1950s Abstract Prints

Caviar20 is excited to be offering this exceptional "Single Autographic Print" from 1954. It is the earliest "SAP" we've handled and come directly from the estate of Harold Town....

A street scene in the Parisian district of Montmartre created for the portfolio Le Village inspire, Chronique de la Boheme de Montmartre (1920-1950)..... after Maurice Utrillo edited by Vertex in 1950 and limited to 550 copies. Signed within the plate lithograph with hand coloured pochoir. The Le Village Inspire suite, which consisted of 12 pochoirs after the Utrillo gouaches...

Peterdi, Gabor. American, 1915-2001. WOUNDED DARKNESS. P.132. Etching, engraving and aquatint on zinc, with four stenciled colors, 1956. Edition of 35. Signed in pencil and numbere...

Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist Silkscreen printed in colors Image: 23-1/2 x 18-1/2"

Andre Masson (1896-1988), Blue Serpent, 1957, 2 plates, 1) etching and aquatint in colors, signed, dated (30/7/61) and  inscribed “pour Louis Broder epreuve d’artiste.” Reference: S...

Barnet, Will. AWARENESS OF DAWN. Szoke 101, Cole 99, Johnson 85. Color Lithograph, 1951. Edition of 18, titled and signed in pencil. Printed on Arches paper by Barnet and Robert Blackburn. Estate of the artist via Swann Galleries...

Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition: 50 (25/50) Etching and aquatint printed in colors Sheet: 18 1/2 x 25"; Margins folded back to 18-1/2 x 20"; Plate: 11-1...

Pierre Gandon - Portrait - Original Lithograph 1956 Signed in the plate Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm Publisher: Sauret. Frontispice from Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Pietro Consagra - Composition - Original Etching 1959 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the art review XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued

Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965) Title: Lace Face Year: circa 1955 Medium: Relief Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: EA Image Size: 2...

Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Henry Goetz in the middle of the XX century. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin; "H.C." copy; first edition of 3 ...

"Terres de Grande Feu" is an original color lithograph poster by Joan Miró for Galerie Maeght Paris. Poster produced for the exhibition of 43 ceramic pieces,...

(after) Serge Poliakoff - Colorful Abstract Composition - Lithograph Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle 1958 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. Serge ...

Maurice de Vlaminck - Portrait - Original Lithograph 1956 Signed in the plate Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm Publisher: Sauret. Frontispice of The Hunger

Linocut, printed on yellow wove paper Unsigned as is usual From: XXe Siecle, Volume 13, 1959 Published by G. San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris Printed by...

(after) Antoine Pevsner - Face of a Man - Lithograph From the literary review "XXe Siècle" 1959 Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: ...

Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede Year: 1955 Edition: 240 (Here it is on...

Lithograph in color on vellum paper, 1953 by Willi Baumeister ( 1889-1955 ), Germany. Signed lower right. Numbered lower left: 60/240. Sheet 22.6 x 15.2 in ( 57,4 x 38,6 cm ), Frame...

