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Medium: Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Carlos Cruz Diez Untitled, 2006 Lithograph Ed. 161 / 200 28 x 28 in
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Alexander Calder - Girandola - Hand-Signed Lithography, 1972
Located in Varese, IT
Alexander Calder ( 1898 - 1976 ) - Girandola - hand-signed lithography, 1972 Additional information: Material: Color lithography on paper Edited in 1972 Limited edition in 100 copie...
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20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Ed Moses artist, limited edition lithograph, "Untitled 7"
Located in Clinton Township, 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

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Carla Accardi - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 150 pieces, hand signed and numbered. Excellent conditions.
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Fleurs rouges, Georges Braque le solitaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Georges Braque le solitaire, 1959. Published by Editions XXe Si...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Composition, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, XXe San Lazzaro et ses Amis, San Lazzaro et ses amis, hommage au fondat...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rare exhibition print (Hand Signed by Willem de Kooning), Estate of Alan York
Located in New York, NY
Willem de Kooning de Kooning in East Hampton (Hand Signed), from Estate of Alan York, 1978 Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by de Kooning) Boldly signed in green marker on the f...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

de Staël, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
By Nicolas de Staël
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, N° 40, 1973. Published and printed under the direction...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mandarin and Flowers by Mark Tobey red abstract calligraphy lithograph drawing
Located in New York, NY
An expressive, jubilant abstract composition in vibrant scarlet red, with Mark Tobey’s calligraphy-inspired mark-making creating a textured matrix of lines that seems to wave and swi...
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

8 Hearts / Look, Lt. Ed Off-set Lithograph with metallic paper collage overlay
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine 8 Hearts / Look, Off-set Lithograph with metallic paper collage overlay Galerie Thomas exhibition print, 1970 Color lithograph and offset lithograph on wove paper Plate sign...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Composition C n°III in Red, Blue and Yellow - Lithograph
By Piet Mondrian
Located in Paris, IDF
Piet MONDRIAN (after) Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow Lithograph (8 colors) Printed signature in the plate Justified HC (Hors commerce) Blind stamp of the editor in the marg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Nature Morte country side farming scene
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is original and pencil signed and numbered by the artist.
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Engraving, Lithograph

Calder, Beastie, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, embossed with the official Braniff Flying Colors Collection seal, and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Not...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Roland Garros French Open tennis Paris offset print (Hand signed by Sean Scully)
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully Roland Garros French Open tennis tournament, Paris, France (Hand signed by Sean Scully), 2001 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Sean Scully) 29 3/4 inches (vertica...
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Early 2000s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Lee Krasner: A Retrospective - The Museum of Modern Art (Celebration) Poster
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Lee Krasner (American, 1908-1984) Title: "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective - The Museum of Modern Art (Celebration)" *Signed and dated in the plate (printed signature) lo...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Twentieth Century Untitled Abstract Limited Edition Stone Lithograph Joan Miro
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Untitled Abstract Limited Edition Stone Lithograph by Joan Miro. Originally in a catalogue and consequently there is slight evidence of a fold in the centre. We h...
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20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, World Federation of United Nations Associations, Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and original issue World Federation of United Nations Associations postage stamp on vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Publis...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rythme-couleur - Hand-signed and numbered original lithograph, 1962
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Delaunay Rythme-couleur, 1962 Lithograph on Fabriano wove paper 27 3/5 × 19 7/10 in l 70.2 × 50 cm Frame included - 32 1/3 x 24 4/5 l 83 x 63 cm Edition of 40 Condition: Overa...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Eclipses. Antique Astronomy science print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Peintures Chez Iris Clert 1957 certified, stamped by Yves Klein Archives 105/200
Located in New York, NY
"...Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not.... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La Boite Alerte, 20th Century Abstract Print
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983) La Boite Alerte, 1959 Color lithograph Signed lower right, numbered 98/200 lower left 9.75 x 6.75 inches Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in B...
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1950s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

untitled abstract village with horses , original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is from my private collection of 20th Century -21st Century artists, many of which are from the School of Paris era. Pelayo produced this lithograph in colors. The Latin American spirit...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paint, Lithograph

Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, Color photorealist lithograph Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, 1975 Color Lithograph 23 × 18 inches Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil on the front; Bears Artist's cop...
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1970s Photorealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

To Earl and Camilla Love Andy Warhol unique heart drawing in monograph Signed 2x
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol To Earl and Camilla, Love Andy Warhol, 1979 Original Heart Drawing held in book with unique dedication to Earl and Camilla McGrath (Signed Twice by Andy Warhol) This uniq...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker

Helen Frankenthaler offset lithograph HAND SIGNED dated, warmly inscribed Framed
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler at Andre Emmericah (hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed), 1968 Silkscreen and offset lithograph on wove paper Signed, dated 1972 and warml...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset, Screen

