Late 20th Century Abstract Prints

Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1993 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Peter Halley) 26 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches Unframed Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer ...

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...

Artist: Tony Bechara, Puerto Rican (1942 - ) Title: Entraphy Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, AP 30 Image Size: 27.5 x 20 inches ...

Alan Shields Alice in Grayland, 1979 Mixed media collage: Etching, aquatint, screen print with stitching and collage on hand made paper Hand signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/13 by Alan Shields on the front Unique variant This very unique and imaginative mixed media paper collage with stitching and fabric is floated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass. It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered from the limited edition of 13 - but each is a unique variant. Frame included: Measurements: Frame: 27.75 x 22.5 x 2 inches Artwork: 23.5 x 18 inches Catalogue Raisonne: K. Tyler Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. p. 289. Alan Shields came of age artistically in the late 1960s in New York. Expanding the boundaries of Minimalism, he became known as a master of aesthetic invention through his wide-ranging exploration of materials and techniques. His mixed media works often contain combinations of traditional silkscreen processes combined with found materials. New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote in her 2005 obituary for the artist: "Mr. Shields's work combined expanses of gorgeous stained color, reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler's canvases, with the humbler crafts and a Gypsy sense of portability." Critic Robert Hughes has described Shields as a brilliant bricoleur who could, and often did, make art out of just about anything. He became an innovative printmaker, experimenting with handmade paper and turning out editions in which each print was unique. After his passing, Shields was awarded a Judith Rothschild Foundation grant given to recently deceased abstract artists whose work is of the highest quality but merits further recognition. About Alan Shields: Alan Shields (b. 1944, Herington, KS; d. 2005, Shelter Island, NY) created unique, imaginative, and theatrical structures using unconventional materials and vibrant color. His three-dimensional paintings convey a playful, deconstructive impulse through the incorporation of un-stretched hand-dyed canvas, rope, yarn, beads, and wood. Shields moved to New York City in 1968, where he showed with Paula Cooper...

Fleditwerk Serigraph, 1970 Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist. Publisher: Kunstverein Braunschweig blindstamp lower left Edition: 100 (66/100) Condition: Excellent Image: 22 x 22...

David Hockney Los Angeles Music Center Opera Poster (Hand signed by Hockney + 40 artists), 1987 Off-set Lithograph Poster The signatures on the poster include David Hockney + 40 othe...

John Plumb 'Colour Step C' 1971 Medium Type: Screen Print Size-Width Size-Height: 22'' x 30'' Signed Edition Size: Signed in pencil, titled and marked 18/75 John Plumb is one o...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Révolutions Scéniques Du XXe Siécle, 1975. Published and print...

Kyohei Inukai (aka Earle Goodenow), American (1913 - 1985), "Untitled" Edition 7/75, Abstract / 3D/ Modern Serigraph signed and numbered in pencil, 23.25 x 34.50, Late 20th Century ...

"Insignia #2" Abstract Mixed Media on Handmade Paper Tactile Abstract on handmade paper by David Dodsworth (English, b. 1952) - David’s work is typifi...

Views of Hotel Well I, from Moving Focus series (T. 280; DH. 67). Lithograph printed in colors on TGL handmade paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. original Artist's...

Pierre Fernandez Arman Year: 1978 GREY MOOD Medium Type: Silkscreen, on grey vellum paper Size-Width Size-Height: 22'' x 30'' Edition Size: Signed in pencil and marked 12/150 Ste...

"Original Lithograph VI" is an original color lithograph by Joan Miro, published in "Miro Lithographs II, Maeght Publisher" in 1975. It depicts Miro's signature biomorphic abstract s...

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, ...

Klaus Basset Title: Geometric Composition Year: 1970 Medium: Color lithograph Signed, numbered and dated by hand Edition: 120 Size: 11.9 × 12.5 on 23.8 × 16.8 inches COA provided

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...

