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Medium: Etching
Spiral - Original Etching by Edo Janich - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Spiral is an original, splendid etching and drypoint realized by Edo Janich in 1990. The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent. hand-signed n...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Torsos. VIII / XII. Etching on paper, 23x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Torsos. VIII / XII. Etching on paper, 23x14 cm ALEKSANDRS DEMBO (1931. Paris – 1999. Riga) Born in 1931 in Paris, France, died in 1999 in Riga, Latvia. Professional training: Janis ...
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1990s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Paper, Etching

Abstract Composition - Original Etching and Aquatint by Hans Richter - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20x15 cm. Abstract composition is a colored etching and chalcography on paper, realized in the Seventy of XX century by the German artist, Hans Richter, published...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Primitive Lineage, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Akio Wakasa Miyakawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Akio Wakasa Miyakawa - Primitive Lineage, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 4/20, Image Size: 11.75 x 19.5 inches, Size: 15 x ...
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20th Century Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Net, Abstract Expressionist Etching and Aquatint by Mary Anne Watson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Anne Watson, American - Net, Year: 1967, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed, titled, numbered and dated, Edition: 3/25, Image Size: 12 x 12 inches, Size: 18.5 x 18 in. (46.9...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Nude - Etching by Franco Bellardi - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original modern artwork realized by Franco Bellardi in 1978. Etching on paper. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 7...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Etching by Hans Richter - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an etching and collage on paper realized by Hans Richter in 1973. Published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata. Monogrammed by Frida Richter and number...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Landscape - Etching Hand-Watercolored - 1971
By Christa Pyroth
Located in Roma, IT
Abstrahierte Landschaft is an original hand-watercolored etching on paper, realized by the artist Christa Pyroth (1937) in 1971. Signed and dated in pencil on lower margin. Hand-num...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Manly Head
Located in Roma, IT
Colored Etching on Lithograph. Hand signed and numbered. Artist's Proof. In Good condition except some light stains on margins. Image Dimensions : 40 x 30 cm
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1960s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Black Stars, Aquatint by Patrick Hughes
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Patrick Hughes, British (1939 - ) Title: Black Stars Year: 1980 Medium: Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30/90 Size: 36 x 29.25 inches
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1980s Pop Art Etching Abstract Prints

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Aquatint

The Primitive Toy C, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Akio Wakasa Miyakawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Akio Wakasa Miyakawa - The Primitive Toy C, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 4/20, Image Size: 12.75 x 17.75 inches, Size: 15...
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20th Century Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Segnali (Signals) - Screen Print by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Segnali (Signals) is an artwork realized in 1984 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original screen print on cardboard Hand-signed on the lower left in ...
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1980s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Decalogue N° 3
Located in Roma, IT
Original print realized by Lucio del Pezzo in 1976, it is from the "Decalogue", a portfolio of ten sheets, variously numbered from the total of 105 pieces (75 in Arabic Numerals Edit...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

fern-butterfly effect e-1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio Year: 2015 Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25 Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches Signed and numbered by the artist. Seiko Tachibana's...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled - Original Etching by Sante Monachesi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Sante Monachesi. Hand-signed on the lower right by pencil. it is an artist's proofs edition on the lower left. Very go...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

A Ton Tour - Original Etching by Renée Lubarow - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
A ton Tour is an excellent Contemporary artwork realized by Renée Lubarow (b.1923) in 1978. Original colored etching on paper. Image Dimensions: 17 x 17 cm Hand-signed in pencil on...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Merenda in campagna - Print by Luigi Bartolini - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Merenda in campagna is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Luigi Bartolini (1892-1963) in 1943. Etching and watercolor. Hand-signed, and dated in pencil on the lower...
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1940s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Watercolor, Etching

From L.A., Abstract Etching by Agustin Fernandez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Agustin Fernandez, Cuban (1928 - 2006) Title: From L.A. Year: 1970 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

