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Period: 20th Century
"Youngerman: Lithographies, Gravures, Dessins"
Located in New York, NY
Jack Youngerman "Youngerman: Lithographies, Gravures, Dessins" Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris, 1966 Silkscreen poster 26 x 20 inches Unsigned
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

The Burgos II trial
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1971 Edition : XIII/XVIII Publisher : Galerie de France (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) 77.50 cm. x 118.50 cm. 30.51 in. x 46.65 in. (paper) 71.50 cm. x 105.50 cm. 28...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Brighter than the Sun, James Rosenquist: colorful abstract pop art rainbow
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant red, blue, orange and yellow lithograph is based on the 1961 Rosenquist oil painting Brighter than the Sun (private collection), with fragmented images from advertising,...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled from the On the Bowery portfolio, Screenprint by Charles Hinman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Hinman, American (1932 - ) Title: Untitled from the On the Bowery portfolio Year: 1969 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP V/XX Size: 25.75...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

1960s Francis Bacon lithograph (from derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Francis Bacon lithograph from Derrière le miroir: Well-suited for matting & framing, this original 1960's print is derived from Bacon's ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 212, published by Aimé Maeg...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Highway, Pop Art Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Highway Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x 22 inches Paper Si...
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Op Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Grand combat de coqs
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1971 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 65/100 Publisher : Galerie l'Art et la Paix 60.00 cm. x 87.50 cm. 23.62 in. x 34.45 in. (paper) 50.00 cm. x 80.00 cm...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Art Gallery from the Estate of Nina Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend Lithograph S/N
Located in New York, NY
James Rosenquist Art Gallery, from the Estate of Nina Castelli and the Collection of Ileana Sonnabend (Glenn, 41), 1971 Color lithograph on Rives BFK ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Landscape India Rajasthan Editioned Linocut Print Natural Blue Green
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Composition XII Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition number: 46/75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Observations: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper hand sig...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Art 1981 Chicago Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992) Title: "Art 1981 Chicago" *Issued unsigned, though signed and dated by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) upper right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Dove paper Limited edition: 2,000. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 150 on Arches Cover paper without margins or text) Printer: Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg of Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY Publisher: Lakeside Group, Chicago, IL Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap No. 249, page 247; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 282; "Tyler Graphics - Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985" - Tyler No. 410:RM29, page 246 Sheet size: 39.5" x 27.5". Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition Notes: Printed in four colors: light tan, orange, deep red, and black. Poster produced for a special exhibition of various artists' work at the Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL from May 14-19, 1981. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1977 collage "Untitled". This poster was the official poster for the 1981 Chicago International Art Exposition. Printer's imprint and artist's copyright lower center. GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Shooting Star, Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Shooting Star Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 202/250, plus proofs Size: 37.25 x 37 inches Condition: Good Inscription: S...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

