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Femme Dans L'Atelier, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rendered in hues of blue and grey, this portayal of a woman in an artist's workshop includes a depiction of an easel with a canvas facing the woman. Pablo Picasso's Cubist technique ...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fuck Art Let's Dance & Fuck Dancing Let's Fuck
Located in New York, NY
Diptych screenprint set with bright colors and in excellent condition. Numbered 49/50 and dated on the first plate. Signed by Miller on the second plate. Dimensions of each sheet are...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

No. 7 from "Als Mestres de Catalunya, " Lithograph by Antoni Tapies
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by Catalan artist Antoni Tapies. Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, and his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró. However, he soon ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Raymond Pettibon Black Flag 1981 (Raymond Pettibon punk art)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag, 1981: Rare early Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Punk Flyer - illustrated by Pettibon on the occasion of: Black Flag, Stains, Youth Gone Mad, Caustic Cause,...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Offset

Le "V" - Original Lithgraph after Henri Matisse - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Le "V" is original lithograph artwork realized after Henri Matisse . The artwork is from "La Meme Pierre", Fernand Mourlot Lithographe, Pierre Bordas & Fils, Paris 1982. Signed on The plate by artist...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled 18, Large Colorful Abstract Screenprint by Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 18 Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Size: 35 x 45 inches
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled by Antoni Clavé, Black, Blue, Yellow, Abstract
Located in Köln, DE
Color etching with carborundum by Antoni Clavé "No Title", 1975 75,5 x 55,5 cm Copy 32/60 Edition of 60 (approx.). Antoni Clavé (Barcelona 1913 - 2005 ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

La Boite
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Artist's proof. Edition Couturier. Printed by Jacques David, Paris. Jean Fautrier was a French painter, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. He was one of the most impo...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Eternal Spiral Limited Edition Catalogue by James Jean
Located in Draper, UT
Eternal Spiral is an in-depth catalog of James Jean’s solo show that is currently traveling through multiple museums in China. Updated from the Eternal ...
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2010s Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Lenticular

Peaches (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, fruit)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Watercolor

1960s "Metaphor" Abstract Collagraph NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler "Metaphor" c.1960s Collagraph ink on paper, A/P 1.75"x2.25 unframed Signed and dated in pencil Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Intaglio

Signe-Paysage Loire
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1992 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated EA Edition : 50 ex. Printer : Art Estampe (Paris) 56.50 cm. x 75.50 cm. 22.24 in. x 29.72 in. (paper) 50.00 cm. x 6...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Organic Mid-Century Floating Shapes in Blue Tones, Monotype Cyanotype on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
Mid-Century Shapes XIII is a captivating cyanotype monotype that draws on the visual language of mid-century abstraction. Featuring fluid, interlocking forms rendered in rich Prussi...
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2010s Post-Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Monotype

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Adamo Marrucci - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition  is a contemporary artwork realied in 1974. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left margin. Edi...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

David Shapiro: Rene Ricard vintage poetry tombstone print "carved in stone"
Located in New York, NY
The title of this poetic, abstract work is written across the top of the sheet. The hand-written cursive below reads: "David Shapiro / Told me he was going to / Carve his poems in stone / "That's one way to make them lost" / I don't have to / Rene Ricard". A poet, art historian and art critic, David Shapiro was friends with Ricard, and a part of the 1980's art scene in New York. Shapiro became famous briefly during the 1968 anti-Vietnam student uprising at Columbia University, when a photograph of him smoking a cigar behind the desk of the Columbia University president was published in Life magazine, and he became the face of the student protest...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Four Color Quartets (Fourth Quartet)
Located in New York, NY
Suite $20,000. Individual Quartets $6,000. First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in. Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in. Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in. Fourth Quartet 45 in. x 45 in. Signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Constellations
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee Constellations, 2019 Diptych lithograph 22 x 44 inches overall (22 x 22 each sheet) Edition of 30 Unframed
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Peintre (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Le Peintre Year: 1982 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 29.25 x 21 inches Edition: 1000, plus proofs Condition: Good Inscription: Sign...
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1980s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Peintre (after)
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Suckers State I
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed, inscribed "state I" and numbered 111/150 in pencil. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with the blin...
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1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

