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Animal Prints For Sale
60x40 Black & White Photography, Bear Photograph, Kodiak Grizzly Bear Wildlife
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a Kodiak Bear. This was shot on Kodiak Island in 2019. Unsigned Print Archival pigment paper Archival Inks Framing available. Inquire for rat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Seaweeds, German antique underwater botanical chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Algen I' (Seaweeds) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued. 240mm by 305mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"Go West" 50x60 - Black and White Photography Wild Horses Photograph Mustangs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of wild horses. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" 50x60 Edition of 10 Singed and numbered Printed on ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

36x48 Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs Color Photograph Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary color photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs. THIS COLOR IMAGE IS A 1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Picasso, La Chèvre, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Soul of the leopard
Located in New York City, NY
Available sizes: 32x47in ed.20 40x60in ed.15 47x71in ed.10 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Ask us for framing options. Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based i...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Bloodhound, early 19th century English dog engraving
By Philip Reinagle
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Blood Hound' Copper-line engraving by J Scott (1774-1827) after Philip Reinagle (1749-1815), 1803. Philip Reinagle was one of the best of the sporti...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Engraving

Two Fat Lambs (Cramer 395), Framed Lithograph by Henry Moore
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Henry Moore, British (1898 - 1986) Title: Two Fat Lambs (Cramer 395) Year: 1974 Medium: Lithograph on laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30, X Image Size: 7 ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Chinese Silk Screen Lithograph by Wah Cheong
Located in Pasadena, CA
Midcentury colorful representation of 4 coy fish by Chinese artist (signed and dated). Painted on silk. Framed and exhibited in Honk Kong. Numbered 13/30.
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1980s Animal Prints

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Silk, Paint, Lithograph

40x60 Lion Portrait, Black and White Lion Photography Photograph Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an African Lion. 40x60 Unsigned Archival Pigment print. Framing available. Inquire for rates. FREE SHIPPING Shane Russeck has built a reputa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Monarchs, January 24, 2006
Located in Los Angeles, CA
“Monarchs, January 24, 2006” Serigraph on Paper 22-color silkscreen with tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board Edition 46 of 75 Signed, titled, dated and initialed by artist Donald...
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Early 2000s Abstract Animal Prints

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Screen

Leonor Fini - Purple Surrealist Cat - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Midnight Wolf: A Limited Edition Clarence Mills Signed Haida Inuit Print
Located in Alamo, CA
"Midnight Wolf" is a framed signed limited edition abstract inuit native people's work by Northwest Coast Haida artist Clarence Mills. The print depicts a st...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Animal Prints

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Woodcut

"Go West" 36x48 Black & White Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs - Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of wild horses. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" Unsigned print Printed on archival paper using archi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761. A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Hi...
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18th Century Animal Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

Jaguar's Habitat, Brazilian Rainforest
Located in New York City, NY
Paulo Behar Available sizes: 27 x 41 inches - Edition of 9 40 x 60 inches - Edition of 7 47 x 71 inches - Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print - Unframed
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in t...
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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Le Cirque (The Circus) II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Cirque (The Circus) II" is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Camille Hilaire, 1916-2004. It is hand signed and inscribed C/...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

One Cat D
Located in Bozeman, MT
Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Prints

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Monotype

Barn Owl Portrait, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Barn Owl Portrait, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Platinum

Red-breasted Flycatcher Birds: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Erythrosterna Parva" (Red-breasted Flycatcher) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", publish...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Esperan que l'amour ne tue pas! and L'ALCOOL TUE LENTEMENT prints
Located in Spokane, WA
This is for the set of both (2) original Boris O'Klein prints, part of his series of the 'dirty dogs of Paris." Both are in very good condition,...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Le Girafe en Feu (Field 76-2-A; Michler & Lopsinger 1449), Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Le Girafe en Feu Year: 1976 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: CXLII/CCL; 250 Roman Numerals, plus proofs...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Flamingo VII Color Photograpy
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Flamingo VII Digital Photography, Artist signed, edition 3/250 on archival cotton paper. Martin Fine, South African born photographer and digital artist h...
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2010s Photorealist Animal Prints

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Digital Pigment, Archival Paper

Magic With - contemporary xogram x-ray photograph rabbit hat inkjet print dibond
Located in London, GB
Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. H...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Inkjet

Don't Like Bein' Blue White - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 2 dogs on a white background; a red dog in the foreground and a blue dog behind and to the left of a black tree in the background. Both dogs have soul...
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1990s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Size: 21 in. x 27.5 in. (53.3...
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1980s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

John Gould - Silvery-throated Tit from 'The Birds of Asia' C. 1850
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Silvery-throated Tit - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...
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Late 19th Century Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Le Chat et les Fleurs (from "Les Chats par Champfleury")
Located in Kansas City, MO
Edouard Manet Le Chat et les Fleurs (from "Les Chats par Champfleury") 1869 Etching and aquatint on Rives paper Image: 6.25 x 5.125 (17.3 × 13 cm) Plate: 8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.2 c...
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1860s Impressionist Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Leonor Fini - Cats Trio - Original Hand-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985 Hand-Signed Conditions: excellent Edition: 71/100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Pape...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

"Mi Gato, " Rare Black & White Pattern Collagraph AP signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mi Gato" is an original collagraph by Joseph Rozman. The artist signed, dated, and titled the artwork below the image. This artwork is the artist's proof. This artwork features an a...
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1960s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Black and White

