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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1880s
Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Date: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed: N...
Category
1940s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Lying Nude on a Sofa - Original Lithograph - Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles CAMOIN
Lying Nude on a Sofa, 1946
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil bottom right
Numbered / 100
On Lana vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10.2 x 14 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
El Vergonzoso - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Que Sacrificio is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 .
6th Edition.Ve...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Untitled - Woodcut Print by Simon Martin - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a beautiful black and white xylograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by the French artist Simon Martin.
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on the lower margi...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Quien lo Creyera! - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Quien lo creyera! is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886.
6th Edition...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Andre Derain, The Harbor, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, 1940
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Le Port (The Harbor), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from the 1940 issue publish...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
PITCHING HAY - Created for the WPA / Federal Arts Project - (FAP)
By John Turner (b.1916)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN TURNER (1908 - 1939 per the FDR Presidential Library Collection)
PITCHING HAY no 2, c. 1940
Etching and Carborundum. Signed and numbered 10/25 in pencil. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. Sheet 10 x 13 1/2. Annotated at lower sheet edge "Carbograph and etching".
This print was done for the WPA / Federal Art Project. The editions for the WPA/FAP prints were generally 25 as in this example. It is illustrated in the Newark Museum WPA collection. Their copy has the Pennsylvania WPA label and with a stamped date of March 11. 1940. Also listed in the General Services Administration catalog of WPA prints...
Category
1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Degas, Au Salon, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.375 x 8.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
"City Notable" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Notable Citadine" translated to "City Notable" is plate number 2 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Morocco from ...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Attention - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - 1881
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Roma, IT
The Attention is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866) i...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1948 travel poster by Lewitt-Him - AOA to USA American Oversea Airlines
Located in PARIS, FR
This original 1948 travel poster by the renowned design duo Lewitt-Him was created for American Overseas Airlines (AOA) to promote transatlantic flights between Europe and the United...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Degas, La Loge, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Andre Derain, Landscape, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, 1940
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Paysage (Landscape), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from the 1940 issue publishe...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Weeping Woman
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Weeping Woman (1937)
Lithograph from 1946.
Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm
Publisher: Pantheon.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure ...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Deux Femmes, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Joan Junyer Ballet Costume Design Print from "The Minotaur" 1947
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Spanish lithographic print Measuring 19 x 23 inches overall and 14.5 x 18.5 image alone. In excellent original condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1940s Art Deco Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield and Oscar Levant. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a somber moment between ...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Henri Matisse, Marguerite, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1945 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Marguerite, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IV, No. 13, originates from the 1945 issue published ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sculptural Objects, School Prints, Henry Moore
By Henry Moore
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
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"Hombre contemplando la luna" signed / numbered original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint. Signed in pencil and numbered 68 of 80. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as a speci...
Category
1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur, 1948. Publ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Nu - Etching by Jean Fautrier - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.Artist's proof.
Image Dimensions : 15.5 x 24 cm
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Original 1943 'Doughboys in Ireland' vintage movie poster, half-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage movie poster: Doughboys in Ireland, the 1943 Lew Landers romantic musical ("The singing star of Jack Benny and Fred Allen radio programs!"...
Category
1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$151 Sale Price
20% Off
Seurat, Le peintre au travail, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
"Le Jardin des Tuileries" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original Edouard Vuillard lithograph). Printed on Renage wove paper in 1948 by the atelier Mourlot and published in an edition of 2500. Image size: 11 1...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series F, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie F, var. 5 (Series F, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur, 1948. Publ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Mystery of Womanhood 1947 original signed Emilio Pucci Kaleidoscopic lithograph
By Emilio Pucci
Located in Paonia, CO
Mystery of Womanhood is an original 1947 pencil signed limited edition ( 31 / 100 ) lithograph by Emilio Pucci. It is from a set of six lithographs...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nadie Nos Ha Visto - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Nadie Nos Ha Visto is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 .
6th Editio...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Seurat, Fort de la Halle, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
Buste de Bellone, Modern Etching by Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Buste de Bellone, Year: 1883, Medium: Etching on Japon, Image Size: 6 x 4 inches, Size: 13 x 9 in. (33.02 x 22.86 cm), Reference: Thorson 11, ...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series Z, Var. 3, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie Z, var. 3 (Series Z, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Etching Le Lion Qui Marche by Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Le Lion Qui Marche
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875)
Circa 1880
Etching on laid paper after the original bronze by master etcher Abel Lurat (F...
Category
1880s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Jupiter and Venus - Etching by Max Klinger - 1909
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized in 1909.
Belongs to the series "Amor und Psyche. Opus V".
Very good condition.
Category
1880s Symbolist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 5 (Series B, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
1940s Fauvist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
Category
1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Nativity - Original Etching by R. Cazanove - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Nativity is a superb black and white etching on cream-colored and laid paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove,
as it is reported on the lower left margin.
A touching scene of the nati...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Vuillard, Le Jardin devant l´atelier, L'œuvre gravé de Vuillard (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches; image size: 15.35 x 11.42 inches, with centerfold, as issued
Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur, 1948. Publ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Old Man Reading
Located in London, GB
Accompanied by a lantern, an elderly man sits alone, engrossed in a newspaper. Benton used a lithographic process to draw and produce this image. He renders the face and paper well-l...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur, 1948. Publ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series E, Var. 10, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie E, var. 10 (Series E, Variation 10), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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A ca. 1940 Etching Titled "Tip of Manhattan" by Artist Nat Lowell
By Nat Lowell
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1940 etching of a view of the Manhattan skyline by artist Nat Lowell. Signed and titled in pencil, ca. 1940. Artworks size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/4". Arc...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper
"Drowsy Bums" - Mid Century Figurative San Francisco Dock Landscape
By John Stoll
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape capturing dock workers' afternoon break by John Theodore Edward Stoll (b. Germany; 1889, d. California; 1974). Signed "John Stoll" lower right. Titled "Drowsy Bu...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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Aguarda que te Unten - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Aguarda que te Unten is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886.
6th Editi...
Category
1880s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
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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