Contemporary Abstract Prints

This vertical geometric abstract monotype on paper layers shapes on a background that transitions from pale yellow to dark red. A pointed star in black shapes contrast the circular a...

The Black Birds is a lithograph published by Maeght after an original composition by Georges Braque in 1958. Braque authorized and selected certain works to be reproduced by his tru...

Susan Collet's monoprints are inspired by the colours, textures and shapes found in nature. A gifted ceramicist, Collett originally took printmaking at Central Tech High School in To...

Barry Eisenhart Untitled (Rose, Pink, Abstract, Gestural, Movement) Year: 2015 Lithograph on Arches Edition of 15 Size: 19 x 25 inches Signed in pencil COA provided

large scale abstract photograph of mesmerizing monochromatic color space and tactile marble stone and velvet textures captured in Roman palazzo Untiltled (Amber) by Frank Schott 72...

Maria Stelmaszczyk is a Polish artist born in 1983. PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery o...

"Julio Girona (Cuba, 1914-2002) 'Habitación interior', silkscreen on paper 19.7 x 27.6 in. (50 x 70 cm.) Edition of 115 ID: GIR1066-001-115" "Julio Giro...

Artist: Jack Youngerman (American, 1926-2020) Title: Mandala Blue Medium: Pochoir in colors with screenprint and embossing Date: 1980 Dimensions: 37" x 36" Signed, dated and numbered...

"Pura Vida" is an original color woodcut signed by Carol Summers. A multi-colored piece shows a waterfall with red flames behind it in the middle of the piece. On the left stands a tree with yellow leaves on a hill. To the right is a rainbow. This is an excellent example of Summer's printmaking, not just because of the technique and imagery, but because it numbered 1 of the edition of 125. In addition, it contains a personal inscription to the Milwaukee gallerist David Barnett, who has championed the work of Summers and produced catalogs of his work. Indeed, this print appears as no. 189 in the David Barnett Gallery's 1988 catalogue raisonné of Summer's woodcuts. Feel free to inquire if you would like to purchase a copy of the catalogue raisonné along with your Carol Summers print. Art: 24.25 x 24.75 in Frame: 36 x 35 in signed lower right titled and inscribed to David [Barnett] lower right edition (1/125) lower right 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...

Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986) Title: Aufbau, 1977 Medium: Offset on grey cardboard, stamped Dimensions: 30.5 x 43 cm Edition of 100: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil Publisher: ...

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. This red and black lithograp...

This piece titled "Greenhouse Composition Series 5 (framed)" is an original artwork by Roxana Azar made of a digital print on polycarbonate. The piece measures 25.5”h x 17.5”w framed...

Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preserved. Unsigned from an edition of u...

Damien Hirst Cannizaro H4-4 Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium panel 920 x 1260 MM Edition size: 75 + 5 AP signed and numbered from an edition of 75 verso, published by HENI Editions; sheet: 92 x 126cm Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated "Freeze," an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the Young British Artists), Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. His groundbreaking works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a shark in formaldehyde; Mother and Child Divided (1993) a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf; and For the Love of God (2007), a human skull studded with 8,601 diamonds. In addition to his installations and sculptures, Hirst’s Spot paintings...

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

Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977) 'Untitled (B/N vertical)', 2021 Engraving collagraph on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 27.2 x 21.1 in. (69 x 53.5 cm.) Edition of 20 ID: NAA-112 Unframed

Large format photograph of intricate garment details of ancient Roman marble sculptures, from a series capturing ancient craftsmanship and fashion of antiquity 72 x 48 inches / 183c...

from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening's tree trimming and striking art of topiaries' green minimalism Topiary V by Frank Schott 60 x 44....

Affiche n°87 is a beautiful lithograph realized by Eduardo Chillida in 1964. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the lower left in pencil. Edition 11/25.Editions Maeght, Pari...

Artist: Donald Judd Title: Untitled (S. 117) Year: 1977-78 Medium: Etching on wove paper Sheet: 30 x 35 in. (76.2 x 88.9 cm.) Edition: 75 plus proofs; signed, numbered and dated in p...

large scale photograph of lush tropical rainforest botanical tableau, from a series of highly detailed large format nature observations, an homage to the fantastical jungle paintings by artist Henri Rousseau Cloud Forest...

Four color process print on vélin paper. Paper size: 10.75 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, George Condo, Drawing Paintings, 201...

from a series of large scale photographs capturing a mesmerizing color palette of classic blue and sky tones SEASCAPE VIII by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm edition o...

Shades of Pale (Wallscape) by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and wallscape color palettes 48 x 66 inches / 122cm x 168cm edition o...

