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Medium: Lithograph
Matisse, Sans titre, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, De la couleur,...
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1940s Fauvist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Large Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Louisa Chase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louisa Chase, American (1951 - 2016) Title: Untitled (Spooks) Year: 1987 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30 Paper Size: 30 x 44.5 Inches (76.2 x 1...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miro (Plate 2)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Joan Miro (Plate 2) Portfolio: Joan Miro Medium: Lithograph Date: 1956 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 17" x 24" Sheet Size: 9" x 15" Signature: Unsigned Ref...
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1950s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Plate VIII, from 1972 Lithographe I
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate VIII Portfolio: Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Date: 1972 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 18 1/2" x 26" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 20" Image Size: 12 1/2"...
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1970s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Geometric Abstraction, Ex-Bank of New York Collection Lithograph SIgned/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Piero Dorazio Abstract Composition (Bank of New York Corporate Collection), 1971 Lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed, numbered 73/75 and dated on the front. The back bears a label...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 124, 1961. Publ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Expressionist Lithograph for the Carnegie Museum of Art, Lt Ed. of 1000
Located in New York, NY
Joan Mitchell Untitled Abstract Expressionist Print for the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1972 Lithograph on wove paper 15 × 22 inches Limited Edition of 1000 (unnumbered) Printer: Maeght...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Plate XII, from 1972 Lithographe I
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate XII Portfolio: Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Date: 1972 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 17" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 10" Image Size: 12 1/2" ...
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1970s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Adolph Gottlieb, rare exhibition print for Guild Hall in Easthampton, NY, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb Guild Hall is for Everyone, 1970 Rare Abstract Expressionist Offset Lithograph poster Vintage metal Frame included Rare vintage, limited edition, offset lithograph ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Blankless Tone, lithograph & silkscreen with embossing & folded corner. Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Shusaku Arakawa Blankless Tone, 1979 Color lithograph and silkscreen with embossing on Arches paper with deckled edges and folded collage upper left Hand-signed by artist, Titled "Bl...
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1970s Conceptual Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns 50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, 1979 Original lithograph on heavy wove paper 46 × 30 inches Limited Edition of 5000 (unnumbered) Stamped with copyright mark and publisher's blindstamp Published by Stony Johns, Inc. and Gemini G.E.L. Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery Unframed This stunning, impressive, large vintage lithograph...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Sans titre, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage ...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska, from 1971 Memories of Surrealism
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska Portfolio: Memories of Surrealism Medium: Etching and photolithograph Date: 1971 Edition: AP XIV/XXV (artist's proo...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Etching, Lithograph

VIOLA (Founding Member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Lithograph, Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns VIOLA (Viola Farber, Founding Member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Field 162, 1972 Color lithograph on Angoumois à la Main paper with full margins and deckled edge...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"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 Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Onésime (M.1075), 1975
Located in Greenwich, CT
Onésime (M.1075) from 1975 is a stunningly colored lithograph by Joan Miró, limited to a small edition of 65 (50 Arabic and 15 Romans). The image size is 35.5 x 27.87 inches and the ...
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20th Century Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Color Balloons and Waves (Les Travestis du Reel) - Lithograph poster - 1979
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER Les Travestis du Reel, 1979 Original vintage lithograph poster Printed in Atelier Arts-Litho Printed signature in the plate 82 x 57 cm (c. 32.2 x 22.4 in) Excelle...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition with Stars - Original lithograph (Mourlot #332)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO Composition with Stars Original lithograph (printed in Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 25 x 19 cm (c. 10 x 8 inch) Edited by Mourlot in 1...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

