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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Post-Impressionist
Henry's Arrival on the Art World Causes Gravity, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1997, on Arches Cover paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Universal Limited Art...
Category
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso 'Visage et Hibou' (A. R. 407) Face and Owl Madoura Vase 1958
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Visage et Hibou (A. R. 407)
Terre de faïence vase, painted in colors and partially glazed, 1958, numbered 92/200 and inscribed 'Edition Picasso', with th...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Nude with a Fan - Female Nude with Fan French Russian Ecole de Paris
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right corner.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at t...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Pablo Picasso - The Ballet Dancer - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
Title: The Ballet Dancer
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
1954
Reference: Bloch 767
Frontispiece for the book "Le Ballet" (Paris: Editions Hachet, 1954) by...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso 'Arrastro' A. R. 423
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Arrastro (A. R. 423)
Terre de faïence plate, 1959, dated, numbered 32/50, partially glazed and painted, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso and Madour...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ceramic
FRUIT FOR SALE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS)
FRUIT FOR SALE c.1928
Color block print. Unsigned. This is an original block print from “Let’s Play”, an intended but unpublished children’s book done in collaboration with her sisters Edna and May in 1928. Image 8 x 7 inches. On a tissue thin laid paper. Irregular sheet 9 3/8 x 8 1/2. The entire series consisted of over 20 children's images.
There were very few printed. The editions of the various children varied but likely no more than 50. This impression very well printed with good colors, Very good condition. The margins are likely as issued with the irregular edges. The margins and paper used for this series varies from one print to the next. A bit of tape remnants at top center sheet edge. A very nice example of this print.
It is not unusual for impressions of this series to be unsigned, although many are signed "The Gearharts"
The Provenance of this example is fascinating. It was acquired from a gentleman who knew the Gearharts as a child in the early 50's in Pasadena. It was part of a collection given to him by Frances. In his adult years he was in the military and took the collection with him as he traveled around Europe,
After 81 years, based on the original prints, this book was published by
the “California Book...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Linocut
Itinerant Players from Chagall Lithographs I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Fleur Tombe), 1962
Located in Palo Alto, CA
The rich blue color bursts from the page in Georges Braque Untitled (Fleur Tombe), 1962, overtaking the black lettering and white background. Drawn onto the title page of the book “Braque Le goût de notre temps” by Albert Skira this hand applied watercolor is striking. In several strong stokes, a flower is presented with its blue petals seeming to float down the page until almost reaching the bottom. The delicate blue touches the page which in turn lights up with brilliant flowers. The petals are slightly smudged, and you can see the brushstrokes that Braque applied to the page. PArt of what makes this unique watercolor so wonderful is that the viewer can so clearly see and feel the hand of the artist. Caught in between the flower and falling petals is the black hand...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor
Chasm
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) - Manhattan Mary IV: serigraph Broadway musical
By Erté
Located in London, GB
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990)
'Manhattan Mary IV'
Serigraph (Silk screen print)
(Artist's Proof IL/L)
Signed in pencil
70 x 56cm (sheet) 41.5 x 3...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Stencil
Untitled (Black Sea)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Plate XVI, from Album 19
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Coquelicots
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph after a gouache decoupee from Verve 35/36
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Wandering Musicians from Chagall Lithographs I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Senza Titolo
Located in London, GB
MARINO MARINI 1901-1980
Pistoia, Italy 1901-1980 Viareggio, Italy (Italian)
Title: Untitled Senza Titolo, 1963
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Co...
Category
Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Les Oiseaux de Nuit
Located in Kansas City, MO
Georges Braque
Les Oiseaux de Nuit
1964
Original Reproduction of a Gouache on Velin d'Arches
Size: 10x7.375in
Edition: 2,000
Annotated verso
Unsigned as issued
Publisher: Mourlot, Pa...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Vellum
Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry) Poster /// Yves Klein Nude Figurative Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962)
Title: "Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry)"
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edi...
