Cubist Abstract Prints
CUBIST STYLE
Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”
Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.
Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.
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Style: Cubist
Femme á la Guitarre
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Etching and aquatint on paper, nicely matted and framed. Edition 28 of 90, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Cubist work featuring a girl and her guitar.
Ossip Zadkine 1888 ...
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1960s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Femme Dans L'Atelier, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rendered in hues of blue and grey, this portayal of a woman in an artist's workshop includes a depiction of an easel with a canvas facing the woman. Pablo Picasso's Cubist technique ...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Toro and Horse
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Toro and Horse
Lithograph, 1957
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Titled in pencil lower left.
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Printer: Ravel, Paris
Reference: Freeman L57.11
'Toro and Horse' was inspired by Spanish bullfighting...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Femme a la Mandoline (Mademoiselle Leonie Assie), Lithograph after Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rendered in geometric shapes that emerge from the soft pastel background, the woman in this print holds a mandarin as she is depicted head-on by Pablo Picasso. A lithograph from the ...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Picasso et Manuel Pallares, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Donning togas of blue and red and wearing laurel wreaths on their bald heads, Pablo Picasso and his life-long friend Manuel Pallarès sit beside one another as they smoke cigarettes a...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Fillette au Tricycle, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
This Pablo Picasso print shows a little girl standing in front of her tricycle. With her hands at her hips, leaning on one foot, the girl appears to be looking both toward the viewer...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
II from La Magnanerie de la Ferrage, Abstract Linocut by Alberto Magnelli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alberto Magnelli, Italian (1888 - 1971)
Title: II from La Magnanerie de la Ferrage
Year: 1971
Medium: Linocut on Japon, signed in pencil
Edition: Pour Leon Amiel
Image S...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Rice Paper, Linocut
American Modernist Cubist Lithograph Screenprint "Reclining Woman" Max Weber
By Max Weber
Located in Surfside, FL
Reclining Cubist Nude Woman
Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman.
Born in the Polish city of Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, Weber emigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn with his Orthodox Jewish parents at the age of ten. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow was a fortunate early influence on Weber as he was an "enlightened and vital teacher" in a time of conservative art instruction, a man who was interested in new approaches to creating art. Dow had met Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven, was a devoted student of Japanese art, and defended the advanced modernist painting and sculpture he saw at the Armory Show in New York in 1913.
In 1905, after teaching in Virginia and Minnesota, Weber had saved enough money to travel to Europe, where he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and acquainted himself with the work of such modernists as Henri Rousseau (who became a good friend), Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other members of the School of Paris. His friends among fellow Americans included some equally adventurous young painters, such as Abraham Walkowitz, H. Lyman Sayen, and Patrick Henry Bruce. Avant-garde France in the years immediately before World War I was fertile and welcoming territory for Weber, then in his early twenties. He arrived in Paris in time to see a major Cézanne exhibition, meet the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, frequent Gertrude Stein's salon, and enroll in classes in Matisse's private "Academie." Rousseau gave him some of his works; others, Weber purchased. He was responsible for Rousseau's first exhibition in the United States.
In 1909 he returned to New York and helped to introduce Cubism to America. He is now considered one of the most significant early American Cubists, but the reception his work received in New York at the time was profoundly discouraging. Critical response to his paintings in a 1911 show at the 291 gallery, run by Alfred Stieglitz, was an occasion for "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America." The reviews were "of an almost hysterical violence." He was attacked for his "brutal, vulgar, and unnecessary art license." Even a critic who usually tried to be sympathetic to new art, James Gibbons Huneker, protested that the artist's clever technique had left viewers with no real picture and made use of the adage, "The operation was successful, but the patient died."[8] As art historian Sam Hunter wrote, "Weber's wistful, tentative Cubism provided the philistine press with their first solid target prior to the Armory Show."
The Cellist...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Monogram "L" with Landscape (Plate XXXIII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Monogram "L" with Landscape (Plate XXXIII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Sig...
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1940s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching
Rue Caulaincourt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rue Caulaincourt
Etching and engraving, 1931
Initialed in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 77
Plate 10 from "Plaches de Salut"
Published by Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Rue Caulai...
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1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Engraving, Etching
The Eye, from Carmen (Plate X)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Eye (Plate X)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed: No (signed and numbe...
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1940s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching
The Eye (Plate XXXVIII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Eye (Plate XXXVIII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed: No (signed and...
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1940s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Cubist Composition, Signed Lithograph by Will Mentor
By Will Mentor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Mentor, American (1958 - )
Title: Cubist Composition
Year: 1990
Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 13/75
Paper Size: 33.5 x 24 in. (8...
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1990s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Abstract Design (Plate VI), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Abstract Design (Plate VI)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed: No (signed ...
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1940s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Theogonie Exhibition Poster by Georges Braque, Modernist Mourlot Lithograph 1959
Located in Chicago, IL
"Galerie Maeght Theogonie" announces an exhibition of the drawings Georges Braque produced to illustrate "Theogony", the 7th century BCE work by Hesiod that narrates the birth of the...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Marine à la Mouette, Varengeville (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival support sheet, as issued
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 13 x 16 inches; image size: 10.7 x 13.75 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate...
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1960s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
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"Braque Graveur, " Lithograph Poster signed in the stone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Braque Graveur" is an original color lithograph poster. It depicts a moth or butterfly landed on a black abstract form. There are blue and reddish-brown abstract shapes as well, and...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Petit Équilibriste
Located in London, GB
JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963
(Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875-1963 Paris (French)
Title: Le Petit Équilibriste, 1914
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with full m...
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1910s Cubist Abstract Prints
"Le Pacte".
Located in New York, NY
"Le Pacte", Paris: Editions Forcade, 1930. In Gold Leaf Frame.
Original etching printed in black ink on japon. Hand signed with artist’s monogram lower left, an impression of the f...
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1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching
The Small Mechanical Workshop
Located in London, GB
JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963
(Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875-1963 Paris (French)
Title: The Small Mechanical Workshop Le petit atelier de mécanique, 1914
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1910s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching
Nature morte I (Still Life I) - Modern, Abstract, Etching, Black and White
Located in Köln, DE
The present etching is numbered ‘29/50’ lower left and signed ‘G. Braque’ lower right. Also watermarked ‘ARC’ lower right.
Sheet size: 56,8 x 38,1 cm
Plate size: 34,5 x 21,8 cm
L...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Prints
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Etching
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