SUMMER RUSH Signed Lithograph, Sacred Garden Series, Abstract Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
SUMMER RUSH is an original limited edition lithograph from the Sacred Garden Series of works by the British artist David Leverett (1938-2020), printed using hand lithography techniqu...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Space Concept - Lithograph by Lucio Fontana - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Space Concept is an artwork realized by Lucio Fontana in 1967. Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered 32/150. With its original editorial jacket. Ref. 2006 Lucio Fontana, Graphics, multiples and more..,by Harry Ruhé e Camillo Rigo, Tuja Books, pg. 113. Excellent condition. Lucio Fontana (Rosario, February 19, 1899 - Comabbio, September 7...
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1960s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The King's Feast, King Ubu - Original Lithograph (Maeght #399)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO The King's Feast, King Ubu, 1966 Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot, Paris) Unsigned Numbered / 75 copies On Arches vellum 54 x 75 cm (c. 21.2 x 29.5 in) REFERENCE : Ca...
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1960s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Mitchell, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 8.96 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, In Memory of My Feelings,...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Paintings and Drawings, by Agnes Martin 1974-1990 (Stedelijk), 1991
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Paintings and Drawings, by Agnes Martin 1974-1990 (Stedelijk), 1991 Additional information: Medium: complete set of ten lithographs on transparent vellum paper each, 30 x 30 cm 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in Agnes Martin was an American painter who was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912, and became a US citizen in 1940. Martin is perhaps most recognised for her evocative paintings marked out in subtle pencil lines and pale colour washes. Although restrained, her style was underpinned by her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. Martin believed that spiritual inspiration and not intellect created great work. ‘Without awareness of beauty, innocence and happiness’ Martin wrote ‘one cannot make works of art’. In a career spanning five decades, Martin became known for her square canvasses, meticulously rendered grids and repeat stripes, though her lesser-known early works consist of experiments with mixed media and works on paper. Martin thought of her works as studies in the pursuit of perfection. Martin spent many years working in New York, where she was part of a contemporary of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Ann Truitt, Donald Judd and Ad Reinhardt – with whom she was close friends. In 1967, shortly after Reinhardt died and just as Martin’s art was gaining acclaim, she left the city and continued her investigations into Buddhism and meditation. She wished to experience true solitude and used this period of quiet reflection to produce some of her most significant writing, whilst situated in sparsely populated and remote areas of the United States and Canada. In 1968 Martin resettled in New Mexico and began building an adobe and log house in a remote mesa. She lived there alone and without modern conveniences for several years. In 1973 she began creating work again. Agnes Martin’s influence reaches globally and plays a hugely significant role in 20th Century art history. Whilst known as a pioneer of abstract painting, her work as well as her reclusive lifestyle have served as an inspiration to creative practitioners in diverse disciplines. Painters, photographers, writers – and many devotees from the words of fashion, architecture and graphic design revisit and rephrase her perspectival studies and fascination with geometry, the legacy of which can be seen in investigations into brevity of line and muted colour palettes. Artists such as Richard Tuttle, Ellen Gallagher...
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20th Century Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 872-881; Cramer 164), El tapís de Tarragona (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Sarrió paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Tapís De Tarragona, il·lustracions, Joan Miró...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Yayoi Kusama Yoshitomo Nara Skateboard decks (MoMa)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama & Yoshitomo Nara MoMa Skateboard Decks (2 works): A set of 2 MoMa published skateboard decks featuring Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery & Nara’s ‘Solid Fist’ girl. Make...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Wood, Lithograph, Offset

Monograph: You Left Me Breathing (Hand signed and inscribed by Tracey Emin)
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin You Left Me Breathing (Hand signed and inscribed with a hand drawn heart flourish by Tracey Emin), 2008 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (Hand signed and ...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - II, Lithograph by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - II (Cramer 207) Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1975 Lithograph Image Size: 12 x 9.5 inches Size: 14.5 in. x 10 in. (36.83 cm x 25.4 cm...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rufino Tamayo 'Deux Tetes' from Mujeres Suite, Limited Edition, Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991). Deux Tetes, from Mujeres Suite (P. 107), 1969. Lithograph in colors on wove paper  Signed in pencil and numbered 27/150 (there was also an edition...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (Pulse) Abstract print limited edition Julie Mehretu Lithograph
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph in colours on wove paper Edition 24 of 100 56 x 65 cm (22 x 25.6 in) Signed, numbered and dated on the front Mint Framed under Perspex in a silver painted dark wooden frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (SF-229P) (Fondation Maeght) Poster /// Sam Francis Abstract Expression
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994) Title: "Untitled (SF-229P) (Fondation Maeght)" Year: 1983 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Pos...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Ed Moses artist, limited edition lithograph, "Untitled 7"
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Abstract limited edition lithograph by artist Ed Moses. Excellent piece for art collectors or NEW art collectors. It is hand signed by the artist. Note: It will require a slight...
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20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Walled Off Hotel Boxed Set Assemblage w/original embossed receipt from Bethlehem
Located in New York, NY
Banksy (after) Walled Off Hotel Boxed Set Assemblage, 2018 Mixed Media assemblage: unique piece of concrete/cement wall with framed lithograph. Accompanied by original embossed rece...
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2010s Street Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Concrete

