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Abstract Abstract Prints

ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Joan Miró, M.985 from " Les Pénaltiés de l'enfer ou les Nouvelles-Hébrides"
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miró M.985 from " Les Pénaltiés de l'enfer ou les Nouvelles-Hébrides" 1974 Hand signed From a signed edition of 50, numbered EA/50 Mourlot 985 10.5 x 29.5 inches (Horizontal) *...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph 70.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 60.00 cm. x 41.00 cm. 23.62 in. x 16.14 in. (image) Annoted "EA" Handsigned by the artist in pencil Ref : LCD2873
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Oracle: Study for Clairvoyant
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton Oracle: Study for Clairvoyant, 1969 Lithograph on wove paper 24 1/2 × 18 inches Pencil signed "Lipton" lower right recto Pencil numbered 44/100, lower left recto pencil titled and dated, verso Unframed Uncommon mid century modern pencil signed and numbered lithograph by renowned abstract expressionist sculptor Seymour Lipton. "Study for Clairvoyant", also known as "Oracle", is a study for a famous monumental modernist masterpiece by Lipton. Other editions of this lithograph are in major collections such as that of the Brooklyn Museum. Rarely to market. Provenance: Swann Galleries
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

no title
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1969 Edition : 8/200 71.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.95 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 59.00 cm. x 36.00 cm. 23.23 in. x 14.17 in. (image) Handsigned by the artist in pencil Ref : LC...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Delos
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on TGL handmade paper. Initialed and numbered 6/40 in pencil. Printed and published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, with the bli...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph

Moonscape, Abstract Screenprint by Domenick Turturro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Domenick Turturro, Italian/American (1936 - 2002) Title: Moonscape Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 30 inches diameter Si...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Smooth Sailing
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Unique monotype, signed and numbered. Artist Robert Roach worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His one-of-a-kind, abstract monoprints are inspired by the landscape, climate and light of ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Monotype

Smooth Sailing
Smooth Sailing
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Nastri - Screen Print by Albino Galvano - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 40 prints. Good conditions except for some minor foxing on edges.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Atelier Mourlot Bank Street by Joan Miro - colorful abstract original lithograph
Located in New York, NY
This colorful abstract original lithograph was printed in 1967 at the Atelier Mourlot in NYC. When The Mourlot Studio decided to open a branch in New York City, after a successful ex...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

For John Constable
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland For John Constable 1976 Lithograph with acrylic 70 x 96.5 cms (27 1/2 x 38 ins) JHE017 The ‘For John Constable’ series was commissioned and published by Bernard Jacobson in 1976 to celebrate the bicentenary of John Constable’s birth. It comprised individual works by nineteen artists including Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Smith, Duncan Grant, David Hockney, Michael Sandle, Ivor Abrahams, Bill Brandt, Robyn Denny, Barry Flannagan, Anthony Gross...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Acrylic, Lithograph

Figures in Interior - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Figures in Interior is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1955. Signed o the plate on the lower. The print suite was...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Circus and the Parade
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1949 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered II/XX Publisher : La Guilde de la Gravure (Paris-Genève) Catalog : Passeron, p.130 38.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 14.96 in. x...
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1940s Abstract 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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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

