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

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

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

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

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Style: Modern
About A Cat, CoBrA Group Modern Lithograph by Karel Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
This signed and numbered lithograph on Japon paper is from a portfolio of 17 prints by Modern artist Karel Appel. He admired the domestic house cat for its aloof, yet instinctive, de...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Wisdom - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Wisdom is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but aged. T...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Ma...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Composition with Angels - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Composition with Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good condit...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Skeleton - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Mr. Monkey Drowning Himself - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Mr. Monkey Drowning Himself is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Mane...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Snowy Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Snowy Owl a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name ...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Birds - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand. The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditions.
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Composition with Monkeys - Etching by Thomas Landseer - 19th Century
By Thomas Landseer
Located in Roma, IT
Composition with Monkeys is an original artwork realized by Thomas Landseer (1795-1880) in the middle of the 19th century. Original etching. Good condition. Draughtsman and printmaker, chiefly of animal and satirical subjects. Eldest son of the engraver John George Landseer. Studied with his brothers Charles and Edwin under Benjamin Robert Haydon, alongside Thomas Bewick...
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19th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Autre Kabassou - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Autre Kabassou is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et partic...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Night Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Night Heron is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London,...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Anatomy of Animals - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Composition with Angels - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Horse Laugh
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Bendiner (1899-1964) was trained as an architect but worked as an artist throughout his career. He was a noted lithographer, as well an author, muralist, and caricaturist. The...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Crayon

Passenger Pigeon - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Passenger Pigeon is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, publi...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Skull - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Skull is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Alpine Bear - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Bear is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature" and was published...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Propositions - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Propositions is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harva...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Skull - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Skull is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la N...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Wild Canary - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Wild Canary is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stu...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Sparrow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Sparrow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Cat - Etching and Drypoint by Giselle Halff- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an Original etching and drypoint print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in 1950 ca. Good conditions with some foxing.
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Drypoint

Papion - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Papion is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Furet - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Furet is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Etudes de Mains et Colombe II, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Etudes de Mains et Colombe". The original drawing ...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Cat - Original Lithograph by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Original Lithograph realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Good conditions. Numbered. Edition, 11/13. Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. Prinet, R....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Deer - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Deer is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from the series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published in 1...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Warming Up - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Warming Up is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions. The ar...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Shoveler - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Shoveler is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Wigeon- Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Wigeon is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London, Bell...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Ouistiti - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Ouistiti is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published ...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Elephant
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Elephant Engraing, 1957, printed 1988 Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist Dedicated: "For Jon From Ray" Edition: 100 in two printings This is an artist's proof from th...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Engraving

Snipe - Mixed Colored Woodcut Print - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Snipe is a modern artwork realized in 1870. Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name of the bird printed in plate. This work is part of a print su...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Monkey is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publishe...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Bernard Sanders, Dancers
Located in New York, NY
Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This work also reads as a stage with a dance; it recalls the Porch of the Maidens at the Erectheum at the Acropolis in Athens. There of cour...
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Drypoint

The Lady Dunlin With Her Hand Fan - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Lady Dunlin With Her Hand Fan is an original lithographs on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published ...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Cat - Original Lithograph by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Original Lithograph realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Good conditions. Numbered. Edition, 15/15. Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. Prinet, R....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Pen

The Jackal - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Jackal is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publishe...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Goosander - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Goosander is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Jay - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Jay is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London, Bell & ...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Gadwall - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Gadwall is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Little Egret - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Little Egret is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Egyptian Vulture - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian Vulture is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, publi...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Scaup - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Scaup is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name of...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Pig - Original Lithograph on Paper - 1880 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
The Pig is an original Modern artwork realized by an anonymous artist in 1880 ca. Original lithograph on Paper. Good Conditions. Passepartout: 34 x 49 The artwork represents a Pi...
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1880s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

North Atlantic Right Whale - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
North Atlantic Right Whale is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les T...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Chbysochlore - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Chbysochlore is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Tapir Pinchaque - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Tapir Pinchaque is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Brazilian Guinea Pig - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Brazilian Guinea Pig is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Rè...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Le Paon - Etching after Jacques De seve - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Cond...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Original Lithograph Horse Anatomy Leonardo Davinci Nude Male Figure Sepia Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage a Leonardo d'Vinci (Leonardo drawing, 3 Figures, Horse from De La Bataille Vol. I)" is an original color lithograph signed by Claude Weisbuch. A group of figures stand to the...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

A Woman from Harem - Hand Colored Lithograph - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
A Woman from Harem is an original lithograph, Hand-colored on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century, Titled on the lower center in Italian" Una Donna Dell'Harem". ...
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19th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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 the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Air France, Mediterranee by Roger Bezombes
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster was printed in 1981 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. In the early 1970s, Air France commissioned Roger Bezombes to create original artworks capturing the s...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Horn - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Coq, from Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Georges Braque Title: Le Coq Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Medium: Lithograph Date: 1952 Edition: 6000 Frame Size: 22" x 18 1/4" Sheet Size: 14" x 10" Signature: Unsigned
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Original "The Big Show" vintage US 1-sheet movie poster 1961
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Big Show", US 1-sheet linen-backed movie poster from 1961. Very fine condition. Professional restoration of original theater fold marks. A - A- condition, ready to frame. Original "the Big Show" US 1-sheet, 1961, linen-backed vintage movie poster. Very fine condition with the restoration of original theater-issued fold marks. A - A- condition. NSS 61/125. Ester Williams...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Signed Vintage Foodie Whole Hog BBQ Southern Limited Edition Poster
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed print. Image size, 24H x 29L.
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Early 2000s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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