A Surrealist Composition - Etching by Henry Goetz - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 27 x 34 cm. A Surrealist Composition is an original artwork realized by Henry Goetz in the 1970s. Colored etching on paper. The print i...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Landscape, Modern Etching and Aquatint by S Dawson
Located in Long Island City, NY
S Dawson - Landscape, Year: 1966, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 14.5 x 21 inches, Size: 22.25 x 28....
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1960s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Nuit d'été VII (Summer Night VII)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The deeply etched lines and vibrant color of this print are common to Alliand's new "haubans" prints. Haubans is french for a guy line - a tensioned cable designed to add stability t...
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2010s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Paroles Peintes II, Minimalist Restrike Etching by Jean Arp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Paroles Peintes II Jean Arp (After), French (1886–1966) Date: 1965 Restrike Etching Image Size: 10.25 x 8.75 inches Size: 20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.56 cm) Publisher: Collector's Guild, ...
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1960s Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

20J2G-2020 (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
20J1G-2020 (Abstract print) Aquatinte on BFK Rives paper - Unframed. Edition of 30. Image size: 35.2 x 124.5 cm / 13.8 x 49 in Paper size: 46 x 135 cm / 18.1 x 53.1 in Clément's wo...
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2010s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Paper, Aquatint

Black and White composition - Etching by Margherita Benetti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white composition is a beautiful artwork realized by Margherita Benetti in 1972. Hand signed and dated in the lower right margin of the plate. The state of preservation i...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Liberation, Abstract Expressionist Color Etching by Mark Tobey
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mark Tobey, American (1890 - 1976) - Liberation, Year: 1973, Medium: Color Etching on Richard de Bas, Image Size: 10.75 x 9.25 inches, Size: 26.25 x 20 in. (66.68 x 50.8 cm)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Apple (2nd Edition), Surrealist Etching by Marjorie Tomchuk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marjorie Tomchuk, Canadian/American - Apple (2nd Edition), Year: 1967, Medium: Etching, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 13/100, Imag...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Figure and Arch - Original Etching by Sante Monachesi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure and Arch is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Sante Monachesi. Hand-signed on the lower right by pencil. it is an artist's proofs edition on the lower left. ...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

"Untitled I", Abstract Etching and Aquatint Lithograph, Signed and Numbered
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled I" is a work that displays Bert Yarborough's experimentation with emotion and monotype in his abstract and expressive style. This print made ...
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1990s Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Monotype

Oval - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Oval is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1987 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005). Signed and dated in pencil " Piero Dorazio ...
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1980s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Composition - Etching by Guido Strazza - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Contemporary artwork realized in the 1978 by the Italian artist Guido Strazza (Santa Fiora, 21 December 1922). Original B/W Etching on paper. Hand-signed and date...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 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...
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20th Century Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Composition - Etching by I. Celnikier - Late 20th Century
By Isaac Celnikier
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a beautiful etching aquatint and drypoint on paper, realized by the artist Isaac Celnikier. Titled, numbered and signed in pencil on the lower margin. Edition of 40 ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Trees (Trees in Circle)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trees (Trees in Circle) Etching & drypoint with monotype inking, 1953-1955 Signed in pencil An unrecorded trial proof, printed on heavy wove proofing paper at Atelier 17, before the ...
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1950s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Monotype

Mid-Century Modern Abstract Etching, Original Black and White Graphic Art Print
Located in Denver, CO
This bold and graphic black-and-white etching, titled "Big O", is an original work by noted 20th-century artist Mary Chenoweth. Created in 1982, the composition features minimalist a...
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1980s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