To and Fro
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Marie Haessle - French/American (1939-) Title: To and Fro Year: 1980 Medium: Screen Print Sight size: 20 x 26 inches. Sheet size: 23 x 29 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 295 This one: 82/295 Condition: Very good Unframed This bold abstract geometric print is by the well-known French/American artist, Jean-Marie Haessle (1939- ). It is in very good, never-framed condition with no flaws to note. Jean Marie Haessle was born in Buhl, Haut-Rhin, France. After living for a few years in Paris, he moved to New York City in 1967 where he still works and lives in his studio on Spring Street in Soho. Over the years, he had numerous shows in the US, New York, Miami, Texas and California, France and Italy (see the resume). In the mid-80’s he worked for a period in France (Paris, Lyon, and Cannes). In the late 90’s he worked in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) where he had a one person show in 1997 in the Museo de Art in Queretaro. He had a survey exhibition of the last 30 years of his work at the Korean University Museum, Seoul, Korea in spring 2014 and a major one person show in the Namu Modern &Contemporary gallery in Seoul in September of the same year. In September 2016 he had a sold out show at the Wada Garou gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In recent years, he had numerous shows in Korea, Seoul and Busan as well as in Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. One-Person Exhibitions 2021 Mizuma, Kips Gallery New York, USA 2020 Shijimi Gallery and Wada Garou, Tokyo, Japan Mizuma, Kips Gallery New York, USA Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2019 Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, USA 2018 Wada Garou, Tokyo, Japan Superior Gallery, Gangnam Seoul Korea 2017 Foley Gallery, New York, USA KOUDOURAN, Kyoto, Japan 2016 Wada Garou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2015 Soohoh Gallery, Korea Kips Gallery New York, USA 2014 Paintings 1983 – 2013, Korea University Museum, Seoul, Korea NaMu Modern & Contemporary, Seoul, Korea 2013 Wada Garou Gallery Tokyo, Japan Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2012 Hillwood Art Museum, LIU Post, NU USA Gallery Wooduk. Seoul Korea SOOHOH Gallery, Seoul, Korea bcs Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA 2011 Chantal Bamberger Galerie, Strasbourg, France Whitelabs Gallery, Milan, Italy Kips Gallery New York, NY USA 2010 David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, USA Gallery AKA Space, Seoul Korea Gallery One Tokyo, Japan 2009 Kips Gallery New York, NY USA La Minoterie Penze, France 2008 Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France Kips Gallery, New York, NY USA 2007 Kips Gallery, New York, NY USA 2000 Gallery Yvonamor Palix, Mexico DF Mexico 1997 Galerie Gastaud & Caillard, Paris France Galerie Prebet, Roanne France Galerie de la Tour, Altkirch France Ecole des Beaux Arts de Metz, Metz France Kunsthous Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende Mexico Museo de Art, Queretaro Mexico Museo Regional de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala Mexico 1996 Kim Foster Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France 1995 Kim Foster Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Gastaud & Caillard, Paris France Center Europeen d'action Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg France Galerie Athisma, Lyon France 1994 Chateau du Grand Jardin, Joinville France 1993 Galerie Catherine Fletcher, Paris France 1991 Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France Galerie Athisma, Lyon France 1989 FCI Institut, New York NY USA Galerie Jade, Colmar France Galerie Laurentienne, Bordeaux France 1988 Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France 1987 Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France Guggenheim Gallery, Miami Florida USA 1986 LittleJohn-Smith Gallery, New York NY USA 1985 Reynold Kerr Gallery, New York NY USA Taylor Hudson Gallery, Boca Raton Florida USA 1981 Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York NY USA 1980 RR Gallery, New York NY USA 1979 National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC USA The Atlantic Gallery, Washington DC USA 1973 Westbroadway Gallery, New York NY USA 1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York NY USA 1968 Panoras Gallery, New York NY USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 KIAF art fair Seoul, Korea Busan Art Fair, Kips gallery, Busan, Korea Miami art fair, Miami, USA 2019 Busan Art Fair, Kips gallery, Busan, Korea Kiaf Art Fair, Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, Seoul, Korea Osaka art fair, Wada Garou, Tokyo, Japan 2018 Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, NY USA Busan Art Fair, Kips gallery, Busan, Korea Wada Garou, Tokyo, Japan 2017 Busan Art fair, Kips Gallery, Busan, Korea 2016 Busan Art fair, Kips Gallery, Busan, Korea Art Hamptons, Kips Gallery, NY USA Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea “Master Works” Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France “Diaspora in Contemporary Art” Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nation , NY USA Corps Accords Pôle Culturel, Drusenheim, France Salon Zurcher, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY USA 2015 Palm Springs Art Fair, Kips Gallery, CA USA Houston Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Houston TX, USA Art Hamptons, Kips Gallery, NY USA KIAF Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Seoul, Korea Busan Art fair, Kips gallery, Busan Korea 2014 CIGEE China International Gallery Exposition, Kips Gallery, Beijing, China Palm Springs Art Fair, Kips gallery, CA USA Houston Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Houston TX, USA Art Hamptons, Kips Gallery, NY USA KIAF Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Seoul, Korea David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe NM USA 2013 