Contemporary Abstract Prints

"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...

Louise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988), Untitled (Abstract Composition), Lithograph in Colors on BFK Rives Paper, 1967, from the Double Imagery series, printed by the Tamarind Institu...

Lone Boat At Dusk - Serigraph Print Original serigraph depicting a landscape scene with contrasts of black, blue and green. Hues of blue make up the ...

Signed on plate. Limited edition of 600 copies realized in 1987. Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 32x45. Very good conditions.

Contemporary School, Blurred Fruit, Chromogenic Print in Colors on Acrylic panel, sky blue ground with pale central image of fruit, apparently unsigned, unframed. 40" H x 29.75" W. P...

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. ...

"Alberto Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1951) 'Sin título IV', 2019 woodcut, silkscreen on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 63 x 31.5 in. (160 x 80 cm.) Edition...

"Alberto Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1951) 'Untitled II', 2019 woodcut, silkscreen on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 31.5 x 63 in. (80 x 160 cm.) Edition o...

David Salle Hand Signed Poster by David Salle upper left, 2000 Offset Lithograph Signed by the artist and dedicated to Nadine 25 × 30 inches Unframed This is a uniquely signed David...

Billiard is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....

Artist: Jonathan Borofsky Title: The Balance of Love and Work Produces Energy Year: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50, AP Paper Size: 37.5 x 29 inch...

DAVID SALLE (American, 1952- ) Lucky 1992 Photoengraving heliogravure on Lana paper Edition Julie Sylvester, New York Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right, numbered lower left...

Sergio Hernández (Mexico, 1957) 'Viaje al fondo del mar', 2011 woodcut on paper Velin Arches 400 g. 46.5 x 82.7 in. (118 x 210 cm.) Edition of 10 Unframed

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...

Joseph Kosuth ( American, b. 1945) L’Essence de la rhétorique est dans l’allégorie IV, 1998 Medium: Set of three heliogravure and aquatints, on BFK Rives rag paper Dimensions: each 4...

"The Bighorn at Night" is an original woodcut signed and titled by the artist, Carol Summers. It is edition 48/50. Catalogue raisonné listing: cat. 105...

Amsterdam X 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 bo...

Donald Baechler, Creamsicle, 1999: A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aq...

Indian Leaves Lithograph print on Japanese Gampi Torinoko paper Limited edition of 500 (Roman) and 500 (Arabic) 23 x 76.3 cm Stamp-signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenti...

Artist: Takashi Murakami Title: We are the Jocular Clan (10) Portfolio: We are the Jocular Clan Medium: Offset lithograph with silver, glossy varnish on wove paper Date: 2018 Edition...

The ‘Man's Best Friend' IX by KAWS is a signed, numbered, and dated silkscreen print, one of the ten in the portfolio series created in 2016. The portfolio was created in a limited e...

German artist Udo Claassen created a dramatic landscape of this Icelandic scene in 1985 in an edition of 40. This is #33. Claassen was born in Itzehoe in the state of Schleswig-Hol...

Manifest Galerie Jacques Péron is an original colored lithograph on wove paper realized for an exhibition of Various Artists in 1960s. The artwork is signed and dated. Good Condi...

Abstract Composition  is a lithograph realized by Piero Sadun in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good.

Amsterdam VIII 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 is bot...

This is a beautiful very small limited edition of only 10 - screen print. This is the only piece left and it is a beautiful no. 10/10. We love this piece because it imagines the fasc...

Gorgeous teal mesh and rods collagraph by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned. Purchased as part of larger collection. No frame. Image size: 23.75"H x 35.75"W Patricia ...

Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) Bomb, 2020 Medium: Fine art inkjet print, Hahnemüle German etching 310g paper Dimensions: 95 x 130 cm (37 2/5 x 51 1/5 in) Edition of 100 + 25 AP: Hand-s...

White Horse is an original lithograph realized by Marino Marini in 1966. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Edition of 55 prints. Good condition except for some small r...