1960s Francis Bacon lithograph from Derrière le miroir: Well-suited for matting & framing, this original 1960's print is derived from Bacon's ...

Artist: Terry Winters, American (1949 - ) Title: untitled 6 from Album Year: 1988 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: HC 2/2 Image: 20 x 16 inches S...

Sterling Ruby Poster "Was War Won", 2017 Offset lithograph poster on card paper 27 x 21.5 Unframed This bold and dramatic poster on card was distr...

This piece titled "Crush me (framed)" is an original artwork by Roxana Azar made of a digital c print. The piece measures 21.5”h x 17.5”w framed. Roxana Azar’s work utilizes photog...

This is a monotype print, a unique print with no other editions. This geometric abstract monotype on paper layers shapes on a blue background that transitions from deep, dark cobalt ...

Damien Hirst, Unique Print from The Beautiful Paintings X-Large Square (H12-5) 1/1 of Full Edition of 473 - Canvas Print 100 × 100 cm (X-Large ) The Beautiful Paintings is the rev...

Jenny Holzer (American, b. 1950) AKA, 2006 Medium: Set of five etchings, on Magnani Pescia paper (with title page, sheets loose, in original black silk-covered portfolio case) Dimens...

mesmerizing large scale capture of a strikingly abstract water surface WAVE II by Christian Stoll 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 5...

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...

Welcome. XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo  is a vintage poster realized by the artist Howard Hodgkin, in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984.  Very good...

Vintage poster realized after Piero Dorazio in occasion of the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984. Offset print. Good condition.

mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O ll by Erik Pawassar 27 x 40 inches (69 x 102cm) signed edition of 25 48 x 72 inches (122 x 183cm) signed edition of 7 archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ About the artist Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...

ATARI Imperatore by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 30 x 46.25 inches / 76cm x 118cm edition of 25 signed 48 x ...

large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Stratosphere' STRA...

Double Poppies Black 2025 
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board 
Sheet size: 52.5 x 30 inches (133 x 76 cm)
 Image size: 48.5 x 26 inches...

Sarah Morris November 2021, 2021 Lithograph on wove paper Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity - hand signed by Sarah Morris (the artist) as well as the head of ICA Editions...

Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Mimosa, April 12, 2023 Year: 2023 Medium: Archival pigment ink print on 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 50; signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil ...

large scale photograph of sunny cactus landscape, from a series of highly detailed large format nature observations, an homage to the photo realistic ...

Wallscape II by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 48 x 60 inches / 122cm x 152cm edition of 7 signed 32 x 40 inches...

Welcome. XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo is a vintage poster realized by the artist Howard Hodgkin, in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984. Very good ...

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...

Artist: Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) Marking(s); notes: marking(s); 2002 Country of origin; materials: Japan; screenprint on wallpaper Dimensions: 39.5″h, 29.5″w; 44.5″h, 34.25″w frame Additional Information: Provenance: Vertu Fine Art...

This reproduction is from Richard Artschwager's 1985 exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, showcasing an abstract work on paper. The artwork features a yellow shape that appears to be ...

AFFIRMATION is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph from the Sacred Garden Series of works by the British artist David Leverett(1938-2020), printed using hand lithography techniqu...

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 ...

Figurative surreal dypoint print with ink and crayons by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. Artwork depicts several portraits in different styles. There is also a landscape on the bottom pa...

This original signed poster, titled Expo de Gravures de la Guilde Graphique, was created by French Canadian artist Julien Lacroix for an exhibition. The poster, published in 1973, is...

Dome, Blue, 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 i...

Namiko Prado Arai (Mexico, 1963) 'Untitled 3 (Buril)', 1998 etching, aquatint on paper Deponte 400g. 20.9 x 24.5 in. (53 x 62 cm.) Unframed ID: PRA-305 Hand-signed by author

UV pigment print on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper with 3 silkscreen layers and matte silkscreen varnish 60 × 50 cm Edition of 100 hand-signed and numbered by the arti...

I love the busy swirl of gulls around a harbour. It makes for a challenging composition and offers a chance to play with light and colour. I have tried to capture movement and a harb...

This original artwork by Antoni Tàpies is one of the 10 colored lithographs of the “Berlin Suite”. Tàpies realized this portfolio in 1974, each lithograph is on Arches wove paper. ...

20th century figurative etching print by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. This piece is signed by the artist. LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015) He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska pri...

"Avant Hier" - Lithograph on Paper Abstract expressionist lithograph on paper depicting figures, with clouds of white by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Hues of brown take up the pap...

Amsterdam IX is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is b...

This unsigned and unnumbered poster is an overrun from the limited edition of 144 signed and numbered pieces created by Friedel Dzubas for the Community Holiday Festival in 1973. In ...