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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Style: Realist
Style: Old Masters
Original etchings C. Bernier - International monument of the reformation, Geneva
Located in Geneva, CH
This is an original etching representing an important monument in Geneva during the 19th century. The work is sold framed. Total size with the frame 34x31 cm. Signed C. Bernier
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19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after Rembrandt by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful pi...
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19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

White Irises on Blue, Silkscreen by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Irises on Blue Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 41 x 23...
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1980s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Great White Shark, Lithograph by Richard Ellis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Great White Shark Richard Ellis, American (1938) Date: circa 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 500 Image Size: 18 x 25 inches Size:...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lily (Readers Digest Association Art Collection)
Located in New York, NY
Arnold Iger Lily (Readers Digest Association Art Collection), 1988 Intaglio (Hand Signed, Dated, Titled, Numbered & Framed) Signed in pencil lower right recto Numbered "77/350" on lo...
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1980s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio

"Le Rhone a Avignon" Hand Colored Etching, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Rhone a Avignon" is an original hand colored etching signed by the artist Armand Coussens. This incredibly rare print depicts a church in Avignon, where Pablo Picasso had one of ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Les Patineurs, " Etching of a Winter Landscape signed by James Ensor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Patineurs" is a signed etching by James Ensor. It is from the Loÿs Delteil 65 volume XIX and depicts a multitude of skaters on a frozen pond. "Les Patineurs" is the French word ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"La Tempete (The Tempest)" an Etching
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Tempete" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This is Claude's earliest dated etching (1630). The work depicts a storm-tossed sea with ships on the verge of ...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Il tempio del Sole
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on hand made cream laid paper, 2 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (72 x158 mm), 1/4 inch margins. In very good condition with minor edge wear. Adhered with adhesive along the left top shee...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

"Oakham Castle" and "Nottingham Park/Castle" from "Buck's Antiquities" /// UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774) Title: "Oakham Castle" (Plate 242) and "Nottingham Park/Castle" (Plate 226) Portfolio: Buck's Antiquities or ...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

"Pendragon Castle" and "Lincoln Castle" from "Buck's Antiquities" /// British UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774) Title: "Pendragon Castle" (Plate 312) and "Lincoln Castle" (Plate 170) Portfolio: Buck's Antiquities or Vener...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

BLACK BEAR IN THE CHICKCHOCS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Shepherd talking to a young shepherd on a donkey
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on handmade, cream laid paper. 5 13/16 x 7 5/8 inches (146 x 192 mm), thread margins. Scattered handling creases, light age tone, and minor paper inconsistoncies throughout....
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Brazilian 2005 signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n3
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939) 'Tenedor from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005 photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: SIL1692-002-106...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Paper

"Sheila, " Etching and Aquatint in Color signed by Man Ray
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This original etching and aquatint in colors is by Surrealist and Dada artist Man Ray, an excerpt from the book "Ballade de Dames Hors du Temps". The etching is from a sketch Man...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Paper

"Torksey Hall" and "Newark Castle" from "Buck's Antiquities" /// Architecture UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774) Title: "Torksey Hall" (Plate 179) and "Newark Castle" (Plate 226) Portfolio: Buck's Antiquities or Venerable ...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Letter R - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter R is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli artist of 18th century. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichit...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Brazilian 2005 signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n8
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939) 'Gafas from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005 photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: SIL1692-002-106_8...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Paper

Brazilian signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n6
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939) 'Huella from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005 photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: SIL1692-002-106_...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Paper

1991 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Westport, Massachusetts' USA HAND SIGNED
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 36 x 29 inches ( 91.44 x 73.66 cm ) Image Size: 28 x 21 inches ( 71.12 x 53.34 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: 28 Color silkscreen printed by Pamplemousse Press. Hand signed, titled and numbered out of 125 by Gretchen Dow Simpson...
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1990s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Elderly Shepherd Leaning on a Staff (after Parmigianino)
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder after a work by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Printed on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream lai...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Woodcut

The avenue
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The avenue, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed below the image on the left and signed on th...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Cologne Cathedral Koln Dom Germany - German Street Scene signed color etching
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A wonderful impression of the Cathedral in Koln. This artwork titled "Cologne Cathedral" is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed i...
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Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

