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Animal Prints For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1930s
Cat Twins
Located in Columbia, MO
LEONOR FINI Cat Twins 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Cats and Blindfold
Located in Columbia, MO
LEONOR FINI Cats and Blindfold 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Plate 7 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 7 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa ...
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1930s Animal Prints

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Paper

In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming) Drypoint, c. 1930's Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in the plate lower left Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
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1930s American Realist Animal Prints

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Drypoint

Earth Day, Original historic limited edition lithographic poster Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Earth Day, 1970 Offset Lithograph Plate signed and dated on the front Publisher: Castelli Graphics 33 1/2 × 22 1/4 inches Unframed and affixed to thin board (must...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Blue Crab, Silkscreen by Jack Beal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013) Title: Blue Crab Year: circa 1975 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 52 Image Size: 9 x 12 ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Screen

'Boeuf Ecorche' original signed lithograph, Rembrandt with slaughtered ox 1970s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Boeuf Ecorche' is an original color lithograph, signed by Claude Weisbuch – and it is a quintessential example of the contemporary artist's interest in the old masters. In the image...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Deer Mouse, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Deer Mouse, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 14 x 23 inches, Size: 23 in...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

ARBORESCENSES I
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed with initials, dated ‘72’ and numbered. Screen printed vacuum-formed relief. Published by Pace Editions, New York. Webel 1092. Edition 55/75 (there were also ten art...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

A seagull named Jonathan 1973. Paper, linocut, 32x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
"A seagull named Jonathan" is a linocut print artwork created in 1973. The artwork is made on paper and measures 32x30 cm. Linocut is a printmaking technique in which the image is ca...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Paper, Watercolor

2 Lazy 2 P
Located in Phoenix, AZ
2 Lazy 2P, ca. 1939 Lon Megargee Serigraph 20 x 24 inches Signed in screen Original serigraph print by Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940 Lon Megargee created this serigraph from his commission with Oren Arnold and John Hale to do their dust jacket for the book, " Hot Irons", 1940. Arnold and Hale wanted to establish a reference work, an "authority", with a entertaining history about the evolution of the brand. Megargee created a painting of a steer that was branded with the script, 2 Lazy 2 P. Surrounding the steer is a random display of famous brands of ranches in the Southwest. It was well received and must have prompted Megargee to create the likeness as a print. The brand is described in chapter thirteen, page 207-208 and says, " Ed Stram, who was Arizona state veterinarian for sixteen years, fire-branded his cattle with this peculiar crest. It isn't peculiar unless you have an equally peculiar sense of humor. At a glance it appears to be just another typically unimaginative brand, but it has been used to make many a thousand girls blush, and a few thousand bashful young men as well". COLLIER GALLERY, FINE ART ESTATE OF LON MEGARGEE Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular hotel and dining place called the Hermosa Inn. Megargee was a ranch owner and also did oil canvases of the places he loved and the cowboy life he admired. By 1910, he was among the earliest resident artists, and was probably the best known artist in Arizona. His name was first associated with a landscape series of 15 large murals for the Capitol Building, newly constructed just after Arizona became a state in 1912. Another one of his paintings, Elemental, was the first painting by an artist living in Arizona to be acquired for the Municipal Collection of Phoenix. These works were chosen from entries in the State Fair, where he continued to win prizes for figure and landscape painting. From 1911 to 1953, he did numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad, including a work titledNavajos Watching a Santa Fe Train. Between 1915 and 1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area of California and had entries in the California State Fair. He died in Cottonwood, Arizona. After his death, theSaturday Evening Post had a double-page reproduction of his painting Cowboy's Dream. Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee We offer signed in print and original signature block prints. Custom, hand carved, signature frames, with archival standards and a speciality in hand dyed mats and french matting are provided for a beautiful and timeless presentation. Megargee explored different mediums; printmaking captivated him in particular. The contrast of the black and white block print method captured perfectly his interpretation of a bold American West. The first print was produced around 1921 and culminated with the creation of “The Cowboy Builds a Loop” in 1933 with 28 images and poetry by his friend, Roy George. Megargee continued producing prints throughout the 1940s and early 50s. At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...
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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Ma fortune - Hand-signed numbered lithograph by Leonor Fini, Surrealist, 1975
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini Ma fortune, 1975 Colored etching on Arches paper 11 × 15 in 28 × 38 cm Limited edition of 185 Condition: Excellent condition
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Cows" is an original drypoint etching by John Edward Costigan. It depicts a young boy with three cows standing in a watering hole. The artist si...
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1930s American Realist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

I Love You, Impressionist Birds Silkscreen by Dody Muller
Located in Long Island City, NY
I Love You by Dody Müller, American Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250, AP Image Size: 22 x 22 inches Size: 28 in. x 26 in. (71.12 cm x 66.04 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Screen

