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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Style: Minimalist
Style: Dada
Red Ball, From the “Why This Restlessness?” series. Limited edition print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Red Ball, 2018, From the Series "Why This Restlessness?" by Casey Waterman
Archival Color Print
Image Size: 17 in. H x 24 in. W
Sheet Size: 24 in. H x 30 in. W
Edition of 5 + 1AP
O...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paint, Archival Paper, Color
Pearl Masque
By Bruce Nauman
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pearl Masque is a 1981 lithograph by Bruce Nauman. Pearl Masque is from an edition of 50 plus artist and printers proofs. Pearl Masque is signed by...
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
David Borawski, Untitled_Single Line, 2016, digital print, aluminum, Minimalist
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political. Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of dig...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aluminum
Barnett Newman Chronology of Work, Screenprint by David Diao
By David Diao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Diao, Chinese-American (1943-)
Title: Barnett Newman Chronology of Work
Year: 1992
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Image: 22 x 38 inches
Size: 30...
Category
1990s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Dimensions 1, Etching by Jack Sonenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Sonenberg, American/Canadian (1925 - )
Title: Dimensions 1
Year: 1970
Medium: Etching with Aquatint with String Collage, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
I...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
In Cima Del Mundo
By Man Ray
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork in an original color lithograph by artist Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) It is signed and numbered 7/110 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 19 x 16 inches, and th...
Category
1970s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
After Ellsworth Kelly-Noir Et Rouge/Black and Red
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster for an Ellsworth Kelly exhibition which was held at Galerie Maeght. Small pinholes located in each corner of the print.
Category
20th Century Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"The Oculist Witness, " Poster & Self-portrait by Marcel Duchamp
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Oculist Witness" is a poster by Marcel Duchamp. It features a self-portrait photograph of the artist behind a glass with circular patterns. The photograph has a green tint.
31...
Category
1960s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
The Sacred Temple, Silkscreen by Richard A Heinrich
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard A. Heinrich, American
Title: The Sacred Temple
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: X/XX
Image Size: 15.5 x 14 inches
S...
Category
Late 20th Century Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Pear III
Located in New York, NY
Sheet size: 35 7/16 x 24 3/4 inches
Frame size: 43 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches
Printer: Imprimerie Arte, Paris
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris
Edition size: 75, plus proofs
Catalogue Raison...
Category
1960s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Little Queen, Minimalist Etching by Loretta Dunkelman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Loretta Dunkelman (1937 - )
Title: Little Queen from the Delphi Stadium Series from the A.I.R. Women's Portfolio
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching, signe...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Shoes, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Shoes
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: II 14
Image Size: 19 x 28 inches
Size: 27.5 x 36 ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Senza Titolo
By Man Ray
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, Senza Titolo,1962 is a color lithograph on Arches watermarked paper by artist Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) It his hand signed and n...
Category
Late 20th Century Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Melody I
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors, on Saunders Waterford High White paper
Sheet: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 42 5/16 x 32 5/16 x 1 9/16 in. (107.5 x 82.1 x 4 cm)
Edition of 55 + 15AP
Si...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
David Borawski, Untitled_Single Point, 2016, aluminum, print, Minimalist
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political.
Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of dig...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Metal
Untitled V, Minimalist Intaglio Print by Shlomo Koren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shlomo Koren, German (1932 - )
Title: Untitled V
Year: 1970
Medium: Intaglio, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 15
Size: 26 x 20 in. (66.04 x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
Lowest House, Aquatint Etching by Alan Parker
By Alan Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Parker, Canadian
Title: Lowest House
Year: 1992
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 12.5 x 17.5 inches
Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 ...
Category
1990s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
David Borawski, Untitled (analog 13, 2016, Digital Image on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political.
Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist.
These series of...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Metal
Geometric Composition
Located in Kansas City, MO
Marie Therese Vacossin
Geometric Composition
Medium: Colour Silkscreen
Year: 1979
Signed, dated, titled, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 10
Size: 8.2 × 8.2 on 14.0 × 13.3 inches
COA ...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Emblemata
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Emblemata is a 2000 book of 15 monotypes by Sol Lewitt. Emblemata is part of a larger exposition of works by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Richard Long and Hans Ulrich...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Abstract Torso with Bow Collage, Intaglio Etching by Omar Rayo
By Omar Rayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Omar Rayo, Colombian (1928 - )
Title: Untitled I
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Intaglio Etching with Collage on handmade paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 50, AP
Paper Size: 30 x ...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
David Borawski, Untitled_Double Line, 2018, digital print on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political.
Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of d...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aluminum
David Borawski, Untitled (analog 45), 2016, Digital image on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political.
Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of d...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Metal
Minimalist Abstract from New York 10, David Diao 1969
By David Diao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Diao, Chinese/American (1943 - )
Title: Untitled from New York 10
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil
Edition: 67/100
Image Size: 9 x...
