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Contemporary Abstract Prints

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Bali Days - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Urban Art, Pigment Print
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Pigment print on aluminium, edition of 5 ​ Joan Tarragó is a Barcelona based artist. The constant exploration of an exotic graphic language through travel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Pigment

Growing 2, 1988
Located in Miami, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated '88 in pencil on recto in the lower right margin. Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Wo...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Daniel Richter, The War is Over! - Hand-Signed Print, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Daniel Richter (German, born 1962) Untitled (The War is Over!), 2013 Medium: Screenprint on paper Dimensions: 129.5 x 94 cm Edition of 4: Hand-signed and numbered Condition: Mint
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Talking to Rocks 23, Magenta Red, Sky Blue, Orange Abstract Encaustic Monotype
Located in Kent, CT
Laura Moriarty's Talking to Rocks 23 is a multicolored encaustic monotype on kozo paper. Layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Print Edition after Centmayer - "002_1 Flood of Images"
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Print Edition after Centmayer - "002_1 Flood of Images". Print edition from the Ukraine series Flood of Images 2022 on 315 g paper in museum quality. Signed, limited edition of 30 p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Inkjet, Paper

Nestor Arenas, ¨Yellow Structure II¨, 2021, Etching, 27.2x21.3 in
Located in Miami, FL
Nestor Arenas (Cuba, 1964) 'Yellow Structure II', 2021 etching, aquatint on paper 27.2 x 21.3 in. (69 x 54 cm.) Edition of 10 ID: ARN-102 Unframed
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Untitled Geometric Abstraction (Konkrete Kunst, Constructivsm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Friedrich Geiler Untitled Geometric Abstraction (Konkrete Kunst, Constructivsm, Geometric Abstraction) Color Silkscreen Year: 2003 Signed, numbered a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Harvest Field, Norfolk Landscape Art, Handmade Linocut Print, Modern Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
In this linocut I was trying to create movement and a warm range iof colours. The cutting is intended to be vigorous with ears of wheat in the foreground against a setting sun. Rob Barnes, artist, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Rob Barnes studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006. Presently he divides his time between printmaking and his other passion, playing the violin in local orchestras and for choral performances. In 2017 he began making a small number of sterling silver jewellery pieces following a course at West Dean, Sussex. His artwork follows themes, such as light on water, or shadows in the landscape. Linocuts are hand-printed on an Albion press...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Large Diptych "Deep runners" Photograph Signed Surrealist Photo Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract geometric color composition Artist: Eve Sonneman Lithograph, 1999 Image Size 25 x 22" Hand signed, dated,and numbered from limited edition. This is from a show at Sidney Janis Gallery and is from the estate of Joan Sonnabend. Eve Sonneman (born in Chicago on 1946) is an American photographer and artist. She did a series of similar sequences in color and black and white and for diptychs. She was included in the show EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Photographs from the Avon Collection The exhibition addressed the diverse and changing concepts of beauty as expressed by women through photography. It included such masters of the form as Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Ellen Carey, Lotte Jacobi, Barbara...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Color, Lithograph

Miguel Castro Leñero, ¨Fuera del Radar I¨, 2020, Engraving, 63.6x39 in
Located in Miami, FL
"Miguel Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1956) 'Fuera del Radar I', 2020 engraving on paper Intaglio 300 g. 63.6 x 39 in. (161.5 x 99 cm.) Edition of 30 ID: CAM-104"
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Vintage 1970s Alexander Calder poster (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder 'La Grenouille et Cie' Vintage original 1971 poster for the exhibition Pace Columbus (Ohio) featuring a printed Calder signature. Medium: Offset lithograph Dimensions: 25 x 32 inches An original 1st printing in very good vintage condition. Plate signed on the lower right from an edition of unknown. This is an original 1970s poster and not a recent reproduction of any kind. Related Categories Calder prints. Calder Mid Century Modern. 60s. Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art. Calder figurative. Vintage Calder.
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Carlos García de la Nuez, ¨Desde una isla¨, 2005, Engraving, 28x39.8 in
Located in Miami, FL
Carlos Garcia de la Nuez (Cuba, 1959) 'Desde una Isla', 2005 engraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 28 x 39.8 in. (71 x 101 cm.) Edition of 99 Unframed ID: GAC-111 Hand-signed by aut...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Engraving, Aquatint

Adan Paredes, ¨Untitled¨, 2020, Collagraph, 42.5x29.1 in
Located in Miami, FL
Adan Paredes (Mexico, 1961) 'Untitled 5', 2020 collagraph on paper 42.6 x 29.2 in. (108 x 74 cm.) Edition of 40 ID: PAD-105 Unframed
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching, Screen

Fireplace
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fireplace" is an original artwork made from relief and collagraph with marker on antique graph paper by Katie VanVliet. This piece is shipped in the pictured white...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Found Objects, Archival Paper, Color