No. 5 by Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Edition of 75 signed by the artist. Price for unframed. Ask us for custom framing options for this piece. Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally rec...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Uprising - Aquatint and Etching by Arthur Secunda - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Uprising is a  contemporary artwork realized by Arthur Secunda in 1979. Mixed colored etching. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered and titled on the lower left margin. Edit...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by Plinio Mesciulam - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an Original screen print realized by Plinio Mesciulam in 1973. Very good condition on a white cardboard. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the lower...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Etching by Hsiao Chin - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original colored etching realized by Hsiao Chin in 1977. The artwork is hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower le...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

The Seven Days of Bardo Thodol 6 - Original Lithograph by M. Canzoneri - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
The Seven Days of Bardo Thodol 6 is an original lithograph and screen print realized by Michele Canzoneri in 1977. The artwork is part of a collecti...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Screen

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Steinberg, Illustration, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 157, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1960s Post-War Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mimosa with Green, Jan 25, 2023
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Mimosa with Green, Jan 25, 2023 Year: 2023 Medium: Archival pigment ink print on 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed, titled, dated and numbered ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

untitled
Located in New York, NY
gestural screenprint, number 5 from an edition of 40
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

de Chirico, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°4, Christmas 1938. Published and printed under the direc...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Joan Miró, "Escalade de la butte, " etching and aquatint, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miro Escalade de la butte 1976 Original etching and aquatint in colors on BFK Rives paper Hand signed in pencil and numbered 35/50 from the edition of 50 Published by Atelier La...
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1970s Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Untitled - Original Embossing by Hans Richter - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an abstract artwork realized by Hans Richter in 1970 Embossing on alluminum plate printed in 1 color on Umbria paper Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Numbered...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper

Israeli Abstract Modernist Aquatint Screenprint Color Photo-Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, (Barcos que Passan na Noite) 1999, color screenprint, signed in pencil, numbered 1/60, sheet 22 ½ x 27 ½”. From Jerusalem print workshop. Asaf Ben Zvi, Israeli contemporary artist, was born in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, 1953. Studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Pratt Institute, New York. Laureate of numerous awards, notably the Rappaport Prize for an Established Artist for 2011, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Lives and works in Jerusalem. He did his army service in a commando unit and fought in the Yom Kippur War. After his discharge from the army he settled in Jerusalem and became interested in bird-watching. In 1981 he began to study architecture at Bezalel, but transferred to the art department. During the period of his studies, he worked primarily in sculpture, but after a period of study in New York, he began to paint as well. From the mid-1980s he made use of simple figures, so abstracted in their form that they became symbolic figures. Some of these figures were connected to biographical baggage, while others were based on trivial events. Many of his works are based on poetic texts that show his interest in esthetics and in the relationship between the painter and society. Education 1981-1985 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem, BFA 1985 Pratt Institute, New York.City, USA Teaching 1933 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Since 1989 Kalisher School, Tel Aviv. Awards And Prizes 1981-82, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant 1982-83, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant 1987 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1989 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1991 Rafael and Hadassah Klatchkin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1992 Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Education 1994 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1997 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2011 Prize for an Established Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Environmental Sculptures 1982 Tel-Haisaf Ben Zvi was involved in ornithology until the early 1990s. In 1981, he enrolled in the Art department at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. During his studies, he participated in a student exchange program at the Pratt Institute in New York. From the outset, Ben Zvi’s focus has been on nature and the environment. Ecological and human disasters and natural disasters initially played an main role in his work and received expression through various fields of color, with motifs such as a cross, a water flask, a wasp, butterfly or bird, symbolizing the fragile human existence steeped in an eternal struggle. In his later work, words penetrate the space of his paintings and art, reflecting on the private, public, local and universal realms. "Ben Zvi at his best is a visual poet, one who places words with great sensitivity to their tone and sometimes relinquishes the splendor of an image in favor of text and message." The Printer's Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem Israel Museum, Jerusalem 15 November, 1994 - 14 February, 1995 Artists: Avraham Ofek, Fima (Roytenberg, Ephraim), Michael Kovner...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Aquatint, Screen

Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Shepard Fairey Screen-prints: collection of 60 works (2009-2022)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Shepard Fairey Screen-prints: collection of 60 works: 2009-2022: A rare assemblage of 60 hand-signed Shepard Fairey screen-prints; collected over a near 15 year period (2009-2022). Notable imagery includes: Bob Marley, Keith Haring, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kurt Cobain, as well as a series of vivid anti-war pieces defining the artist's practice (title list found further below). Each very well-preserved. Medium: Screen-prints on heavy paper. 2009-2022 (see below for a list of titles & years). Dimensions ranging from: 19.5 x 16 inches to 24x36 inches. Each work is hand-signed; works are either numbered from their respective main editions or notated 'AP' (see last listing image); a few or several works are signed, but not numbered. Excellent overall condition with the exception of perhaps some minor signs of handling on a few examples. Provenance: Private collection New York via Shepard Fairey. Listing images beginning with image 2 represent the actual works. These works will be shipped flat using protective materials. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions. Titles & Years: OCEAN TODAY...
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2010s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Purple Kimono with Red Stripes
Located in Soquel, CA
Purple and red kimono by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Pearce's work. No frame. Image, 27.5"H x 22.5"W Patrici...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Laid Paper, Gouache

Morning Dance
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Morning Dance Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.:...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Morning Dance
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Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 25 (9/25) (see photo) Engraving, drypoint & carborundum Printed by the artist Condition: Excellent, slight residue on rever...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Les Hespérides
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1957 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted HC Publisher : Le musée de Poche (Paris) Printer : Jean Pons (Paris) Catalog : Polieri, 1746 50.50 cm. x 66.00 cm. 19...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lullaby: Sleeping Head
Located in New York, NY
Paper: 25.25 x 20.5 in. / 64.1 X 52 cm. Image: 10.75 x 11.5 in / 27.3 x 29.2 cm. One of a series of 18 lithographs drawn by the artist for the Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs 1974 bo...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Beaudin, Feuilles évadées, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
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1970s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Yellow Composition - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 70 cm. Yellow Composition is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010. This original artwork represents a yellow abstract co...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Giclée

Tal-Coat, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 131, 1962. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La tranche de potiron, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Aztec
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aztec" 1983 is a color serigraph on Wove paper by noted American artist Roy Ahlgren, 1927-2011 It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 71/150 in pencil by ...
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Mid-20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

La chèvre aux gravois (Cramer 115), Diurnes
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
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1960s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Kuri Tsushimoto - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a composition realized in 1969 by the artist Kuri Tsushimoto. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed, dated and numbered on th...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Color, Red, Blue - Nine Times (Set of 3) by Peter Halley, 2023
Located in Zug, CH
Peter Halley Color, Red, Blue - Nine Times (Set of 3) 2023 Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic on HI-RND technology print on aluminium 100 × 83.8 cm (39.4 × 33 in) Signed and numbered Editi...
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2010s Abstract Prints

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Pigment

Abstract Skyscrapers, Aquatint Etching by Martha Diamond
By Martha Diamond
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martha Diamond (1944-2023) was a Contemporary American painter best known for cityscape abstractions in sweeping, gestural brush strokes. Skyscrapers is...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints

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Aquatint

Echoes, Minimalist Abstract Screenprint by John Stritch
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Stritch was an American artist best known for his abstract and sculptural work. "Echoes" features an abstracted and simplified mountain landscape. Th...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Prints

