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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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Style: Contemporary
Donald Judd Last Editions at Brooke Alexander, 1993-94, Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is the original opening invitation card for Donald Judd: The Last Editions at Brooke Alexander Editions in 1994. The invitation takes the form of a postcard that opens up to rev...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Werner Bronkhorst - Birdie Chance
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Birdie Chance, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks. Hand-stretched over F...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Giclée

Reef - X large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Gerhard Richter, 1025 Colors (1025 Farben)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster for "Image after Image" at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, held from February 4 to May 29, 2005, was originally printed by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter K...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Keeping the Culture, mixed media signed/N print by top African American artist
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris. Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting: ..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen

Overcast - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Violet, 2025
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Donald Judd- Series of Ten Woodcuts in Three Color States Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This fold-out card showcases Donald Judd's Series of Ten Woodcuts in Three Color States: Cadmium Red Light, Ultramarine Blue, and Ivory Black. Published by Brooke Alexander, the card...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Dusk from an Airplane, Abstract Aerial Diptych, Giclée, Deep Blue to Yellow Hue
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment

When You Love Someone!. From the Origin series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
They were created as an investigation into the beginnings of the current human social conditions with a focus on materiality and evolutionary information gathered from Paul Shepards ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Gold, Gold Leaf

Parapliers the Willow Dipped
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Parapliers the Willow Dipped by Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart from The Mothers of Invention, is part of the Collection of American Masters at the Nordfallen Museum in ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Seascape I - large format photograph of blue tone horizon and sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph capturing the soothing tones of nature's calming blue hour color palette Seascape I by Frank Schott 48 x 64 inches / 122cm x 162cm signed edition of 7 30 x 40 inches / 76cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on certificate label ------------------------- Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, William Eggleston and Joel Sternfeld, Schott's images successfully blend technical, conceptual and formal rigor with a decisive sense of composition and color. Schott's images have an iconic sensibility and give us a bird's eye view onto humanity and its constructs. The specific is edged towards the abstract, often revealing the compelling and disjunctive moment where nature meets man. Frank Schott was born in Cologne, Germany in 1962. He currently lives and works in San Francisco. _________________________ Edition EKTAlux publishes an evolving curated selection of collectable large-scale photography in strictly limited editions, working closely with each artist to guarantee state-of-the-art museum level print and framing quality. Custom / larger print sizes available on request Images can be printed with white border ( 2in L prints / 4in XL prints )
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Thinking Pumpkin
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 16 of 120 75.8 x 62.3 cm (29.8 x 24.5 in) Signed, numbered, and dated on the front Condition Upon Request Publisher Okabe Tokuzo, Japan Kusama 182. 2
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Damien Hirst - Honesty (from The Virtues series)
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst, Honesty, 2021 Laminated giclee print on aluminium composite panel 47 1/5 × 37 4/5 in 120 × 96 cm Edition of 728 hand-sgned by the artist on the back published by HENI...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Giclée

H2O lll - large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O lll by Eri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Letter P - Lithograph by Rafael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Letter P, from the Alphabet series,  is a lithograph, realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right margin.  Numbered in pencil on the lower, from an...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Winter Moon Rising - large scale photograph of abstract nocturnal California sky
Located in San Francisco, CA
Winter Moon Rising by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 40 x 32 inches / 102cm x 81cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print li...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Woven Spiral, Blue and White Abstract Horizontal Diptych, Monotype Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
Woven Spiral is an exclusive handmade cyanotype diptych that features modern, abstract rocky shapes rendered in deep indigo tones. Each panel captures the raw texture and organic geo...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Monotype

"Texas Ranger" Contemporary Blue Dog in Cowboy Hat Silkscreen Ed. 391/800
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful silkscreen by Louisiana born artist George Rodrigue. The work features Rodrigue's iconic blue dog character dressed in a yellow bandana and a cowboy hat set aga...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Every Bodies Been There (Signed twice with both printed AND rare hand signature)
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin Every Bodies Been There (signed twice), 1998 Lithograph on paper Underneath that existing plate signature, Tracey Emin has, exceptionally hand signed and dated the work f...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

I Have Been to Hell and Back, Limited Edition Handkerchief (Red) Tate Gallery
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois I Have Been to Hell and Back Handkerchief, 2007 Embroidery on 100% Cotton Handkerchief With the artist's silkscreened initiala Han...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Cotton, Thread, Paper, Mixed Media, Offset, Screen

Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy 11/35 obituary published by CNN March 2021 Celebra...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Werner Bronkhorst - Monaco - Motorsports, Superyacht
Located in London, GB
Monaco, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm canvas. Hand-stretched over FSC-certified, finger-jointed New Zealand pine, and float framed in FSC-certified Meranti with a painted w...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