Tyler, Richard Oviet (American, 1926-1983). THE PLANETS. Uranian Press, New York, 1958. Uranian Press, New York, 1958. The Second Edition of 20, with the plates loose in a portfolio, and with each of them titled, inscribed "Ed 2," numbered "6/20, signed in pencil by Tyler, and bearing the emossed seal of the Uranian Press at the lower right (the First Edition, of 5 copies, was a bound set of the plates, signed on the Justification page by Tyler, but with the individual plates unsigned). Quarto, string-tied boards covered in white linen printed in black from woodblocks, endpapers printed in purple and red, paper folder enclosing 20 woodblock plates printed in colors. The portfolio 14 x 10 1/2 inches, the plates each about 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. The whole in excellent condition except that the paper folder containing the plates is foxed. We have seen a copy of the bound edition, but the work seems to very rare in either iteration. The plates are as follows: Plate 1: Title "The Planets," Plate 2: "Sun," Plate 3: "The Sun ever generous force of his being in the flow of self strength striving," Plate 4: "Moon," Plate 5: "The moon of our emotions surrounding memory influenced reflections of pleasant remembrance," Plate 6: "Mercury," Plate 7: "Mercury messenger of mind influence most observant and discriminating reaches attracts resembles snake a tree a heavy ___??," Plate 8: "Venus," Plate 9: "Venus upon us as into us the longing of love rules existence," Plate 10: "Mars," Plate 11: Mars infinitely delicate degree of devotion leads to deeds against falsehood destruction for the sake of creation inalienable dream of passion," Plate 12: "Jupiter," Plate 13: Jupiter father of forgiveness and sustaining belief of plenty keep faith favorable and optimism omnipresent," Plate 14: "Saturn," Plate 15: "Last planet of limitation leads us through purification into silence," Plate 16: "Uranus," Plate 17: "Cause ruler of spirit inspired in matter unknown and omnipotent," Plate 18: "Neptune," Plate 19: "Neptune dissolution unity divinity," Plate 20: "The Planets." Richard Oviet Tyler...

Schanker, Louis. CIRCLE IMAGE NO. 25. Relief Print in color, 1954-1955. Edition of 210 published by IGAS. Signed and numbered 17/200 (the edition included 10 artist's proofs). 14 x 1...

Barnet, Will. ENFANT WITH YELLOW BACKGROUND (BETSY). Szoke 108, Cole 106, not in Johnson. Color lithograph, 1951. Edition of 10, titled and signed in pencil. Printed by Barnet and Ro...

Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965) Title: Untitled - Abstract with Red and Yellow Year: circa 1955 Medium: Linocut Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: EA Image Size...

Artist: Peter Grippe, American (1912 - 2002) Title: Positive Year: 1960 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Image Size: 39 x 20 inches Size: 46 x 35 in. (11...

Unidentified Artist, "Propels #4" Edition 1/25, Abstract/ Figurative Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 15 x 11 (Image: 11.75 x 9), Mid-20th Century, 1952 Colors: Turquoise, ...

JOHN S. de MARTELLY (1903 - 1979) HIEROGLYPHIC, 1954 Lithograph, signed, no. 20 and dated '54 in pencil by the artist. 12 x 16 inches, large sheet 17...

Artist: Peter Grippe, American (1912 - 2002) Title: Positive 2 Year: 1958-1960 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Image Size: 26 x 20.25 inches Size: 34 x ...

"Season's Greetings" is an original color silkscreen by Schomer Lichtner. The artist signed the piece in the screen on verso. This piece features abstract, linear patterns in blue and white on a brown paper background. 6 1/4" x 4 5/8" art 14" x 12 1/2" frame Milwaukee artist, Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas and cows. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices. Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas, such as his "Ballerina Dancing on Cow" sculpture below. The late James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referred to Lichtner as the artist laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the official artist of the Milwaukee Ballet. Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County. According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre, " joy of life," and expressed it in his art. Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity." As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller...

Hisao Hanafusa (Japanese b. 1937) "Antiquity" Edition 11/15, Abstract Lithograph signed and numbered in pencil, 21 x 15, Mid-20th Century, 1959 Colors: Red, Black, Gray Early work ...

"Derrière le Miroir (Terres de Grand Feu)" from the exposition "Terres de Grand Feu Miró-Artigas" at Galerie Maeght June-July 1956. This is an original color lithograph on Arches paper, with three works on one sheet from the catalogue for the exhibition of ceramic work produced by Joan Miró and Llorens Artigas...

Artist: Alfonsas Dargis, Lithuanian (1909 - 1996) Title: Three Islands Year: 1953 Medium: Linocut, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 9/45 Image Size: 27 x 18.75 inches Frame Siz...

This original print is hand-signed and dated on the lower right by the artist Ettore Colla. On the back, you can read a poem written by the artist entitled Bill. The lithograph is in...

Hand signed. Artist's proof. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a li...