Mod Rooster Drawing 1970s Pop Art Lithograph Hand Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for just the one print in the photo here. there are three states of the same image image each with Progressively increasing detail and color. the edition size is 175. Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper. Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative painting about contemporary American life. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he based his paintings on photographs, which he manipulated from black and white or silkscreen colored shapes. In the early 1960's, he began to base his paintings on images clipped from newspapers and magazines, following the example of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who would become his brother-in-law. Enlarged and often simplified to two vibrant saturated colors Stanley's images could be reduced to the abstract or be powerfully explicit. His preferred subjects, including rock stars, athletes and pornography, always seemed to grate against the pretenses of high art. Similar in bold use of color to Malcolm Morley. In the late 1960's Mr. Stanley started using his own photographs, basing paintings on images of tree branches or the ground, and also using pictures of life-drawing models at the School of Visual Arts. EDUCATION The Brooklyn Museum of Art School, Brooklyn, NY Columbia University, New York, NY The High Museum Art School, Atlanta, GA Columbia University, New York, NY Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA B.A. 1953 Max Beckmann Scholarship Award for Painting and Sculpture, The Brooklyn Museum of Art School, Brooklyn, NY TEACHING School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Instructor: Painting and Drawing The New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, Visiting Artist Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Visiting Artist School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Instructor: Painting and Drawing SELECT INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY, Celebrating the Erotic Work of Pop-Artist Bob Stanley The Mayor Gallery, London, England, “Bob Stanley – Works from the Sixties” Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York, NY, Late Paintings Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Paintings: 1963-1967 Gallerie Georges Lavrov, (Paris), Die International Kunstmesse, Art Basel, Switzerland Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris, France, Catalog text by Richard Artschwager The Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany Bianchini-Birillo Gallery, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Exquisite Corpe – Cadavre Exquis Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, “Up Close and Personal: A Collection of Minimalist and Figurative Drawings” Steven Vail Gallery, “Paintings and Drawings” 2 person exhibition with Jan Frank Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY, “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, travels to 10 other institutions; “It’s Only Rock and Roll”, Catalog essay by David S. Rubin, Curator of 20th Century Art, Phoenix Art Museum Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York, NY, “Paintings, Drawings, Photographs” The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2 person exhibition with Patricia McCabe Centro Cultural La General, Granada, Spain, “Honenaje a Federico García Lorca White Columns, New York, NY, “Overtalk: Bob Stanley, Öyvind Fahlström, Peter Nagy Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, “The Pop Decade: The Bianchini Gallery in the Sixties”; Exhibition monograph by Barbara Zabel Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Contemporary Graphics: NYC” The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, “A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985”’ Catalog text by Allen Rosenbaum and James Seawright Centro Studi Pietro Mancini, Cosenza, Italy, “Progetto su Pace, Guerra e Altro” The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, “The Pop Art Print” The Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, “Recent Acquisitions” Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA, “Artist/Poet’s Books” The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters New York, NY, “Paintings and Sculpture: 1982 Art...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Max Ernst - The Soldier - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst (1891-1976) Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, La Ballade du Soldat, Pierre Chave, Vence, 1972 Colour lithographs on Arches paper 1972 Edition : 199 Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm Refe...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1975 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"The Guard" Limited Edition Lithograph, Signed and Numbered by Artist
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Limited Edition Lithograph (available in multiple editions-i.e. out of 50). The print is pencil-signed and numbered by the artist upside down (please see secondary photo for details)...
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1970s Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Andy Warhol Musee d’Art Moderne catalog (Warhol Cow)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Paris, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1970: Rare original Andy Warhol exhibition catalog featuring a Warhol Pink Cow cover. Published on the occasion of the Warhol solo show at the MAM, Paris, Dec. 16, 1970 - Jan. 14, 1971. A must have rare vintage Andy Warhol Cows collectible. 1st edition; 1970. Single sheet folded, twelve-page accordion style booklet. Text by Alfred Pacquement (French). Exhibition checklist found within. Reverse features a candid, black and white portrait of Warhol. Medium: Offset printed Exhibition Catalog. Dimensions: Folded 7.75 × 10.5 inches; Unfolded: 7.75 x 47 inches. Condition: Very good overall vintage condition; hand written notations to interior first page. Unsigned from edition of unknown. Further Background: Andy Warhol was inspired to by art dealer Ivan Karp to create his Cows in the 1960s. Warhol’s printer Gerard Malanga chose the photograph of the cow, however it was Warhol’s unique pop art style that made the final product so interested. He chose a bold color scheme of bright pink on yellow, which turned the pastoral animal into an amusing and oddly exciting subject matter. Warhol then printed the electrifying Cow image on wallpaper, introducing this process to his creative production. In Warhol’s classic mode of repetition, every inch of the walls were covered with hot pink and yellow Cows. Castelli was so moved by the show, that he had professionals install the wallpaper so that the guests could experience Andy Warhol’s vision. _ Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. Related Categories Warhol prints. Warhol prints. Warhol screen print...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Paper, Offset

The girl, cat and cow. 1975, paper, etching, 8, 5x10, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Epr. d'Art. The girl, cat and cow. 1975, paper, etching, 8,5x10,5 cm Lev Kropivnitsky / Лев Евгеньевич Кропивницкий (1922-1994) Russian nonconformist artists, poet, art critic. S...
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1970s Conceptual Animal Prints

