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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1930s
Fra Åsgårdstrand (Schiefler 260; Woll 289), Edvard Munch
By Edvard Munch
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Meaux Cathedral II
By John Marin
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette de Beaux Arts, 1907. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x 292 mm), narrow lefthand margin, with a full margin with a deckle edge on ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Caryatid of the Erechtheum, British Museum Greek Classical photogravure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Caryatid of the Erechtheum'
Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner...
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1910s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
The Whale's Back [Connecticut]
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
The Whales Back. 1925. Etching. Giardina catalog 95 stateiii. Image: 6 1/2 x 12 (sheet 10 x 16). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. A rich impression with plate tone printed on cream laid paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' (imprimit) in pencil, indicating a proof printed Eby.
The scene is probably Westport or Cos Cob, Connecticut.
The scene is probably Westport or Cos Cob, Connecticut.
Kerr Eby...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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Tête penchée et Bocal de Poissons
Located in London, GB
Etching on Chine appliqué on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 25
Paper size: 28.5 x 38 cms (11 1/4 x 15 ins)
Plate size: 14.9 x 19.6 cms (5 7/8 x 7 5/8 ins)
Category
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Harry Wickey, Stallion and Mare
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
Also a sculptor, Harry Wickey was a master printmaker and Art Students League teacher.
This rural scene pre-dates the much better known, very close subject, John Steuart Curry's li...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Chamaedorea Glaucifolia, tropical palm, antique botanical lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chamaedorea Glaucifolia' (Glaucous Parlour Palm), native to Columbia.
Antique botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 191...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Attroupement de Paysans
By Marc Chagall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Attroupement de Paysans" from the suite "Nicholas Gogol, Les Ames Mortes" created 1923-1937, published 1948, is an etching on paper by renown Russian/French arti...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Shadows on the Ramp
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Shadows on the Ramp. 1927. Drypoint and sand ground. McCarron 64. 9 x 10 1/2 (sheet 12 3/8 x 14). Edition 75 recorded impressions. A rich, tonal impression with drypoint burr, printe...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Matinée Avenue de Clichy
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Studio Interior No. 1 — 1930s Masterwork
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Armin Landeck, 'Studio Interior No. 1', 1935, drypoint, edition 100, Kraeft 56. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid pap...
Category
1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Dingo - Suite of Etchings by Pierre Bonnard - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Dingo is a complete suite of 14 full page etchings and drypoints on Japon Vergé Paper realized by Pierre Bonnard.
Paris, Editions Ambrose Vollard, 1924.
cm 43,5x33,2.
Edition of...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper
Etching on paper titled "Eternal Problem" by Elias M. Grossman (American, 1898-1947). A bearded rabbi is portrayed thinking with his hand p...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Sculptured Drum, British Museum Greek Roman Classical sculpture photogravure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Sculptured Drum, Temple of Artemis, Ephesus'
Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
"Belleville-Menilmontant" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
Category
1930s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Mending Nets' — Cape Ann Regionalism, Rockport
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Christian Dull, 'Mending Nets', aquatint, c. 1930, edition 50. Signed and numbered '50/-' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream laid paper, the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 1 1/2...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
'To Market, to Market' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'To Market, to Market', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '6/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full ma...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Colorado. USA. Century Atlas state antique vintage map
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Century Atlas. Colorado.'
Original antique map, 1903.
Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners.
Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Circa 1930 original travel poster, Tatry – Pologne - majestic Tatra Mountains
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1930 original travel poster, Tatry – Pologne, designed by Zwolinski, is a stunning tribute to the majestic Tatra Mountains, a beloved natural treasure of Poland. Created i...
Category
1930s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper, Linen
Boathouse along the Tisza River; Tiszlapart
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on buff wove paper, 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches (287 x 392 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 99/100 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with som...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"La feuille jaune" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the gouache). Published in Paris in 1928 by Teriade for Editions Cahiers d'Art in an edition of 800. This impression was printed on Velin de Torpes paper. Imag...
Category
1920s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Fire - Original Woodcut on Paper by Erika Lawson Frimke - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Fire is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 ca. by Russian artist Erika Lawson Frimke( 1878-1956), Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
The state of preservat...
Category
1930s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Le bain de la Gitane" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. A rich impression printed on laid paper in 1914 by Porcabeuf and published by Henri Floury for the catalogue raisonne "Alexandre Lunois, peintre, graveur et lithogra...