Art Hamptons, Kips gallery, NY USA Houston Art Fair, Kips gallery, Houston, TX USA KIAF Art Fair, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2012 Art Karlsruhe Germany, Galerie Chantal Bamberger Kips Gallery, New York, NY USA Lee C gallery, Seoul Korea 2011 KIAF Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Seoul Korea St-Art, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg France Houston Art Fair, DavidRichard Conremporary, TX, USA Red Dot Art Fair, Kips Gallery, New York, NY, USA Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA Art Chicago, Kips Gallery, New York, NY, USA Wada Garou, Tokyo Japan San Francisco Art Fair, Kips Gallery NY, USA Dallas Art Fair, DavidRichard Contemporary Santa Fe, NM, USA 2010 David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA Claire Gastaud Galerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France KIAF Art Fair, Kips Gallery, Seoul Korea Korean Art Fair, New York, NY Hong Kong Art Fair, Kips gallery Hamptons Art Fair, USA Kips gallery 2009 Kips Gallery, New York NY 10012 Scope Art Fair Miami, Kips Gallery NY, USA 2008 Bridge Art Fair Miami, Kips Gallery, Fl. USA 2007 Kips Gallery, New York NY, USA 2004 Mexico Arte Contemperano, Gallery Yvonamor Palix, Mexico DF 2003 Galerie Kahn, Strasbourg, France 2002 Art Chicago, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Chicago USA St-Art, Galerie Khan, Strasbourg France Art Paris, Galerie Claire Gastaud, Paris France 2001 Art Chicago, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Chicago USA 2000 Art Chicago, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Chicago USA En construccion, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Gto Mexico Nomad Territories, DFN Gallery, New York NY USA 1999 Gallery Yvonamor Palix, Mexico DF Mexico 1998 Albright-Knox Galleries, Buffalo NY USA Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France 1997 Kim Foster Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand France Eric Linard Galerie, La Garde Adhemar France Museo de Arte, Queretaro Mexico 1996 Art Chicago, Kim Foster gallery, Chicago USA "Blue" Broadway Gallery, New York NY USA 1995 Galerie Cocotier, St Etienne France Centre Europeen d'Action Artistiques Contemp., Strasbourg France 1994 Kim Foster Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Catherine Fletcher, Paris France Foster-Peet Gallery, New York NY USA 1993 Andover-White Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Athisma, Lyon France Cavaliero/Navarra Fine Arts, New York NY USA 1992 Cavaliero/Navarra Fine Arts, New York NY USA "Contemporary Works on Paper" Gallery Standhal, New York NY USA Foster-Peet Gallery, New York NY USA 1991 Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York NY USA Salon de Montrouge, Paris France Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France 1990 Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France Galerie Jade Colmar, France, Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, USA 1989 Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France 1988 Salon de Montrouge, Paris France Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris France 1987 Art Barn Association, Washington DC USA LittleJohn-Smith Gallery, New York NY USA Galerie Jade Colmar France 1986 LittleJohn-Smith Gallery, New York USA 1985 Reynold Kerr Gallery, New York NY USA 1984 Reynold Kerr Gallery, New York NY USA 1983 Cavaliero Fine Arts, Kunstmess, Basel Switzerland Galerie Bertin, Lyon France 1982 Cavaliero Fine Arts, Kunstmess, Basel Switzerland 1981 Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York NY USA 1980 Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York NY USA 1979 Katheryn Markel Gallery, New York NY USA Haber-Theodore Gallery, New York NY USA 1977 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT USA Contemporary Reflexions. Untitled, acrylic and pencil on wall. 1977 Robert Friedus Gallery, New York NY USA OIA, New York NY USA 1976 Fine Art Gallery, New York NY USA 1975 "Young Talent Festival" "75"Union Carbide, New York NY USA 1974 "Young Talent Festival" Pace Editions, New York NY USA "59th Annual Juried Exhibition" Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 1973 Springfield Art Association, Springfield CT USA Works on Paper, Triangle Church, New York NY USA "Young Artists 73" Union carbide, New York NY USA New York Contemporary Graphic Exhibition, Taiwan Museum, Taipei 1972 Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico DF Mexico Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY USA "9th Annual print Exhibition" Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT USA 1971 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York NY USA Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA Publications 1985 Renold Kerr Gallery, New York, NY USA Text by David Shaff 1989 Galerie Jade, Colmar France. The primary paintings of Haessle by Frederick Ted Castle. Introduction by Jean-Yves Bainier 1994 Chateau du Grand Jardin, Joinville France. In memory of the body Text by David Shapiro. Interview by Marc Vaudey. In French/English . ISBN 2-910695 -026 1994 Chateau du Grand Jardin, Joinville France. Edition of 200 exemplary 1995 Centre Europeen d’Action Artistiques Contemp., Strasbourg , France Text by Gilbert Lascault. Interview by Jean-Yves Bainier. ISBN -2-910036-12 X Hard cover. In French and English. 1995 HAESSLE 30 ans de peinture. Monograph 145 pages with 70 pages Full color reproductions. Editions Alternatives ISBN : 2 86227 095 4 Text by David Shaff, David Shapiro, Jean-Yves Bainier. Interview by Catherine Ulmer. 2008 Haessle, Selected works, M magazine, 15 pages all colors reproductions 2012 Haessle, paintings, Hillwood Art Museum, LIU Post NY. Text by Jonathan Goodman (English), Bernard Zurcher (French) 52 pages, 35, color reproductions 2014 Haessle Paintings, 1983-2013, Korea University Art Museum. Text by Jonathan Goodman (English, Korean) Robert Morgan...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Color, Screen