Perle Fine Paintings, 1977 Rare offset lithograph poster 22 × 17 inches Unframed, unsigned, unnumbered Provenance: Estate of Andre Zarre Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issue...

Framed "Flying Colors" lithograph by Alexander Calder. Signed Calder in lower right corner. Edition 11 of 100.

Antoni Tapies (Spain, 1923-2012) 'Nocturn Matinal', 1970 lithograph on paper Manually intervened with pencil by Antoni Tápies in the central part. 24.1 x 42.6 in. (61 x 108 cm.) Edit...

Untitled, Sarayevo Winter Olympic Games 1984, is an etching with aquatint and lithograph in colors realized by Cy Twombly on the occasion of the Winter Olympics Games 1984 in Sarajev...

Silksreen, 1984 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 24/100 85.00 cm. x 65.00 cm. 33.46 in. x 25.59 in. (paper) 67.00 cm. x 60.00 cm. 26.38 in. x 23.62 in. (image) Poste...

"cocoons?" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1976 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "cocoons?" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece features a variety of lines and f...

Joan Miró "Le Permissionnaire", 1974 Original etching and aquatint From the edition of 50 on arches paper, hand signed and numbered 3/50. Image measures: 45 x 29 inches Sheet measure...

Antoni Tapies (Spain, 1923-2012) 'Las segovias', 1996 silkscreen on paper 14.2 x 10.2 in. (36 x 26 cm.) Edition of 150 Ref: TAP1205-005-150 Hand-signed by author ____________________...

Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LA BANDERA DE CUBA” in 1980. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “Seis” [six] in pencil. The printed ...

Mark Tobey, American (1890 - 1976) - Sonata, Year: 1975, Medium: Screenprint on Richard Des Bas, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 100, Image Size: 16 x 19.5 inches, Size: 21...

Alexander Calder McGovern for President, 1972 Lithograph on wove paper with deckled edges Signed and numbered 93/200 in graphite pencil on the front; also bears blind stamp from Styr...

Richly-inked and superb impression of this engraving and drypoint on cream wove paper. This is the eighth state (of 8). Signed, dated and numbered 28/100 in pencil by Bourgeois. Publ...

Screen print on Richard de Bas paper, realized in 1970 ca. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition 89/100. Published by Edition de Beauclair. Very good condition.

16 Green Circles from the Eight Variants series, 1970 This work is number 51 from the edition of 165 printed by Hans Mayer, Krefeld, Germany. screenprint 28"x28" Julian Stanczak American/Polish, 1928-2017. explores the visual, psychological, and emotional resonance of color in his Op art paintings, through which he aims to induce a “color meltdown,” as he describes: “I want to fuse many colorants and their gradations into a single color experience.” Influenced by Josef Albers and Russian...

Charles Hinman is best known for his custom-shaped geometric canvas paintings. This is an original silkscreen from the Licht Calendar portfolio, unsigned from the edition of 3000. Fr...

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...

Alexander Calder Balloons and Color Mosaic, 1971 Original Lithograph (4 color stones) Printed in Mourlot workshop On vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12,2 x 9,5 in) Edited by San Lazzaro in 1...

Antoni Tapies (Spain, 1923-2012) 'Improvisations en blanc i negre III', 1987 lithograph on paper Velin Arches 250 g. 41.4 x 29.6 in. (105 x 75 cm.) Edition of 60 Unframed ID: TAP1162...

Tapies Litografia original 1974 TAPIES was the maximum representative of Spanish abstract art of the 20th century. His works are represented in museums and foundations around the w...

Four Reddish Arches a vintage offset print after Antoni Tàpies, printed on handmade paper and part of a deluxe edition of reproductions published in 1982 and limited to 2.000 specime...

Hand signed rf Lichtenstein, numbered and dated '85 in pencil lower right. Printed by Studio Henrici, New York. Published by the artist, for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Univer...