Category
1960s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled (#32)
By Joel Shapiro
Located in New York, NY
1990, 2-color pochoir printed on Korean Kozo paper, 39 x 26 inches (99.1 x 66 cm), edition of 36, signed, dated and numbered along bottom
Category
1990s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
SS 27-76, Minimalist Silkscreen by Nassos Daphnis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010)
Title: SS 27-76
Year: 1976
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100, AP 30
Size: 33 in. x 37 in. (83.82 c...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled - Eye, Abstract Etching by Daria Dorosh
By Daria Dorosh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Daria Dorosh
Title: Untitled - Eye from A.I.R. Women's Portfolio
Year: 1976
Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 8/30
Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Armageddon, Aquatint Etching by SICA
By SICA
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: SICA, American (1932 - )
Title: Armageddon
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 6/20
Image Size: 18 x 16 inches
Size: 22 in. x 20 in. (55.88 cm x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Electro Magie Electro Image, " Etching and Aquatint signed by Man Ray
By Man Ray
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Electro Magie Electro Image" is an original etching and aquatint by Man Ray. This piece depicts a pink magnet with the title written in cursive undernea...
Category
1960s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Flipside, 2018, polyester cord, PVC rod, stainless steel, 96 x 42.5 x 17.5 in
Located in Darien, CT
In recent years, Daniel G. Hill has been fixated on the work’s method of construction and its physical presence. During the winter of 2014, he began a new line of inquiry, translati...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Stainless Steel
Semiotische Komposition, Abstract Aquatint Etching by Karl Fred Dahmen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Karl Fred Dahmen
Title: Semiotische Komposition
Year: 1977
Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition: 49/75
Image Size: 27.5 x 21.5 inc...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
Located in Houston, TX
Fred Sandback
Untitled, 1976
Aquatint
21 1/2 x 25 3/4
ed. 35
Category
20th Century Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
174c091011
Located in London, GB
Edition 6/7. Aquatint copperplate printing on BFK Rives paper 250 g. Unframed.
Polyptych made with 9 elements. Each element's dimensions: 50,5 x 50,5 cm/ 19,8'x19,8'.
Pierre Mucken...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Ampersand (&) from Bill T. Jones Portfolio, Lithograph by William Katz
By William Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William P. Katz, American (1926 - 2003)
Title: Ampersand (&) from Bill T. Jones Portfolio
Year: 1985
Medium: Lithograph on hand-made paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edit...
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Parade
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005)
Title: Parade
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 150, AP 30
Paper Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55...
Category
1970s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
15.6
Located in London, GB
Aquatint copperplate printing on BFK Rives paper 250 g.
Edition 14/16.
This artwork is sold as a triptych. Each image size is 26 x 26 cm/10.2 x 10.2 inches, full paper is 65 x 50 cm/25,5 x 19,6 inches
Pierre Muckensturm added printmaking to his oeuvre since 2010.
The engraving and printing process allows him to further explore notions of time and perspective. Muckensturm is inspired by the concepts of calmness, constancy and temporality. His work visually expresses a sense of harmony with time.
In his prints, he begins with gestural marks, examining them in detail, transforming them gradually, exploring how they communicate differently as he alters their size, shape, depth, magnitude and orientation over time.
Pierre Muckensturm is a French abstract painter and print maker. His visual language is one of harmony, calm and timelessness built around softly textured surfaces and a muted, black and white palette. Born in Strasbourg, France, he currently lives and works in Colmar.
In his prints, he begins with gestural marks, examining them in detail, transforming them gradually, exploring how they communicate differently as he alters their size, shape, depth, magnitude, and orientation over time.
In 2004, Muckensturm began working with oil on large-scale canvases. He isolates gestural elements, enlarging them on the picture plane to explore their presence in relation to the surrounding emptiness. He develops the paintings methodically, exploring the process of transformation the canvas undergoes in the painting process. Working the surface into a texture that belies its age, Muckensturm achieves a balance of intensity and tranquility.
INSPIRATION
Muckensturm is inspired by the concepts of calmness, constancy, and temporality. His work visually expresses a sense of harmony with time. Initially a figurative painter, he discovered abstraction in 2004 on a visit to Notre Dame du Haut, a Modernist chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, otherwise known as Le Corbusier. The simplicity of its forms brought Muckensturm a feeling of tranquility. He began seeking ways to directly express how felt that day. His search brought him into contact with the work of Julius Bissier, whose simple, organic, gestural brushstrokes, evocative of Taoist painting...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Copper
Extended Frame with Separation
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Eight Variations for Galerie Heiner Friedrich
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Minimalist Woodcut by Joel Shapiro
By Joel Shapiro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joel Shapiro
Title: Untitled
Year: 1994
Medium: Woodcut on hand-made paper, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 27/75
Image Size: 18 x 4.5 inches (46 x 11.5 cm)
Pap...
Category
1990s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Nude in Profile
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bob Cato, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Nude in Profile (Black/Silver/Orange)
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Editi...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
16.7
Located in London, GB
Edition 3/11. Aquatint copperplate printing on BFK Rives paper 250 g.