George's Sweet Inspirations -Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog Holiday Print Sale
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 3 dogs on a red background with a strand of holly trim across the bottom and drawings of a holiday light and Christmas tree ornaments. There is a blue dog in the center of a black and a white Retriever...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Blue Dog "Morning Glories with Tiffany 3" Signed Numbered Silkscreen Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blonde female sitting on a floral swing hanging from a tree. The female is wearing an ecru dress with flowers on the edges...
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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Oh Say Can You See White - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a white background with various sizes of Blue Dog soulful yellow eyes and 3 dogs: 1 white & black, 1 red, and one blue. All dogs...
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1990s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Zebra I (2022), work on paper, animal, foliage, aqua & green, neo impressionist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Zebra I (2022), work on paper, hand painted multiple, animal and foliage, neo impressionist, botanical, pastels, aqua and lime green, black and white zebra "Zebra I," (2022) by arti...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Screen

La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching with aquatint 17.2 x 12.5 cm (6 ³/₄ x 4 ⁷/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1917 Inscribed lower left Final State Trial proof no. 1 Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
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1910s Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Located in London, GB
Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire. Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon Archival Pigment Print on Ha...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Animal Prints

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...

Hand Coloured 18th Century Copper engraving from "Small Riding School" No 32
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engraving of an equestrian subject by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in a fine gilt wood fra...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Animal Prints

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Watercolor, Ink

Hummingbirds: 19th C. Gould Hand-colored "Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Saucerottia Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two green, blue and a little brown colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and pink flowers. This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph has a few very small faint spots, but it is otherwise in excellent condition. The original text page is included. There are other unframed Gould hummingbird...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

FLAG SERIES 1980 Signed Lithograph Colorful Flag Collage Madagascar Stamp, Birds
Located in Union City, NJ
FLAG SERIES 1980 is a brightly colored lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed in 10 colors on archival Arches printmaking paper. FLAG SERIES 1980 depicts a bold graphic image comprised of colorful flag segments intermixed to form a varied bird-shaped designs. Chaim Gross' FLAG SERIES was specially commissioned by The World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA) in 1980 as a limited edition lithograph for the UN stamp issue. Lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist Chaim Gross and numbered 166/1500. Postal Stamp and First Day cancel on lower left. Print size - 11.0" x 8.5" unframed, fresh, vivid colors, very good condition. Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Soulmates 36x48 Black & White Photography of Wild Horses Mustang Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" 36 x 48 Archival paper and inks ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

17th century etching animal print sketch ram sheep tree black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ram Eating Bark" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams. 3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art 16 3/8" x 19 1/8" f...
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17th Century Old Masters Animal Prints

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Etching

My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog on a yellow background wearing a blue striped jacket, a white shirt, and a yellow necktie with black specks. The dog is also wearing an eye...
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1990s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 27 x 22 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower right, orovida 1924 Inscribed lower left, Final state no 12/40 and titled lower centre Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints

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Etching

Western Pals
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 40. Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Maternum, Horse Portrait
Located in New York City, NY
Raphael Macek Maternum, 2020 Afresco series Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring on...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

19th century color lithograph birds landscape nature grass sky water figure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shooting on the Prairie" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a hunter shooting at fowl in an open field. 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" art 20 1/4" x 23 3/4" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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1870s Other Art Style Animal Prints

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Lithograph

17th century etching animal print sketch ram sheep black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Facing Each Other" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. The artist signed the plate. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams. ...
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17th Century Old Masters Animal Prints

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Etching

Mr. Ginguelino
Located in New York, NY
Color etching. Image Size: 8 ¼ x6.” Full margins. Signed lower right Son of the famous publisher and etcher Auguste Delâtre, Eugène Delâtre was to bec...
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1890s Art Nouveau Animal Prints

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Etching

WINTER WILDFOWLING
Located in Portland, ME
Benson, Frank. WINTER WILDFOWLING. Etching, 1927. Paff 265. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil, lowwer left. 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (plate), 14 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (sheet). Printed on W...
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1920s Animal Prints

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Etching

I'm the Real Thing Green - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a dark green background with a blue dog with soulful yellow eyes sitting to the right of an old-fashioned style Coca-Cola machine. This pop art animal...
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2010s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

A Cat After A Fly 1991 Screen Print on Heavy Paper Signed Art
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Igor Medvedev Year: 1991 Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 20/200 Screen Print on Heavy Paper  Size-Height: 30½" x 23" inches Unframed in good condition In the painting...
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1990s Animal Prints

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Screen

Winter Cat on a Cushion Poster Lithograph by Steilen
Located in Pasadena, CA
lIthograph poster after Steinlen .He was a cat lover, and the animals appeared in his drawings, posters and paintings throughout his career. Two of his posters, Lait pur Sterilise ...
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Early 20th Century Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Original Owl and Pussy Cat - Greek theater poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Owl And The Pussycat, by Edward Lear with all text in Greek. Linen backed and in very good condition. One tiny printing flaw under the foot of the cat. Translation:...
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1960s American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Clare Halifax, M is for Monkey, Animal Art, Alphabet Print, Monogram Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax M is for Monkey Limited Edition 3 colour screen print Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm Sold Unframed Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

I is for Iguana by Clare Halifax, Limited edition animal alphabet screen print
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax I is for Iguana Limited Edition 3colour screen print Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm Sold Unframed Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin pap...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’ The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians. In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911). In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers. For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955. In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape. Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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1920s Realist Animal Prints

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Etching

Dust and Horses 50x60 Black and White Photography Wild Horses Mustangs Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of North American Wild Horses Photography by Shane Russeck Printed on archival luster paper Framing available. Inquire for rates. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Jean Cocteau - Artaban - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Artaban 1961 signed in the stone/printed signature Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" ...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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