1992 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Owl's Head, Maine' USA Serigraph
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 21 x 19.25 inches ( 53.34 x 48.895 cm ) Image Size: 14.25 x 13.5 inches ( 36.195 x 34.29 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: 27 color silkscreen printed by Pamplemousse Press. Hand signed, titled and numbered out of 175 by Gretchen Dow Simpson...
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1990s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Les Bucoliques X, " Original Lithograph, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Bucoliques X" is an original black and white lithograph signed in stone by the artist Henri Fantin-Latour. It depicts two figures spending free time in bucolic nature. This prin...
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Early 1900s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Black and White, Lithograph

Bulls, from Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Jules Géruzet, 1860. Etching on cream laid paper, 3 1/2 x 5 inches (88 x 121 mm), full margins. Minor uniform age tone. Printed by George Bertauts, Paris. [Beraldi II.140.24...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Etching

Axiom - Etching by Francesco Mazzoni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Axiom is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Mazzoni in the 18th century. Signed on the plate. Included a Passepartout: 45 x 30.5 cm Francesco Mazzoni ( 1738-1989). ...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Desnudo de Frida Kahlo, Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...
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1930s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The House of Shango — African American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 24 x 18 inches (610 x 457 mm); sheet size 30 inches x 22 1/4 inches (762 x 565 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THIS WORK “The title of this piece is an unmistakable harkening to African roots. Shango is a religious practice with origins in Yoruba (Nigerian) belief, deifying a god of thunder by the same name. Shango has been adopted in the Caribbean, most notably in Trinidad and Tobago, a fact that underscores the importance of transnationalism to Samella Lewis’s piece. Her work often grapples with issues of race in the U.S., and The House of Shango is no exception. Through a reliance on the gradual transformation of Shango—one that took place across continents and time—Lewis’s piece forms a powerful link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean counterparts. The figure depicted in the piece appears to emerge, quite literally, from the house of Shango. Given the roots and transformative process of the religion, The House of Shango can draw attention to the historical intersections to which black American culture is indebted.” —Laura Woods, Scripps College, Ruth Chander Williamson Gallery, Collection Highlights, 2018 ABOUT THE ARTIST Samella Lewis’ lifelong career as an artist, art historian, critic, curator, collector, and advocate of African American art has helped empower generations of artists in the United States and worldwide, earning her the designation “the Godmother of African American art.” Born and raised in Jim Crow era New Orleans, Lewis began her art education at Dillard University in 1941, transferring to Hampton University in Virginia, where she earned her B. A. and master's degrees. She completed her master's and a doctorate in art history and cultural anthropology at Ohio State University in 1951, becoming the first female African American to earn a doctorate in fine art and art history. Lewis taught art at Morgan State University while completing her doctorate. She became the first Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Florida A&M University in 1953. That same year Lewis also became the first African American to convene the National Conference of African American artists held at Florida A&M University. She was a professor at the State University of New York, California State University, Long Beach, and at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Lewis co-founded, with Bernie Casey, the Contemporary Crafts Gallery in Los Angeles in 1970. In 1973, she served on the selection committee for the exhibition BLACKS: USA: 1973 held at the New York Cultural Center. Samella Lewis's 1969 catalog 'Black Artists on Art', featured accomplished black artists typically overlooked in mainstream art galleries. She said of the book, "I wanted to make a chronology of African American artists, and artists of African descent, to document our history. The historians weren't doing it. It was really about the movement." From the 1960s through the 1970s, her work, which included lithographs, linocuts, and serigraphs, reflected her concerns with the values of human dignity, democracy, and freedom of expression. Between 1969 and 70, Lewis and E.J. Montgomery were consultants for a groundbreaking exhibition at the Oakland Public L designed to create greater awareness of African American history and art. Lewis was the founder of the International Review of African American Art in 1975. In 1976, she founded the Museum of African-American Art with a group of artistic, academic, business, and community leaders in Los Angeles, California. Lewis, the museum’s senior curator, organized exhibitions and developed new ways of educating the public about African American art. She celebrated African American art as an 'art of experience’ inspired by the artists’ lives. And she espoused the concept of African American art as an 'art of tradition', urging museums to explore the African roots of African American art. In 1984, Lewis produced an extensive monograph on Elizabeth Catlett, her beloved mentor at Dillard University. Lewis has been collecting art since 1942, focusing primarily on the WPA era and work created during the Harlem Renaissance. Pieces from her collection were acquired by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia, the world’s earliest collection of African American fine art...
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1990s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Piazza Duomo in San Gimignano, 2 Probedruck
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Piazza Duomo in San Gimignano, 2 Probedruck, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed in the pr...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Private Tokyo
Located in New York, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki Private Tokyo, 1996 Two Sided Offset Lithograph Boldly signed and numbered by the artist in black marker on the lower right front 33 × 46 3/5 inches Unframed This dra...
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1990s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Portrait of Vera, The Artist's Wife, proof print
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Portrait of Vera, The Artist's Wife, proof print, 1908, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in the ...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