Joan Miro und Katalonien - Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Joan Miro und Katalonien Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50.8 cm x 66.04 cm) Frame...
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1960s Modern 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

Léger, Composition, Contrastes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good ...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 861), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume I, 1972. Published by Tudor Publishi...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Cosmos - abstract contemporary minimalist artwork by Günther Uecker ZERO
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Kosmos 06" is an original, hand-signed lithograph on hand-made paper from 2003 by internationally acclaimed German ZERO group artist Günther Uecker. E...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Serge Poliakoff, Composition Bleu et Verte: Signed Lithograph from 1963
Located in Hamburg, DE
Serge Poliakoff Composition bleu et verte, 1963 Lithograph on paper 10 3/10 × 12 4/5 in 26.2 × 32.5 cm Edition of 200: Hand-signed in pencil Original (double-sided) greeting card f...
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20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Semana Series, Wednesday
Located in Miami, FL
Semana Series, Wednesday, 2013 Lithography Ed. 53 of 75 24 x 24 in
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 238; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges R...
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1950s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Maravillas Limited Edition' by Joan Miró, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 29" x 36.75" signed lithograph was produced by Joan Miró. The lithograph floats on matt board and is presented in a white wooden frame with glass. This minimalist work incorpora...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction Lithograph Signed/N, Ex-Museum
Located in New York, NY
Piero Dorazio Untitled Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction, 1967 Color Lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper Hand signed, numbered 68/80 and dated on the front 29 1/4 × 21 inches U...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, La danse, Douze Contemporains (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Douze Contemporains, 1959; published by Éditions d'Art du Lion, Paris;...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Léger, Composition, Contrastes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good ...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Braque, Les martinets, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 115, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Kandinsky, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 60-61, 1953. Published by A...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Trahison des Images: Ceci N'Est Pas Une Pipe, Lithograph on Arches BFK Rives
Located in New York, NY
René Magritte Le Trahison des Images: Ceci N'Est Pas Une Pipe, 2010 (posthumous) Lithograph on Arches BFK Rives paper Plate signed by Magritte and numbered HC (Hors Commerce), 1 of 1...
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2010s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 857), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume I, 1972. Published by Tudor Publishi...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 872-881; Cramer 164), El tapís de Tarragona (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 69-70, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printe...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Red, green and blue composition 76
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1969 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 26/80 Publisher : Galerie Im Erker (Saint-Gallen) Printer : Erker-Press (Saint-Gallen) Catalog : [Schneider 76] 87....
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1960s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Moore, Composition, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, XXe San Lazzaro et ses Amis, San Lazzaro et ses amis, hommage au fondat...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fuori il giallo - abstract art informel by Giuseppe Santomaso black/white yellow
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Fuori il giallo" is a 1973 original color lithograph by Italian artist Giuseppe Santomaso. It is a typical work of his in his informel style showing black and white and a little bi...
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1970s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number 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

Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen (Salvador Dalí­ prints Salvador Dalí Carmen)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen Away Must Pay with His Life 1970 (from Carmen): Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. 25.5 x 19.8 inches (64.8 x 50.5 cm). Good overall vintage ...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Kelly, Composition (Axsom I-a, page 176), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 110, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Osage Sheep State II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Theodore Waddell Osage Sheep State II Year: 1994 Color Lithograph Edition: 30 Papers: Arches Cover, Black Paper Size: 22.5 x 30 inches Image Size: Same Signed and numbered by hand CO...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 859), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume I, 1972. Published by Tudor Publishi...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Litografia Original IV (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic, 44% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Litografia Original IV Color Lithograph Year: 1975 Size: 13.25 x 20 inches (33.65 x 50.8 cm) Catalogue Raisonné: Queneau, Miro Lithographe II, 1952-1963, p.36 Publisher: Ma...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

