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Period: 20th Century
Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Fauvist Lithograph Woman Portrait Marie Therese
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Portrait de Marie Therese" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 274/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate Collection. The lithographs were meticulously created after the original works (Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, Charcoal Drawings, etc.) by Master Chromist Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso in his lifetime. They are printed in an edition of 500 on Arches paper. Embossed with the estate and chromist's stamp seals, along with the legend on the reverse "Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso". Image: 19 1/2" x 15". Paper: 28" x 20 3/4". Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled (Plate 1) Size: 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm) Medium: Lithograph of Arches Paper Edition: 23 of 40 Year: 1982 Notes: From a suite of six prints. S...
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Street Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Lithograph Abstract Flowers Bouquet
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Le Bouquet" Bouquet of flowers, abstract floral arrangement. limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 244...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, The Poems, Joan Mitchell
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Mexican Japanese woman artist 1998 signed original engraving art proof 21x25in
Located in Miami, FL
Namiko Prado Arai (Mexico, 1963) 'Untitled 3 (Buril)', 1998 etching, aquatint on paper Deponte 400g. 20.9 x 24.5 in. (53 x 62 cm.) Unframed ID: PRA-305 Hand-signed by author
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Ink, Etching

Blue Rythms (Agerup 188) after the 1966 painting, Peinture.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue Ruthms (Agerup 188) after the 1966 painting, Peinture. Etching with aquatint, 1968 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 95 (74/95) Plate: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2" ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Aquatint

Continual, Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) Title: Continual Year: 1979 Edition: 41/175, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper Size: 25 x 25 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Si...
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Op Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Nocturne III (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pink Pop Art "In the Sun", 1960s
Located in Washington, DC
Psychedelic silkscreen work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Self printed by the artist. Wonderful work and one of only two remaining from her estate. Image is from her "In the Sun" ser...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper

Original 'Aarau Ladet Ein' vintage Swiss travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster. Linen-backed original Swiss poster "AARAU LADET EIN" An old travel poster with a modern flair to visit Aarau. It has a bea...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el jardin de Miro (Number 14)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el jardin de Miro (Number 14) Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Edition: 150...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Safe Sex! (Gundel 60), Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) Title: Safe Sex! (Gundel 60) Year: 1987-1988 Medium: Offset lithograph on paper mounted on rice paper Size: 29.52 x 27.36 inc...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset

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

Rose Art Museum (Open Wall) Poster /// Helen Frankenthaler Female Abstract Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011) Title: "Rose Art Museum (Open Wall)" Year: 1981 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Li...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Shakespeare II Timon of Athens
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Shakespeare II Timon of Athens MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Transworld Art/Loinel Praeger/Berggruen EDITION NUMBER: 155/250 MEAS...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Garden Yellows
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Josef Albers (1888-1976) is affiliated with numerous definitional movements in 20th century art. Art Historians credit Albers for fusing elements of American and European abstraction...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Wharf-side
Located in New York, NY
Richard Florsheim created this color lithograph entitled “Warf-Side” in 1962 in an edition of 60 pieces. This impression is signed and inscribed “Trial Proof” and printed at the Mour...
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American Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithographie n°28 (Encrevé/Miessner 28), XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Soulages, Pierre, et al. Soulages : L’oeuvr...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Plate XII, from 1972 Lithographe I
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate XII Portfolio: Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Date: 1972 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 17" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 10" Image Size: 12 1/2" ...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Agnes Martin Recent Paintings Limited Edition 1977 PACE Gallery invite on vellum
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Recent Paintings, 1977 Offset Lithograph invitation on Vellum 12 × 12 inches Edition of 2000 Unframed This early print is an exhibition invitation to the Pace Gallery's 1977 Agnes Martin show in New York. The image is a reproduction of a painting from the show, approved by Martin to be used on the invitation to the show. It is printed on a fragile, almost transparent vellum that captures the delicate power of the art. Less than 2000...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Rare historic 1960s Lt Ed Fluxus poster Pittsburgh International Carnegie Museum
Located in New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister Pittsburgh International Carnegie Museum, 1967 Offset Lithograph Poster 20 × 37 inches Edition of 500 Unframed This is the original, historic poster designed by Mar...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Geometries - Screen Print by Luigi Montanarini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 50 x 46 cm. Geometries is a beautiful colored serigraph on cream-colored paper, realized in the 1970's by the Italian artist, Luigi Montanarini (1906-1998) and pub...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