Ana Rosa de Ycaza’s s Copper Etching II is a black and white engraving copper minimalist abstract mixed media with a french oak frame measuring 14 x 14 priced at $1000. Ana Rosa de Ycaza an artist born in 1915 was affiliated with Atelier 17 a studio that attracted the likes of Mark Rothko, Joan Míro, William de Kooning...

Dans les rizières is an original lithograph realized by Massimo Campigli in 1958. Hand signed in pencil on the lower left margin; "Dans les rizières M.Campigli 1958" is written on th...

Hand Signed. Edition of 60 prints.

B/W lithograph on watermarked paper "Arc". Abstract composition signed, titled and dated on the lower margin in pencil by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. From the cycle of "Texturologie" (1953-1959). In excellent conditions. Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre 1901 - Paris 1985) Best known as the founder of the contemporary art movement called Art...

Ana Rosa de Ycaza’s’s Copper Etching III is a black and white engraving copper minimalist abstract mixed media with a french oak frame measuring 14 x 14 priced at $1000. Ana Rosa de Ycaza an artist born in 1915 was affiliated with Atelier 17 a studio that attracted the likes of Mark Rothko, Joan Míro, William de Kooning...

A Marcello Avenali is an original artwork realized by Franco Gentilini between 1940 and 1950, it is dedicated to Marcello Avenali, an Italian artist who was a friend of Franco Gentil...

Ana Rosa de Ycaza’s’s Copper Etching IV is a black and white engraving copper minimalist abstract mixed media with a french oak frame measuring 14 x 14 priced at $1000. Ana Rosa de Ycaza an artist born in 1915 was affiliated with Atelier 17 a studio that attracted the likes of Mark Rothko, Joan Míro, William de Kooning...

Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965) Title: Abstract with Animal Figures Year: circa 1955 Medium: Linocut Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edi...

Crawford, Ralston. LAFAYETTE STREET. Freeman 54.11 Lithograph printed in gray and black on white paper, 1954. Edition of 30, signed in pencil and numbered 23/30. 16 x 22 inches, 407 ...

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Small vintage hand signed and dated graphic. limited edition. Erling Jørgensen, 1905-1977 Born in Denmark, self taught artist. painter and graphic. print-maker. Danish painter and gr...

Aquatint, 1958 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated EA Artist proof Edition : 100 Publisher : Jacques Goldschmidt (Paris) Printer : Jean Signovert (Paris) Catalog : [Schn...

Small vintage hand signed and dated graphic. limited edition. Erling Jørgensen, 1905-1977 Born in Denmark, self taught artist. painter and graphic. print-maker. Danish painter and gr...

Lithograph, 1951 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 43/50 Publisher : Pavillon français, Triennale de Milan Printer : Mourlot, Paris Catalog : [Saphire 107] 50.00 cm. x ...

Lithograph, 1958 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Certificate of authenticity Edition : 125 Publisher : L'Oeuvre Gravée, Zurich Printer : Jean Pons, Paris 66.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 2...

Lithograph, 1958 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 91/100 Publisher : Galerie Creuzeveult (Paris) Printer : E. Desjobert (Paris) Catalog : Schneider 16 55.00 cm. x 76.0...

Abstract Composition, 1959 Silkscreen Lithograph "Phoenix". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana...

Lithograph, 1955, on Arches wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50, printed by Mourlot, Paris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 66.4 x 50 cm. (26⅛ by 19¾ in.) This abstract, three-quarter profile is of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque. The couple met during the summer of 1952 whilst Roque was working at Georges and Suzanne Ramié’s Madoura pottery works in Vallauris, the studio where Picasso made his ceramics in the South of France. The couples love endured until the artist’s death in 1973, Picasso adored Jacqueline so much so that for seventeen of the twenty years the couple spent together - the longest relationship of Picasso’s life - Roque was the only female Picasso painted. When Picasso embarked on his late, great period, his biographer John Richardson succinctly defined and characterised as ‘l’époque Jacqueline.’ In this lithograph, Picasso bestows Roque with an elegant, sphinx-like appearance. The straight line of the nose which extends directly from the forehead to the tip is particularly evocative of these ancient Egyptian sculptures...