As I Opened Fire Triptych (Corlett App.5) suite of three individual prints, 1966
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire Triptych (Corlett App.5), 1966, ca. 2001 Set of three (3) Color Offset Lithographs on wove paper. Museum stamped verso. Unframed Museum stamped vers...
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1960s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Fiesta, c. 1973, red, yellow & blue figurative abstract lithograph
Located in Beachwood, OH
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Fiesta, c. 1973 Lithograph in colors Signed lower right Edition: E. A. 20 x 28 inches 35.5 x 37.75 inches, framed One of America's best known ...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Variation II on Mauve Corner (Harrison, 17), Color Lithograph, Signed/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Variation II on Mauve Corner (Harrison, 17), 1969 Lithograph in colors on Chatham British paper Signed, dated and numbered 14/21 in graphite pencil on the front Published by ULAE, West Islip, NY, with their blind stamp Frame included Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Lithograph in colors on Chatham British paper Signed, dated and numbered 14/21 in graphite pencil on the front Published and printed by ULAE, West Islip, NY, with their blind stamp Literature: Frankenthaler, A Catalogue Raisonné: Prints 1961-1994, Harrison, no. 17, ppg. 106-109 Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass Measurements: Framed: 23.75 (vertical) x 28.75 (horizontal) x 2 inches Artwork: 20 inches (vertical) x 25 inches (horizontal) “What concerns me when I work is not whether a picture is a landscape… or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is, did I make a beautiful picture?” - - Helen Frankenthaler This is Frankenthaler's first silkscreen, produced for the portfolio New York Ten, which includes works by other New York-based artists at the time such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann and Claes Oldenburg. (She created her first lithograph in 1961) Other examples of this edition are found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous regional museums and institutions in the United States and worldwide. Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 69-70, published by Aimé Ma...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithograph n°9 - Original stone lithograph (Mourlot / Catalog raisonne BNF#53)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre SOULAGES Lithograph n°9 Original stone lithograph (3 colors- atelier Mourlot) Unsigned On vellum 12 x 10" (31 x 24 cm) REFERENCES : Catalogue raisonné BNF #53 Created in 19...
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1950s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Iris and red flowers bouquet
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1990 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 30/150 Catalog : [Sorlier 524] 76.00 cm. x 58.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 22.83 in. (paper) 67.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 26.38 in. ...
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1990s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lichtenstein The Red Horsemen Modern Art Pavilion Lt Ed Seattle Art Museum print
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein at Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum Limited Edition poster, 1976 Offset lithograph Limited Edition of 1000 22 1/2 × 28 inches Unframed Publisher Seattle Art ...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Surrealist Bird - Colors Lithograph Signed in the Plate - 1971
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan Miro Surrealist Bird, 1971 Lithograph in colors signed in the plate Printed in Arte workshop, Paris On vellum size 78 x 55 cm (c. 31 x 21.5 in) Very good condition REFERENCE :...
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Venice Seascape Triptych, Blue Lido Island Reflections, Contemporary Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Monotype, Paper

Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy 11/35 obituary published by CNN March 2021 Celebra...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Dubuffet Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery-Lithograph-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original poster designed by Jean Dubuffet for his 1968 exhibition Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery, held from April 13th to May 18th. Created by the artist specifically ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Totem by Le Corbusier
Located in New York, NY
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” This colorful modern lithograph was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1963 and is from the printer's edition. It is signed and dated in the plate in the bottom left quadrant. Le Corbusier...
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Late 20th Century Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pahlik Mana (Butterfly Maiden) Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pahlik Mana (Butterfly Maiden) Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white unframed limited edition hand pulled lithograph at Tamarind Institue Glenn Green Galleries also pre...
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tapies Black Red Yellow Vertical original lithograph painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
ANTONI TAPIES was the maximum representative of Spanish abstract art of the 20th century. His works are represented in museums and foundations around the world. "ELS MESTRES DE CATAL...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Lithograph Optical Pop Art Attrib. Victor Vasarely
Located in Napoli, IT
Lithograph Optical Pop Art Attrib. Victor Vasarely, 1970s with frame
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1970s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Quarry
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg Title: Quarry Medium: Offset lithograph in colors Year: 1968 Edition: 500 Frame Size: 41 1/2" x 33" Sheet Size: 35 1/2" x 26 1/2" Signature: Signed in the...
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1960s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Color Field Target lithograph on hand made paper by Kenneth Noland signed Framed
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland Untitled Target, 2004 Lithograph on hand made paper with deckled edges Signed and numbered in pencil from the limited edition of 75 on the lower front; bears the artis...
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Early 2000s Color-Field Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card addressed with postmark
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol (after) Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card, 1970 Offset lithograph on smooth card, addressed with postmark 7 1/5 × 7 1/5 inches Unframed Instead of observing flowers in nature, Andy Warhol found his botanical inspiration in a 1964 issue of Modern Photography. He transformed a photograph of hibiscus blossoms into a technicolor series of silkscreens, each simply titled Flowers and debuted at the influential Leo Castelli Gallery later that same year. Silkscreens from that exhibition have since sold for over $2 million at auction. While they evoke the Flower Power movement of the 1960s, Warhol’s Flowers have also be interpreted as a symbol of mourning, as the artist created these works just after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 173, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1960s Modern 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

The End of the Game Rare 1970s ICP print (Hand Signed, inscribed by Peter Beard)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Beard The End of the Game (Hand Signed by Peter Beard), 1977 Offset Lithograph Poster (hand signed by Peter Beard and inscribed with a heart) Han...
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

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