This modern, geometric abstract, giclee print is by artist and graphic designer Burton Kramer. Mesmerizing circles in black and white pop against a deep blue background, edged in ne...

Roger Muhl (1929-2008) Provence #7, 1986. Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, lower margins. Artwork is in excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Frame shows ...

Lithograph, linocut, and screenprint in colors with hand-coloring and collage, on wove paper, 1984, signed and dated in pencil, from the numbered edition of 60 (there were also 10 ar...

Double Personage Color lithograph, 1975 (?) Unsigned (as issued) Edition: Large Edition Limited, (estimated to be approximately 2000) Published in: XXe Siecle, No. 52, Juin 1979 Published: G. di San Lazzaro Printer: Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, France Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelynck L7513 Condition: Excellent, fresh colors Traces of glue residue along margin edge where it was bound in the book Image/sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982) Biography Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on December 8, 1902. He was the eighth child born to Lam-Yam―born in Canton around 1820, an immigrant to the Americas in 1860―and to Ana Serafina Catilla―born in 1862 in Cuba of mixed African and Spanish ancestry. The luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande had a strong impact on Lam from early childhood. One night in 1907, he was startled by the strange shadows cast on the wall of his bedroom of a bat in flight. He often recounted the incident as his first magnificent awakening to another dimension to existence. In 1916, Lam and part of his family settled in Havana. He was enrolled in the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura, Academia de San Alejandro, where he remained a student until 1923. This period, with exhibitions at the Salón de Bellas artes, was determinant in his choice to become a painter. In 1923, the municipality of Sagua la Grande awarded him a grant to study in Europe and by the autumn of that year, at the age of twenty-one, he left the country for Spain. His time in Spain―initially intended as a short stay on his way to Paris―lasted 14 years. In Madrid, he was exposed to the ideas and movements of modern art. He spent long hours at the Archeological Museum and the Prado. He studied the great masters of Spanish painting, Velázquez and Goya, but felt particularly drawn to the works of Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. In 1931, his first wife, Eva (Sébastiana Piriz) and their son Wilfredo Victor died of tuberculosis. The terrible suffering he endured led to numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam found solace in the company of his Spanish friends and made contact with several political organizations. In 1936, with the help of his friend Faustino Cordón, he joined the Republican forces in their fight against Franco. He designed anti-Fascist posters and took part in the struggle by working in a munitions factory. The violence of the struggle inspired his painting La Guerra Civil. In 1938, Lam left Spain for Paris. Shortly before leaving, he met Helena Holzer, who would become his wife in 1944. His meeting Picasso in his studio on the Rue des Grands Augustins proved decisive. Picasso introduced his new “cousin” to his painter, poet and art critic friends, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Léger, Eluard, Leiris, Tzara, Kahnweiler, Zervos. Lam also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which hosted Lam’s first solo exhibition in 1939. Shortly before the Germans arrived, Lam left Paris for Bordeaux and then Marseille, where many of his friends, for the most part surrealists, had gathered around André Breton in the Villa Air Bel: Pierre Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Domínguez, André Masson, Benjamin Péret. In the Villa Air Bel, a meeting place for creativity and experimentation, Lam worked and produced, most notably, a series of ink drawings that set the tone for what would become his signature style of hybrid figures, a vocabulary he would develop more fully during his years in Cuba from 1941 to 1947. In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends. Newly settled in his native land after almost twenty years, Lam delved deeper into his artistic investigations, finding nourishment for his ideas in the surroundings of his childhood and youth. His sister Eloisa, whom he was closest to, explained to him in much detail the workings of Afro-Cuban rituals and he began attending ritual ceremonies with some of his friends. This contact with Afro-Cuban culture brought new impetus to his art. He painted over one hundred canvases, most notably La Jungla, making the year 1942 his most productive of this period. Over the next few years, a number of exhibitions followed in the United States, at the Institute of Modern Art of Boston, at the MoMA of New York, at the Galerie Pierre Matisse, where La Jungla was presented and created a scandal. In 1946, Lam and Helena travel to Haiti and attend voodoo ceremonies in the company of Pierre Mabille and André Breton. Talking about his experience in Haiti, Lam said, “It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.” Picasso_Lam_Vallauris_1954_vignette Wifredo Lam et Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, 1954 Lam then went on to New York where he renewed contact with Marcel Duchamp and made new acquaintances: Jeanne Reynal, James Johnson Sweeney, Arshile Gorky, John Cage, Roger Wilcox, Mercedes Matter, Ian Hugo, Jesse Fernández, John Cage, Sonia Sekula and Yves Tanguy. By the end of the 1940s, Lam divided his time between Europe, Havana and New York, where they stayed with Pierre and Teeny Matisse...