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Screen

Moon Mist
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ronald Julius Christensen – American (1923-1999) Title: Moon Mist Year: circa 1980 Medium: Color Lithograph on BFK Rives paper Image size: 21 x 27.5 inches. Sheet size: 22.5 x 30 inches Signature: Signed lower right Edition size: 295 This one: 240/295 Condition: Good Unframed This exceptional vivid lithograph is by noted artist Ronald Julius Christensen (1923-1999). It makes use of vivid colors and bold strokes. The print is in good, never-framed condition with a faint crease in the upper right margin and a faint stain 4" x 1/2" in the upper left margin, both far from the image. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Ronald Christensen established a fine-art career as a printmaker, painter and muralist in Boston where he had studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and the Vesper George School of Art. He became a teacher in Color Theory at the New England School of Art in Boston in 1963. Exhibition venues included the National Academy of Design (1965) and the Rhode Island Art...
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1980s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Nu au Bras Leve de Face, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Set against the green background, the geometric figure in this Pablo Picasso print is comprised of numerous rectangular shapes that overlap one another in the typical Cubist fashion....
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Spacescape II, Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rita Simon, American (1938 - ) Title: Spacescape II Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 30 Size: 25.5 in. x 36 in. (64.77 cm ...
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1970s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Quelques fleurs pour des amis
Located in Paris, FR
Facsimile on paper, 1964 Printer : Daniel Jacomet (Paris) Dedication "For Alain Mazo, amicalement" and printed signature LCD4596
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Ink

German Surrealism Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
Hans Bellmer German (1902–1975) Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Souterrain No. 13 8 1944 Musée Jean Brun Date: circa 1965 Hand signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 100 Size: 19.5 x 26.5 in. Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn, who became his companion until her suicide in 1970. He continued working into the 1960s Cécile Reims (1927) has been drawing the world that surrounds her since her childhood in Lithuania, and subsequently in Paris, Jerusalem, and Barcelona. As a Jew, she had to go into hiding during World War II, and found herself at death’s door when she contracted tubercu- losis. Recovering from the disease, she felt she had to give meaning to her life as a survivor and she experienced a “conversion to art” as one is converted to a religion. Her encounter with the engraver Joseph Hecht in 1945 introduced her to the burin, an unforgiving tool which became her medium of choice. In her early years as an artist, she produced the mysterious Visages d’Espagne, Metamorphoses and Bestiaire de la mort series. But in order to support her work as an artist and to help Fred Deux (1924), whom she married in 1952, she suddenly gave a new twist to her career by turning to the interpretation of others’ work and engraving the drawings made by other artists. Cécile Reims filled this role with good humour and immense talent, as well as secretly collaborating with numerous artists working in the surrealist mode, such as Hans Bellmer, from 1966 to 1975, Salvador Dalí, from 1969 to 1988, Fred Deux, from 1970 to 2008, and Leonor Fini, from 1972 to 1995. In 2004, the Bibiothèque Nationale de France held an important retrospective devoted to Cécile Reims, suddenly putting into the limelight a figure who had long been kept in the shadows. At that point it became essential to produce a catalogue raisonné of her miniature engravings...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"said the zinnia", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Watercolor, Botanicals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "said the zinnia" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This diptych piece m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Fabric, Ink, Monotype

FANTASTIC ANIMAL Signed Lithograph, Abstract Animal, Turquoise Red Purple Beige
Located in Union City, NJ
FANTASTIC ANIMAL is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel on printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Beach - Etching by Colette Pettier - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Beach is a woodcut print realized by Colette Pettier in the 1970s. Hand-signed and numbered, artist's proof. Good conditions. The artwork is created through deft strokes by ma...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

BI-RHOMBS, Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) Title: BI-RHOMBS Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 91/250, plus proofs Size: 43.5 x 26 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Si...
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Blankrenz, Abstract Aquatint Etching by Karl Fred Dahmen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Karl Fred Dahmen (German, 1917-1981) Title: Blankrenz Year: circa 1979 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 75 Image Size: 16 x ...
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1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Alexander Calder lithograph (Calder derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1973 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. From: De...
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1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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