LA FOLLE AU PIMENT RAGEUR
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Mourlot 1025. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Edition of 27/30. Artwork size 91.375 x 47.875 inches. Custom framed ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph on Paper by Nino Cordio - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nino Cordio (Santa Ninfa, 10 luglio 1937 – Roma, 24 aprile 2000) in the 1980s. Original Lithograph on paper. Numbered in...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Bagnanti
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, titled and numbered. Edition of 50 prints. Excellent condition. Colored Lithograph, representing a group of bathers in abstract shapes. Image Dimensions : 59 x 45 cm
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Liberation II, Abstract Geometric Color Etching by Mark Tobey
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mark Tobey, American (1890 - 1976) - Liberation II, Year: 1973, Medium: Color Etching on Richard de Bas, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: 96, Image Size: 10.75 x 9.2...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Picasso I Els Reventos
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1973 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : XIV Publisher : Gustavo Gili (Barcelone) Printer : Editorial Gustavo Gili (Barcelone) Catalog : Dupin 589 56.00 cm. x 75.5...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miró, Faillie du calcaire, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Carnivalesque Composition - Screen Print by Wladimiro Tulli - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Carnivalesque Composition is a colored screen print on paper, realized in 1973 by the Italian artist Wladimiro Tulli. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered, edition of 59/100. ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Zodiaque - Etching by Max Ernst - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
" Zodiaque " is an etching realized by Max Ernst in 1971. This print is hand signed and numbered. This is an edition of 100 prints. Reference: Catalogue Spies n. 144. Originally a ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Moon Mist
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ronald Julius Christensen – American (1923-1999) Title: Moon Mist Year: circa 1980 Medium: Color Lithograph on BFK Rives paper Image size: 21 x 27.5 inches. Sheet size: 22.5 x 30 inches Signature: Signed lower right Edition size: 295 This one: 240/295 Condition: Good Unframed This exceptional vivid lithograph is by noted artist Ronald Julius Christensen (1923-1999). It makes use of vivid colors and bold strokes. The print is in good, never-framed condition with a faint crease in the upper right margin and a faint stain 4" x 1/2" in the upper left margin, both far from the image. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Ronald Christensen established a fine-art career as a printmaker, painter and muralist in Boston where he had studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and the Vesper George School of Art. He became a teacher in Color Theory at the New England School of Art in Boston in 1963. Exhibition venues included the National Academy of Design (1965) and the Rhode Island Art...
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Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Downtown, The El
Located in New York, NY
John Marin (1870-1953), Downtown, The El, etching, 1921, signed in pencil lower left (also signed and dated in the plate). Reference: Zigrosser 134, only state. Published initially by Alfred Stieglitz and then included as part of the Folio of American Etchings by the magazine The New Republic in 1924, in an edition of unknown size but probably above 500. In very good condition, the full sheet, on Van Gelder wove paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4, the sheet 11 x 13 3/4 inches. Provenance: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York. A fine bright impression. Initially the New Republic Set, sometimes known as Six American Etchings, contained Marin’s Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying) (Zigrosser 112). But after a small number of sets were completed, Downtown the El was substituted for Zigrosser 112 (and so the number of Downtown The Els in the set would have been a bit fewer than the others in the set). Zigrosser, who apparently had not seen a complete set at the time he created the catalogue raisonne, conjectured that the substitution might have been because the original plate was damaged. But since the printer, Peter Platt, was the most renowned artist’s printer of his time, and worked alone, it is unlikely that he would have damaged the plate; a more likely possibility is that he switched to a print that was more comparable in size to the others in the set (The Brooklyn Bridge print...
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Futurist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

