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Period: 20th Century
Composition, The Poems, Joan Mitchell
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on handmade Hahnemühle paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, The Poems, 1960. Published and printed by Tiber Press, New York un...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Roy IV.
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
A Hahnemuehle Fine Art Print, attributed to Roy Lichtenstein. Editioned 25.
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

La mariée comme elle est (Cramer 115), Diurnes
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

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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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Orchestra : Intermission - Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Orchestra : Intermission Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in) Excellent condition
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Nocturne
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1973 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 131/300 Publisher : Jacques Putman - Editions Prisunic Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : [Mason Putman 109] 49...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Down the Rabbit Hole, from Alice in Wonderland
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Heliogravure Title: Down the Rabbit Hole Portfolio: 1969 Alice in Wonderland Year: 1969 Edition: 2430/2500 Frame Size: 24 1/4" x 19 1/2" Sheet Size: 16 ...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Lt. Ed. Monograph of drawings, hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
This is a lifetime edition - hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat himself in Basquiat's lifetime. Many younger collectors don't appreciate the difference between the numerous posthumous estate authorized prints...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media

Mostly Mozart Festival, Signed Abstract Lithograph by Dan Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mostly Mozart Festival by Dan Christensen, American (1942–2007) Date: 1980 Offset Lithograph (unsigned) Image Size: 42 x 31 inches Size: 46 x 35 in. (116.84 x 88.9 cm)
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithographie Originale II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale II Color Lithograph Year: 1981 Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer 177, Der Lithograph IV, 1969-1972 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris,...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Multiple Panel Paintings 1973-1976, Edition C
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Mangold Multiple Panel Paintings 1973-1976, Edition C, 1992 Suite of nine screenprints on Fabriano paper 11 3/4 x 24 in (2880.4 x 61 cm) Edition of 300
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

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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Photorealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lobbycard, The Beatles' - Yellow Submarine, Movie, Film, USA 1968
Located in Cologne, DE
Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 animated musical adventure film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George D...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper

LOVE (The original) Sheehan 39, silkscreen edition of 2275 with artist copyright
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana LOVE (the original), Sheehan, 39, 1967 Silkscreen on Buckeye Cover paper Artists copyright stamp on the back Edition of 2275 33 3/4 × 33 3/4 inches Unframed Artists co...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Violet Torso on Orange Stripes
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in four colours on Japon nacré paper 31 x 31 cm - framed Edition of 75 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist Henry Moore’s prints are a vital aspect of his artistic lega...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Homage a Gerald Kramer Femme qui Marche - Lithograph by David A.Siqueiros - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Hommage a Gerald Kramer Femme qui Marche is a contemporary artwork realized by David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1971. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed on the lower right margin Arti...
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Abstract 20th Century 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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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Annual Edition, Lt. Ed. 1970s mixed media Op Art silkscreen on board hand signed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Annual Edition, 1970 Silkscreen on Masonite Signed and dated in graphite pencil lower right recto. Edition of 100 8 × 5 1/10 × 1/5 inches Unframed Signed and dat...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Masonite, Screen, Graphite

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, unsigned Publisher Se...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Poême pour Dorothea Tanning, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, Hommage à Dorothea Tanning...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

1970 Signed Limited Edition Large Screen Print VI
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Jimmy Ernst  Title: Plate VI Year: 1970 Print: Screen Print on Heavy Paper 28'' x 37'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 58 /125 Jimmy Ernst’s artwork was inf...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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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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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró XVI Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm Condition: In ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

Materials

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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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset, 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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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Poésie de Mots, Poésie de Couleurs
Located in Paris, FR
Stencil, 1961 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 80 ex. Publisher : Galerie Denise René (Paris) 65.50 cm. x 50.50 cm. 25.79 in. x 19.88 in. (paper) From the “Poésie de ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Stencil

Mid century Geometric Abstraction Op Art silkscreen 1960s Signed/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Doug Ohlson Untitled geometric abstraction, 1968 Color silkscreen on wove paper Hand signed, dated and numbered 15/50 on the front This dazzling 1960s Op Art/Geometric Abstraction si...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Modulare Ordnungen, Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction silkscreen Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD PAUL LOHSE Modulare Ordnungen (one plate), 1976 Silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) Pencil signed and numbered 62/100 on the front Vintage Geneva, Switzerland-made frame w...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Pencil, Screen

Moore, Reclining Figure, Interior Setting I (Cramer 458), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°49, 1977. Published and printed under the direction ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Femme Assise a la Robe Bleu (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Femme Assise a la Robe Bleu Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 29 x 22 inches Edition: 1000, plus proofs Condition: Good Ins...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le lézard aux plumes d'or
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1967 Not signed Catalog : [Maeght 461 p. 135] 35.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. 13.98 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 33.50 cm. x 48.00 cm. 13.19 in. x 18.9 in. (image) “Le Lézard aux ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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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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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition Orphique - Lithograph by Sonia Delaunay - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Color Lithograph on Arches paper realized by Sonia Delaunay in 1972. Hand signed in pencil, dated 72 and numbered 43/90. Prov. Private Collection, Milan. Very good condition.
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Parade (Hand Signed and inscribed by David Hockney to renowned artist/collector)
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Parade (Hand Signed and inscribed), 1981 Offset Lithograph Boldly signed by David Hockney in black ink on the front and inscribed to artist Tom Levine 38 × 24 inches ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