Drypoint, on Chine collé to Hahnemühle Copperplate paper Edition 9 of 35 48.3 x 40.6 cm (19 x 16 in) 53 x 45.5 x 3.8, 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.5 in Signed, numbered and dated on the front Min...

Numbered and signed rf Lichtenstein and dated '75 in pencil lower right by the artist. Blindstamp Styria Studio chop lower right. From the America: The Third Century Portfolio. Publi...

"Parts of a Kimono" Multi-Layer Collagraph in Ink on Paper Gorgeous purple mesh and rods collagraph by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Strips of fabric are draped over horiz...

Wes Lang (American, b. 1972) Everything/ Moon and Stars, 2021 Medium: Archival pigment print, artist’s catalogue (in clamshell) Print dimensions: 20 x 28.5 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/4 in) Cla...

This piece is featured in Bruckner’s 2024 solo exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art titled, “Keeping Memories”. Artist Biography: Karin Bruckner was born in Zurich, Switzerland and...

Artist's Proof. Hand signed and titled lower center.

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...

"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...

The Boundary is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s. Good condition. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historic...

Watercolor on paper

This original first-edition exhibition poster was created for Miriam Schapiro’s 1967 show Silver Windows at the prestigious André Emmerich Gallery. Schapiro, a key figure in the femi...

Decalogue is a vintage Poster, realized by Lucio Del Pezzo in 1976. The status of preservation is very Good.

“I am interested in art that suggests a narrative,” says artist Chadwick Tolley. While he uses his personal experience as a point of reference for his prints, drawings, and collages,...

Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b. 1962) Gargantua on Your Palm, 2022 Medium: Porcelain plate (fine bone china) Dimensions: 10 1/2 in diameter 26.7 cm diameter Edition of 250: Printed s...

Demons is an original artwork realized by Renzo Bussotti in 1963. Hand-signed and dated in pencil by the artist on the lower right margin; numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edi...

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1968 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Fr...

Composition is an original artwork realized by an unknown artist of the late 20th Century. Lithograph on ivory paper. Good conditions. Illegible signature in pencil on the lower r...

Untitled (Anxious Man) By Rashid Johnson Rashid Johnson is a contemporary American artist recognized for his multimedia works, including paintings, sculptures, and installations, ...

Abstract Composition  is a lithograph realized by Piero Sadun in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good.

21th century figurative etching print by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. Artwork depicts italian landscape in classic stylea creature in a satirical erotic way. This piece is signed by t...

Hand Signed. Artist's Proof. Good conditions.

Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...

Abstract Composition  is a lithograph realized by Piero Sadunin in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good.

DAVID SALLE (American, 1952- ) Lucky 1992 Photoengraving heliogravure on Lana paper Edition Julie Sylvester, New York Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right, numbered lower lef...

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...

Nick Smith, You're Going To Need A Bigger Boat, 2018 Pigment print with screen print varnished over colour blocks on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper 72 × 60 cm (28 3/10 × 23 3/5 in ) ...

Amsterdam I 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 is both a...

This abstract geometric limited edition print by Roger Mudre features lightly translucent concentric circles that overlap throughout the composition, creating a glowing effect of a y...

Manifest of Simbari i is an original offset and lithograph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1970. Hand-signed on the bottom center. The artwork represents a woman and two girls playin...

Margot Lovejoy (American, 1930-2019) Labyrinthe: City 3, c. 20th Century Serigraph in acrylic case Overall: 28 3/8 x 28 x 1 1/2 in. Artist Proof Signed lower right: Margot Lovejoy Si...

The title of this poetic, abstract work is written across the top of the sheet. The hand-written cursive below reads: "David Shapiro / Told me he was going to / Carve his poems in stone / "That's one way to make them lost" / I don't have to / Rene Ricard". A poet, art historian and art critic, David Shapiro was friends with Ricard, and a part of the 1980's art scene in New York. Shapiro became famous briefly during the 1968 anti-Vietnam student uprising at Columbia University, when a photograph of him smoking a cigar behind the desk of the Columbia University president was published in Life magazine, and he became the face of the student protest...