German Surrealism Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
Hans Bellmer German (1902–1975) Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Souterrain No. 13 8 1944 Musée Jean Brun Date: circa 1965 Hand signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 100 Size: 19.5 x 26.5 in. Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn, who became his companion until her suicide in 1970. He continued working into the 1960s Cécile Reims (1927) has been drawing the world that surrounds her since her childhood in Lithuania, and subsequently in Paris, Jerusalem, and Barcelona. As a Jew, she had to go into hiding during World War II, and found herself at death’s door when she contracted tubercu- losis. Recovering from the disease, she felt she had to give meaning to her life as a survivor and she experienced a “conversion to art” as one is converted to a religion. Her encounter with the engraver Joseph Hecht in 1945 introduced her to the burin, an unforgiving tool which became her medium of choice. In her early years as an artist, she produced the mysterious Visages d’Espagne, Metamorphoses and Bestiaire de la mort series. But in order to support her work as an artist and to help Fred Deux (1924), whom she married in 1952, she suddenly gave a new twist to her career by turning to the interpretation of others’ work and engraving the drawings made by other artists. Cécile Reims filled this role with good humour and immense talent, as well as secretly collaborating with numerous artists working in the surrealist mode, such as Hans Bellmer, from 1966 to 1975, Salvador Dalí, from 1969 to 1988, Fred Deux, from 1970 to 2008, and Leonor Fini, from 1972 to 1995. In 2004, the Bibiothèque Nationale de France held an important retrospective devoted to Cécile Reims, suddenly putting into the limelight a figure who had long been kept in the shadows. At that point it became essential to produce a catalogue raisonné of her miniature engravings...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Karel Appel NIGHT FACES ON BROADWAY Etching / Carborundum
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006) Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 35/50; 1975 Materials: etching and aquatint with carborundum on paper Dimensions (H, W, D...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Sans titre (Axsom Ia), Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Axsom, Richard H., and Ellsworth Kelly. The Pri...
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Hard-Edge 20th Century 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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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Cosmic Energy 2, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Energía Cosmica 2 (Cosmic Energy 2) Leonardo Nierman Mexican (1932) Portfolio: Cosmic Energy Suite Date: 1980 Lithograph with embossing, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 31/2...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Bright Orange Abstract 1970s Print with Pink, Bold Richard Smith Lithograph
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Sun Curtain by Richard Smith, 1971 Additional information: Medium: lithograph on two sheets 64 x 92 cm 25 1/4 x 36 1/4 in signed and dated in the plate Charles Richard "Dick" Smith was an English printmaker and painter. Smith was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, to Doris (née Chandler), a nurse and daughter of a chemical company director. He studied at Hitchin Grammar School and Luton School of Art. After military service with the Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he attended St Albans School of Art followed by post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1954-57. Smith shared a flat-cum-studio with Peter Blake in his second year at the RCA, and then again for two years after he left the college in 1957. When Terence Conran's Soup Kitchen opened on Fleet Street in the late 1950s, it featured a letter-collage mural by Smith and Blake. Michael Chow would later commission Smith to design installations for his restaurant in Los Angeles, and Chow and Conran have remained two of his biggest supporters. In 1959 he moved to New York to teach on a Harkness Fellowship, staying for two years, where he produced paintings combining the formal qualities of many of the American abstract painters which made references to American commercial culture. The artist's first solo exhibition was at the Green Gallery. As his work matured it tended to be more minimal, often painted using one colour with a second only as an accent. In trying to find ways of transposing ideas, Smith began to question the two-dimensional properties of art itself and to find ways by which a painting could express the shape of reality as he saw it. He began to take the canvas off the stretcher, letting it hang loose, or tied with knots, to suggest sails or kites - objects which could change with new directions rather than being held rigid against a wall, and taking painting close to the realm of sculpture. These principles he carried into his graphic work by introducing cut, folded and stapled elements into his prints; some works were multi-leaved screenprinting, and others printed onto three-dimensional fabricated metal. Smith returned to England in 1963 - specifically East Tytherton, Wiltshire where Howard Hodgkin was a neighbour - and gained critical acclaim for extending the boundaries of painting into three dimensions, creating sculptural shaped canvases with monumental presence, which literally protruded into the space of the gallery. Evocative titles such as Panatella and Revlon, and cosmetic, synthetic colours alluded to the consumer landscapes of urban America which had proved so influential. He showed at the Kasmin Gallery, a venture between Kas and the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava in New Bond Street, throughout the 60s, more-widely known as David Hockney's first gallery. After being awarded the Grand Prize at the 9th São Paulo Biennial in 1967 and important exhibitions at Kasmin in 1963, Tate in 1964, and Richard Feigen Gallery in 1966, Smith was invited to exhibit at the XXXV Venice Biennale as the official British artist in 1970. Smith was chosen by a committee of art experts, who were Director of Tate Norman Reid, art historian Alan Bowness, art collector David Thompson, the British Council’s Lilian Somerville and art historian Norbert Lynton. Smith taught with Richard Hamilton at Gateshead in 1965, where he met Mark Lancaster and Stephen Buckley, and again in 2000, becoming close to the artist and his wife, Terry. By the late 1960s Smith's ambition to produce paintings which shared a common sensibility with other media, such as film and photography, began to wane and he focused on the formal qualities of painting. The freestanding installation Gazebo exhibited at the Architectural League of New York in 1966, and a tent project at the Aspen Design...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy School Prints Colorful Modernist Drawing Lithograph Marching Band
Located in Surfside, FL
Bright vibrant blue, yellow lithograph in color. This is signed in the plate and dated. Dufy's abstract drawing lithograph was drawn by the artist direct on to plastic plates newly d...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Clifford Suite, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Peter Stroud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Stroud, British (1921 - 2012) - The Clifford Suite, Year: 1973, Medium: Screenprint, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 44/45, Image Size: 27 x 36.25 inches, Size: ...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Polish French Figurative Abstract Art Brut Expressionist Lithograph Maryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan Lithograph (after the drawing). 1960 Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm). Gold or bronze ink on black paper Signed in the plate, not b...
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Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Decorative Motifs German Renaissance - Original Lithograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative motifs of the German Renaissance is an original print by an anonymous artist. Chromolithograph. Good conditions. The artwork represents Decorative motifs of the German ...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Plate 6, from Derriere le Miroir #212
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Plate 6 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #212 Medium: Lithograph in colors Date: 1975 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 15" x 22" Image Size: 15" x 22" Sig...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