The mill fire
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The mill fire, proof with border incursion, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed and signed b...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Mill backlit
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Mill backlit, 1913, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed and dated in the printing plate, inscribed, numb...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

The Two
Located in Naples, FL
Characterized by his deeply honest means of expression and fascination with Orientalism, Surrealism, and social commentary, Moscow painter Stanislav Plutenko brings his vivid dreams ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic

Vienna Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vienna Scene, Austria" c. 1950 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at...
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Posing Man - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Man is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions with foxing on the margins. Signed in the plate. The etching was realized for the anatomy study “JOMB...
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18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum - Etching by Roccus Pozzi - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum is an etching on paper folded in four part realized by Roccus Pozzi in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding and foxin...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Six’s Bridge - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Six’s Bridge is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1645. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an edition of...
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19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Charles Lee Esq.
Located in Boston, MA
Chaloner Smith (Engraver not ascertained, Class III) 9. Published by C. Shepherd, Oct. 31, 1775 London. Inscribed in plate lower center: "Charles Lee, Efq. / Major General of the Con...
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Late 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

Self-Portrait Leaning Forward Bust - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait Leaning Forward Bust is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a l...
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19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after Rembrandt by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful pi...
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19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

"Le Printemps de 1872" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. François Nicolas Augustin Feyen was known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1872 by A. Salmon and published in Paris by ...
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1870s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Seebenstein Castle Courtyard, Austria, large color etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Seebenstein Castle, Austria" 1920 is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Crucifixion: 18th Century Etching by Conrad Metz after Daniele da Volterra
Located in Alamo, CA
"Crucifixion" is an etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink by Conrad M. Metz after a painting by Daniele da Volterra. It was published in London in 1789 in 'Imitations Of Ancient...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

COLMAR Signed Wood Engraving, French Village, Little Venice Half-Timbered Houses
Located in Union City, NJ
COLMAR is an original wood engraving by the American artist Bernard Brussel-Smith, hand printed in yellow, light blue and black ink. COLMAR depicts a quaint French village scene with...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

