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A fig - Contemporary Linocut Woodcut Print, Geometric
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARIA STELMASZCZYK (born in 1983) Studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting Laboratory of Woodcut Techniques and Artistic Book at the Academy of Fine Arts Władysław Strzemi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Linocut, Woodcut

Teal Lace Collotype Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate layered collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Pearce work. No frame. I...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Sol de Mediodia
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “SOL de MEDIODIA” in 1996-98. This unsigned impression came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. Estate stamped...
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Late 20th Century Modern More Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Antonio Sanfilippo - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a lithograph realized by Antonio Sanfilippo in 1973.. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. Numbered, edition of 100 prints. Good conditions....
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Miró Escultor (Cramer 192; Mourlot 935) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Guarro vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by Publicações Europa-América, Lisbon; printed by La Polígrafa, Ba...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

White Bone
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph on Arches 300-gram paper, 1971. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. A printer's proof, aside from the numbered edition of 69. Inscribed "PP2" (for printe...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Color

The Red Composition - Screen Print by Renato Barisani - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
The Red Composition is a colored screen print realized by Renato Barisani in 1983. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

"Untitled #287 " watercolor print on fine art paper
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Over the past 20 years, Michelle Oppenheimer has become well known for composing paintings that capture the imaginative and organic possibilities of abstract watercolor and acrylic. ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Inkjet

Thunder Bay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Thunder Bay" 1986 is a color serigraph on Wove paper by noted American artist Roy Ahlgren, 1927-2011 It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/95 in penci...
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Mid-20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Blue Moon, Minimalist Screenprint by John Urbain
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Urbain, Belgian/American (1920 - 2009) - Blue Moon, Year: circa 1967, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 100, Image Size: 23.75 x 23.75 inches, Size:...
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1960s Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Lobbycard, The Beatles' - Yellow Submarine, Movie, Film, USA 1968
Located in Cologne, DE
Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 animated musical adventure film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George D...
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1960s Modern Interior Prints

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Archival Paper

Accord entre les Athéniens et les Spartiates, la paix (Bloch 267-272; C. 24)
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
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1930s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Screen Print by Luigi Montanarini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a beautiful colored serigraph on cream-colored paper, realized in the 1970's by the Italian artist, Luigi Montanarini (1906-1998) and published by La Nuova Fo...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Gerhard Richter - Seestück (bewölkt), 1969
Located in London, GB
Gerhard Richter Seestück (bewölkt), 1969-2023 Hybrid print in five colours on 260g Rives handmade paper 70 x 70 cm unsigned edition of 500 Accompanied by the publisher's certificate...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Digital, Screen

Devil Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Karel Appel Title: Devil Cat Portfolio: 1978 Cats Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Date: 1978 Edition: XV/LXV Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4" Signature: Hand signed ...
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1970s Abstract Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Hand-painted Aluminium Limited Edition#3-Summer Night-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
"Day For Night-Summer Night" captures a view from the east side of Shizico Yi's long garden, looking towards the west gate where the 130-year-old lime trees canopy frames her summer ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Giclée, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing...
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1940s Folk Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Poliakoff, Composition rouge et bleue (Poliakoff/Schneider 68) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Poliakoff, Alexis, and Gérard Schnei...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Carlos Almaraz, Los Angeles Olympics lithograph Deluxe hand signed Edition w/COA
By Carlos Almaraz
Located in New York, NY
Carlos Almaraz Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee), 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper, accompanied by COA from Olympic Committee. Signed i...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Les Oiseaux De Feu
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Les Oiseaux De Feu’ By Lars Bo Medium - Etching on BFK Rives paper Signed - Yes Edition - 61/120 Date - 1964 Size - 650mm x 500mm Condition - 9 Colour of print may not be ac...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Les Oiseaux De Feu
Les Oiseaux De Feu
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Agam Lenticular Kinetic Agamograph Hand Signed numbered Israeli Kinetic Op Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Yaacov Agam, Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, and numbered. Limited edition lenticular lens kinetic Agamograph Titled 'Sea Fathom'. Hand-signed and numbered edition 24/99, size of w...
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20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints

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Lenticular, Screen

Colorful Abstract Lithograph by Calman Shemi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Calman Shemi, Argentine (1939 - ) Title: Untitled I Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: HC 60/450 Size: 34.5 in. x 26 in. (87.63 cm x 66.04 cm)
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Red Lantern Flowers 2025
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Ink, Board, Screen

Contemporary School Blurred Fruit C-Print
Located in Astoria, NY
Contemporary School, Blurred Fruit, Chromogenic Print in Colors on Acrylic panel, sky blue ground with pale central image of fruit, apparently unsigned, unframed. 40" H x 29.75" W. P...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Acrylic Polymer, C Print

Visage de Femme sur Fond Raye
Located in Long Island City, NY
Staring ahead, Pablo Picasso's portrayal of a woman using broad, geometric shapes of bright colors is emblematic of the artist's mastery of Cubism. A lithograph from the Marina Picas...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mandala Blue
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Jack Youngerman (American, 1926-2020) Title: Mandala Blue Medium: Pochoir in colors with screenprint and embossing Date: 1980 Dimensions: 37" x 36" Signed, dated and numbered...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Mandala Blue
Mandala Blue
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Delaunay, La Tour aux Rideaux (Habasque 720-728), Allo! Paris! (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Allo! Paris!, 1926. Published by Éditions des ...
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1920s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Portal I", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint on Panel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Portal I" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 14.5"h x 9.5"w. Born in Mexico City, A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut, Paper