In the style of Henry Moore, Mother and Child in Rocking Chair
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a cast metal sculpture of a woman and child, mother and baby in a rocking chair. It has a patina on a white metal. Not sure if it is steel or aluminum. It is and older vintage piece and has wear to patina where it sits and rocks on table. It is not signed or numbered and there is no foundry mark. Hence it is being sold as being after or in the manner of Henry Moore. Henry Spencer Moore (1898 – 1986) Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom later endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. After the Great War, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his education and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Art (now Leeds College of Art), which set up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would also become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development. In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries. While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Moore's familiarity with primitivism and the influence of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Frank Dobson led him to the method of direct carving, in which imperfections in the material and marks left by tools became part of the finished sculpture. After Moore married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road NW3, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a nest of gentle artists"). This led to a rapid cross-fertilization of ideas that Read would publicise, helping to raise Moore's public profile. The area was also a stopping-off point for many refugee artists, architects and designers from continental Europe en route to America—some of whom would later commission works from Moore. In 1932, after six year's teaching at the Royal College, Moore took up a post as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art. Artistically, Moore, Hepworth and other members of The Seven and Five Society would develop steadily more abstract work, partly influenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. Moore flirted with Surrealism, joining Paul Nash's modern art movement "Unit One", in 1933. In 1934, Moore visited Spain; he visited the cave of Altamira (which he described as the "Royal Academy of Cave Painting"), Madrid, Toledo and Pamplona. Moore made his first visit to America when a retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[28] Before the war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Village College. Morris had engaged Walter Gropius as the architect for his second village college at Impington near Cambridge, and he wanted Moore to design a major public sculpture for the site. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions. He exhibited Reclining Figure: Festival at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro and Richard Wentworth. Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. In 1928, despite his own self-described "extreme reservations", he accepted his first public commission for West Wind for the London Underground Building at 55 Broadway in London, joining the company of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill. At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Metal

Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Constellation
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Constellation Silkscreen in colors, 1969 Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 (56/100) Condition: Excellent Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Sheet size: 20 x 20 inch...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 55-56, 1953. Published by Aimé M...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

A Garden for Orpheus
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Paul Klee A Garden for Orpheus, ca. 1950s Lithograph on Arches paper, sheet measuring 19.75 x 25.5 inches. Unframed. Minor acidification of paper where old matting covered paper...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jim Dine, I Love Public Television, deluxe hand signed/N 1966 Pop Art Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine Love for Channel 13 Lithograph. Hand signed and numbered recto 27 × 21 1/2 inches Edition 185/200 Signed and numbered 185/200 in graphite pencil on the recto Unframed Rarel...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Pencil, Lithograph, Offset

Calder, Spring Carnival, The Collector's Guild Ltd. (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by The Collector's Guild Ltd., New York in association with Th...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Smiling Sun, The Collector's Guild Ltd. (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by The Collector's Guild Ltd., New York in association with Th...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Form on Black Background (Abstract, Modern, Mid-Century)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Herrmann Form on Black Background (Abstract, Modern, Mid-Century) Linocut 1970 Signed, titled and dated in stone on verso (along lower margin) Edition: 100 (not individually num...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Henry Moore, "Fantasy", original etching
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original etching created by Henry Moore in 1967. This piece is hand signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50 on Japon paper. There are also two proofs on...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Derriere Le Miroir-Page 9
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere Le Miroir-Page 9 Color lithograph, 1973 From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 201, January 1973 Unsigned (as issued) Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris Printer: L’Imprimerie Arte, Adr...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Target with Four Faces, 1968, Limited Edition offset lithograph Pop Art poster
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns Target with Four Faces, 1968 Offset lithograph poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company Limited Edition of 300 (unsigned and unnumbered) 35 × 23 inches Printed by by U...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Continuity #1
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ibram Lassaw Continuity #1 1971 Screenprint Visible: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Framed: 27 x 32.5 x 1 inches Edition: 100 Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil along lower edge COA pr...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Union II, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Union II Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928) Date: 1976 Screenprint, signed in pen lower right Image Size: 27 x 22.75 inches Size: 33 x 28.75 in. (83.82 x 73.03 cm)
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Patrouille - Woodcut by Michel Seuphor - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Artist's proof. Good conditions. Image Dimensions: 16 x 31 cm
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Ochre Composition - creen Print by Luigi Montanarini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ochre Composition is an original artwork realized by Luigi Montanarini in the 1970s. Original colored serigraph on paper. Hand signed by the artist on the lower left. Numbered on lo...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Fattipuff, from Imaginary Places II
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Frank Stella. “Fattipuff, from Imaginary Places II” is a lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, and relief print in a palette of bright colors by American painter and...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Etching, Lithograph, Screen