"Vendangeuse" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. François Nicolas Augustin Feyen was known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin. This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1884 for the "French Etchers" portfoli...
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1880s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Talisman (so called Dukatenscheisser) - The philosopher's stone -
By Carl Plückebaum
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Maria Plückebaum (1880 Düsseldorf - 1952 ibid.), Der Talismann (sog. Dukatenscheisser), partly colored etching, 11.5 x 8.5 cm (plate size), 26.5 x 20 cm (sheet size), signed by hand below the image on the right "C. Plückebaum" and inscribed by hand at lower left "Der Talismann". - left and right side of the sheet with browned stripes, otherwise good copy - The philosopher's stone - About the artist Here, Carl Plückebaum gives free rein to his anti-academic impulses and turns the subtle humor of his pictures into crudeness. Following Adrian Ostade's peasants as they go about their needy business, we see a cowardly fellow in a squatting position. His excrement, however, is not the organic remains of digestion, but - like the golden donkey in the Grimm fairy tale - ducats. However, they appear more brown than golden, which is emphasized by the discreet hand-coloring of the picture. The unattractive accumulation is countered by the blossoms decorating the crouching man's hat. Totally absorbed in his action, his activity is evident in the strained expression on his face, giving Plückebaum a whole new verisimilitude to the concept of naturalism. The title "The Talisman" then turns naturalism back to the miraculous, formulating in a humorous way that these legacies are also a "miracle of nature". About the artist Coming from a poor background, Carl Plückebaum, who had a walking disability and was of short stature, initially worked as a church restorer. He also took private drawing lessons. In 1901 he won the first prize of the Düsseldorf Museum of Decorative Arts, which enabled him to finance his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy. There he was a pupil of Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen the Elder, but began to doubt the academic teaching. In 1906 he took part in a group exhibition at the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, which violated the academy's statutes and led to his dismissal. However, the extraordinary success with the public confirmed him as an artist and provided him with the financial means for a study trip to Italy. Enchanted by Florence, he retired to the Franciscan monastery of Fisole, where he worked as a fresco painter. Back in Düsseldorf, he turned increasingly to children's and animal drawings, and in 1907 he was a founding member of the Niederrhein Secessionist Artists' Group. In 1910 he travelled to Italy again, accompanied by his painter friends Walter Ophey and Carl Schmitz-Pleis, visiting Rome and Naples in particular. He then stayed in Munich to study the Old Masters at the Pinakothek. It was in the artistic circles of Schwabing that he met his future wife, the painter Meta Weber. In Düsseldorf, Carl and Meta Plückebaum...
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Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled (Portrait)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Portrait) Drypoint printed in blue-black graphite mixed with silver, 1974 Signed and dated lower ight (see photo) From: Series entitled Six Drypoints Edition: 23 (4/23) Numbered lower left (see photo) Print Shop: Crown Point Press Printer: Jeannie Fine Publisher: Parasol Press, New York Note: A portfolio is in the collection of the National Gallery, Australia, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young/Legion of Honor, Davis Museum at Wellesley College and the Yale University Art Gallery. Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches Sheet size: 24 x 20 inches From a portfolio of six drypoints, printed with unqiue combination of blue-black graphite shavings combined with silver to create the appearence of an original drawing. I know of no other artist to use a similar printing technique. William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas, Yale University and Yale School of Art where he studied with Josef Albers receiving his MFA in 1957. Mr. Bailey’s first exhibition in New York was at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in 1968, where he showed regularly until its closing in 1990. During the 90’s he exhibited at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and on its closing, exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery. In 2004 Bailey moved to the Betty Cuningham Gallery where his most recent exhibition was held from April 30 - June 11, 2016. Mr. Bailey’s work has been exhibited extensively in both America and Europe. He is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1965. Mr. Bailey was elected to The National Academy of Design in 1983 and to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986. Mr. Bailey taught at The Yale School of Art from 1958 to 1962 and from 1969 to 1995. He has also taught at The Cooper Union, University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. He maintains studios in New Haven and in Umbertide, Italy. Courtesy Betty Cunningham Gallery Tribute to William Bailey THE NEW YORK TIMES William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey. Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art. In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery. William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89 He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery. The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep. Ford Bailey By William Grimes for the New York Times April 18, 2020 William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey. Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art. In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery. His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than life. “They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979. Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air. The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.” But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the William Harrison Bailey was born on Nov. 17, 1930, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His father, Willard, worked in radio advertising and moved the family from city to city in the Midwest. Bill was in his early teens when his father died. His mother, Marjorie (Cheyney) Bailey, was a homemaker who later worked as an accountant for her second husband, Fred...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

The Tree - Lithograph - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Tree is a lithograph print on ivory-colored paper realized in the mid-20th century by an anonymous artist. Good conditions. The artwork is created through strong and quick stro...
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Agony - The architecture of decay -
Located in Berlin, DE
Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]". - minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin - The architecture of decay - About the artwork Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay. The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...
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1980s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Paper

Ruins of the Roman Baths of Belisarius: A 19th C. Etching by Luigi Rossini
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...
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1820s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf by Candida Höfer, C-Print, Photography
Located in Zug, CH
This artwork is part of a project called "In Portugal", which consists of a selection of photographs taken in public sites throughout the Iberian country. Typical of Candida Höfer, the artist has photographed empty interiors of libraries, museums, palaces and theaters. Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf - Contemporary, 21st Century, C Print, Limited Edition...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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C Print

The Gates - New York Central Park
Located in Winterswijk, NL
The artwork "The Gates - New York Central Park" by the artist Christo is extraordinary and an eye-catcher for every room Color offset on heavy paper B...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Color, Offset

Rothenburg, City Hall Gate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, City Hall Gate" c. 1975 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Printed...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva. A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Ba...
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1770s Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ancient Roman Scene - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Niccolò Vanni in the 18th Century. Signed on the plat...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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