Louise Bourgeois Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I and II (Literary books with 10 original etchings) Hand signed by both artist Louise Bourgeois and Pulitzer winning playwright Arthur M...

Original Zurich, Switzerland vintage travel poster, conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Printer: Schwegler Karl AG Zürich Thi...

Printed by Mourlot for an Maurice Esteve exhibition held at the Neue Galerie. Esteve is well-known for his rich colors similar to the fauvist mouvement of the early 20th century. The...

The Soldier's Ballad is a contemporary artwork realized by Max Ernst in 1972. Mixed colored lithograph on Arches Paper. Edited by Manus Presse, Stuttgart 1972. Not signed and not ...

An original silkscreen poster "avant le lettre" by Victor Vasarely for an exhbition at Editions Lahumiere, Paris.

Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...

Antoni Tapies (Spain, 1923-2012) 'Toile pliée et chiffres', 1974 lithograph on paper 24.9 x 35.5 in. (63 x 90 cm.) Edition of 90 Unframed ID: TAP1162-026 Hand-signed by author Cat. r...

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: International Very Special Arts Festival Year: 1989 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Edition: 190/275, plus proofs Size: 35.5 x 26.5 in...

Artist: Stanley Hayter, British (1901 - 1988) Title: Allegro from the Peace Portfolio Year: 1970 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...