Vintage 1970s Alexander Calder poster (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder 'La Grenouille et Cie': Vintage original 1971 poster for the exhibition Pace Columbus (Ohio) featuring a printed Calder signature. Medium: Offset lithograph. Dimensions: 25 x 32 inches. An original 1st printing in very good vintage condition. Plate signed on the lower right from an edition of unknown. This is an original 1970s poster and not a recent reproduction of any kind. Alexander Calder changed the course of modern art with his three-dimensional kinetic sculptures, which Marcel Duchamp named “mobiles.” Resonating with tenets of Futurism, Constructivism, and early non-objective painting, Calder’s mobiles consist of boldly colored abstract shapes, which are made from industrial materials and hang in lyrical balance. Calder was an international phenomenon during his lifetime. He won the grand prize for sculpture at the 1952 Venice Biennale, where he represented the United States. He earned the French Legion of Honor and the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, among other honors. Calder has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and the Museo Reina Sofía. His work regularly sells for eight figures on the secondary market. Though Calder is best known for his mobiles, his diverse practice also encompassed standing sculpture, painting, set and costume design, large-scale public installation, and jewelry-making. Related Categories Calder prints. Calder Mid Century Modern. 60s. Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art. Calder figurative. Vintage Calder.
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Champ de Tournesols Signed Lithograph, Sunflowers French Village Yellow Sunset
Located in Union City, NJ
Champ de Tournesols is an original hand drawn lithograph by the French artist Georges Lambert printed in Paris France during the 1970's using traditional hand lithography techniques ...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Turtle - Original Lithograph by Carlo Quattrucci - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Turtle is an original artwork realized by Carlo Quattrucci in 1971. Hand Signed and dated on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 70 pieces plus some Arti...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Signalsi - Original Screen Print by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Segnali is an original artwork realized in 1984 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original colored screen print on ivory-colored cardboard. Hand-signe...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

'YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME' - FOREVER BRITNEY (Limited Edition Of Only 30 Prints)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL APRIL 15TH ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Take Advantage Of It* Celebrating the one and only Britney Spears. This pie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Canvas

Sky St, Chris Keegan, Limited edition print, Cityscape, Contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Chris Keegan Sky Street Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Hand signed by the artist Edition of 50 Paper Size: H 56cm x W 25cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Plea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen, Silk, Paper

Donald Sułtan, Mimosa, September 29, 2021
Located in New York, NY
MIMOSA, SEPT 29, 2021 2021 Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply museum board 42 x 42 inches (107 x 107 cm) Edition of 40 Signed and numbered DONALD SULTAN (b. 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Inuit-Inspired Silkscreen Print, "Canada Suite Series", Ed. 6/23
Located in Surfside, FL
Actual image size is 10.5 x 13.5. Original serigraph silkscreen prints by German/Canadian expressionist Yargo de Lucca (1925-2008) from the “Canada Suite” series, a set of 32 hand-s...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Orange Abstract - Lithograph by G. Raimondi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Artist's Proof. Hand signed. Very good conditions.
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Signals - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Signals is an original artwork realized in 1984 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original lithograph on cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower right in pe...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Chromatic Patterns After the Graham Foundation - Orange
Located in Bloomington, IL
"Chromatic Patterns After the Graham Foundation - Orange" is a relief print with lithography and aluminum dust. It is one print from a suite of three that are closely related to Ledg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Abandoned Texas, No Gas but Hot as Hell, " abstract, landscape, blue, monoprint
Located in Natick, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Abandoned Texas, No Gas but Hot as Hell” is a 12.5 x 10.75 inch unique abstract landscape inkjet monoprint represented on 14 x 11 inch Awagami Bamboo paper embrac...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Color, Digital, Monoprint

Transition - contemporary abstract collagraph relief hand-coloured print
Located in London, GB
Ruth has a degree in Fine Art and a Master’s degree in Art & Design. Her work has been shown in venues all over the UK as well as overseas, including USA, France and Spain, and is re...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Color

Silhouettes - Original Screen Print by Gianpistone - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Silhouettes is a beautiful colored serigraph realized by Gianpistone in 1975. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 81/90...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Techspressionist Still Life 7
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Lichty Techspressionist Still Life 1 2021 Archival pigment print paper size 24 x 24 inches image size 20 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 10 with certificate of au...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

Techspressionist Still Life 9
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Lichty Techspressionist Still Life 1 2021 Archival pigment print paper size 24 x 24 inches image size 20 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 10 with certificate of au...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

Orangish Figure - Lithograph by Sami Burhan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Orangish Figure is a lithograph realized by Sami Burhan, Hand-signed, numbered, edition of 5/100 prints, on the lower left in pencil. This print represents a female figure inside all through orangish and reddish and yellowish colors, beside a window-like frame. The whole composition is framed in different layers by some rectangular lines. Sami Burhan (Aleppo, 1929) was a Sirian artist, painter and engraver specialized in Arab calligraphic...
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Orange Curiosity - Original Mixed Media by Shu Takahashi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Original chalcography and serigraph by Shu Takahashi. This is an edition of 75 prints hand signed and numbered by the Artist. In good conditions. Shu Takahashi was born in Hiroshim...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media