New York City Center of Music and Drama, Op Art Screen Print by Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz, American (1930 - 2020) - New York City Center of Music and Drama, Year: 1968, Medium: Screenprint, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/144, Image S...
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Op Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed and nu...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Composition - Original Lithograph - Mid of 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the mid of 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Werkubersicht/Work-Overview F, Large Silkscreen by Leon Polk-Smith
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original hand-signed and numbered minimalist silkscreen from the Werkubersicht/Work-Overview Portfolio. Leon Polk Smith is credited with the founding of the hard-edge art movement...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

New York, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Josep Guinovart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Guinovart, Spanish (1927 - 2007) Title: New York Year: 1984 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 99, EA Paper Size: 27 x 22 in. (68.58 x 55.88 cm)
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Red Moon
Located in Roma, IT
Artist's Proof. Hand signed and titled lower center.
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Color

Giacometti, Couverture, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°7, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazza...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tapies 21 Black Red Yellow Vertical original lithograph painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
ANTONI TAPIES was the maximum representative of Spanish abstract art of the 20th century. His works are represented in museums and foundations around the world. "ELS MESTRES DE CATAL...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Danse de Feu from Derriere le Miroir, Framed Modern Lithograph by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Danse de Feu from Derriere le Miroir Year: 1963 Medium: Lithograph Unsigned. Unnumbered from an edition of unk...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition - Original Lithograph by Giuseppe Santomaso - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an abstract color lithograph realized by Giuseppe Santomaso. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right 1983. Artist's proof This splendid artwork is preserved in goo...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Carabiniers - Lithograph by Dipas - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Carabiniers is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Dipas in the 1970s. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left margin...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Israeli Abstract Modernist Aquatint Screenprint Color Photo-Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, (Barcos que Passan na Noite) 1999, color screenprint, signed in pencil, numbered 1/60, sheet 22 ½ x 27 ½”. From Jerusalem print workshop. Asaf Ben Zvi, Israeli contemporary artist, was born in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, 1953. Studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Pratt Institute, New York. Laureate of numerous awards, notably the Rappaport Prize for an Established Artist for 2011, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Lives and works in Jerusalem. He did his army service in a commando unit and fought in the Yom Kippur War. After his discharge from the army he settled in Jerusalem and became interested in bird-watching. In 1981 he began to study architecture at Bezalel, but transferred to the art department. During the period of his studies, he worked primarily in sculpture, but after a period of study in New York, he began to paint as well. From the mid-1980s he made use of simple figures, so abstracted in their form that they became symbolic figures. Some of these figures were connected to biographical baggage, while others were based on trivial events. Many of his works are based on poetic texts that show his interest in esthetics and in the relationship between the painter and society. Education 1981-1985 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem, BFA 1985 Pratt Institute, New York.City, USA Teaching 1933 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Since 1989 Kalisher School, Tel Aviv. Awards And Prizes 1981-82, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant 1982-83, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant 1987 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1989 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1991 Rafael and Hadassah Klatchkin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1992 Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Education 1994 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1997 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2011 Prize for an Established Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Environmental Sculptures 1982 Tel-Haisaf Ben Zvi was involved in ornithology until the early 1990s. In 1981, he enrolled in the Art department at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. During his studies, he participated in a student exchange program at the Pratt Institute in New York. From the outset, Ben Zvi’s focus has been on nature and the environment. Ecological and human disasters and natural disasters initially played an main role in his work and received expression through various fields of color, with motifs such as a cross, a water flask, a wasp, butterfly or bird, symbolizing the fragile human existence steeped in an eternal struggle. In his later work, words penetrate the space of his paintings and art, reflecting on the private, public, local and universal realms. "Ben Zvi at his best is a visual poet, one who places words with great sensitivity to their tone and sometimes relinquishes the splendor of an image in favor of text and message." The Printer's Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem Israel Museum, Jerusalem 15 November, 1994 - 14 February, 1995 Artists: Avraham Ofek, Fima (Roytenberg, Ephraim), Michael Kovner...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Aquatint, Screen