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Luigi Veronesi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a beautiful original lithograph, realized in the 1970s by Luigi Veronesi . Hand-signed on the lower left. Numbered. edition, 4/99. In good conditions exc...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Large Colorful Abstract Etching by Gilou Brillant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gilou Brillant Title: Untitled 28 Year: circa 1975 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 78/99 Size: 35.5 x 25.5 in. (90.17 x 64.77 cm)
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Joan Miró - MARAVILLAS CON VARIACIONES... Lithograph Contemporary Art Abstract
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró I Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph Media: Gvarro paper Edition: 1500 Size: 49,5 x 35,5 cm Condition: I...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Arctic Bloom /// Josef Albers Blue Orange Screenprint Homage to the Square Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Arctic Bloom" Portfolio: Soft Edge - Hard Edge *Unsigned edition, (there was also a signed edition of 50 on Rives BFK paper)...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Spanish Post Modern Abstract Aquatint Color Etching Antoni Tapies
Located in Surfside, FL
Antoni Tapies (Spanish, 1923-2012) Color Etching, aquatint and polychrome carborundum print Estisores-2, c. 1979 Hand signed and numbered 31/75 in pencil in the lower margin, publi...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

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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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Etching by Hsiao Chin - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a colored etching realized by Hsiao Chin in 1977. The artwork is hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Rectangular colourful painting Salva Mendez 140
Located in New York, NY
Medium and Large Size print edition on canvas. Framing options included in Black, White and Natural wood framing. Please contact seller for the same. Print Edition on Canvas Available Sizes: 24" x 15" - $795 48"x 30" - $1540 BIO Basmat Levin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Canvas