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Paper, Etching

Salvador Dali - Le Cerf from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Signed Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 in...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Owl, Surrealist Poster after Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, After, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Owl, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Poster, Size: 20 x 12 in. (50.8 x 30.48 cm), Frame Size: 25 x 17 inches
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Offset

Ostrich - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ostrich is a lithograph realized by Alberto Mastroianni in the 1970s. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower margin in pencil. From the edition of 150.
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

BROWN TROUT
Located in Portland, ME
Welliver, Neil. BROWN TROUT. Etching and aquatint, 1978. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered 16/50, and signed in pencil. 26 1/2 x 36 13/16 inches (sheet). ...
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1970s Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Pettibone's Andy Warhol Cow Wallpaper, pencil signed famed appropriation print
Located in New York, NY
Richard Pettibone Andy Warhol Cow Wallpaper Silkscreen on paper 26 1/2 × 20 3/4 inches Hand Signed and dated in graphite on the front Unframed Accompanied b...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Sulphur Breasted Toucan
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Jack Coutu Title: Sulphur Breasted Toucan Medium: Etching Signed: Hand Signed Edition: From the edition of 200 Measurements: 23" x 31" Year: 1970 Note: This piece is so...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

Original Lithograph Signed Pop Art Aquatic Abstract Cityscape New York Fish Reef
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Invading Knight" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the title/edition number 200/275, in the lower left corn...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Ink

Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 3...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Sketch of Cat - Original Lithograph by Helène Neveur - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sketchof Cat View is an original lithographia realized by Helène Neveur in 19870s. Good conditions. Numbered. Edition, 4/75. The artwork is depicted t...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Flight of the Rat - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Flight of the Rat (Volo del ratto) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original colored etching on i...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

Il Filo si Spezza - Original Etching on Paper by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Il Filo Si Spezza is an original black and white etching realized by Leo Guida. Not signed. Title on the bottom center. The state of preservation is good. "INV.C. 149B", on the l...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

Notturno - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Leo Guida is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1972 by the italian artist Leo Guida. Original Etching on paper. Image Dimensions: 16 x 16 cm Dated, hand-signed, titled i...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

The Bird - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1972 by the italian artist Leo Guida. Original Etching and Burin on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right co...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Etching

The Horse "Lampo" - Lithograph by Giorgio de Chirico - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
The horse "Lampo" is a modern artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in 1971. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 30/48 inc...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Chow and Dandie Dinmont Puppy, Cecil Aldin 1930s puppy dog lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chow and Dandie (Dinmont) Puppy' Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935. Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, a...
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1930s English School Animal Prints

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Lithograph

TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
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1930s Cubist Animal Prints

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Paper, Engraving

Max Ernst - Elektra - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Elektra Lithograph 1939 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Signed in the plate From XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1930s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Frogs and Toad, Signed lithograph (AP), from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
Located in New York, NY
Jack Beal Frogs and Toad, 1971 Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp 18 × 24 inches Unframed 18 x 24 inches Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C. Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide. Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children. Jack Beal Biography: Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives. Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.” After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts. Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused. Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes. A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground. Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...
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1970s Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Chien, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

'Anabel & Millicent', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, stone lithograph titled 'Anabel & Millicent' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso. Accom...
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1930s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Let's Move 'Em, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Let's Move 'Em, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18.5 x 27 inches, Siz...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Brood Mare Pasture, Impressionist Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907 - 1989) Title: Brood Mare Pasture Year: circa 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition: 250, A...
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1970s American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Which Occurred in My Garden, by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching Edition of 100 Year: 1971 ImageSize: 16 x 11.5 inches Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 100. An humorous look at Adam and Eve surrounded by ani...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

North Over Hudson Bay, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - North Over Hudson Bay, Year: 1976, Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil, Size: 22 in. x 26 in. (55.88 cm x 66.04 cm)
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Thoroughbred, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Thoroughbred, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Des...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Wild Geese, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Wild Geese, Year: Circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18 x 23 inches, Size: 23 in...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Apaloosa, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Apaloosa, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Descrip...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Quarter Horse, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Quarter Horse, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), De...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Pinto, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Pinto, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Size: 22 in. x 29....
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

COOPER'S RAINBOW Signed Lithograph, Farm Landscape, Horses, Golden Field, Barn
By Wayne Cooper
Located in Union City, NJ
COOPER'S RAINBOW is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American painter Wayne Cooper printed in NYC using traditional hand lithogr...
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1970s Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Prize Rack, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Prize Rack, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches, Size: ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, La Chèvre, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Roll your own, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Roll your own, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 22 inches, Size: ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Coq, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Raven and the Fox
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Raven and the Fox Series: Bestiaire de la Fontaine Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint with color added by stencil Framed Dimensions: 35.75" x 28" Sig...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Stencil

"Brave Venture" original lithograph signed pop art dystopian dark abstract birds
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brave Venture" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece lower right, titled it lower left, and wrote the edition number (142/300) in the lower ...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Hiding From the Lord
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Adam and Eve hiding from the Lord (and hiding their nudity with branches) after being successfully tempted by the serpent that lays nearby watching the scene. Signed, titled and num...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Etching

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