along with "Walking Tiger...
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1870s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Black and White

Quatre Etudes pour une Figure Equestre, Heliogravure by Leonardo da Vinci
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leonardo da Vinci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1452 - 1519) - Quatre Etudes pour une Figure Equestre, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11.75 x 8.5 in. (29.85 x 21...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The European Macabre Dance N.5 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.5 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed ...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Banquet of Love  - Etching by Alberto Martini - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
Banquet of love is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Martini in 1917. Etching and drypoint. Second state of three.  Signed on plate Printed in 1945 in 25 specimen. Alberto Mar...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Brown Pelican.
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 423 Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
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1870s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Wengernalp Bahn Jungfrau poster, created by A. Reckziegel around 1910
Located in PARIS, FR
The Wengernalp Bahn Jungfrau poster, created by A. Reckziegel around 1910, is a stunning and iconic piece of Swiss travel advertising that encapsulates...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

Bayros-Mappe III - Héliogravure by Fraz von Bayros - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on japanese paper realized by Fraz von Bayros in 1913 for Ex Libris Verlag K. Th. Senger, Munich. Mounted on passepartout. Edition of 260, hand signed in pencil by the ...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

La Divorcee Original Vintage Poster by Georges Dorival French Operetta 1911
Located in Boca Raton, FL
George Dorival created this poster in 1911 to promote the comic operetta, La Divorce'e. The text describes La Divorce'e as a 3 act play with music by Leo Fall. Leo Fall (1873-1925)...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The European Macabre Dance N.40 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.40 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed on the plate, Original Edition. Published by Domenico Longo, Treviso. Handcolored lithographic postcards. Very good conditions. Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 - Milan, 1954); was an Italian draftsman, painter, engraver and illustrator, forerunner of the surrealist movement...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Picador Incites the Bull.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Picador Incites the Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 104. 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 1/4 x 11 7/8). Edition 30, #5. Slight mat line, 1 hinge stain in the lower margin, well outside the i...
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1910s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

The European Macabre Dance N.6 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.6 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed ...
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1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"The Pavement, St. Paul's" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1910 by K. K. Hof and the Staatsdruckerei of Vienna. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches (225 x 280mm). Sheet size: 11 x 15 1/2 inches. A nice, dark im...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Work by Léon Bakst - early 20th-century wartime propaganda Avant-garde
Located in PARIS, FR
This striking work by Léon Bakst, titled “Le grand peintre russe nous promet pour bientôt…” (“The great Russian painter promises us soon…”), vividly captures the spirit of early 20th...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linen, Lithograph

Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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