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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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rosul Negori
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 15/50 Publisher : L'Œuvre Gravée (Paris) 75.50 cm. x 56.00 cm. 29.72 in. x 22.05 in. (paper) 64.50 cm. x 4...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Anni Albers ( 1899 – 1994 ) – Double Weave – hand-signed Screenprint – 1985
Located in Varese, IT
Screenprint on Fabriano paper , edited in 1985 Limited edition of 125 copies signed in pencil by artist and numbered as: 46/125 paper size: 68 x 68 cm ( 26 5/8 x 26 5/8 inch ) very good conditions Published by Fausta Squatriti, Milan A regular certificate of authenticity will be included Fast and Tracked shipping with express currier DHL Bibliography: The prints on Anni Albers Ref 95 Anni Albers ( 1899 – 1994 ) – Double Weave...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Untitled by Antoni Clavé, Black, Blue, Yellow, Abstract
Located in Köln, DE
Color etching with carborundum by Antoni Clavé "No Title", 1975 75,5 x 55,5 cm Copy 32/60 Edition of 60 (approx.). Antoni Clavé (Barcelona 1913 - 2005 ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled VII, Abstract Expressionist Etching by Alfonso Ossorio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alfonso Ossorio (Filipino, 1916-1990) Title: Untitled VII Year: 1984/1990 Medium: Etching, signed in pencil Edition: P.P. Image Size: 23.5 x 17.75 inches Paper Size: 30.75 x ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled- Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning 1950. The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500, a...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Uno che Spunta - Screen Print by Giancarlo Bargoni - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Edition of 35 specimens. Image Dimensions: 40x40 cm. Good condition.
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Joyce T. Nagel Print "Vegetable Forms No. 9" "1st State" Signed Dated Ltd Ed
Located in Detroit, MI
"Vegetable Forms No. 9" "1st State" is a beautiful linear design woodcut of an artichoke. What is intellectually interesting is the fractal beauty of nature found in the artichoke. A fractal is a kind of pattern that we observe often in nature and in art. Whenever you observe a series of patterns repeating over and over again, at many different scales, and where any small part resembles the whole, that’s a fractal. The Artichoke is the perfect example in that the shape of the leaves repeat themselves and they are the same shape as the fruit itself. Fractals are exciting, not only for their mathematical or conceptual representation, but also for the fact that you can visualise the math—and it’s beautiful! This print is rendered in an intense green with a light blue color to delineate the intriguing linear element of the artichoke's leaves. Joyce Tilley Nagel...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink

"Seder" original artists proof signed lithograph by Theo Tobiasse
Located in Paonia, CO
Seder by Tobiasse shows a group of eleven men, woman and children sitting and standing around the Seder table with an orange background. This original lithograph is in good condi...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Letter E - Original Lithograph by Raphael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Letter E from the Alphabet series is an original lithograph realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, 22/99 prints. The state o...
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1970s Abstract 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 24/100. ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Quelques Fleurs No. 2: Artigas
Located in Columbia, MO
Quelques Fleurs pour des Amis: Dypréau No. 9 1964 Lithograph Ed. Edition of 150 15 x 11 inches
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sol Jonché - Original Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Sol Jonché is an original B/W lithograph on watermarked paper "Arc". Abstract composition by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. From the album of "Theatre du sol" (1953-1959). Editio...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

A II, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Adja Yunkers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: A II Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 2/50 Image size 40 x 30 inches Size: 41 x 31 in. (104....
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Vintage Poster Pranas After Gailius Pranas - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Poster Pranas is an original poster about an exhibition of Pranas pictures at La Voute Gallery in Parise (1960). The artwork is realized after a work by the Artist in china ink, pas...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Offset

Green - Original Lithograph by Lorenzo Indrimi - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 150 prints. Very good conditions.
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

UNTITLED
Located in New York, NY
multi color silscreen on paper, edition of 144 abstracted landscape with trees
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Autres mouches no 2
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian Autres mouches no 2, 1985 Lithograph on Japan paper 20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 75 Catalogue raisonné refer...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

(after) Nicolas de Staël - Abstract Composition - Pochoir
By Nicolas de Staël
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Nicolas de Staël - Abstract Composition - Pochoir Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle 1959 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. d...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Stencil

