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Medium: Lithograph
Constellations d'une femme assise, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue V...
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1930s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Damien Hirst, The Currency Poster (Set of 4) (Framed), 2022
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency Poster (Set of 4) (Framed), 2022 High quality digital print on 170gsm paper 4 x 59 x 89 cm (23.23 x 35.04 in) 4 x 63 x 93 cm (24.8 x 36.61 in) Poster de...
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2010s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Piero Sadun - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition  is a lithograph realized by Piero Sadun in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Untitled - Lithograph by Antoni Tapies - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork by Antoni Tàpies is one of the 10 colored lithographs of the “Berlin Suite”. Tàpies realized this portfolio in 1974, each lithograph is on Arches wove paper. ...
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Robert Smithson, Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, historic Dwan Gallery print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Smithson Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, Dwan Gallery Poster, 1970 Offset lithograph poster 38 × 22 inches Unframed Rare, historic poster feature...
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1970s Conceptual Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Petit Luberon II (Little Luberon II)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marcel Mouly – French (1918 - 2008) Title: Petit Luberon II (Little Luberon II) Year: 2003 Medium: Lithograph Image Size: 27.5 x 19.25 inches Sheet Size: 30.5 x 22.25 inches ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Miro a l'Encre II, Lithograph on Wove Paper from the Indelible Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Miro a l’Encre II Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Portfolio: Indelible Miro Date: 1972 Lithograph on Wove Paper Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm) Frame Size: 21.5 x 18 inches Printe...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Les Fleurs et Fruits Salvador Dali Lithograph Interpretation of Currier & Ives
Located in Paonia, CO
Les Fleurs et Fruits original limited edition lithograph from the series “The World Of Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” publishe...
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1960s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Bold Abstract Circles Color Lithograph Alexander Calder Unfinished Revolution
Located in Surfside, FL
1975 Color Lithograph by Alexander Calder from Our Unfinished Revolution portfolio One of 250 copies, with the printed signature and date on offset paper. This is not pencil signed ...
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1970s American Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Niki de Saint Phalle, My Love We Wont, Rare whimsical 1960s silkscreen Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Niki de Saint Phalle My Love We Wont, 1968 Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper Signed and numbered 51/75 in graphite pencil on the front Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass From the Brooklyn Museum, which has an edition of this work in its permanent collection: "Throughout her long and prolific career Niki de Saint Phalle, a former cover model for Life magazine and French Vogue, investigated feminine archetypes and women’s societal roles. Her Nanas, bold, sexy sculptures...
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1960s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Screen, Pencil, Lithograph, Mixed Media

The Surrealist Animal, King Ubu - Original Lithograph (Maeght #414)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO The Surrealist Animal, 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...
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1960s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Star Chart. Antique Astronomy celestial print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (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

Gigi: red black abstract print with poetry based on 1950s vintage movie poster
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. This red and black lithograp...
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1980s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre (Cramer 24; Mourlot 117), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró, ...
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1950s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Francis Bacon 'Three Studies for Self Portrait' Limited Edition Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Francis Bacon (British, 1909-1992) Three Studies for Self Portrait, c. 1981 Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper Edition 81/150 with Arabic numbering. There were also 25 H.C. (...
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1980s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Unhappily Dead: Rene Ricard poetry of 1980s Chelse New York life rainbow
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this rainbow print, Ricar...
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1980s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 7 (double) J...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le bain de soleil
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1997 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered XXXI/L Corneille, a Belgian-born artist who belonged to the CoBrA group, presents a panorama of his imagination in th...
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1990s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

The dance - Lithograph and stencil, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)(after) The dance, 1946 Lithograph and stencil Signed in the plate On vellum 48 x 33 cm (c. 18.9 x 13 inches) INFORMATION: Edited by Albert Carman in 1946 ...
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1940s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

White Lace and Ribbons Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and layered collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The background of this piece is a collotype, whereas the lace, strings, and shadows are ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Pencil, Lithograph, Acrylic