Category
1910s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Paysage de Normandie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paysage de Normandie" c.1910 Is an original color aquatint by noted French artist Maurice Levis, 1860-1940. It is hand signed and numbered 245/350 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 17.5 x 24.85 inches, sheet size is 19.75 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of the piece.
About the artist:
Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism. Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Mine Shaft", Soviet Union: An Early 20th C. Woodcut Engraving by Abramovitz
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a signed woodcut engraving entitled "Mine Shaft" created by Albert Abramovitz in 1935, after a trip to the Soviet Union. It depicts two Russian workers constructing a mine sh...
Category
1930s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Workshop (Stirling)
Located in Storrs, CT
The Workshop (Stirling). 1905. Etching and drypoint. Rinder 369 state .ii/iv.Image: 8 3/16 x 12 (sheet 8 5/16 x 12). No published edition. A rich impression with drypoint burr printe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
'The White House' — Vintage Washington D.C.
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'White House', etching, edition not stated, c. 1928. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Etcher, painter, and architect Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...
Category
1920s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
La coupe de fruits
Located in Belgrade, MT
Maria Sanmartin-Bodegon started painting in 1947. She was encouraged by her son Antoni Clave' who also was a great painter. She exhibited in salons throughout Europe including Paris,...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ceramic, Paint, Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Santo Domingo Landscape Etching Proof
Located in Soquel, CA
Prize winning 1923 Dry Point Etching of Santo Domingo by George "Pop" Hart.
Wonderful early 20th century modern etching of the Santo Domingo, capital of Dominican Republic by Georg...
Category
1920s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
(after) Frans Masereel "Le Calvaire"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the woodcut). Printed in 1925 and published in Paris by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. Image size: 8 x 4 3/4 inches (205 x 11...
Category
1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Black Panther - Etching and Aquatint by Evert van Muyden - 1901
Located in Roma, IT
Panthère noire is a wonderful etching and aquatint on cream-colored laid paper, realized in 1901 by Evert Van Muyden (1853-1922).
Signed and dated on plate, this beautiful plate was...
Category
Early 1900s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Josephslegende II. Richard Strauss Oper - Etching by Alois Kolb - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1922 to illustrate Richard Strauss' work.
Hand signed in pencil ower right.
A tear in the right margin and a corner crease in the upper right, otherwise overall...
Category
1920s Symbolist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Le Cheval
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Cheval
Etching, 1921
Signed in pencil lower left
Edition: Signed edition of 50 (as here)
Unsigned edition is 400 for the book Du Cubisme
Printer: R. Girard et Cie
Pr...
Category
1920s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Sous l'averse" original etching and aquatint
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint with drypoint. Catalogue reference Bourcard/Goodfriend 154. This work is also known as "Le petit enterrement". Printed in 1902 on laid paper and...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Cabaret of Paris : Cancan Dancer - Original Etching on parchment, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Alméry Lobel-Riche
Cancan Dancer
Handsigned original engraving
Signature printed in the plate
Numbered /12
On parchment 31 x 22.5 cm (c. 12.2 x 8.9 inche...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Batard Anglo-Normand, French hound, dog chromolithograph, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...
Category
1930s Art Deco Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fire
Located in OPOLE, PL
Abraham Rattner (1895 - 1978) - Fire
Lithograph from 1937.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure shipment.
Category
1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Map of Poland - Etching - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Map of Poland is an etching map realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Original "Pulitura Pavimenti Impresa Speranza" Italian vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Pulitura Pavimenti, Italian stone lithograph; size: 39" x 55"; archival linen backed in excellent condition; really fun poster. ready to frame. There is slight foxing on the outer edges of the poster; otherwise, it is in very fine condition.
Original Italian Pulitura Pavimenti Vetri - Ambient poster. This linen-backed original features four men who look almost like intimate twins with large push brooms. The bright yellow background with red accents sets off the black work clothes. It is a very fun and rare mint-condition original. Lavori, Riordimo, Abbonamenti, Milano
These vintage posters served as advertisements and decorative pieces, capturing the essence of the time period and providing insight into its design aesthetics and cultural values.
This antique Italian poster...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Improvidence"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Daniel Garber (1880 - 1958).
One of the two most important and, so far, the most valuable of the New Hope Sc...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
original etching
By Daniel (Daniel Ortiz y Vierge) Vierge
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1901 for Gustave Geffroy's "La Vie Artistique". Image size: 4 1/4 x 3 inches (110 x 75 mm). Signed in the plate...