This artwork is sold as a triptych. Each image size is 26 x 26 cm/10.2 x 10.2 inches, full paper is 65 x 50 cm/25,5 x 19,6 inches
Pierre Muckensturm added printmaking to his oeuvre since 2010.
The engraving and printing process allows him to further explore notions of time and perspective. Muckensturm is inspired by the concepts of calmness, constancy and temporality. His work visually expresses a sense of harmony with time.
In his prints, he begins with gestural marks, examining them in detail, transforming them gradually, exploring how they communicate differently as he alters their size, shape, depth, magnitude and orientation over time.
Pierre Muckensturm is a French abstract painter and print maker. His visual language is one of harmony, calm and timelessness built around softly textured surfaces and a muted, black and white palette. Born in Strasbourg, France, he currently lives and works in Colmar.
In his prints, he begins with gestural marks, examining them in detail, transforming them gradually, exploring how they communicate differently as he alters their size, shape, depth, magnitude, and orientation over time.
In 2004, Muckensturm began working with oil on large-scale canvases. He isolates gestural elements, enlarging them on the picture plane to explore their presence in relation to the surrounding emptiness. He develops the paintings methodically, exploring the process of transformation the canvas undergoes in the painting process. Working the surface into a texture that belies its age, Muckensturm achieves a balance of intensity and tranquility.
INSPIRATION
Muckensturm is inspired by the concepts of calmness, constancy, and temporality. His work visually expresses a sense of harmony with time. Initially a figurative painter, he discovered abstraction in 2004 on a visit to Notre Dame du Haut, a Modernist chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, otherwise known as Le Corbusier. The simplicity of its forms brought Muckensturm a feeling of tranquility. He began seeking ways to directly express how felt that day. His search brought him into contact with the work of Julius Bissier, whose simple, organic, gestural brushstrokes, evocative of Taoist painting...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Copper
Anne Russinof, Arcs 63, 2016, Monotype, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Minimalist
Located in Darien, CT
Russinof uses large brushes to create highly energized gestures that intimate various patterns and forms in architecture such as frames, cornices and baroque ceiling vaults.
These...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Monotype
Blue/Red-Orange/Green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Blue/Red-Orange/Green is a 1970 - 1971 color lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly. Blue/Red-Orange/Green is from an edition of 64 plus artist and printers proofs. The vibrant shapes of Blue...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Anne Russinof, Arcs 74, 2016, Monotype, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Minimalist
Located in Darien, CT
Russinof uses large brushes to create highly energized gestures that intimate various patterns and forms in architecture such as frames, cornices and baroque ceiling vaults.
These ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Monotype
Shapely, Abstract Screenprint by Arman
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005)
Title: Shapely
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, AP 30
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 c...
Category
1970s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Ramp with a Red Roof
By Saul Chase
Located in Long Island City, NY
This screenprint was created by New York-born artist Saul Chase (b. 1945). The beauty of Chase's work arises out of the inherent contradiction between his subject and the rendering. ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
New Romanticism
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005)
Title: New Romanticism
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, AP 30
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm ...
Category
1970s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Bloody Guns
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005)
Title: Bloody Guns
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, AP 30
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Sign No. 5, Geometric Abstract Etching by Jack Sonenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Sonenberg, American/Canadian (1925 - )
Title: Sign No. 5
Year: 1971
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 38/110
I...
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Variations on II, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Marc Koller
By Marc Koller
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Koller, American
Title: Variations On II
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP
Image Size: 16 x 24 inches
Size: 23 x 35 in. (58....
Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Collage Elements III, Minimalist Screenprint by Georgette Batlle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georgette Batlle
Title: Collage Elements III
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Size: 44 x 30 in. (111.76 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Barnett Newman: The Paintings (Red), Abstract Screenprint by David Diao
By David Diao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Diao, Chinese-American (1943-)
Title: Barnett Newman: The Paintings (Red)
Year: 1992
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Image: 15 x 39 inches
Size:...
Category
1990s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Prints 1967-1982", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella
"Prints 1967-1982"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1983
Offset lithograph poster
74 3/4 × 52 1/4 inches
Unsigned
This poster was created for the Frank Stella ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Collage Elements II, Minimalist Screenprint by Georgette Battle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georgette Batlle
Title: Collage Elements II
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Size: 44 x 30 in. (111.76 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Karnak, Etching by SICA
By SICA
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: SICA, American (1932 - )
Title: Karnak
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP
Image Size: 14.5 x 10.5 inches
Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38...
Category
Late 20th Century Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
David Borawski, Untitled (Analog 22), 2016, Digital image on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political. Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of dig...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aluminum
Castle No. 1, Geometric Abstract Etching by Jack Sonenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Sonenberg, American/Canadian (1925 - )
Title: Castle No. 1
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 13/60
Size: 30 in. x 22...
Category
1960s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
David Borawski, Untitled (single horizontal), 2018, digital print on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski's works are responses to specific spaces, virtual, found, and political.
Disturbances on a television screen became a minimal poem to the artist. These series of d...
Category
2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Metal
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.)
Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.
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