Violet composition - Etching by Oscar Piattella - 1975
By Oscar Piattella
Located in Roma, IT
Violet composition is an original artwork realized in 1975 by Oscar Piattella. Hand signed, dated on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 54/100 prints. ...
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1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Nudo Azzurro - Etching by Lucio Fontana - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Etching with aquatint and embossing on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed and numbered Edition of 8/170 prints aside from 15 artist's proofs Printed by Stamperia 2RC – Rome. Publ...
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1960s Conceptual Abstract Prints

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Etching

"Somber Planet"
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), "Somber Planet", Lithograph on Paper, mid 20th century, numbered edition "13/90" lower left, signed in pencil lower right, with the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Picasso, La Petite Colombe (Mourlot 174; Cramer 55) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the Picasso Lithograph...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Hand painted-Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night- the last Artist's Proof of 3
Located in London, GB
This striking extra-large Artist’s Proof is No. 2 of only three in existence. 80% of the painting is hand-painted in oil and gesso on giclee by Shizico Yi, the proof is a unique, one...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints

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Gesso, Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée

Pink Abstract Lithograph by Sybil Kleinrock
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sybil Kleinrock’s work straddles the borders between expressionism and surrealism. Colorful and soft pastels play together to suggest a composition that can be interpreted as both a ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Laudis End
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Laudis End" 1981 is a color serigraph on Wove paper by noted American artist Roy Ahlgren, 1927-2011 It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 90/99 in pencil...
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Mid-20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982: Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite ...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Eduardo Chillida Spanish Artist Original Unused Lithograph Poster
Located in Miami, FL
Eduardo Chillida (Spain, 1924-2002) '5 Livres Gravés', 1974 Original poster from show lithograph on paper 25.2 x 17 in. (64 x 43 cm.) Unframed Ref: CHI100-202 Eduardo Chillida He be...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Guerrier (Webel 393), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Webel, Sophie, and Jean Dubuffet...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Düsseldorf (German Cities) by Dieter Roth monuments vintage postcard light blue
Located in New York, NY
Düsseldorf (German Cities), 1970 24 x 33.8 in. / 61 x 86 cm Screen print in one color on offset lithograph, black on white card. “for Paul” written in pencil lower middle. Signed and...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Picasso, Pigeon (Cramer 84; Johnson/Stein 77) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Collotype on vélin du Marais paper. Paper size: 14.5 x 11.125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Live Composition II by African American Artist Bai, Work on Paper
Located in New york, NY
In contrasting colors that pop Live Composition II, 2024 by African American artist Bai is a 30” x 22” abstract acrylic, oil pastel, and ballpoint pen work on paper, presented in an ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen

'Red, Yellow, Blue' 2005-
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Ellsworth Kelly's iconic work "Red, Yellow and Blue" (originally created in 1963) exemplifies his mastery of color, form, and minimalist abstraction. Published b...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Offset

'Red, Yellow, Blue' 2005-
'Red, Yellow, Blue' 2005-
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Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph Abstract Cubist Composition
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Nature Morte au Verre" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 277/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fuchsine Composition - Original Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. On headed paper.
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1970s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Pour Roby (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Pour Roby (L’Age de Soleil) Year: 1969 Medium: Restrike Etching on Arches paper Size: 12.875 x 10 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed in the plate in reverse. Notes: ...
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1960s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Picasso, Pour Roby (after)
Picasso, Pour Roby (after)
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Nocturne III (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, La Chute d'Icare, 6.12.57. (Cramer 155) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper size: 20.5 x 26.4 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo Picasso,...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La Vache Bleue (Cramer 71; Mourlot 488), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagall...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph Abstract Cubist Composition
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Tete De Mort, Lampe, Cruches Et Poireaux" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 318/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011) THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67) Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target. Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Tunnel /Target
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Picasso, Carnet de la Californie XXXIX (Bloch/Livres 94; Cramer 101) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Collotype on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo ...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Prospectus for publication of I-S k
By (after) Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Prospectus for publication of I-S k Reduced format prospectus announcement for the publication of I-S k, 1973 Unsigned (as usual) Printer: Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven Publisher: ...
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1970s Abstract Prints

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Screen

Andre Lanskoy Abstract Limited Edition Signed Print from La Genese
Located in San Rafael, CA
Andre Lanskoy (French / Russian 1902-1976) Untitled from the portfolio La Genese, 1966 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed 'Lanskoy' lower right Edition 11 of 30. Numbered lower ri...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Beautiful, Everlasting, Inexhaustibly Interesting, Revelatory Painting, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst H12-4: Beautiful, Everlasting, Inexhaustibly Interesting, Self-Revelatory Gyration Painting, 2023 Mixed Media Giclée print on poly-cotton artist canvas mounted on a birc...
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2010s Pop Art Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Giclée

Frankenthaler, Mary Mary 1991, New York City, Lincoln Center
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) Title: Mary Mary (Lincoln Center Honorary) Year: 1991 Medium: Offset lithograph poster on extra thick Somerset paper Edition: 2000 Size...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Blue Composition by Andre Lanskoy
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph was printed in 1965 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It is signed, and numbered from an edition of 150. A major theme running through Lanskoy's work is the interactio...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Royal Curtain, Minimalist Abstract Screenprint by Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985) Title: Royal Curtain Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint in Colors on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Paper Size: 29.75 x 21...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled (XX) (Abstract, Red, Grey) (25% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Barbara Keidel Untitled (XX) (Abstract, Red, Grey) Linocut 1996 Edition: 3 Numbered and dated by hand in pencil Size: 9 x 8.25 inches (22.86 x 20.95 cm) COA provided Tags: Abstr...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Doldrums, H13-12, from Where the Land Meets the Sea (Hand signed mixed media)
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst Doldrums, H13-12, from Where the Land Meets the Sea, 2023 Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel 47 3/10 × 35 2/5 × 1/2 in 120.1 × 89.9 × 1.3 cm Hand-signe...
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2010s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Metal

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