Lithographs II (1042), Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Julie Curtiss Woman In High Heels Print Contemporary Art
Located in Draper, UT
Title Julie Curtiss Woman In High Heels Small Edition Of Only 10 - 17 X 11 Pristine Condition Year 2019 Classification Limited edition Medium Type Print ...
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2010s Contemporary Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 7 (double) J...
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1950s Orphist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Target with Four Faces, 1968, Limited Edition offset lithograph Pop Art poster
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns Target with Four Faces, 1968 Offset lithograph poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company Limited Edition of 300 (unsigned and unnumbered) 35 × 23 inches Printed by by U...
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1960s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

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

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1960 for the art revue XXe Siecle (No. 14) and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (308 x 230 mm). Not signed. Con...
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1960s Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXVIe Année N°24, Décem...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Fleurs rouges, Georges Braque, Le Solitaire, XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 7.25 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Georges Braque, Le Solitaire, 19...
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1950s Cubist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre (Duthuit 101), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Matisse, Henri, et a...
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1940s Fauvist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

American Yachting Scene Salvador Dali Currier & Ives series lithograph 1971
Located in Paonia, CO
American Yachting Scene is a vibrant explosion of ocean blue , whitecaps and strong yellow slashes to describe the ships sailing to their destination. There is an insert of a Currier and Ives print of sailing ships that Dali used as his inspiration. This original lithograph is from the series “The World Of Currier...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Picasso, Quatres têtes d'hommes, 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: 4.3 x 5.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
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1970s Cubist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

No title
By Constant (Constant Anton Nieuwenhuijs)
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1953 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/100 Printer : Jean Pons (Paris) LCD5351
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1950s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Kandinsky, Komposition IV, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miro...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

"Black Gouache" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the gouache). Printed in 1992 by l'Imprimerie Karcher and published by Nouvelles Editions Seguier in an edition of 1000 for the Sol LeWitt "Black Gouaches" ...
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1990s Abstract 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

La femme au miroir (Cramer 35; Mourlot 242), Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, ...
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1950s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Poster Modern Art Museum - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 –...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Keith Haring Halloween 1989 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York City 1989: RARE original 1989 Keith Haring designed Sound Factory Halloween invite featuring a dazzling array of Keith Haring Skeletons: “Keith Haring & Sound...
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1980s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Untitled
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled (Plate 1) Size: 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm) Medium: Lithograph of Arches Paper Edition: 23 of 40 Year: 1982 Notes: From a suite of six prints. S...
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1980s Street Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Derriere Le Miroir No. 201, Cover
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Derriere Le Miroir No. 201, Cover One page Lithograph from the Derriere le Miroir No. 201 publication. Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of pre...
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1970s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Au Jardin d'Allah, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Artistique et ...
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1930s Fauvist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Australian Rolling Waves, Nautical Triptych of Vigorous Coast, Large Seascape
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 Realist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Emulsion, Lithograph, Paper

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

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, "L'Atelier" (The Studio), 1948, lithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso L'Atelier (The Studio), 1948 Lithograph Hand signed by artist and numbered 45/50 from an edition of 50. Measures: 25.5 x 19.5 inches In the artist's catalogue "Picasso Lithographe II...
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1940s Abstract Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Golden Road, Los Angeles Music Center Opera print (Hand Signed & inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Richard Strauss: Los Angeles Music Center Opera (Hand Signed and Inscribed), 1993 Offset Lithograph (hand signed and inscribed by David Hockney) 30 × 20 inches Signed a...
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1990s Pop Art Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 686), El tapís de Tarragona (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papel Guarro con filigrana paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: published in 1970 to promote the folio, Tapís De Tarragona, il·lustra...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

One plate from DLM "Peintures Murales de Miró" (~31% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró One plate from DLM "Peintures Murales de Miró" Medium: Color lithograph Publisher: Maeght, Paris Size: 13.3 × 10.7 on 14.8 × 10.9 inches Reverse Side: Continued text about "Peintures Pour De...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Musee Dynamique - Dakar by Pierre Soulages, 1974 - Original Lithograph Poster
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Original Lithographic Poster, 1974 Classic Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A+ This original composition used exactly the same plates for the poster and for the Lithograph ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

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

Matisse, Madame L.D., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued. Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 6.3 x 7.48 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
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1950s Fauvist 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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