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Modern Abstract Prints

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Giacometti, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 98, 1957. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pri...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Plate VI, from Album 19
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Arp, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 33, 1950. Published by Aimé...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Cathelin, Mexique, Prints from the Mourlot Press (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964. Published by Fernand Mourlot, Par...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Chillida, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 124, 1961. Published by Aim...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Kandinsky, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 118, 1960. Published by Aim...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Berggruen abstract lithographic poster by Wassily Kandinsky, 1972
Located in New York, NY
This colorful modern lithographic poster by Wassily Kandinsky was printed in 1972 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris to promote an exhibition of his watercolors and drawings at the Gale...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Alechinsky, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite M...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Giacometti, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 98, 1957. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pri...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Christo, Composition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery, 1979. Published by Redfern Gallery, London...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poetry And Essays 1912 - 1...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Untitled (Abstract, Modern, Asian Influence, Linocut, ~33% OFF - LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Martel Wiegand Untitled (Abstract, Modern, Beige, Brown, Linocut) Linoleum Cut on light paper 1996 19.29 x 25.59 inches (49 x 69 cm) Edition: Unique Monogrammed and dated by hand COA...
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1990s Modern Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Braque, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 138, 1963. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poetry And Essays 1912 - 1...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Lam 林飛龍, Composition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery, 1979. Published by Redfern Gallery, London...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°10, 1958. Published and printed under the direc...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jazz - Lithograph (Artcurial edition)
Located in Paris, IDF
Sonia DELAUNAY Jazz Lithograph after a painting Printed signature in the plate Numbered /600 On Arches vellum 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.8 in) ArtCurial edition, 1994 Excellent cond...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Vedova, Intollerenza, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°16, 1961. Published and printed under the direction ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the art...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Offset

Applause - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Applause is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and aquatint. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there is an inscription in chi...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

The Bird - Etching Signed in the Plate - 1965 (Orozco #783)
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Braque The bird Etching in colors (Crommelynck workshop) Signed in the plate with the monogram Edition of 250 copies not numbered On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

'Going My Way?' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Going My Way?', lithograph, 1946, edition 14. Signed in pen, recto. Titled, numbered '#118 14/14' and dated '5/5/46' in pen, verso. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 15/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; sheet size 17 x 12 3/8 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan. Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Verre et pichet, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 48-49, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Open Action.
Located in Storrs, CT
Published edition, not trial proof Open Action. 1926/1928. Etching. Giardina 124. 7 x 15 1/8 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15 1/4). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. A rich, tonal impressi...
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1920s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Fiedler, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 129, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Projets de Pégase, Paroles peintes I, Alberto Magnelli
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. La...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Little Hall's Island.
Located in Storrs, CT
Little Hall's Island. 1940. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 199. 10 x 15. Edition 100. Little Hall's Island is located off the coast of Friendship. Maine. Signed and annotated 'imp' (imprimit) in pencil, indicating a proof printed Eby. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat. Eby was an Associate of the National Academy NA (1930); National Academy of Design (1934); Society of American Etchers; Chicago Society of Etchers; Philadelphia Society of Etchers; National Institute of Arts and Letters. Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Four Colours
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Four Colours Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.: ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Les Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot by Henri Matisse
Located in New York, NY
Matisse once said, "The paper cutout allows me to draw in the color. Instead of drawing the outline and putting the color inside it, I draw straight into the color." The hues he used...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miró, Derriere le Miroir, lithograph in colors
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miró Derriere le Miroir Original color lithograph 1971 Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris Hand signed and dedicated on the verso in pencil Custom framed to museum standards Imag...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Composition, Contrastes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good ...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Woman - Lithograph by Claude Garache - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a vintage Lithograph realized by Claude Garache in the 1975. Maeght Editor, France on the rear.
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Delaunay, Les ponts de Paris et Notre-Dame (H. 720-728), Allo! Paris! (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Allo! Paris!, 1926. Published by Éditions des ...
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1920s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition in Circles - Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition in Circles is a beautiful colored screen print realized by Mario Padovan in 1971. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left, Edition ...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Dubuffet: The Museum of Modern Art vintage poster mid century modern abstract
Located in New York, NY
Jean Dubuffet Dubuffet: The Museum of Modern Art vintage poster, 1962 Offset lithograph poster 19 1/2 × 15 inches Unframed with original folds (it was de...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Original Disques Import Clementine vintage music poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed vintage poster "DISQUES IMPORT CLEMENTINE". Excellent condition. The image with the psychedelic look of the two records that create the eyes and the rest...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Offset

Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Georges Braque, Frontispiece, L'édition de tête (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacre a Pierre Reverdy et Georges Braque,...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tal-Coat, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with bifold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 114, 1959. Published by Aimé Ma...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Composition, L'édition de tête (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré à Jean-P...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects,...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Kandinsky, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 179, 1969. Published by Aim...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Harmony : The Lotus Flower - Tall original screenprint signed & numbered /89
Located in Paris, IDF
Shepard FAIREY (Obey Giant) Harmony : The Lotus Flower Original sceen print Handsigned in pencil blind stamp to margin Numbered 42 / 89 On vellum 41 x 30 inch (c. 104 x 76 cm) Come...
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Oiseau et Lotus - Lithograph by Georges Braque - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Oiseau et Lotus is a color lithograph on paper, realized by the French Cubist artist, Georges Braque (1882-1963). Printed by ARTE in 1963 by order of Galerie Maeght in Paris in a ci...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Concentric Space (White), Signed Screenprint by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Concentric Space (White) Clarence Holbrook Carter American (1904–2000) Date: 1969 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 50 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 25 x...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Counterpoints I, Aquatint Etching by Johnny Friedlaender
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Johnny Friedlaender, German (1912 - 1992) Title: Counterpoints I Year: 1977 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 73/95 Image: 22.5 x 30 inche...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Romanesque
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Romanesque" 1991 is a color etching, with embossing and gold addition on handmade paper, with deckle edge, by noted artist Bruce Weinberg, 1942-1994 It is hand signed, titled, numbered 20/50 and dated in pencil by the artist. The size is 38 x 27 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist. Bruce Weinberg (1942-1994) studied Interior Design at the Philadelphia College of Art and Architectural Space Planning at Temple University. During the 1970's he studied printmaking and drawing at San Francisco's Fort Mason Art Center. He created limited edition etchings as well as monoprints on his handmade paper. He was best known for multi-plate color hand pulled etchings of rugs and tapestries, which appear three dimensional with folds, fringes and turned up corners. Etchings were executed by use of traditional hard and soft ground etching technique. Employing multiple copper etching...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media

Chillida, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Chiffon de Mandeure paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Lithographies et Eaux-Fortes Originales, Livres Illustres Or...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Work Bench — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Work Bench', 1949, wood engraving, edition 40. Signed, dated and numbered 9/40 in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving 1949' in pencil, in the artist’s hand, lower right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove Japan, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Charles Quest, a successful artist, and fine art instructor, worked in a variety of mediums including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture, but remains best known as a printmaker. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929, and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium which he apparently learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting a lot of critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’ were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’ and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’, was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in the Graphic Arts Division of the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). This one-man exhibition was a remarkable achievement for Quest, who had been working in the medium for only about ten years. In the press release for the show, Kainen praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’ At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had also won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’. Charles Quest retired from teaching in 1971 and made relatively few prints in his later years, as the rigors of the medium were too demanding. He moved to Tryon, North Carolina, with his wife Dorothy, an artist and portrait painter, and remained active as a painter until his death in 1993. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted the interest of Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for the University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division became the grateful recipient of a large body of Quest's work including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and stained glass, as well as his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Giacometti, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 65, 1954. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pri...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Head I. Fine Art Print Limited
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art print/ Hahnemuehle Paper, limited edition of 5, author Rudolf Fila - Hommage for F.X. Messerschmidt, end of the 20th Century, Gallery certificate.
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1990s Modern Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

Madron
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stanley Jones Title: Madron Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph on BFK Japanese paper Edition: XXXV/XXXV Signed in Pencil Size: 26 x 20 inches Publication: From portfolio Europaische Graph...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Braque, Composition (Vallier 23), Hesiode, Théogonie, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hesiode, Théogonie, Eaux-fortes de Georges Braque, N° 71-7...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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