This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Moshe Tamir and Michael Gross. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Johanaan Peter worked there with Hans Jean Arp and Dada artist Marcel Janco pioneering Modernist studio Jewelry in Israel. Tumarkin did some Jewelry as awards for the state of Israel (along with Yaacov Agam, Jacques Lipchitz, Salvador Dali, Samuel Bak, Dani Karavan and others.) This is not from that edition but much more rare studio produced limited edition sculptural pieces. Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorating fallen soldiers in the Negev. Tumarkin is also a theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent Expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. Hebrew. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.Tumarkin has worked extensively in the medium of printmaking, producing over three hundred prints. He was encouraged by the print studios founded during those years in the USA, where prominent artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg began to engage in printmaking. Tumarkin prints of the sixties were at crossroads between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and between Pop Art and abstract movements that followed. In addition, he was influenced by the Surrealism and Dada movements whose impact was expressed in the combination of free brushstrokes and drip paintings together with the use of such materials as newspaper cuttings, photographs and junk. Tumarkin has participated in various international exhibitions, and won many awards. His works are displayed in private collections and in museums both in Israel and abroad. His work is in many museums and galleries and was included in the show Israel - Entre Reve et Realite at the Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium along with Yosl Bergner, Abel Pann, Reuven Rubin, Igael Tumarkin, Ephraim Moshe Lilien...

Abstract Composition, 1959 Lithograph This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Moshe Tamir and Michael Gross. Joseph (Yossef) Zaritsky (Hebrew: יוסף זריצקי‎; September 1, 1891 – November 30, 1985) was one of Israel's greatest artists and one of the early promoters of modern art in the Land of Israel both during the period of the Yishuv (Palestine, the body of Jewish residents in the Land of Israel before the establishment of the State of Israel) and after the establishment of the State. In 1948 Zaritsky was one of the founders of the "Ofakim Hadashim" group. In his works he created a uniquely Israeli style of abstract art, which he sought to promote by means of the group. For this work he was awarded the Israel Prize for painting in 1959. Joseph Zaritsky was born in 1891 in Borispol, in the Poltava Oblast (province), in the Southwestern portion of the Russian Empire (today the Kiev Oblast of the Ukraine), to a large, traditional Jewish family. His parents, Golda and Joseph Ben Ya'acov, were farmers with National-Zionist leanings. One of the main expressions of this was their devoting of two rooms in their home to the study of Hebrew and reading. From 1910 to 1914 he studied art at the Academy of Arts in the city of Kiev. Among the artists that influenced Zaritsky was the Russian Symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel...

From the 12-plate album published by Galerie Denise René in 1961, after orginal works executed by Herbin from 1951 through 1960, in an edition of 100 numbered coies. Only four of the...

Abstract color composition, 1959 aquatint lithograph "the Master and his Pupils". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana...

Etching and aquatint, 1959 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 29/100 Publisher : Berggruen, Paris Printer : Jean Signovert, Paris Catalog : [Schneider IV] 35.00 cm. x 27.00 cm. 13.78 in. x 10.63 in. (image) 67.00 cm. x 57.00 cm. 26.38 in. x 22.44 in. (frame) Framed work This etching and aquatint by Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969) dates from 1959. The composition is divided into three coloured areas. Poliakoff was an artist of colour...

Lithograph, 1959 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : /200 ex. Publisher : Berggruen, Paris Printer : Mourlot, Paris Catalog : [Schneider 24] 63.00 cm. x 49.00 cm. 24.8 in....

Lithograph, 1957 Handsigned by the artist in pencil / Artist proof Edition : 150 Publisher : L'Oeuvre Gravée (Zurich) Printer : Pons (Paris) Catalog : Schneider 14 50.00 cm. x 65.00 ...

Etching, 1950 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 200 Publisher : La Guilde internationale de la Gravure (Paris) Printer : G. Leblanc (Paris) Catalog : Moestrup 39 56.00 cm...