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
de Segonzac, Eden Roc, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1965. Published by Librairie ...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Honey Yellow Lily
By Ed Baynard
Located in New York, NY
In many of his prints, Ed Baynard presents familiar still-life scenes, such as flowers in vases. He reduces the compositions, divorcing the forms from a context, thus accentuating th...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Original "Holland by KLM" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holland, so easy to reach by KLM vintage travel poster. Archivally linen-backed in very fine condition ready to frame. Colors are bright and vibrant. Printed in Hollan...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original "Speedy Travel, German Federal Railroad" vintage travel poster, train
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Speedy Travel, German Federal Railroad” vintage travel poster. The DB stands for the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Archivally linen-backed in very good condition and ready to fra...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
James Bond The Spy Who Loved me - Original 1977 Lobby Card #8
Located in London, GB
James Bond The Spy Who Loved me - Original 1977 Lobby Card #8
Vintage 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me lobby card of 007's underwater car and 2 divers
Framing options available: Black, br...
Category
1980s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Original SABENA Fun Brussels Helicopter to Paris vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Sabena vintage travel poster. Archivally linen —backed in very fine condition, A, ready to frame. The image comprises three surfboard-style sections depicting New York to Br...
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
"The Lips" Photography 32" x 32" Edition of 7 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Lips" Photography 32" x 32" Edition of 7 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
Shot with a 3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Original Vintage Henri Matisse Exhibition Poster, The Tate Gallery, 1953
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Vintage Henri Matisse Exhibition Poster, The Tate Gallery, 1953
"The Sculpture of Matisse and Three Paintings with Studies, 9 January - 22 February 1953, The Tate Gallery" ...
Category
1970s Fauvist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Original PERU Braniff International Airways vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original travel poster: Braniff International Airways, Peru Bull. Size 20" x 26" A- condition. This vintage poster is not linen-backed because it is printed on a heavier paper ...
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
DAVID SHRIGLEY - WITNESS MY JOY Modern Design Figurative British Artist Blue
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAVID SHRIGLEY - WITNESS MY JOY
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Screen print & varnish on Somerset paper
Edition: 125 + 12 AP
Size: 75 x 56 cm
Condition: Brand new, inside its custom ...
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Screen
Composition (~76% OFF LIST PRICE FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME, FRAMING OPTIONS AVAIL)
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Jenkins
Composition
1964
Original Color Lithograph on Velin d'Arches
Size: 10x7.375in
Edition: 2,000
Annotated verso
Unsigned as issued
Publisher: Mourlot, Paris
Printer: Mourlo...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
Dufy, Nu couché, Raoul Dufy, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Raoul Dufy, IV, Collection Pierre Levy, 1969; published by Fernand Mourlot,...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dufy, Fleurs peintes en manière, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1965. Published by Librairie ...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
CHINESE AUGURAL PRINT - Print on paper with frame 1980s
Located in Napoli, IT
Chinese augural prints art edition Menarini Florence 1982. Linked to Chinese folk customs and daily life, the prints are popular ornaments for Lunar New Year decorations and express ...
Category
1980s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Pont-Neuf, Paris Capitale, Maurice Utrillo
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Johannot paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Paris Capitale, 1955; published by Joseph Foret, Editeur d'Art, Paris...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Matisse, La danse, Douze Contemporains (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Douze Contemporains, 1959; published by Éditions d'Art du Lion, Paris;...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Villon, En colère, Douze Contemporains (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Douze Contemporains, 1959; published by Éditions d'Art du Lion, Paris;...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Pablo Picasso 'Visage' (A. R. 533) Face Madoura Plate 1963
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Visage (A. R. 533)
Terre de faïence plate, 1965, numbered 39/100, with the workshop numbering, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso and Madoura stamps.
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
de Vlaminck, Paysage à Chatou, Fauves, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collection Pierre Levy, 1972; published by Fernand Mourlot, Pa...
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Composition, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1965. Published by Librairie ...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Reclining Nude', California Post-Impressionist, de Young Museum, Fauve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'W.Georgetti', and created circa 1950.
Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United States at the age of one. Georgetti first worked as a merchant seaman to support his art studies and traveled all over the world accumulating sketches, many of which he later worked up into paintings. He made frequent visits to France, where he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists and, particularly, by the Nabis. An innovative theorist, Georgetti was the originator of the style known as California Fauvism. He exhibited widely and with success, both at exhibitions and at one-man shows (Oakland Art Gallery, 1942-44; Society of American Graphic Artists, NYC, 1944; Maxwell Galleries, 1940’s; de Young Museum...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Paper, Crayon
The city, The Viaduct - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand Léger
The Viaduct, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (c. 25....