Nancy Graves 5745, for the Jewish Museum, 1984 Silkscreen on paper Signed, numbered 5/90 and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner 30 1/4 × 40 1/2 inches Unframed Commissioned by the Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List Graphic Fund for The Jewish Museum, New York Signed, numbered and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner. Commissioned by the Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List New Year's Graphic Fund for The Jewish Museum, New York. During the 1980s, various artists were commissioned to create a print celebrating the Jewish New Year. This is the silkscreen renowned sculptor Nancy Graves created to celebrate the year 5745 of the Jewish Calendar, beginning in September 1984 (Rosh Hashanah). This work was published in a limited edition of 90. The number 90 has special significance in Jewish gamatria (numerology) for several reasons, including the fact that it equals five times life - or Chai. The number for Chai, meaning "Life " s 18, and 18 x 5 = 90. This is a magical number in Judaism. All of the works were published in editions that were multiples of 18, or the Life. In her lifetime, Nancy Graves did not receive the renown or acknowledgement that her ex-husband and former Yale School of Art classmate Richard Serra did, but she is finally getting the recognition she richly deserves. Biography: Nancy Graves (1939 – 1995) is an American artist of international renown. A prolific cross-disciplinary artist, Graves developed a sustained body of sculptures, paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints. She also produced five avant-garde films and created innovative set designs. Born in Pittsfield Massachusetts, Graves graduated from Vassar College in 1961. She then earned an MFA in painting at Yale University in 1964, where her classmates included Robert Mangold, Rackstraw Downes, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, as well as Richard Serra with whom she was married from 1964 to 1970. Five years after graduating, her career was launched in 1969 when she was the youngest artist — and only the fifth woman — to be selected for a solo presentation at the Whitney Museum of Art. Graves’ work was subsequently featured in hundreds of museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, including several solo museum exhibitions. She was awarded commissions for large-scale site-specific sculptures and her work is in the permanent collections of major art museums. A frequent lecturer and guest artist, her work was widely documented during her lifetime. In 1991 she married veterinarian Dr. Avery Smith. Graves travelled extensively and was fully engaged with the cultural and intellectual issues of her times. Her brilliant career and life were cut short by her untimely death from cancer at age 54. From a point of view that she described as “objective,” Graves transformed scientific sources, such as maps and diagrams, into artworks by re-producing their complex visual information in detailed paintings and drawings. Investigating the intersections between art and scientific disciplines, Graves created compelling, formally rigorous, yet ultimately expressive works of art that examine concepts of repetition, variation, verisimilitude, and the presentation and perception of visual information. Based in SoHo, New York, Graves gained prominence in the late 1960s as a post-Minimalist artist for innovative camel, fossil, totem, and bone sculptures that were hand formed and assembled from unusual materials such as fur, burlap, canvas, plaster, latex, wax, steel, fiberglass and wood. Made in reaction to Pop and Minimalism, these works reference archaeological sites, anthropology, and natural science displays. Suspended from the ceiling or clustered directly on the floor, these early sculptures also engage with Conceptualist ideas of display. For her Whitney Museum presentation Graves exhibited three seemingly realistic sculptures of camels in an installation that evoked taxidermy specimens and questioned issues of verisimilitude in art and science, particularly in light of their hand patched and painted fur surfaces. The exhibition elicited wide spread critical responses and established her artistic significance. After intensely engaging with sculpture in the early 1970s, Graves returned to painting. Her detailed pointillist canvasses re-produced — in paint — images culled from documentary nature photographs, NASA satellite recordings, and Lunar maps, commingling scientific exactitude with abstraction. Resuming sculpture in the late 1970s, Graves was among the first contemporary artists to experiment with bronze casting. She re-invigorated the traditional lost wax technique by assembling cast found objects into unique improbably balanced sculptures, with bright polychrome surfaces and distinctive patinas. Throughout the 1980s Graves became widely recognized for her increasingly large and graceful open-form sculpture commissions. At the same time, she also expanded her drawing, painting, and printmaking practice and made large gestural watercolors. Then, in the late 1980s she created wall-mounted works that combined her explorations of sculpture, painting, form and color. In these large-scale pieces, she mounted high relief polychrome sculptural elements to the surfaces and edges of painted shaped canvases so that patterned shadows were cast onto the paintings and surrounding wall. By the 1990s Graves was casting in glass, resin, paper, aluminum, and bronze, combining these varied materials and colors into daring sculptures with moving parts. As she proceeded in all the media she mastered, Graves increasingly re interpreted and transmuted forms sourced from her own earlier artwork — rather than from outside research — creating elaborate compositions that form a layered a-temporal archaeology of her own visual production. Nancy Graves’ pioneering art...

Peter Halley Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1990 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed by Peter Halley) 26 1/2 × 30 inches (ships rolled in a tube 37 x 6 x 6) Signed by Peter Halley ...

Engraving Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated EA Artist proof 91.00 cm. x 63.00 cm. 35.83 in. x 24.8 in. (paper) 76.50 cm. x 58.50 cm. 30.12 in. x 23.03 in. (image) Th...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; with bifold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°37, 1971. Published and prin...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1980 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (310 x 232 mm). Not signed.

Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Les Essencies de la Terra Exhibition (M. 625) Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Gua...

This striking exhibition poster by Peter Nyborg showcases his mastery of color and form. Printed on heavy stock paper, it boasts vibrant, richly layered hues that radiate energy and ...

Peter Halley New Works, The Butler Institute of American Art (Hand Signed), 1999 Offset lithograph poster (signed by Peter Halley) 38 × 21 1/2 inches Boldly signed in black marker by...