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

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Lithograph, Offset

Composition in colour - Lithograph, 1956
Located in Paris, IDF
Sonia Delaunay (after) Composition in colour, 1956 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) On wove paper 31.5 x 23.5 cm (c. 12.4 x 9 in) Edited by San Lazaro...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982: Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Aventurine (Edition D'Artiste)
Located in New York, NY
Amaranth Ehrenhalt (American, 1928 - )," Aventurine", Edition D'Artiste, Abstract Expressionist Colored Lithograph signed in Pencil , 30 x 22, Late 20th Century, ca. 1970 Colors: Red, Blue, Purple, Green, Blue Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt is an American painter, sculptor, and writer, who spent the majority of her career living and working in Paris, France. Ehrenhalt is one of the few abstract expressionists from the New York School of the 1950s who is still active today. She now lives and works in New York City. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Amaranth was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she expressed a passion for art, and by the age of twelve, Amaranth was enrolled in a Saturday morning program for artistically gifted children at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, followed a few years later by art classes at Fleisher Art Memorial. Amaranth Ehrenhalt graduated from Olney High School in 1945, and went on to study for one year at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts (now known as the University of Arts, Philadelphia), after which, she was awarded an Honors Scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While attending PAFA, she simultaneously earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania studying French, English, Psychology, and Art History. From 1949-1951, Amaranth completed additional studies in Art Appreciation via the Barnes Foundation, attending classes afternoon per week. Amaranth Ehrenhalt lived in New York City during the heyday of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. She is officially recognized as part of the second wave of American Abstract Expressionists. She socialized with Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, among others. Her social life revolved around the Cedar Tavern on University Place. Describing life in her fourth floor Greenwich Village walk-up, Amaranth states: “I painted on the floor, not by choice a la Jackson Pollock but for lack of a table. The painter Al Held and sculptor Ronnie Bladen worked at the Door Store and, upon hearing of my predicament, carried a wooden door up four flights of stairs and plopped it on top of the bathtub. From then on, I could work at a more comfortable height.” Amaranth Ehrenhalt traveled to Paris for the first time in the early 1950s, one of many moves between Paris, Philadelphia, and New York. (Amaranth has also lived in Los Angeles, Rome, and Pietrasanta, Italy). Amaranth lived and worked in France and Italy for over 30 years. “I have lived many years in Italy and France and was privileged to know, and sometimes exhibit with many writers and artists who have greatly contributed to modern art, i.e. Giacometti, Sonia Delaunay, who invited me to choose my paint supplies...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Coloured Greys (2) Bridget Riley Female British Artist, Abstract Pattern Print
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in 11 colours on paper Edition of 125 Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Condition on request Images of edition numbering are for illustrative purposes only....
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

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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Pop Art 20th Century 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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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Growing Wild, Edition 45/ 200
By Victor Rosado
Located in New York, NY
Victor Rosado (Puerto Rican/ American, 1938 - ), "Growing Wild " Edition 45/ 200, Abstract Screen Print Serigraph, 17.38 x 13, Late 20th Centu...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Clinton Hill, Title Page II, 1956, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Paintings & Drawings, from the Stedelijk Museum Portfolio Modern Lithograph Set
Located in Houston, TX
This complete portfolio is comprised of ten lithographs along with the original slipcase produced for the artist's 1991 retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and supplemen...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Vellum, 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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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Chiffon de Mandeure paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Lithographies et Eaux-Fortes Originales, Livres I...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Portrait de jeune fille (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 14.5 inches; image size: 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, M. (201...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Linocut

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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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithographie Originale I
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale I Color Lithograph Year: 1981 Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer 177, Der Lithograph IV, 1969-1972 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, ...
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Abstract 20th Century 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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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Quatre oiseaux, 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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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled - Expression no. 2 - Screen Print After Jackson Pollock - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
JACKSON POLLOCK (American, 1912-1956) Untitled, CR1093 (after painting Number 9, CR340), 1951–printed 1964 Screenprint, on Strathmore wove paper, numbered in pencil lower left, and with the Estate of Jackson Pollock 1964 blindstamp lower left(?) From the second posthumous printing of 50 authorized by his widow, Lee Krasner in 1964 (there was also a lifetime edition of 25) Published by Bernard Steffen...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Cretto Nero D - etching and aquatint with embossing By Alberto Burri - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
etching and aquatint with embossing on Rosaspina paper from a series of 8 Cretti (7 black and 1 white). Hand signed lower right. Edition of 90 prints, plus 15 artist's proofs in Rom...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media

Giuseppe Capogrossi Iconic Comb Design "Superficie 324" Serigrafia
Located in Detroit, MI
"Superficie 324" is a 1988 screen print (serigraph) of a 1959 painting by Capogrossi. This is one of his famous "comb" or "fork" works that he perfected in the 1950s and continued to create for the remainder of his life. The blocks of primary red and yellow colors give a bright, joyful feel and contrast to the strong bold black that was Capogrossi's consistent color for the "combs". With no allegorical, psychological, or symbolic meanings, these structural elements could be assembled and connected in countless variations. Intricate and insistent, Capogrossi's signs determined the construction of the pictorial surface. This piece is identified along one side: Giuseppe Capogrossi By SIAE 1988 Silvio Zamorani Editor Via Saccarelli, 9 10144 Torino Italy Tel. (39)(11) 4730554 Progetto Grafico (Graphic Project): Studio Walter Benjamin. Serigrafia (Screen Print): BISI Torino. Capogrossi was born in Rome. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. In 1927 Capogrossi embarked on a formative trip to Paris together with fellow artists and acquaintances Fausto Pirandello, Corrado Cagli and Emanuele Cavalli...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

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