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 Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or, Plate X is a beautiful color lithograph on Japanese paper, realized in 1971 by the Spanish Surrealist artist Joan Miró (Montroing, 1893 - Mallorca, 1983)...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Yves Klein: A Retrospective (Requiem RE 20) Poster /// Yves Klein Modern Blue
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962) Title: "Yves Klein: A Retrospective (Requiem RE 20)" Year: 1982 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on smooth wove pa...
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1980s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Roy Lichtenstein Rare Brooklyn Academy print Hand signed warmly inscribed, dated
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein Next Wave Festival Poster (Hand signed, warmly inscribed and dated), 1983 Offset lithograph (hand signed, uniquely inscribed, and dated by Roy Lichtenstein) Signed, ...
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1980s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Alexander Calder lithograph Derrière le miroir (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1971 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preseved. Unsigned from an edition of un...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Original 'Aarau Ladet Ein' vintage Swiss travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster. Linen-backed original Swiss poster "AARAU LADET EIN" An old travel poster with a modern flair to visit Aarau. It has a bea...
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1950s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró, 1975, (VI/XV)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Joan Miró produced this original color lithograph especially for Rafael Alberti's text 'Maravillas con Variaciones Acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró' (Wonders with Acrostic Variations ...
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Late 20th Century Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Abstract Lithograph Pigeons Doves, Birds
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Pigeons" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 327/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso wit...
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20th Century Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Provence #7 (Provence France Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roger Muhl (1929-2008) Provence #7, 1986. Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, lower margins. Artwork is in excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Frame shows ...
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1980s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Midnight Truth, published by N's Yard, Japan, offset print, stamped, unnumbered
Located in New York, NY
Yoshitomo Nara Midnight Truth, 2017 Offset lithographic poster Stamped with title, artist's name, copyright and year Unnumbered 20 1/2 × 14 1/4 inches Unframed published by N's Yard,...
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2010s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Jean-Michel Basquiat, (1985 monograph, Hand signed and numbered by Basquiat)
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1985 Limited Edition Artist's Book with Offset Lithographs. Hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat Hand signed and numb...
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1980s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Mobile, Abstract Lithograph after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Mobile, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in the plate, Image Size: 14 x 10 inches, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm), Frame Size: 2...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

TWO BARS
Located in Portland, ME
Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974). TWO BARS. Color lithograph, 1969. Edition of 100, Signed and dated, and numbered 11/100, all in pencil. Exhibition label, verso. 29 1/2 x 21. ...
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1960s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

MULTI PERSONAGE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Collage Portrait, CoBrA Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
MULTI PERSONAGE is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. MULTI PERSONAGE is a lively abstract color collage portrait expressed in vibrant shades of red, blue, pink, green, purple, yellow with hints of multi color pastel tones and white creating an abstracted body and face. Bold black paint strokes define the face with its zany black eyes, head, body and limbs; collage effect torn paper bits fill in the body form. MULTI PERSONAGE is a very unique, fantastically playful and wild composition by Karel Appel, one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality. Print size - 30 x 20 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Karel Appel Edition size - 175 Year published - 1980 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY Karel Appel was one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA, active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality. Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colorful, and semi-abstract compositions, who was a co-founder (1948) of the CoBRA group of northern European Expressionists. He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist. Appel attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam (1940–43), and helped found the “Reflex” group, which became known as CoBRA (for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), in 1948. He moved to Paris in 1950 and by the 1960s had settled in New York City; he later lived in Italy and Switzerland. Partly in reaction against what they perceived as the sterile academicism of the de Stijl movement, the CoBRA artists...
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1980s Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Transformable Dialogue #1
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Yaacov Agam Title: Transformable Dialogue #1 Medium: Lithograph with magnetic paint palette Signed: Hand Signed by Yaacov Agam Edition Number: 6/90 Measurements: Lithogra...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition with Clouds and Spheres
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, ca 1965 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 85/100 + 25 EA 50.00 cm. x 65.00 cm. 19.69 in. x 25.59 in. (paper) 40.00 cm. x 64.00 cm. 15.75 in. x 25.2 in. (ima...
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1960s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série E, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Falling Swirls, Organic Curvy Layers in Blue Tones, Handmade Cyanotype on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
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2010s Post-Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Watercolor, Rag Paper, Lithograph