Category
Early 1900s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Hunt - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY
The Hunt, c. 1910
Original woodcut
Signed with the stamp of the artist's studio
Numbered on /220
Titled in the board
50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch)
Excellent condi...
Category
1910s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Downtown, The El
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
John Marin (1870-1953), Downtown, The El, etching, 1921, signed in pencil lower left (also signed and dated in the plate). Reference: Zigrosser 134, only state. Published initially by Alfred Stieglitz and then included as part of the Folio of American Etchings by the magazine The New Republic in 1924, in an edition of unknown size but probably above 500. In very good condition, the full sheet, on Van Gelder wove paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4, the sheet 11 x 13 3/4 inches.
Provenance: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
A fine bright impression.
Initially the New Republic Set, sometimes known as Six American Etchings, contained Marin’s Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying) (Zigrosser 112). But after a small number of sets were completed, Downtown the El was substituted for Zigrosser 112 (and so the number of Downtown The Els in the set would have been a bit fewer than the others in the set). Zigrosser, who apparently had not seen a complete set at the time he created the catalogue raisonne, conjectured that the substitution might have been because the original plate was damaged. But since the printer, Peter Platt, was the most renowned artist’s printer of his time, and worked alone, it is unlikely that he would have damaged the plate; a more likely possibility is that he switched to a print that was more comparable in size to the others in the set (The Brooklyn Bridge print...
Category
1920s Futurist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Noon Time Lull (Charleston, South Carolina)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Noon Time Lull (Charleston, South Carolina)
Etching, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Note: An image done in South Carolina.
An impression of this image...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Elisabeth' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Elisabeth', woodcut, edition 20, 1923. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.142b' and '12/20' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil.
A fine impression, on heavy fibrous Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches),
in good condition. Printed by the artist, With the artist’s blindstamp in the bottom center margin. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 15/16 x 6 inches (131 x 152 mm); sheet size 10 x 6 inches (254 x 152 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Two Reclining Nudes / Deux Nus Allonges
Located in London, GB
TSUGOUHARU FOUJITA 1886-1968
Edogawa Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich (French/Japanese)
Title: Two Reclining Nudes / Deux Nus Allonges, 1930
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etc...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Delaunay, Le Sacré-Cœur (Habasque 720-728), Allo! Paris! (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Allo! Paris!, 1926. Published by Éditions des ...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Rio Ca Foscari, Venice" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Tabanelli 220. This impression on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1906 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 8 5/8...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Tulip Pochoir from Relais
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
Relais.
Plate 1.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Category
1930s Art Deco Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Man By a Radiator
By Clifford Isaac Addams
Located in Columbia, MO
Clifford Isaac Addams (May 25, 1876 – November 7, 1942) was an American painter and etcher, and a protégé of James McNeill Whistler.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Original A Wonderful Opportunity for You, United States Navy 1917 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: A Wonderful Opportunity for You. Ashore, on leave. United States Navy. A pre-war recruiting lithographic poster features an ebullient sailor going home o...
Category
1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Divagations
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Divagations
Photogravure from 1937.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Text on the verso.
The work is in Excellent condition.
...
Category
1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Schatzgraber - Etching by Fritz Schwimbeck - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918.
Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper.
Hand signed in pencil.
Category
1910s Symbolist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Femme Debout, Nude Surrealist Etching by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Femme Debout by Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871–1957)
Date: circa 1912
Etching on Arches, signed in the plate and stamp signed
Image Size: 15.5 x 9.75 inches
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x ...
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1910s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Vue prise de Saardam" (Zaandam) original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color etching. Catalogue reference: Kraemer 23. Executed in 1906, this impression on cream laid paper is from the rare 1906 first edition of "Histoire des Peintres I...
Category
Early 1900s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
1910 original poster by Henri Gray for the Exposition Universelle Internationale
By Henri Gray (Henri Boulanger)
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1910 original poster by Henri Gray for the Exposition Universelle Internationale in Brussels, created for the Chemin de Fer du Nord, is an exquisite representation of early 20th-...
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1910s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
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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The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.
Welcome (Back) to the Wild, Wonderful World of Walasse Ting
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
Shapero Modern’s Director Tells Us All about 20th-Century Prints
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Yoshitomo Nara Puts a Punk Rock Twist on the Traditional Prints of His Ancestors
The forever-rebellious Japanese artist craftily defaces famous Edo Period woodblock prints with “In the Floating World.”