Modern Master Colour Lithograph 'Souvenirs d'Océanie' on Wove paper
Located in Toronto, ON
Bold modern colours synonymous with the modern art movement make up this original Mourlot printed Henri Matisse lithograph, after a gouache on paper cut-out. The cut-out is based on ...
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Fauvist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Musée Cantini lithographic poster by Fernand Leger, 1966
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster was printed in 1966 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris to promote an exhibition of Leger's works at the Musée Cantini in Marseille in the summer of 1966. Leger ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Elbrouz
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, 1983 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 112/150 Publisher : Édition Lahumière Catalog : [Benavides, n°955, p. 220] 76.00 cm. x 55.50 cm. 29.92 in. x 21.85 in. (...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Silk

Uprising - Aquatint and Etching by Arthur Secunda - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Uprising is a  contemporary artwork realized by Arthur Secunda in 1979. Mixed colored etching. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered and titled on the lower left margin. Edit...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Sheaves
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This work is included in the collection of MoMA NY, which was donated by the artist. From a limited edition of 2000 Artist’s Remarks: When discussing the untitled 1950 related drawi...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sheaves
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Apple, Lt Ed St. Louis Art museum print Signed & dated by Roy Lichtenstein Frame
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Hand Signed and dated by Roy Lichtenstein), 1981 Offset lithograph. Hand signed and dated in ink Hand-signed by artist, H...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Pencil, Graphite

Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght-Lithograph/Offset after J. Mirò-1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in the 1970s. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Due Figure
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) Title: Due Figure Year: 1968 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Inscribed E.A (Epreuve d'Artiste) in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 18.5 x...
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Dada 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

60s American Abstract Expressionist Untitled Abstract Color Composition Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
Color Abstract Expressionism aquatint etching. hand pencil signed limited edition. Don Fink (1923-2010) was a well known and well listed Abstract Expressionist who studied at the Art Students League and the Academie Julian. He was born in Duluth , Minnesota, but later moved to Europe where he established himself as an artist. He was first based in Paris where he was a member of the "Jeune École de Paris" (with Karel Appel, Debre, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Antoni Tapies, Dumitresco, Messagier, Zanartu , etc.) and later moved to Barcelona. A large retrospective of his earlier works was held in Madrid in 1998 with the following promotion: Don Fink Returns to Madrid: American "action" painter Don Fink (b. Duluth, Minnesota, 1923) has a show at Galería Rayuela through September 25. The artist divides his time between Barcelona, Paris, and New York. This is his second exhibition in Madrid in four years. The works on view date from 1952 to 1970. Their "active" surfaces meld the arts of tattooing, calligraphy and three-dimensional terrain mapping, resulting in a meditative and rewarding experience for the viewer. The show was organized by Sebastià Janè of Barcelona and Carmen Muro of Madrid. Galería Rayuela is at Calle Claudio Coello...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Mate - Screen Print by Shu Takahashi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Mate is a color silk-screen and copperplate engraving print on heavy paper, realized in 1973 by the Japanese artist Shu Takahashi. Not signed and not numbered. Good condition, ex...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Amsterdam V ed 12/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam V is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is bo...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Published in Milan by Groupe Espace for the very rare 1958 volume of Documenti d'Arte d'Oggi. Sheet size 12 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 220 mm); with print...
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Futurist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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