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ambassadeurs Aristide Bruant in his cabaret by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster illustrates Aristide Bruant who was a famous performer and cabaret owner in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Lautrec, seizing on Bruant's trademark cos...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Easy on the Eye" Photography 24" x 36" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Easy on the Eye" Photography 24" x 36" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" x 36" inch
Edition of 7:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Pablo Picasso, "Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile, " original lithograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
"Portrait of Jacqueline, Right Profile"
Original Lithograph
The 3rd and final state, executed on zinc
Hand signed in pencil, numbered 21/50 from the edition of 50
Paper...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Late Afternoon" Photography 25" x 35" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Late Afternoon" Photography 25" x 35" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 25" x 35" inch
Edition of 7:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Under Greylock, Etching by Peter Milton
By Peter Milton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Milton, American (1930 - )
Title: Under Greylock
Year: 1993
Medium: Intaglio Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175
Image Size: 18.25 x 15 inches
Size: 25 ...
Category
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Monterey at Sunset', California Post-Impressionist Landscape
By John Maxon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial trillium monotype landscape showing a view of the cultivated fields and coastal hills of Monterey County, California bathed in the glow of a radiant sunset.
Signed lower left, "Maxon" for John Maxon (American, 20th century) and created circa 1985.
Coming from a western tradition in Wyoming, John Maxon developed an expansive view of nature and the spiritual essence it imbued. Moving eventually to the San Francisco Bay area, John’s delight in the effects of light and color led him to the decision to become an artist at the young age of 15. His natural ability was encouraged and, at 16, he began figurative art classes with Howard Brodie.
Maxon spent his youthful days painting seriously in the fields behind Stanford University, and was fortunate to be exposed to and to study the works of Nathan Oliviera, Wayne Thiebaud and David Park during those years. He attended San Jose State University, and apprenticed for Sam Richardson...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
"Splash" Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Splash" Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
Comes with CO...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink
"Caroline (LED)" Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 2/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Caroline (LED)" Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 2/3 by Larsen Sotelo
*** Not framed - ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) - Scarce Print!
By Bernard Joseph Steffen
Located in Santa Monica, CA
BERNARD (JOSEPH) STEFFEN (1907 – 1980)
PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) c. 1935-45
Color serigraph signed with a full signature below the image at the lower right sheet edge . Unknown e...
Category
1930s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Replica" Photography 35" x 25" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Replica" Photography 35" x 25" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 35" x 25" inch
Edition of 7: 42" x 3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Pablo Picasso, "The Little Artist", 1956, lithograph in 5 colors, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Le Petit Dessinateur (The Little Artist), 1956
Lithograph in five colors
Hand signed in pencil and numbered 6/50 from an edition of 50
Vallauris, May 18th, 1956
Referen...
Category
1950s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Louis Osman Architect Goldsmith Silversmith 1974 catalogue Prince of Wales Crown
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
As Goldsmith Osman designed the Crown for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969, and as architect he commissioned Jacob Epstein's chef d'oeuvre, the Madonna and Child on the...
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Figure endormie dans un intérieur (Interior with Sleeping Figure) /// Matisse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Title: "Figure endormie dans un intérieur (Interior with Sleeping Figure)"
*Signed and numbered by Matisse in...
Category
1920s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio, Etching
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christo & Jeanne Claude
Surrounded Islands
Offset Lithograph
Size: 24.0×36.0 inches
Signed and inscribed in the print
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1556
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff an...
Category
1980s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Windswept Landscape Henry Moore drawing of Scottish landscape for W.H. Auden
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
One of a series of 18 lithographs drawn by the artist fo¬r the Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs 1974 book and portfolio. This work is from an edition of 25 printed on vellum aside from ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Mourlot 206; Cramer 67), XXe Siècle (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 16...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lioness i- Etching by Evert Louis van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a modern artwork realized by Evert Louis van Muyden (Albano, Lazio 1853 - 1922 Orsay) in 1900 .
Black and white etching.
Signature and date on plate.
Includes passe-pa...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
LOWEST $ DIB Post Impressionist “LE HAVRE” Lithograph 1930 Figures and Seascrape
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
Here I have the lowest authentic priced Raphl Dufy Le Havre for sale!
Originally purchased purchased from Sotheby’s
I’m 1984 for approx $3500, I have attached a photo of receipt ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.
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