Mystic Images, Dan Namingha lithograph Hopi contemporary abstract Kachina images
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mystic Images, Dan Namingha lithograph Hopi contemporary abstract Kachina images
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Bali Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Urban Art, Pigment Print
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Pigment print on aluminium, edition of 5 ​ Joan Tarragó is a Barcelona based artist. The constant exploration of an exotic graphic language through travel and research is at the core...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Pigment

Double Helix (Vanishing Light series)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Silver gelatin print 16 x 20 x 2 in. (framed) Framed in a white wood frame
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Silver Gelatin

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Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25. Emmi Whitehorse is a painter and printmaker. Using a private language of symbols and memories, Whitehorse makes 'personal diaries' of her life as an ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ross Bleckner, Dome (Red)
Located in New York, NY
Dome, Red, 2017 Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max 365 gsm fine art paper 37 x 34 inches (94 x 86 cm) Edition of 40 Suite of 3 also available for $7500 Ross Bleckner is an in...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Ink

Interior at Fontenay aux Roses
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer Interior at Fontenay aux Roses " He derived a peculiar pleasure from being in a well lighted room when all the surrounding houses were wrappe...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

"MURDER IS NOT THE CONSEQUENCE... 08152018 212am", Abstract, Digital, Orange, X
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The abstract print "MURDER IS NOT THE CONSEQUENCE... 08152018 212am" is a digital artwork, created with the Brushes Redux iPhone app, and printed at 36x36" on museum-quality Canson Platine Fibre Rag 310gsm archival paper. As the title indicates, the artwork was created on August 15, 2018 at 2:12 am. While Justin Neely...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Letter P - Original Lithograph by Raphael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 99 prints, numbered and hand signed. Rafael Alberti (El Puerto de Santa Maria 1902 – El Puerto de Santa Maria 1999) A Spanish poet born in Puerto de Santa Maria...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Monotype, Woodcut

Katie Edwards, Best Mates, Limited Edition Contemporary Artwork, Landscape Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Edwards Best Mates Original Silkscreen print with hand painted layers Mounted Size: H 40.5cm x W 50.8cm Free Shipping Please note that in situ images are purely an indication o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Copper

Anna Harley, Cleredon Pier, Calming Art, Happy Art, Affordable Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Anna Harley Cleredon Pier Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 30 Size: H 38cm x W 37.5cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of ho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Girl with Flowers - Litograph by Sami Burhan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
This lithograph Girl with Flowers in vivid and bright colors was realized by Sami Burhan in 1969. It is hand-signed, edition of 100 prints.
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sky On Head
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color sugarlift aquatint with chine colle. Edition of 50
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

Four Locations
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint with chine colle. Edition of 50
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

Past Light
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satellite photography, biotechnology, radiology, geological survey...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Earth Watch
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30. In all of Morinoue's work there is a compelling sense of place--the ocean shoreline, lava flows and Japanese gardens. He is a patient observer of nature...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

The Crimson Cubicles
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer The Crimson Cubicles - " a series of crimson cubicles furnished with circular mirrors" 1974/2018 Drawings on copper plate on Arches cream paper, Edition of 25 Paper s...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

The Hanging Tree
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer The Hanging Tree (Jan Luyken prints - and from the 1633 drawings by Jacques Callot) 1974/2018 Line drawings on copper plate on Arches cream ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

A Small Monument for Heliotropism
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25. Newman’s drawings and prints compress the role of drawing and sculpture. He depicts illusionistic spaces and forms that defy physical laws, like Pirane...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rusty Curtain Lecture
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30. John Newman makes rich, complicated sculpture. He brings materials and techniques used by local artisans from around the world to make concentrated a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sieve 4
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with copper leaf, Edition 20 Dianna Frid describes the making of the Sieve suite below: High contrast photographs of sieve-like objects are the inception of th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Frontal Perspective Vision - Original Monotype by F. Lo Savio - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Frontal Perspective to project metal monochrome Black m . 3 x m.1 1961 realized by Francesco Lo Savio. Monotype cianotype. (Visione prospettica frontale per progetto di metallo mo...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Monotype

Frontal Perspective - Original Monotype by F. Lo Savio - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Frontal perspective for the project Monochrome Black Metal realized by Francesco Lo Savio in 1960. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Exhibitions: - PAC, Milan in 1979, n. ...
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Monotype

One Plate, from Growing Suite
Located in Miami, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated '88 in pencil on recto in the lower right margin. Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Wo...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Scholes II
Located in New York, NY
This screenprint was created by the artist in 1991. Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 80 measuring 29 x 34 in. (73.7 x 86.4 cm.). Published by The Metropolitan Museu...
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20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

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