Surrealist Couple - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO (after) Family with a Star Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 60 x 45 cm (c. 24 x 18 in) Edited by galerie Maeght Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Quatre femmes en fuite, Les Métamorphoses (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier Vergé fin blanc des papeteries de Bellerive paper. Paper size: 11.02 x 8.66 inches; image size: 4.6 x 5.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
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1970s Cubist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Frank Stella, Whitney Museum exhibited graphic work with label, Signed/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella (Whitney Museum Exhibited) Shards IVA (Axsom 151), 1982 Lithograph & Silkscreen on Arches Cover Paper (Whitney Museum exhibition label verso of frame) 45 1/2 × 39 1/4 in...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Lithograph, Screen

'Man and Horse' by Harold Stevenson, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 28" x 32" lithograph was produced by Harold Stevenson in 1988. This print features a skeletal figure and horse. The skeleton, with elongated and angular features, is centrally p...
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1980s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Carnaval of Flowers, from Nice and the Cote d'Azur (Unsigned Proof)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall (after) Title: Carnaval of Flowers Portfolio: Nice and the Cote d'Azur Medium: Lithograph Date: 1967 Edition: Unsigned and unnumbered proof (aside from the editi...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

ICARUS 2, Signed Lithograph, Black + White Abstract Male Figure Greek Mythology
Located in Union City, NJ
ICARUS 2 is an original hand drawn lithograph created in 1986 by the French American artist Marius Sznajderman, printed using traditional lithography techniques on archival Arches pa...
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1980s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pierre Soulages, Original Stone Lithograph n¨28 by Mourlot, Paris 1970, Signed
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pierre Soulages Lithographie sur papier Papier: 12.25 x 9.5in Cat Bnf n° 76 Signée au dos a droite, datée 70. Provenance : Collection privée Épreuve parue dans le n. 34 de la revue XXe Siècle. Mourlot, Paris, imprimeur ; XXe Siècle, Paris, éditeur. About Pierre Soulages : Pierre Soulages est né le 24 décembre 1919 à Rodez et décédé le mardi 25 octobre 2022 à l’âge de 102 ans. Il a été inhumé le vendredi 4 novembre au cimetière Montparnasse. Très jeune il est attiré par l’art roman et la préhistoire. Il commence à peindre dans cette province isolée que n’ont pas pénétré les courants artistiques contemporains. À 18 ans, il se rend à Paris pour préparer le professorat de dessin et le concours d’entrée à l’École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Il y est admis mais convaincu de la médiocrité de l’enseignement qu’on y reçoit refuse d’y entrer et repart aussitôt pour Rodez. Pendant ce bref séjour à Paris il fréquente le musée du Louvre, il voit des expositions de Cézanne et Picasso qui sont pour lui des révélations. Mobilisé en 1940,il sera démobilisé en 1941. Paris occupé, il se rend à Montpellier et fréquente assidûment le musée Fabre. Montpellier à son tour occupé, commence pour lui une période de clandestinité pour échapper au STO pendant laquelle il ne peint plus. Ce n’est qu’en 1946 qu’il peut consacrer tout son temps à la peinture. Il s’installe alors dans la banlieue parisienne. Ses toiles où le noir domine sont abstraites et sombres. Elles sont aussitôt remarquées tant elles diffèrent de la peinture demi-figurative et très colorée de l’après-guerre. Il trouve un atelier à Paris, rue Schoelcher, près de Montparnasse. En 1948, il participe à des expositions à Paris et en Europe, notamment à « Französische abstrakte malerei » dans plusieurs musées allemands. Il est de beaucoup le plus jeune de ce petit groupe de peintres où se trouvent les premiers maîtres de l’art abstrait, Kupka, Domela, Herbin, etc. L’affiche est faite avec une de ses peintures en noir et blanc. 1949, exposition personnelle à Paris, galerie Lydia...
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Les Poetes, La Poesie, Front Page
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986) Title: Les Poetes, La Poesie, Front Page Year: 1976 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: 110 Paper: Arches Paper...
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Peace Be Still
Located in London, GB
5 Colour lithograph on Somerset Satin Tub Sized White 410gsm. 60 x 76 cm (23.6 x 29.9 in) Signed, dated and numbered by the artist Edition of 125 ‘Peace Be Still’ (2022) showcases S...
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2010s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithograph abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Lithograph abstract prints available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add Abstract prints created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Joan Miró, Rafael Alberti, Alexander Calder, and Jean Dubuffet. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Lithograph abstract prints, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available

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