The Hippies The Pagoda
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Hippies The Pagoda MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: XLV/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26.5" YEAR: 1969 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Exce...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Etching by Pierre Dmitrienko - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an etching print realized in 1960s by Pierre Dmitrienko. Hand-signed on the lower. Numbered. Rare Edition, 2/20. Good Cond...
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1960s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Etching by Hsiao Chin - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a 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 left. Edition of ...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Etching by Hsiao Chin - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a 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 left. Edition of ...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Oval - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Oval is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1987 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005). Signed and dated in pencil " Piero Dorazio ...
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1980s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Hourglass - Original Etching by Sante Monachesi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hourglass is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Sante Monachesi. Hand-signed on the lower right by pencil. Artist Proof. it is an artist's proofs edition on the lower...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Figure - Etching by Edgard Chahine - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original etching on paper realized by Edgard Chahine. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The artwork is on the cover of a menu. The artwork is depicted with confid...
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Early 20th Century Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Heated Diamond, Abstract Expressionist Etching by Jim McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jim McCormick, American - Heated Diamond, Year: 1969, Medium: Etching on Rives, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 2/8, Image Size: 16.75 x 9.75 inches, Size: 1...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Segnali (Signals) - Screen Print by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Segnali (Signals) is anartwork realized in 1984 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Screen print on cardboard Hand-signed on the lower left in pencil and ...
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1980s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled Plate 8 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 8 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin. Edition of 85 prints. Perfect con...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Plate I from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32 x 24 cm. Plate I from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa. Mixed oclored etching. Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100. The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno. Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors. Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

I Generali - The Generals
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 150 prints (75 green copies, 75 brown copies). Image Dimensions : 44 x 64 cm
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1970s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Centre Noeuds
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1974 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated ea 14/15 Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris) 60.50 cm. x 45.00 cm. 23.82 in. x 17.72 in. (paper) 35.50 cm. x 26.50 cm. ...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Connection-Blossom #5, by Seiko Tachibana
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching,Aquatint Image size: 12 × 11 Sheet size: 22 × 18 in Edition of 30 Year: 2008 Signed and titled by the artist While inspired by flowers, the blossom series shows th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled - Etching and Collage by Hans Richter - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an etching and collage on paper realized by Hans Richter in 1973. published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata. Monogrammed by Frida Richter and numbered in pencil on the lower margin. Edition of 99 prints. Good conditions. On the lower left margin of the back, there are a dry-stamp of the publishing house and a black-ink stamp " Estate Hans Richter ". From a portfolio of seven etchings published by The New Sheet under the supervision of Hans Richer, who signed for each " bon à tirer " before his death, which took place in Locarno on 1 February 1976...
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled (Abstract), Detailed Brown and Orange Aquatint Print, 1960
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Untitled (Abstract), Aquatint Painting by Johnny Friedlaender, 1960 Additional information: Medium: 76.2 x 57.1 cm 30 x 22 1/2 in Signed and numbered 92/95 in pencil
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20th Century Etching Abstract Prints

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Aquatint

Incavo Blu - Original Etching by Giuseppe Santomaso - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Incavo Blu is an original Contemporary Artwork realized by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - Venice, 1990) in 1970. Original etching and aquatint on copper plate printed in 4 colors on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left corner: 36/90. Edition of 90 and XV artist proofs Printed by 2RC. Mint conditions. Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - Venice, 1990), an Italian painter. In Paris he visits the great international exhibitions: in front of the works of Matisse, Braque, Pierre Bonnard and Picasso exhibited in the artistic capital of France he remains both admired and irritated. The first solo show of him takes place in Paris in 1939 (Galerie Rive Gauche).
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1970s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Immaginazione - from "Marino to Stravinsky"
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 75 prints. This etching is from the portfolio "Marino to Stravinsky" published in 1972. Marino Marino is an Italian painter, engr...
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1970s Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Abstract Composition - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original print in etching and drypoint on white paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork create...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Etching Abstract Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp. Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 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...
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20th Century Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Fossil
By Gio Pomodoro
Located in Roma, IT
The artist hand signed, numbered and dated this etching on its lower right margin. This is an edition of 100 prints. Good conditions. Giò Pomodoro (1930-2002) was an Italian sculpt...
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1950s Contemporary Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Blue Jays, Aquatint Etching by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Blue Jays Martin Barooshian, American (1929–2022) Date: circa 1981 Intaglio Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 175, AP 25 Image S...
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1980s Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Untitled - Etching by Sebastian Matta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Original color etching and aquantint. Edition of 63/100. Very good condition.
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1970s Surrealist Etching Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Etching and Aquatint Monotype by Sam Francis - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled (SFE-072) is an original contemporary artwork realized by Sam Francis in 1989. Etching and Aquatint Monotype with color variant on Rives BFK. Editor The Litho Shop santa Monica Jacob...
Category

1990s Abstract Etching Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Monotype

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