Dawn from an Airplane, Abstract Aerial Diptych, Giclée, Blue Gradient Skyline
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world of digital art. Drawing inspiration from the ethereal beauty of nature, Fontaine's artistic journey has taken her on an imaginative exploration of space, depth, and emotion through the medium of large digital prints. Her signature style is characterized by the use of vast, immersive gradients that seem to stretch infinitely across space. These gradients evoke a sense of enigmatic calmness, inviting viewers to lose themselves in the expanse of her visual landscapes. Her ability to create a feeling of boundless depth and space within her pieces, combined with subtle minimalist compositions, is a testament to her mastery of the digital medium. Fontaine’s pieces resonate with audiences seeking a connection to the sublime, offering a window into a world where colors blend seamlessly and boundaries dissolve. Her work can be found in several private collections throughout Europe and the United States. She currently lives and works between Barcelona and Lausanne. Details: Title: Dawn from an Airplane...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pig...

Francis Bacon 'Three Studies for Self Portrait' Limited Edition Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Francis Bacon (British, 1909-1992) Three Studies for Self Portrait, c. 1981 Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper Edition 81/150 with Arabic numbering. There were also 25 H.C. (...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Beam of Wind" 2004 signed original engraving limited edition 15x15in Mexican
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1954) "Haz del Viento / Bco / Azul/" from serie "El exilio de los sentidos", 2004 Engraving, aquatint on paper...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Engraving, Ink, Etching, Aquatint

Distant Muses
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden Distant Muses 2000 Screenprint 23 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches; 60 x 49 cm Edition of 300 Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Available from Matthew Marks...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Robert Rauschenberg 'Earth Day' Limited Edition, Signed Lithograph Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
This listing is for the limited edition lithograph, not the mass produced poster. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) Earth Day, 1970 Lithograph with chine collé Signed, dated, numbered by the artist Edition 11/50, Full sheet: 52 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. With mat: approx 55 x 40 in Published by the American Environment Foundation Printed by Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, with blindstamp to lower center Catalog Raisonné: RRF 70.E016 Provenance: Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonhams) Lot 3115, sale 5367L February, 24, 1993 This Robert Rauschenberg lithograph...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Orange Tondo' 1973- Serigraph- Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Orange Tondo" by Ilya Bolotowsky is a quintessential example of geometric abstraction, featuring a bold circular composition dominated by vibrant orange hues and precise geometric ...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

"I Love You" Limited Edition towel/wall hanging (LARGE: 60 inches x 70 inches)
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin I Love You/I Love Your Soul/I Love Your Smile, ca. 2010 100% Cotton Beach Towel 60 × 70 inches (folded it's 25 x 30 inches) Signed in plate, authorized printed...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Cotton, Screen, Mixed Media, Laid Paper

KAWS, Blame Game, 2014, Screen print, Printers proof edition of 5
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Printers proof 2 of an edition of 5, aside from the main edition of 100 88.8 x 58.4 cm (34.9 x 23 in) Framed: 101 x 70.5 cm with Acrylic Signed and dated on the front Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Takashi Murakami - Flower Sparkles - Pop Art Japanese Flowers Colours
Located in London, GB
Edition of 300. Murakami signed and numbered in silver marker pen along the lower right edge. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp and high gloss varnishing on UV paper 60 x 60 cm ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Letter C - Lithograph by Rafael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Letter C, from the Alphabet series,  is a lithograph, realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right margin.  Numbered in pencil on the lower, from an...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Damien Hirst - H13-5 Exmouth Esplanade - Contemporary Art
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst H13-5 Exmouth Esplanade, 2023 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Hand-signed on the label and numbered. This artwork can be hung any way up. 90 x 90 xm...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Giclée

Mizuhiki
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100. Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mezzotint

Werner Bronkhorst - Wet Dreams
Located in London, GB
Wet Dreams, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks. Hand-stretched over FSC-certified, finger-jo...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

Happiness is Expensive
Located in London, GB
Mixed media, archival pigment and silkscreen on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper 111.8 × 78.7 cm Edition of 95 hand-signed and numbered by the artist James McQueen, born in 1977, is a Br...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Archival Pigment, Screen

"Opus, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 40"
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape limited edition print captures a forest in cool blue tones accented by warm yellow-greens and reds. It is an edition size of 100. Printed on canvas, this gicl...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Digital, Giclée

Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984 (hand signed with official Olympic Committee COA)
Located in New York, NY
Martin Puryear Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984, 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment Paper Hand signed on the front with COA, Edition of 750 (though only approximately 200-250 remain) 21 × 34 1/2 inches Unframed This limited edition, pencil signed offset lithograph was published in a limited edition of 750, and printed as one of the fifteen Official Fine Art Olympic Posters for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. A statement released by the 1984 Olympic committee explains the set as follows - "The posters commissioned for the 1984 Olympics contain an enlightened selection of the best American artists with special emphasis on those who work in Southern California...As the Games develop, transpire and pass into memory, these fifteen posters contain the images, forms and symbols that will represent the 1984 Olympics in the museums, galleries, homes and the minds of people all over the world.” Printed and Published by Knapp Communications Corporation and includes Certificate of Authenticity from the publisher. This work is NOT to be confused with the ubiquitous plate signed poster of the same image, which was printed on different paper in an open edition.) In 1982, the Olympic Committee commissioned 15 artists to create posters for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Hockney designed this offset lithograph depicting Olympic swimming...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Parchment Paper, Lithograph, Offset

ALL THE PEOPLE Signed Lithograph, For My People-Margaret Walker, Rainbow Faces
Located in Union City, NJ
ALL THE PEOPLE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Werner Bronkhorst - Tip Of The Iceberg
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst Sail Away, 2025 Giclée print on 310gsm Smooth Cotton Rag using Epson archival inks Shadow box framed in FSC certified timber with a smooth white finish and 3mm mu...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Ink, Giclée

First Landscape Structure - Original Etching by Costantino Persiani - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Artist's Proofs in Arabic and Roman Numbers.
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

Signals - Screen Print by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Signals is a lithograph print realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s. Good condition, with slight folding on white margins. Artist sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and h...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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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. Dime...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

The World
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley The World, 2021 Screenprint in eight colours with a varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm paper hand-signed by the artist and numbered, on the back of th...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print silkscreen engraving
Located in Miami, FL
Manuel Velasco (Spain, 1966) 'S/T 1', 1991 silkscreen, collage on paper 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 50 Unframed ID: VEL1400-001-050 Hand-signed by author
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Engraving, Screen

NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER Signed Serigraph, Peace Dove, Hands, Fruit
Located in Union City, NJ
"NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER" is a brightly colored serigraph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed in 16 colors including shades of yellow, blue, purple, salmon p...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Seascape XVIII Diptych (framed) - abstract monochromatic ocean water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photographs from the artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochrome nature of oceanic waterscapes SEASCAPE XVIII Di...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass

HARBORLIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL 1981 Rare Vintage Art Poster Abstract Jazz Musicians
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN 1970-1980 HARBORLIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL 1981 OUT CHORUS Music Event Poster reproduced from Bearden's original color monoprint entitled "OUT CHORUS" Music Festival took...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Offset

Gerhard Richter - Seestück (bewölkt), 1969
Located in London, GB
Gerhard Richter Seestück (bewölkt), 1969-2023 Hybrid print in five colours on 260g Rives handmade paper 70 x 70 cm unsigned edition of 500 Accompanied by the publisher's certificate...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Digital, Screen

Werner Bronkhorst - Diamond Sea
Located in London, GB
Diamond Sea, 2025 Gicleé print on Hahnemuhle Daguerre Canvas framed in Tasmanian Oak edition of 69 100 x 100 x 5 cm (Framed) Hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Werner Bronkhor...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

H2O I - large format abstract photograph of sun reflection on pool water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O l by Erik ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Etching

"Power", Contemporary, Peeling Paint, Pink, Green, Switch, Color Photo, Print
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Power” is a 18 x 12 inch metal print and is part of her “Transient” series. Peeling paint on a vintage wall reveals layered pastel green and pink hues around an ol...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Metal

The Empresses
Located in Norwich, GB
DAMIEN HIRST (BORN 1965) Taytu Betul, from 'The Empresses' (H10-5), 2022 signed in pencil on the publisher's label affixed verso, stamp-numbered, laminated giclée print with screenpr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Panel, Digital, Giclée

The Empresses
The Empresses
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Joy - Lithograph by Renzo Bussotti - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Joy is an original artwork realized by Renzo Bussotti in 1963. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lower left. Edition of 60 prints. The artwork is f...
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1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Birds Included (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, flowers, birds)
Located in New York, NY
Monotype and watercolor on paper 44 x 33 inches framed
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Monotype

"Embarcadero" (Pier) 2003 hand signed engraving aquatint limited edition print
Located in Miami, FL
Alexis Kcho Leiva (Cuba, 1970) "Embarcadero" (Pier), 2003 engraving on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g. 28.8 x 21.3 in. (73 x 54 cm.) Edition of 50 Ref: KCH-110
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint, Engraving, Ink

Tremendous Years of Recurrence - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight mulberry paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

SUMMER RUSH Signed Lithograph, Sacred Garden Series, Abstract Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
SUMMER RUSH is an original limited edition lithograph from the Sacred Garden Series of works by the British artist David Leverett (1938-2020), printed using hand lithography techniqu...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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