Picasso "Toros & Toreros" Photolithography
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This framed Picasso print, is an offset lithographic book plate from a captivating book, entitled Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), which features the iconic artwork of Pablo...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Keith Haring Halloween 1989 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York City 1989: RARE original 1989 Keith Haring designed Sound Factory Halloween invite featuring a dazzling array of Keith Haring Skeletons: “Keith Haring & Sound...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Braque, Oiseau au couchant, Georges Braque, Le Solitaire, XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 7.25 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Georges Braque, Le Solitaire, 19...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled print by Hans Hofmann. Framed in a light wood frame with a front profile of 1/2 inch and a side profile of 1 3/4 inch. The piece is seated behind a 3 1/2 inch mat. Shipping...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Offset

Untitled
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The Blessing
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Yaacov Agam Title: The Blessing Medium: Screenprint in colors on Arches Year: 1990 Edition: 28/54 Sheet Size: 30" x 42" Image Size: 27 1/8" x 33 1/2" Signed: Hand signed and ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 43, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeg...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sommeil d'hiver, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Homage to the Square - P1, F23, I1, Screenprint by Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Homage to the Square (double) from the Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation (Double Portfolio) Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol ...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

T Series (Yellow), Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Arthur Boden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arthur Boden, American Title: T Series (Yellow) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 29 in. x 23 i...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Adolph Gottlieb, rare exhibition print for Guild Hall in Easthampton, NY, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb Guild Hall is for Everyone, 1970 Rare Abstract Expressionist Offset Lithograph poster Vintage metal Frame included Rare vintage, limited edition, offset lithograph ...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

La Dida (M.1184)
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Dida (M.1184, "The Nurse") is a lithograph on paper, image size 34.5 x 23.5 inches, signed Miró lower right and annotated 'HC' lower left (outside the edition of 75 Arabic and 25 ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - I, Lithograph by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - I (Cramer 207) Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1975 Lithograph Image Size: 12 x 10 inches Size: 14.5 in. x 10 in. (36.83 cm x 25.4 cm) ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Woodcut Heart 1993 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Jim Dine Title: Woodcut Heart. 1993 Image Size: 15 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches Paper size: 23 × 17½ inches Carrier: Mohawk Superfine Cover Medium: Woodcut Proiect Began:January 26, 1...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Futurist Composition - Lithograph by Gerardo Dottori - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Futurist composition is an original artwork realized in 1969 by Gerardo Dottori. Black and white lithograph is an original lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower right marg...
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Futurist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Large Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Louisa Chase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louisa Chase, American (1951 - 2016) Title: Untitled (Spooks) Year: 1987 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30 Paper Size: 30 x 44.5 Inches (76.2 x 1...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Homme Barbu Couronné de Vigne, 1962 - Signed Pablo Picasso Linocut Print, Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Linoleum cut printed in colors, signed in pencil and numbered on Arches wove paper, printed by Arnéra, Vallauris, France, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Image Size: 13.7...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Linocut

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

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Lithograph

Milano
Located in Roma, IT
Colored etching on paper. Image Dim: cm 32 x 44; Dim: cm 50 x 65. Embossed stamp on paper. Hand-signed on lower-right and hand-numbered with pencil on lower-left. Title at the cent...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

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Etching

Nocturne I (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

JHM - II /// Bauhaus Abstract Geometric Josef Albers Screenprint Minimalism
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "JHM - II" Portfolio: Josef Albers Honors the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden *Monogram signed and dated by Albers in p...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

Munich Olympics Silkscreen by Max Bill 1972
Located in Long Island City, NY
This silkscreen was created by Swiss architect, designer, and artist, Max Bill. Bill is widely considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss graphic design. He sought to create forms that visually represent the New Physics of the early 20th century. This print was published for the 1972 Munich...
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Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Prints

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Screen

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