Figure in Yellow - Screenprint - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure in Yellow is a screen print on paper realized by an unknown artist in the 1970s. Hand-signed, illegible, and numbered, edition of 100 prints. ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres" 1960, is an original color lithograph on Rives paper by renown artist Joan Miro 1893-1983. It is hand signed (monogramed) and numbered II/XV in pencil by the artist. The artwork (sheet) size is 26 x 20 inches, framed size is 39.25 x 32.5 inches. Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, printed by Fernand Mourlot., Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Mourlot plate #260. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with black color bevel and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona Spain, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, and under pressure from his parents, he took a position as an accounting clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró's work before 1920 showed the latest artistic influences, including the bright colors of the Fauves* and the geometric forms of Cubism*. It was in Paris through the 1920s-1930s where, under the influence of Surrealist* poets and writers, Miró evolved his mature style. His latest works drew on the Surrealist principles of memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create visual art. Miró's works were also shaped by the flat, two-dimensionality of his native Catalan folk art, Spanish Romanesque...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sin título
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Artist: Wifredo Lam Year: 1979 Title: Untitled Technique: Etching and aquatint Copy 65/130 Signed and hand numbered Size: 31,5 x 24,5
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Engraving, Aquatint

1960s "Sunscape III" Green, Pink, Yellow Collage Intaglio Etching NY Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler "Sunscape III" c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 5.75"x2.5" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, R...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Intaglio

1960s "Greenscape" Green, Pink, Yellow Collage Intaglio Etching NY Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler "Greenscape" c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 6"x3" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia (...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Intaglio

FRANK STELLA Then Came a Stick and Beat the Dog, El Lissitzky's Had Gadya 1984
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
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...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Linocut, Screen

Untitled (2004)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Chiyu Uemae Untitled 2004.05.05 Screenprint on wove paper Signed, dated, and numbered by the artist Edition: 14/23 Image size: 21.5 x 15.5 cm Sheet size: 36.3 x 25.8 cm Description:...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Blue Abstract Serigraph by Lloyd Fertig
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lloyd Fertig, American (1943 - 1995) Title: Untitled - Blue Abstract Year: 1970 Medium: Serigraph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 100 Size: 22 in. x 22 in. (55.88 cm ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Guston, Composition, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 8.96 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, In Memory of M...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rich Awareness
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Sheila Maki , the artist, is Canadian and died in Toronto, Ontario. She enjoyed the challenge of creating original prints through varied processes such as etching and silk-screening...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rich Awareness
Rich Awareness
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Diana, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph on Japon Paper by Antoni Tapies
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by Catalan artist Antoni Tapies. Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, and his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró. However, he soon ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Rice Paper, Lithograph

Red Composition - Screen Print by Otto Hofmann - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Red composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Otto Hofmann in 1989. Mixed colored screen print. Hand signed on the lower right margin....
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Composition, Poems, Willem de Kooning
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier Kitakata à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main paper, as issued. Paper Size: 23.5 x 19 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sancho Pança
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1989 Edition : /200 Publisher : Galerie Maurice Garnier (Paris) 75.50 cm. x 57.50 cm. 29.72 in. x 22.64 in. (paper) 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (image) ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition II, from: Freedom of Liberties, poems of Alain Jouffroy - Poetry
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right corner. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 125, at the lower ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract, minimalist limited edition lithograph; music, dance inspired, detailed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract, minimalist composition with minute, highly detailed colorful markings inspired by music, dance, and space. It is a limited edition lithograph, signed, dated, titled "Les Termes," and numbered #53/150, lower margin. Pristine condition. John Dowell...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Anubis
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1969 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 14/95 Publisher : Neue Galerie (Zürich) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Prudhomme 51 ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Alexander Calder - Girandola - Hand-Signed Lithography, 1972
Located in Varese, IT
Alexander Calder ( 1898 - 1976 ) - Girandola - hand-signed lithography, 1972 Additional information: Material: Color lithography on paper Edited in 1972 Limited edition in 100 copie...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Bouncing Ball, Minimalist Screenprint by Murray Zucker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Murray Zucker, American (1920 - ) Title: Bouncing Ball Year: circa 1970 Medium: Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 9/20 Image: 18 x 24 inches Paper ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Abstract abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract abstract prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Dadodu , Francisco Nicolás, Teodora Guererra, and Joan Miró. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Screen Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract abstract prints, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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